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Historical Military Gatherings

Depictions of military or communal gatherings in historical contexts, showcasing groups of people, camels, and arid landscapes from various time periods.

The war in South Africa, where railways and armoured trains were much used: A Burgher Commando detraining. Date: P

Royal Scots Greys, cavalry groups in Nablus, Middle East. Smaller mounted group, 1 line & 1 officer in front, West Bank

07/31/1936. Transport of an injured person to the Hospital ship, in Ibiza.

Detachment 101, an enigmatic Allied intelligence and special operations unit during World War II, played a pivotal role in the Burmese theater. Operating deep in the jungles of Burma, their mission was multi-faceted, encompassing guerrilla warfare, espionage, and sabotage against Japanese forces. Comprising a diverse group of individuals, from OSS agents to indigenous fighters, they effectively disrupted Japanese supply lines, gathered critical intelligence, and supported resistance movements.

French legionnaire colonial soldiers building a railway at Figuig in eastern Morocco near the Atlas Mountains, on the border with Algeria. postcard 1911

Exhibit Supply Company Picture Post Card, Scene from "The Pony Express". "Pioneers crossing the dessert." This item is a picture post card used as an exhibit in the case of J. Frank Meyer, Trading as the Exhibit Supply Company v. Louis Hurwitz, Trading as United Postcard Supply Company. Issued by Exhibit Supply Company, this post card features a scene from the film "The Pony Express.".

Flood-war damage 1925, Middle East

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Purification actions II-2 RVA at Salatiga. Reksosari: a 2-2 RVA battery in action. October 23, 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Exodus of the Serbian population in front of the German-Bulgarian invasion, conflict in the Balkans, World War I, L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLII, No 45, November 7, 1915.

12/04/1919. Melilla. The Patron Saint of Artillerymen. The Batel Mobile Park, during the extraordinary meal that was served to the troops.

Anefo photo collection. Dutch army exercises in La Courtine, France. August 7, 1970. France, La Courtine

Result of terrorist acts & government measures. Army controlling traffic near Citadel, July 8, 1938 Jerusalem, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

Mitrovica Celebratory dance of locals after the surrender of Montenegro; Serbia; photographer: 20. Korpskommando.

March 1937. Hundreds of Workers Extending the great circulation and supply route to be converted into the Madrid-Valencia railway.

09/30/1912. Montenegrin Troops on the March, heading towards the Turkish border.

Cattle and Carts, leaving Balaklava. Roger Fenton; English, 1819-1869. Date: 1855. Dimensions: 19.8 × 25.5 cm (image/paper); 40.4 × 53.3 cm (mount). Salted paper print, from the album "Photographic Pictures of the Seat of War in the Crimea" (1856). Origin: England. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Mam Nay, a tall, thin, pock-faced former science teacher, was No. 2 at Tuol Sleng (S 21), and together with Duch supervised the torture, interrogation and execution of more than 15,000 Cambodians whom they and Pol Pot suspected of anti-Khmer Rouge dissidence. After the war Mam Nay became a police official in northwestern Cambodia.

A tribal lunch at cavalry post at Tel-el-Meleiha, 20 miles North of Beersheba, Jan. 18, 1940. Mounted Bedouin horseman on top of the Tel. 1940, Israel

Ft Huachuca, AZ , Soldiers, Marching. Jack Miller Collection

Aug. 26, day of big bomb in Jaffa. Military search for arms. Black Watch at Citadel with machine gun car, searching busses, buses 1938, Jerusalem, Israel

08/31/1915. The Romanian Army in Action. Romanian infantry patrols maneuvering on the border.

Drovers watching while sheep thread their way round the end of the Bluff. November 07, 1949.

Description: Patrol in the Southern Sudan. Location: Southern Sudan Date: June 1964 africa

Ejército, servicio militar. Ejercicios de tiro. Campamento Sant Climent Sescebes, Girona. Años 70.

A tribal lunch at cavalry post at Tel-el-Meleiha, 20 miles North of Beersheba, Jan. 18, 1940. Camelmen reaching summit of Tel. 1940, Israel

commune farmers in Jiangsu Province strive for a bumper harvest, during the Cultural Revolution. China 1967

Tanks Move Up Into Action - A line of forty odd tanks of varying sizes mounted on motor transports are carried up the Egyptian-Libyan Battle-front for immediate action. Their crew are with the tanks and as soon as they are rolled off the transport the tanks *****. August 25, 1942. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Anefo photo collection. ZHJV Hunting ride around The Hague. October 7, 1950. The Hague, South Holland

Poland: c. 1915 German soldiers making a second line of trench wire defences in Russian Poland.

