Historical Military Operations

Black and white images depicting military personnel and equipment, focusing on historical operations during World War I and II in rugged terrains and primitive settings.

Excavations at the necropolis at Saqqara. Photographed in 1860s during work of Auguste Mariette-Bey (1821-1881) French archaeologist and founder of the Egyptian Museum, Cairo in 1863, who began work at Saqqara in 1850.

04/30/1912. Fighting in the Rif. Convoy of Wounded Heading to Advance.

Coulson Richard N (lt Col) Collection Wadi Nukabir near Dorset House, June 1917.

Kattea encampment Description: 'Photograph of Kattea encampment, Kalahari.' Author of work: Lulu Farini. Date: 1885 kalahari

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.

British camp at the entrance to the dardanelles in 1915. soldiers dig shallow individual pits to be able to lie in the shelter of the slope of excavated land.

Australian soldiers have rest while scaling heights overlooking Syrian border. December 7, 1942. (Photo by Pub. Section. Brit Embassy. Cairo)

Second World War. Front pictures. Soviet Union. Convoy of the German Wehrmacht. View with latching native peasants in the foreground

''Les premiers contingents Franco-Anglais a Salonique; Un coin de Zeitenlick: les menus travaux quotidiens', 1915 (1924). From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume I" L'Illustration, Paris, 1924.

Excavations at the necropolis at Saqqara. Photographed in 1860s during work of Auguste Mariette-Bey (1821-1881) French archaeologist and founder of the Egyptian Museum, Cairo in 1863, who began work at Saqqara in 1850.

Russisches warehouse, inv, No,

Around the Dead Sea. Bedouin camp at Ghor Es-Safieh 1900, Jordan, Ghawr

Excavations at Tell el-Nasbeh, 'Mizpah' Canaanite wall. 1926, West Bank, Tall al-Nasbeh

Mountain battery, Italian troops in Crete, Greece, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXIV, No 20, May 16, 1897.

July 27, 1936. Normality in the Field. The Workers' Militias Monitor, arm the Arm, the work of the Peasants.

Photo collection First World War. The Salonica Front. A French battalion preparing to march after a bivouac .. 1914-1918}. Greece, Saloniki

10/16/1909. Advance of the Soldiers of León. The first company of the first battalion of León Advancing against the enemy.

Photo collection First World War. The British Western Front. Pack Horses Going fits Field Kitchens. 1914-1918}

THE VOLUNTEER REVIEW AT DUNSTABLE ON EASTER MONDAY

Engraving depicts Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts (1832 - 1914) attending church during his command at Pretoria. Dated 1901

Daily Mail Abominable Snowman Expedition -- A general view of the camp at Chyabus.A photograph just received from the Daily Mail expedition to the Himalaya. It was taken at Chyabus (7,400 feet) when the main party of the expedition were three days out from Katmandu on their march to their base camp. April 23, 1954.

Locust plague killing. 1925, Middle East

British Troops Comb Palestine Fishing Village -- A British Tommy mans a machine (left, foreground) as inhabitants of the tiny fishing villages of South Yom, are held Ina field outside the village for questioning August 27.The spot where the questioning is taking place (left, centre) is the site of the ancient city of Caesarea - headquarters of the Roman Governors of Palestine during Nero's time. General Titus in this Mediterranean inlet disembarked to defeat the people of Jerusalem about 70 A.D.In background are British Army trucks.British troops and Palestine police, seeking hidden arms and traces of the person responsible for underwater explosions which damaged the British ship S.S. "Empire Rival" in Haifa harbour recently, made a through search of the tiny fishing village of Spothyom, 35 miles South of Haifa, August 27. September 12,1946. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

04/30/1915. In the Ballesteros camp (Toledo). The director and some teachers of the Infantry academy, with several students, preparing a campaign exercise.

The Second Boer War, 1899-1902 Oxen drawn column of the British Army carrying an artillery gun (5 inch gun?) across a river, possibly the Modder River.

Inside the fort after capture.The infantry in possession of the fort with their Italian captives. April 29, 1941. (Photo by British Official Photograph).

Position Colbricon Saddle Height: Machine gun bombardment of an enemy flyer. .

