Historical Military Portraits

Black and white portraits of military figures from various conflicts, showcasing uniforms and decor. The images convey a sense of bravery and historical significance.

Calamity Jane, General Crook's scout, c1870-1876 (1954). Artist: Unknown

The Aceh War, also known as the Dutch War or the Infidel War (1873-1914), was an armed military conflict between the Sultanate of Aceh and the Netherlands which was triggered by discussions between representatives of Aceh and the United Kingdom in Singapore during early 1873. The war was part of a series of conflicts in the late 19th century that consolidated Dutch rule over modern-day Indonesia.

War album 103, picture 31579.

Calamity Jane, General Crook's scout, c1870-1876 (1954). Artist: Unknown

Station inspector Robert Moberg.

Madame Kokovtseva, of the 6th Ural Cossack Regiment with her head bandaged after being twice wounded in East Prussia. One of 400 Russian women bearing arms during the First World War, her bravery won her the Cross of St. George together with the promise of a military pension. Pictured in The Tatler in 1915, the magazine explains that owing to her wound, she was 'pursuing the good work of reading to and comforting the wounded in hospital in Petrograd.' Date: 1915

French soldier emerges in gas mask from a trench during World war One

Floyd Peter Koch spent nearly three months training at the newly formed Camp Dix in New Jersey before deploying to Europe with a machine gun company in the 78th Divisions 309th Infantry Regiment. Floyd returned to the United States in December 1918 after receiving shrapnel wounds in the Battle of St. Mihiel in France three months earlier.

Train leader abdomen Alois des K.K. Ld.inf.rgts.nr.2, 3. Field Company. .

Study of infantry soldier on guard--William J. Jackson, Sergt. Maj. 12th New York Vols.--Sketched at Stoneman's Switch, near Fredricksburg sic, Virginia Jan. 27th, 1863. Morgan collection of Civil War drawings. Military personnel, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military personnel, Union, United States, Virginia, Fredericksburg.

King of Saxony

Zulu policeman. Portrait of a Zulu policeman, standing to attention, part of a force recruited by the British to help control Swaziland. Embabaan (Mbabane), Swaziland, circa August 1904. Mbabane, Hhohho, Swaziland, Southern Africa, Africa.

George Leslie Adkin, 11 October 1915, maker unknown. Gift of G. L. Adkin family estate, 1964.

Benjamin Tillett, British socialist, trade union leader and politician at the Western Front 1915; Black and white photograph

Zouave was the title given to certain light infantry regiments in the French Army, normally serving in French North Africa between 1831 and 1962. The name was also adopted during the 19th century by units in other armies, especially volunteer regiments raised for service in the American Civil War. The characteristic zouave uniform included short open-fronted jackets, baggy trousers and often sashes and oriental headgear.

Prince Edward of Wales visiting the Italian front, World War I, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLIV, No 47, November 25, 1917.

Red Army on The Offensive -- Akim Lysenko, tank commander, who shattered seven German tanks in the Orel-Kursk area. February 1, 1951. (Photo by Pictorial Press).

Chaplin A. Woodbury, 1st R.I. Inf.. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

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.

Prince George's tour to Australia and New Zealand cancelled. The Duke of Gloucester to take his place.Incidents in the life of the Duke of Gloucester.Prince Henry at the Eton college O.T.C. Manoeuvres in Windsor park. May 23, 1916. (Photo by Sports & General Press Agency Limited).

Kowel: Excellence Linsingen visits the artillery workshop train.

Admiral Patricio Montojo Y Pasaron - Commander of Spanish Forces in the Philippines during the Spanish American War

He just escaped being stewed alive, when he was trapped while cleaning a ship's boiler. May 10, 1950.

Crew Member Of The 379Th Bomb Group Models Armored Vest And Oxygen Mask Worn By Bombardiers Of The Group. England, 19 June 1944.

EDITORIAL Émile Henry Muselier, 1882 -1965. French admiral who led the Free French Naval Forces during World War II. From The War in Pictures, First Year.

A soldier and NN man at the monument (head) of Adam Mickiewicz in Vilnius a double portrait unknown

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection Type of Lady Horse Trainer with harness.

Portrait, two lieutenants Two lieutenants in front of an aircraft hangar. In the background unknown aircraft.

1st World War; German General Alexander Von Linsengen South Army Commander in Galicia, 1915. Black and white photograph

Koustontine i.e., Konstantine Protich

SE. Excl. from benigni. .

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection Type of uniform worn by conductors, General Omnibus Company.

03/31/1913. Miguel Montes, corporal of the Topographic Worker Brigade, who, together with others, arrested the anarchist Sancho.

Colonel John S. Mosby, C.S.A.. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

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.

Photograph showing a pigeon container strapped to the stomach of a British paratrooper, 1944. Pigeons are one of the oldest and most reliable forms of military communication and were employed by the British during various operations in the Second World War. Date: 1944

Military exercise. From the gas protection course.

