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Historical Military Leaders in Uniform

Portraits of military leaders in historical uniforms, adorned with medals, reflecting leadership and military heritage.

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. 12 Battalion, Surrey Volunteer Regiment Faces of the First World War Find out more about this First World War Centenary project at www.1914.org/faces. This image is from IWM Collections.

. 2 Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Pte Oliphant, who had transferred from 11 to 2 Battalion, was reported missing, aged 38, on 18 August 1916 at Longueval during the Battle of the Somme. He is buried at Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Longueval. Faces of the First World War Find out more about this First World War Centenary project at www.1914.org/faces. This image is from IWM Collections.

Anefo photo collection. Order Elsevier (Portraits soldiers). 26 August 1966

The Second Boer War, 1899-1902 Portrait of the British Army Captain.

Oberwerkm. Michalka Johann, the K.U.K. Mountain Art. Regiments NGO. 2, 6th battalion. .

General Liman Von Sanders (1855-1929) - German adviser and military commander for the Ottoman Empire during the First World War, also the German Commander in Chief of the Turkish army. Date: circa 1916

Alfred Hart, 19 April 1918, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

March 1922. Mr. José Lecea, Infantry Lieutenant -.

Sir HUGH HENRY GOUGH British military commander Date: 1833 - 1909

Captain Joe Hilton, 12th NYV, Culpeper, Virginia. Morgan collection of Civil War drawings. Military officers, Union, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military personnel, Union, United States, Virginia, Culpeper

Students, imperial military middle school, Monastir

The Allies: France, Soldier of the Foreign Legion. Individual: Basmadjian Mihram (Armenian). Eugene Burnand (d.1921) .

. 3rd (Auckland) Mounted Rifles, New Zealand Mounted Rifle Brigade, Australian and New Zealand Army Corps Mounted Division Sergeant Thompson's service number was 13/144. He was killed in action at Gallipoli in on 7 August 1915 aged 24. Presented by Mrs Margerison on 8 September 1919. Faces of the First World War Find out more about this First World War Centenary project at www.1914.org/faces. This image is from IWM Collections. The Museum released this image on a custom licence - IWM Non-Commercial license. However where the photograph has no known author, these are public domain under the 70 rule and where they were owned by the Ministry of Information, any other government department or agency, taken by a member of the military during their service or by a photographer commissioned by the services, these are now out of copyright restriction.

Josiah D. Nickerson, died 1918 , Soldiers, World War, 1914-1918

The Allies: British Empire: New Zealand Sergeant; Otago Regiment, N Z E F (G A McChesney of Invercargill, New Zealand) Eugene Burnand (d.1931), Drawing, Pastel, Paper, Portrait, Frame, Photograph, Replica, Armed Forces, Army, War, Works on Paper

General Nogi, Japanese commander who took Port Arthur from the Russians. Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905.

06/30/1920. Don Íñigo de Arteaga y Falguera, first-born of the Dukes of Infantado, who at the age of 14 entered the Academy of Military Engineers with No. 1.

War album 28, picture 7875.

. 126 Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery Lt Salter was educated at Bancroft's School, Woodford and Camden School of Art. He was appointed cartographer to the British Rainfall Oganisation in 1908. From 1908 - 1916, Lt Salter plotted and drew hundreds of rainfall maps, most of which appeared in publications such as British Rainfall and Symons's Meteorological Magazine. When Dr H R Mill regrouped the rainfall stations of the British Isles into river-divisions in 1910, Lt Salter was responsible for revising the relevant maps. He also worked towards the eventual publication of a Rainfall Atlas and was elected Fellow of the Royal Meterological Society in March 1915. Lt Salter joined the Royal Engineers in 1916 and was posted to the Western Front where he was wounded and invalided home the same year. He received his commission to the Royal Garrison Artillery in 1917. Lt Salter was killed in action, aged 28, on 22 March 1918. He is buried at Grevillers British Cemetery. Faces of the First

General Nogi, Japanese commander, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5. Artist: Unknown

11/05/1928. Portrait of General Ardanaz.

Photograph of Rear-Admiral Markham of the Royal Navy, c.1893. Markham was in command of the Second Division of the Mediterranean Squadron on board HMS 'Camperdown', when HMS 'Victoria' was sunk on 22nd June 1893. Date: 1893

General d. Cavalry Franz Tube by Denta.

50th Company, Machine Gun Corps Lance Corporal New originated from Stockport. His service number was 63114. He was recorded as missing on 10 April 1918 aged 24. He is commemorated at the Ploegsteert Memorial. Faces of the First World War Find out more about this First World War Centenary project at www.1914.org/faces. This image is from IWM Collections.

'Les evenements de Grece; L'amiral Dartige du Fournet.', 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVII. La Guerre Juillet, Aout, Septembre, Octobre, Novembre, Decembre 1916".