01/01/1921. General view of the Annual camp.

Ft Huachuca, AZ , Soldiers, Marching. Jack Miller Collection

Cooking during the advance at the Fella.

The terrible plague of locusts in Palestine, March-June 1915. Locusts entering the trap. 1915

Officers and soldiers of the Fifth Cavalry Regiment of the Imperial Guard / Abdullah Frères, Phot, Constantinople

Seoul is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of more than 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the developed world. The Seoul Capital Area, which includes the surrounding Incheon metropolis and Gyeonggi province, is the world's second largest metropolitan area with over 25.6 million people, home to over half of South Koreans along with 632,000 international residents. During the Korean War, Seoul changed hands between the Chinese-backed North Korean forces and the UN-backed South Korean forces several times, leaving the city heavily damaged after the war. One estimate of the extensive damage states that after the war, at least 191,000 buildings, 55,000 houses, and 1,000 factories lay in ruins. In addition, a flood of refugees had entered Seoul during the war, swelling the population of Seoul and its metropolitan area to an estimated 2.5 million, more than half of them homeless.

12/31/1911. The Advance in Melilla - Infantry Soldiers Taking a Position to Attack the Enemy Hark.

Anefo photo collection. Zaire (formerly Belgian Congo); Kopermijn De Kolwezi. August 16, 1973. Belgian Congo, Zaire

The 'ship of the desert' 1900, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

12/31/1914. Forces of the Allies in the Campaign. Belgian cavalry regiment passing through a town in Flanders close to the line of fire.

The 1948 Palestinian exodus, known in Arabic as the Nakba (Arabic: النكبة‎, an-Nakbah, lit.'catastrophe'), occurred when more than 700,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were expelled from their homes, during the 1947-1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine and the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The exact number of refugees is a matter of dispute, but around 80 percent of the Arab inhabitants of what became Israel (50 percent of the Arab total of Mandatory Palestine) left or were expelled from their homes. Later in the war, Palestinians were forcibly expelled as part of 'Plan Dalet' in a policy of 'ethnic cleansing'.

World War I 1914-1918: German horse-drawn machine gun unit pausing beside a road, 1915. Military, Army, Artillery, Weapon, Gun, Automatic, Gun carriage

Marazlon, Cornwall - gathering occurred for *****. January 1, 1937. (Photo by Kosmos Press Bureau).

Yaqui Indians lynched by Mexicans

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Ereveld Tjililitan. "U-Brigade says goodbye to her killing". Speech colonel j.w. Sluyter, Commander U-Brigade. November 8, 1946. Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies

Interior of Fort McKee; Felice Beato (English, born Italy, 1832 - 1909); Korea; about June 11, 1871; Albumen silver print

The ramparts of the second compagny of the second battation of the Japanese engineers on Kinshanting, E. of Wei-Hai-Wei, 1895 photomechanical print Shandongjapan paper collotype engineering. warfare; military affairs. low hill country

12/31/1937. National cavalry squadron on the Teruel front.

Original caption: "Los Coyotes - boundary survey. Manuel Chapparosa, Conrado Chapparosa, Robert Chutnicut, Ygnicio Norte, Raymundo Chapparosa, and Alfredo Welmas". 1936 - 1942. Pacific Region (Riverside, CA). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Mission Agency. 11/15/1920-6/17/1946. Photographs

Black and white photo of the War in Ethiopia after the Italian invasion of 1935; arms and munitions of the Ethiopian Army being transported by two mules.

Captured Italians in the area around Tolmezzo Photographer: 10. Armeekommando.

Libyan cavalry charging, World War II, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year LXVII, No 33, August 18, 1940.

Films taken on the 14th Sept. 1933 when the remains of King Feisal of Iraq was brought to Haifa from Europe to be flown on to Baghdad. 1933

12/31/1920. Morocco. The advance on the road to Al Hoceima. The Chiefs of the Kabyle of Beni Said and the indigenous police Waiting for the Arrival of our Troops in the Yebel Azru.

French Train as NATO Paratroopers at Pau. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Comp. 'F' 372nd Infantry , Soldiers, United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 372nd. Jack Miller Collection

Historia de Argentina. Siglo XIX. Episodio en una columna de prisioneros argentinos: dos de ellos son fusilados en represalia de la fuga de otros dos, 22 marzo 1824. Author: FORTUNY FRANCISCO.