Here are bomber pilots and navigators leaving their hut and going to their planes for a bombing raid on the Japanese held Island of Kiska. The huts are sunk into the ground to give better protection in case of an air-raid. Also it is protection against

Soldiers in the exercise. Soldiers of the V. Army in the exercise in the karst area, reception south of Görz

Spanish Civil War. Loyalist troops during attack.

03/23/1912. After the Cambate. Convoy of wounded and dead on the Harcha road. Among the First was Colonel Manzano, wounded in the combat on the 22nd.

Sports. 1935-10-01T00:00:00.. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Soldiers at the Ackern in Zazulince. .

British horse lines at Suvla 1915

The Second Boer War, 1899-1902 The Norval's Pont Bridge (length 1,650 feet) which was blown up in March 1900. Norval's Point was an important junction on the main railway line from Capetown to Johannesburg.

CIRCLE THE WAGONS (EV001934_H)

A tribal lunch at cavalry post at Tel-el-Meleiha, 20 miles North of Beersheba, Jan. 18, 1940. General view with men and camels of the camel corps in the foreground. 1940, Israel

Foresters At Work: General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

'Cavalry Patrol near Erzinjan', c1906-1913, (1915). Mounted men in the valley of Erzinjan in Anatolia, (Turkey). From "The Caliphs' Last Heritage, a short history of the Turkish Empire" by Lt.-Col. Sir Mark Sykes. Macmillan & Co, London, 1915

TROPAS MARROQUIES EN GRANADA. Author: GOLLONET ANGEL. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Bearers towards nanga parbat mountain. 1953.

Supplies towards the front line, Italy, World War I, from l'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLV, No 1, January 6, 1918.

Team at.Strath lover. .

Normandy, France: June 18, 1944 An endless line of troops and supply trucks head from Omaha Beach into the hills of Normandy to begin the drive on Germany's Fortress Europe.

Victims (farmers or English) of the Second Boer War, Anonymous, 1899 - 1900 photograph Part of photo album with recordings of the Second Boer War (1899-1902). South Africa paper. photographic support. cardboard horrors of war South Africa

Emperor Charles I in the XI. Isonzo slaughter.

THE SECOND BOER WAR, 1899-1902. British troops crossing a river near Talana Hill, Natal Province (site of the Battle of Dundee, 1899).

'Sur les champs de bataille Macedoniens de Gornitchevo et du Kaimaktchalan; La releve des blesses au col de Gornitchevo, apres les combats des 12-14 septembre.', 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVII. La Guerre Juillet, Aout, Septembre, Octobre, Novembre, Decembre 1916".

Revolutionary lookouts on the Akrotiri peninsula, Cretan Revolt, Greece, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXIV, No 13, March 28, 1897.

Towards the camp on Etna. 1924

Kawzi Bey El-Kawukij, or Fawzi al-Qawugji, or Fauzi el-Kaukji, commanding officer of the Arab Army of Liberation leads his troops across fields near Castel, east of Jerusalem. In all sectors, every day, Iraqi and Syrian troops under his command attack Jews.

Visit to an Oil Field in Purissima Hills, USA, 1908 photograph Henri Detherding and travel companions in Graciosa Ridge when visiting oil fields. Part of the photo album of Dolph Kessler with recordings he made during his stay in England and on a world trip he undertook as secretary of Henri Detding (director of Royal Oil) to the Dutch East Indies, Japan, China and the United States, between 1906 and 1908. California cardboard. photographic support gelatin silver print

Massey and Ward at La Boisselle crater Oct 1916

04/30/1916. North Americans in Mexico. Partial appearance of a camp of the American Troops that entered Mexico in pursuit of Pancho Villa.

08/31/1909. A volunteer Aristocrat. The Duke of Zaragoza, soldier in the King's regiment, who has distinguished himself so much in the current Campaign, Serving as a sentinel in the Advances of the El-Arba camp.

About. War dog department.

Upper Ramu Valley Advance. A camp scene at an advanced post. December 20, 1943.

Destroys caused by the storm in the port of Malaga 1894, Andalusia. Spain, Europe. Old XIX century engraved illustration from La Ilustracion Española y Americana 1894

Original Film Title: LA BATTAGLIA DI EL ALAMEIN. English Title: BATTLE OF EL ALAMEIN, THE. Film Director: GIORGIO FERRONI. Year: 1969.