Maximilian Jakob, Hofrat, Gendarmerie business director, district council , Unknown

'Le Prince Alexandre de Serbie.', 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVII. La Guerre Juillet, Aout, Septembre, Octobre, Novembre, Decembre 1916".

Capt. R.C. Smith

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) 26th President of the USA (1901-9) said to be in dress of lst Volunteer Cavalry (Roosevelt's Rough Riders) a force he raised in 1898 of which he was second in command Spanish-American (Cuban) War .

Gustavo Bianchi, Italian explorer

Col. C. Del. Hine

General Geroge Barnett USMC Commandant circa 1905-1930.

Prince Cyrille, in uniform

. 13th Hussars Private T Jones was killed at Lajj, Mesopotamia on 5 March 1917. Faces of the First World War Find out more about this First World War Centenary project at www.1914.org/faces. This image is from IWM Collections.

H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII and then Duke of Windsor, pictured on the front cover of The Tatler in June 1917 in the uniform of the Grenadier Guards in which regiment he served in the war both as a regimental officer (albeit one who was not allowed to participate in any action) and also on the GHQ staff. Contrast this picture with image number 10609863 taken in 1914 where the Prince looks considerably younger. Date: 1917

The Allies: British Empire: New Zealand Sergeant; Otago Regiment, N Z E F (G A McChesney of Invercargill, New Zealand). Eugene Burnand (d.1921)

General Luigi Cadorna (1850-1928) in his work cabinet at the headquarters, 1915, Italy, World War I, photo by Revedin and Marzocchi from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLIII, No 1, January 2, 1916.

War album 29, picture 7968.

Major Sturm. .

06/30/1922. John O'Brien, murderer of English Marshal Wilson, arrested following the attack.

Theodore Roosevelt, American soldier and politician, c1898. Artist: Unknown

Turkish Red Crescent Military Medical Orderly during World War One. Date: 1914 - 1918

. 14 Battalion, Hampshire Regiment Lt May was reported wounded and missing near Hamel during the Battle of the Somme on 3 September 1916. His remains were located and he is buried at Ancre British Cemetery, Beaumont-Hamel. Faces of the First World War Find out more about this First World War Centenary project at www.1914.org/faces. This image is from IWM Collections.

. 2 Battalion, Gordon Highlanders Colonel Uniacke CB was the eldest son of Captain Turner Uniacke (19th Regt. of Foot). He was commanding 2 Battalion when he was fatally wounded during the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, during which a total of seven British lieutenant colonels were killed. He died, aged 52, on 13 March 1915. Colonel Uniacke is buried at Estaires Communal Cemetery. Faces of the First World War Find out more about this First World War Centenary project at www.1914.org/faces. This image is from IWM Collections. The Museum released this image on a custom licence - IWM Non-Commercial license. However where the photograph has no known author, these are public domain under the 70 rule and where they were owned by the Ministry of Information, any other government department or agency, taken by a member of the military during their service or by a photographer commissioned by the services, these are now out of copyright restriction.

Male Ustasa fighter. The Croatian fascist group were responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands of Serbians, Jews and Gypsies.

'General Tasker H. Bliss', 1918. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" L'Illustration, Paris, 1924.

03/31/1911. Dead Sergeant. Sergeant D. Eugenio Arocas, Murdered in Valencia by Francisco Cerda.

The commander of the 16.corps, Pilelmaster Wenzel Wurm in his study, Dornberk (Dornberg) October 1915.

Wm. C.B. Shope

. 22 Battalion, Royal Fusiliers Lance Corporal van Tromp, son of the Mayor of Taunton, Somerset, was killed in action, aged 34, at Vimy on 23 May 1916. This photograph was taken on his last day in England before leaving for the Western Front. He was killed six days later. Lance Corporal van Tromp is buried in the Zouave Valley Cemetery, Souchez. Faces of the First World War Find out more about this First World War Centenary project at www.1914.org/faces. This image is from IWM Collections.

Eduard Wohlrat Christian Dietl (21 July 1890 - 23 June 1944) was a German general during World War II who commanded the 20th Mountain Army. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords of Nazi Germany.

Lieutenant Colonel Edgar R. Mobbs, D.S.O. Edgar Roberts Mobbs DSO (1882 - 1917) was an English rugby union footballer who played for and captained Northampton R.F.C. and England. He played as a three quarter. After initially being turned down as too old to join the army in World War 1, Edgar raised his own "sportsmans" battalion of 250 sportsmen (also known as Mobbs' Own) for the Northamptonshire regiment. He rose to command his battalion with rank of Lt. Col. Edgar was killed in

'Un martyr du Trentin; Le lieutenant d'alpins italiens Cesare Battisti, avant la guerre depute de Trente au Reichsrath, que les Autrichiens ont fait prisonnier, alors qu'il etait grievement blesse, et qu'ils ont pendu', c1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVIII. La Guerre Juillet, Aout, Septembre, Octobre, Novembre, Decembre 1916".