Ammunition train unloaded at railway station in Berditschew. German military unloads trains in Berdychiv, Ukraine. Photographs taken by Propaganda Units of the German Armed Forces (Wehrmacht) and the Waffen-SS

06/30/1915. A brief break in the March. Group of German Red Cross Doctors and Nurses Serving in Turkey. Photo: Hofer.

DN-SN-85-02148. Subject Operation/Series: URGENT FURY Base: Grenville Country: Grenada (GRD)

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Evacuation places Central Java (Wonosobo, Purworedjo)?. Meeting on a country road between officers of the Indonesian TNI and the Dutch army. Representatives of the United Nations are also present. In a row there is a unity of the TNI with the Indonesian flag,. October 1949. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

A refuelling station in the snow at the Tonale pass, Italy, World War I, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLIV, No 2, January 14, 1917.

Anefo photo collection. Hungarians in the Netherlands commemorate the 15th March. March 17, 1957. The Netherlands

Ceuta, July 1915. Discharge in Africa. Ceuta dock when discharged soldiers embark for the peninsula.

Police officers sitting on camels in a desert, Jordan

Expedition participant in the desert

A fantastic photograph showing a group of British soldiers at the Afghan border at the Khyber Pass, standing and sitting around a sign which reads: 'It is Absolutely Forbidden to cross this Border into Afghan Territory' Date: circa 1920s

1500 bluejackets and other men of the British Navy visiting the Great Pyramids at Giza, Egypt when the fleet was in Egyptian waters. Special trains were laid on to transport the men here and they were treated to donkey and camel rides before returning to Cairo. Date: 1913

Norwegian military personnel stand in teams as they wait to be airlifted to another location during a joint forces cold weather airlift exercise. Country: Norway (NOR)

04/01/1915. Visit of Deputies to the Rif. The Tiquener camp, in the Testudin mountain massif, during the visit of Messrs. Conde de Gamazo, Navarrese reverter and de la Cuesta.

The small but historic town of Ho An is located on the Thu Bon River 30km (18 miles) south of Danang. During the time of the Nguyen Lords (1558 - 1777) and even under the first Nguyen Emperors, Hoi An - then known as Faifo - was an important port, visited regularly by shipping from Europe and all over the East. By the late 19th Century the silting up of the Thu Bon River and the development of nearby Danang had combined to make Hoi An into a backwater. This obscurity saved the town from serious fighting during the wars with France and the USA, so that at the time of reunification in 1975 it was a forgotten and impoverished fishing port lost in a time warp.

Mexico, January 1914. Horrors of the Mexican revolution. Bodies of federals in a trench after the Ojinaga combat.

cipro, rifugiati turco-ciprioti in un campo presso hamitkoy, 1968

A war service conducted by the Bishop of London pictured addressing the London Rifle Brigade while the unit was in camp. The Bishop spent several days under canvas with the brigade and joined them on active service. Date: 1914

Poll photo collection. Middle East 1950-1955: Syria - Damascus. The city park on Friday. 1950. Damascus, Syria

The Ramleh War Cemetery, Israel. The cemetery was founded during the First World War and contains around 3,300 Commonwealth burials from this conflict and a further 1,168 from the Second World War. There are also hundreds of graves from other nationalities and some non-war graves.

The Serbian army taking shelter in Albania, World War I, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLIV, No 4, January 28, 1917.

Soldiers cleaning their uniforms Possibly near Feltre or Vittorio; probably Veneto; photographer: Kriegsvermessung 13.

German prison camp during World War I, France.

Anefo photo collection. Protest meeting of construction workers on the Ringdijk. June 25, 1958

Barrage, 1915, Egypt, by William Saunderson Cooper. Gift of Andrew Cooper, 2001.

Agua Fria Migratory Labor Camp, High Angle View, Arizona, USA, Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration, May 1940

10/28/1975. 350,000 Moroccans wait for the signal to leave for the Tarfaya desert.

02/13/1937. Citizens who fled from Malaga return again after the capture of the city by the National Troops.

French legionnaire colonial soldiers after the capture of Taza a city in northern Morocco, which occupies the corridor between the Rif mountains and Middle Atlas mountains 1914

Kurdistan - Middle East Danger Spot -- A typical Kurdistan peasant well-armed from stocks acquired during war-time. Although the much-hoped for help from Britain did not materialise, the Kurds still hold out a belief in their ultimate independence. August 19, 1949. (Photo by Pictorial Press).

An aerial view of an Allied military encampment during Operation Desert Storm.

Radio Show - This is Europe. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

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