Battery of the 53rd division, 1918, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

Joseph's Well at Dothan 1900, West Bank, Dothan

Children in military attire near Addis Ababa.

Trasmulas (Granada). November 1906. The King in the position that corresponded to him in the hunts on the last day of hunting.

Field marshal Friedrich at the old 14.corps in the Garderal, Defillation. .

US marines landing in Beirut. 1958 Lebanon crisis.

Rebels in action

07/31/1921. Melilla. In the Advanced line. Sentinel next to the Barbed Wire of a recently occupied position.

View looking up Western wall of Fort, showing right corner Bastion and position of the three Conical Peaks forming Enemy's right defence, with entire line of Sunga. John Burke (Irish, about 1843 - 1900)

Original caption: "PWA. 4/17/37. Manzanita. Dry rubble culvert.". 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

Melilla, October 1893. Entrenchment work to prepare the Horcas Coloradas camp, during the "Margallo War" or First Rif War, which took place from October 3, 1893 to April 25, 1894.

General Kitchener and the Anglo-egyptian Nile Campaign, 1898 Soldiers of the Cameron Highlanders and Seaforth Highlanders dig graves in order to bury their dead after the Battle of Atbara. The British Brigade (composed of Royal Warwicks, Lincolns, Seaforths and Camerons) lost five officers and 21 men in the action while the Egyptian Brigade lost 57. The losses of the Sudanese (Dervish) forces led by Emir Mahmoud were estimated at 3000 or more.

The Second Opium War, 1856-1860 North Taku Forts.

Maschingeggrass, A.D. Isonzofront.3.9.17. .

Egypt. 1915 (CA.). March of Australian forces during World War I before the pyramids of Egypt.

Photograph of Andrew Comyn Irvine (1902-24), the British climber, working on an oxygen bottle in the Everest Expedition camp, 1924. Irvine, although a relatively inexperienced climber, was an expert in the maintainence and repair of oxygen tanks and it was for this skill that he was chosen to accompany George Leigh Mallory for their fatal attempt on Everest. Date: 1924

05/31/1913. Our Troops in Morocco. Convoy of food and ammunition at a stop during the March, sheltered in a ravine from the attack of the Moors.

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.

Anefo photo collection. Army exercise Big Ferro in Germany, tanks in action, from the air. September 14, 1973. Germany

Unload by Proviant at the Feldbahnhof Ostrzec, 28.I.1916.

World War I, supply trains of the American 129th infantry, 33rd Division, winding through the ruins of Bethincourt, France, 1918,

Governor Giacomo De Martino's column on the march for the peaceful conquest of new regions in Somalia, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXIX, No 28, July 14, 1912.

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,Transportation War

Chaplain & stretcher bearers, France

07/31/1923. Melilla. Tifaruin's combat. 2. Entry of the convoy into Tifaruin, after defeating the Rebels. (Litran photo).

Group of people. Group of people

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.

Tell Beit Mirsim. 1926, Israel, Debir (Extinct city)

DOOMED FORT (1965) -Original title: FUERTE PERDIDO-.

War. supplies. 1915-18.

Knatchbull M (capt the Hon) Collection N. C. O. of 'B' Battery, R. H. A, infront line trench. Gallipoli, July 1915.

07/16/1911. Lieutenant Colonel Mr. Dueñas Buying Sweets from the Jews of Larache. Photo Caves.

Petersburg, Virginia Water-filled ditch on west side of Fort Sedgwick. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military facilities, Petersburg (Va.), History, Siege, 1864-1865, Forts & fortifications, United States, Virginia, Petersburg.

'Kurds of Shaykh Sadik's 'Army'', c1906-1913, (1915). Kurdish men with rifles and bullet belts, Khatuna, (eastern Turkey). From "The Caliphs' Last Heritage, a short history of the Turkish Empire" by Lt.-Col. Sir Mark Sykes. Macmillan & Co, London, 1915

Men Setting Posts. Original Title: Miscellaneous. 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Russian Troops massing before a fight on the heights - Russo - Japanese War

THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE (1968), directed by TONY RICHARDSON.

Pekinj: Marketben. .

History of Spain. Ceuta. Three Krupp 260 mm (10.2 inch) guns, which the Spanish government assigned to the city's fortifications, on the quay where they were disembarked. Engraving by Vela. The Spanish and American Illustration (La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana), 1884.

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