Property of Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France General Henri Colin , (French - Propriété d' Albert Kahn , Boulogne , France Le général Henri Colin). Military personality, military uniform, university establishment , grandes écoles, portrait, rear, man, Personality, clothing, teaching, human beings, First World War, France, Boulogne, Gal Collin, commander of the St-Cyr School

French aviator Eug®ne Gilbert.

Henry Mounteney Wellcome in army uniform. Photograph by Thorneycroft, 1945.

. Middlesex Regiment Faces of the First World War Find out more about this First World War Centenary project at www.1914.org/faces. This image is from IWM Collections.

15 Battalion, Highland Light Infantry Pte Grant was reported missing, aged 23, on 3 July 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. Faces of the First World War Find out more about this First World War Centenary project at www.1914.org/faces. This image is from IWM Collections.

World War 1 - Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig (1861-1928). Douglas Haig was born in Edinburgh on 19 June 1861 into a wealthy family. He studied at Oxford University and in 1884 went to the military Academy at Sandhurst. He had an extensive career and served as commander in chief of British Home Forces from 1918 until his retirement in 1921. He also helped establish the Royal British Legion and worked hard to raise funds for it. He was created an early in 1919 and died on 28 January 1928.

Man in Guards' Uniform, Sir George Reid (Aberdeen, Scotland, 1841 - 1913)

Five portraits of Japanese military leaders, recto - printed, photomechanical print, page, photographs, photographically illustrated books, Colonel Iditti, Lt. Colonel Mourata, SE Le général Vicomte Kawakami, Commandant Akashi, Mr. Sekiya, height 383 mm, width 266 mm, maker, producer, 1891 - 1896, paper, papier, collotype

General Radko Dmitrieff. Date: P

Israel/Palestine: Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880-1940), Revisionist Zionist leader, founder of the the Jewish Legion of the British Army in World War I and later of the paramilitary group Irgun. Wearing Jewish Legion Uniform, c. 1917

Portrait of a sailor. Portrait of a kriegsmarine sailor. Part of the Loose Photos group associated with the photo album over the Kriegsmarine 1940-1943.

'General Sir H. C. O. Plumer', 1917. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 1" L'Illustration, Paris, 1924.

Rasputin surrounded by the royal servants. On the left is Prince Putyatin, on the right is Colonel Loman, commandant of the Tsarskoe Selo palace.

Homecomer from Russian captivity Probably Wladimir Wolinsky, Russia, Volhynia; photographer: Kriegsvermessung 4.

General Armando Diaz (1861-1928), Italian army officer. Italian Chief-of-staff from October 1917 to the end of the First World War.

Admiral Uriu, H.F. Aress

. 1/8 Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment Pte Mason was reported wounded and missing on 27 August 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. Faces of the First World War Find out more about this First World War Centenary project at www.1914.org/faces. This image is from IWM Collections.

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection Type of Uniform worn by Women's Reserve Ambulance, Green Cross Society.

Anthony J. Leva, died 1918 , Soldiers, World War, 1914-1918

. 16 Battalion, Royal Scots Pte Burns was killed in action on 1 July 1916 at the start of the Battle of the Somme. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. Faces of the First World War Find out more about this First World War Centenary project at www.1914.org/faces. This image is from IWM Collections.

Kojong, Emperor of Korea (1852-1919) and the Crown Prince Yi Wang. Emperor and prince in uniform, standing and facing forwards.

Boris Mikhaylovich Shaposhnikov (1882 - March 26, 1945) was a Soviet military commander, Chief of the Staff of the Red Army, and Marshal of the Soviet Union.

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection Canadian Scottish soldier, 3/4 photograph.

. 1 Battalion, South Wales Borderers Pte Evans was reported missing on 25 July 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. Faces of the First World War Find out more about this First World War Centenary project at www.1914.org/faces. This image is from IWM Collections. The Museum released this image on a custom licence - IWM Non-Commercial license. However where the photograph has no known author, these are public domain under the 70 rule and where they were owned by the Ministry of Information, any other government department or agency, taken by a member of the military during their service or by a photographer commissioned by the services, these are now out of copyright restriction.

Photography.Photography in glass and frame, wood, yellow-brown, polished, with gilded inner edge.Displays Admiral Gustav expensive () In uniform.

'' Lieutenant-general Sir W.P. Pulteney', 1917. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" L'Illustration, Paris, 1924.

Garnet Wolseley-Field Marshal Garnet Wolseley was an influential commander with important victories in several 19th-century colonial campaigns. Because of his reforming zeal and attention to detail the phrase 'All Sir Garnet' came to mean everything's in order.

