Historical Military Footage

Black-and-white footage showcasing military activities, construction efforts, and combat training exercises, reflecting historical military life.

War album 89, Figure 25998a-b.

War album 89, Figure 25998a-b.

Technical course. From CCA.100 step removal completely masked. .

War album 44, picture 12231a.

A boy aged 3 was drowned when he over balanced from his bicycle (above) and he fell into the George's River at South Hurstville today. The boy was William Joseph Dayball, of Queens Rd., South Hurstville. Det. S. North and Sgt. L. Bulley, of Hurstville, were told that the boy's mother, Mrs. Grace : Mary Dayball, missed him at about 8 am today. Mrs. Dayball searched for her son, and about 8.45 am saw something she thought was rubbish floating in the water. Mrs. Dayball said, "Suddenly I saw the

Suttee Ghat Cawnpore 1858 John Murray British, Scottish This photograph memorializes the site of the most shocking event of the Indian Mutiny. Choosing the safety of civilians over honor in battle, a besieged English detachment at Cawnpore (Kanpur) surrendered to rebels on June 26, 1857, on the promise that they and the European families who had taken refuge in their barracks would be granted safe passage. Instead, soldiers and civilians alike were fired upon as they boarded boats at this very spot, and the two hundred women and children who survived were led back to Cawnpore, slaughtered, dismembered, and thrown down a well. These horrific events, in turn, led to gratuitously brutal acts of retribution by the British. In Murray's bleak, harshly backlit photograph, there is something ineffably sad about the two native figures whose solitude no longer conveys human scale but rather the physical and emotional distance that had come to separate the Indians and the British.. Suttee Ghat Ca

H.K.H. Princess Beatrix visits army components at the Artillery Schietkamp Oldebroek, at 't Harde and in Elspeet.

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