'General Count Luigi Cadorna', 1917. Marshal of Italy Luigi Cadorna (1850-1928) Italian General and Marshal of Italy, Chief of Staff of the Italian Army during the first part of World War I. From "The War Illustrated Album De Luxe - Volume VII. The Autumn Campaign of 1916", edited by J. A. Hammerton. The Amalgamated Press, Limited, London, 1917

Pomp Of The Past (Fourth Of Eight) -- A typical trooper is Enrico D'Allantonio, 27, who has been with the corps four years.All the troopers must serve 18 months in the regular police corps before they pass into the ranks of the elite Corazzieri. March 5, 1954. (Photo by United Press).

Copy of portraits of Lance Bridge and another soldier

Mao Zedong during the Long March; 1934. Mao Zedong (1893 - September 9, 1976), was a Chinese communist revolutionary who became the founding father of the People's Republic of China (PRC), which he ruled as the Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death

. 15 Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) Pte Newton was reported missing on 1 July 1916 at the start of the Battle of the Somme. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. Faces of the First World War Find out more about this First World War Centenary project at www.1914.org/faces. This image is from IWM Collections. The Museum released this image on a custom licence - IWM Non-Commercial license. However where the photograph has no known author, these are public domain under the 70 rule and where they were owned by the Ministry of Information, any other government department or agency, taken by a member of the military during their service or by a photographer commissioned by the services, these are now out of copyright restriction.

. B Company, Grenadier Guards Private Jones was reported as missing on 13 April 1918. Faces of the First World War Find out more about this First World War Centenary project at www.1914.org/faces. This image is from IWM Collections.

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection Private Thomas Conley, 6th Battalion Durham Light Infantry (See Q. 31275)

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Sukhomlinov (1848 - 1926) Russian general of the Imperial Russian Army who served as the Chief of the General Staff from 1908 to 1909 and the Minister of War from 1909 to 1915. Sukhomlinov was tried for high treason, corruption, and abuse of power

Heihachiro Togo (1847-1934) Japanese naval commander. Commander-in-Chief of Japanese Navy during Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905.

. 26 Battalion, Royal Fusiliers Pte Elliot, a bomber serving with A Company, 1 Platoon, was reported wounded and missing, aged 19, on 7 October 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. His death was confirmed three days later. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. Faces of the First World War Find out more about this First World War Centenary project at www.1914.org/faces. This image is from IWM Collections.

Chen Jun (1905-1927), from Pingyang County, Zhejiang Province, a student at The Great China University, was doing promotion works at the Second Armed Uprising and was captured by the warlords. The Second Armed Uprising was one of the three uprisings of Shanghai workers instigated by the Chinese Communist Party to cooperate with the Northern Expedition and overthrow the warlord government. During the trial, he was righteous and dignified, denounced the warlord, and died heroically.

Lieutenant Roland Gerard Garvin (1895 - 1916), known as Ged to his family, of the 7th Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment. Eldest child and only son of the influential journalist, author and editor, James Louis Garvin who was editor of the Observer from 1908 to 1947 and of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Ged was due to go up to Christ Church College, Oxford on a history scholarship, but joined up at the end of August 1914. He was killed in action on 23 July 1916, caught by machine-gun fire wh

Portrait of Lieutenant Fock, 1938 Portrait of Lieutenant Fock, Commanded by Air Force from A 9. 2 Images.

On May 15th, 1925, Gu Zhenghong, a 20-year-old worker and CCP member of the No. 7 Cotton Factory, led five to six hundred workers to fight against the Japanese in Shanghai. He was shot and killed. This was the trigger for the outbreak of the May 30th Movement. The May 30th Movement was the first nationwide anti-japanese movement led by the Communist Party of China. Shanghai is an important stronghold for japanese colonial rule. Nippon Nekai Cotton Co., Ltd. opened a factory in Xiaoshadu, Shanghai. Due to constant abuse by the Japanese management, the workers went on strike in February of 1925. However, after the workers returned to work, the Japanese refused to fulfil the agreed conditions, and in May a strike broke out again

The surrender of Jerusalem to the British December 9th, 1917. Hussein Selim el-Husseini who surrendered Jerusalem. 1917, Israel

Portrait of Lt. Eyre Massey Shaw of the Middlesex Regiment. The son of Captain B. Shaw and the grandson of the late Eyre Massey Shaw, he was killed on 30 July 1916 during World War I. This small portrait featured in the weekly page devoted to officers on the roll of honour featured in the ILN during the Great War. Date: 1916

HUNGARY - 1941: shows Admiral Nicholas Horthy 1868-1957 HUNGARY - CIRCA 1941: A stamp printed in Hungary shows Admiral Nicholas Horthy 1868-1957, circa 1941 Copyright: xZoonar.com/OlgaxPopovax 6036043

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