J. Edgar Hoover joined his high school Reserve Officers' Training Corps program. Ca. 1914. - (BSLOC_2015_1_7)

Image of a member of the voluntary civil guard in uniform on post for the building for the municipal radio distribution (Menno van Coehoornstraat 40) in Utrecht.

Trumpeter Bugler at ***** at St. Luka's Collage (see handed). October 16, 1933.

Military in front of a door, Anonymous, 1941 - 1945 photograph This photo is part of an album. Netherlands paper. photographic support gelatin silver print the soldier; the soldier's life. door

Anefo photo collection. WI West Indies / Anefo London series. KNIL officer speaks knitted vocal officer. {1940-1945}. Paramaribo, Suriname

Scottish soldier wearing gas mask in 1915 From The War Illustrated Album deLuxe published London 1916

09/30/1936. Soldier Guarding in a Subsector abandoned by the Nationals. In the background, the famous jar and the building of the national ceramics school.

Soldier Aiming Rifle. Artist: Unknown (French). Date: 1880s-90s. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

On deck of U.S.S. New Hampshire off Charleston, South Carolina. No. 4956, Title from item, Mounted with four other photographs and one print, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, South Carolina, Charleston.

Portrait, military person. Porträtt, militärperson.

11/24/1929. Explorer Richard E. Byrd with part of the equipment for his Antarctic Exploration. Photo From Wide World Photos. Photo "Vidal" Madrid.

1930s GERMAN SOLDIER AT ATTENTION RIFLE ON SHOULDER STANDING GUARD STEPS TOMB OF UNKNOWN SOLDIER BERLIN GERMANY

07/31/1921. The soldier of the Disciplinary Brigade Ismael Muñoz, who was able to escape from the power of the Moors who were holding him prisoner, and the civil guard Manuel Almarcha, who evicted Solo, in Nador, a house where several Moors sheltered themselves, all of whom he killed.

Mine rescuer

Second World War. Netherlands under German crew. Wehrmachigeriger in front of a stable goal (well with the Hague)

The Civil War, Bull Run, Virginia (vicinity), Col. Alfred Duffie, 1st Rhode Island Cavalry, from glass negative, by Timothy H. O'Sullivan, July, 1862.

"Feu, s'il vous plait" -- British & French at Étaples

'La Revolution Russe; Le Grand-Duc Michel, frere du tsar, sous l'uniforme des cosaques qu'il commandait en Galicie', 1917. The Russian Revolution: Grand Duke Michael, brother of the Tsar, in the uniform of the cossacks which he commanded in Galicia. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" L'Illustration, Paris, 1924.

CF. Stanisław Rabiński, DCA 3 Szw. 2 p. Polish Legions. Front of the Polish Legions in Volhynia Janowski, Stanisław (1866 1942)

War album 28, picture 7859.

Captain James S. West, C.S.A.. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , Title devised by Library staff. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

British Tommy shaves, his small mirror propped up on the bumper of an armoured train - WWI. Date: circa 1915

World War I 1914-1918: German prisioner and his French guard. Weedy, bootless prisoner with a puzzled expression, prominent ears, wearing spectacles contasted with smart, strong and confident guard. Le Pays de France, 1915.

12/31/1914. 915 (CA.). Portrait of Colonel Mangin.

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection Type of uniform worn by nurse of Australian Army Medical Corps.

Engraving depicting a statue of a 15th Century Frankish warrior

Eskimo boy in center who went with Mr. Lapp i.e. Mr. William Thomas Lopp on relief expedition in 1898, and now has 1,600 deer worth possibly $40,000 at $25 a deer. Frank and Frances Carpenter collection , Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951, Lopp, William Thomas,,1864- , Eskimos,Alaska,1890-1940, Indians of North America,Alaska,1890-1940, Expeditions & surveys,Alaska,1890-1940, United States,Alaska

Second World War. Netherlands under German crew. Portrait of a Wehrmaching with shouldered rifle (well with the Hague)

Second World War. Soldier in underwear (well in a lazaret)

Soldier and his dog wearing gas masks ca. 1914.

Raoul Lufbery, French-American fighter pilot and flying ace of World War I, 1917. Artist: Unknown

On picket duty, Lazare, Carl (composer), Torrey, R. (lyricist), C. D. Russell & Company, Boston, 1864., United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Songs and music, Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices, 4 parts) with piano, Soldiers, United States, Pictorial works, Popular Songs of the Day, Songs and Music, War and Conflict, Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877), Music associated with the Union side, sheet music

Reproduction recording for information. .

Lieutenant of the Uhlans of the Polish Legions (Józef Mączka). Front of the Polish Legions in Volhynia Janowski, Stanisław (1866 1942)

The King Shoots In Styrian Costume. The King wore Styrian hinting costume when he went partridge shooting in the old royal estate at Luxemburg, 15 miles from Vienna. O.P.S. The King in loather shorts, a green jacket with silver buttons and white socks, on the hunting ground which had been placed at his disposal by the Austrian Government. October 05, 1936.

10/07/1906. Bull escaped and killed by the civil guard in the Ronda de Segovia.

03/03/1918. Presentation of Credentials. The new Minister of Sweden in Spain, Baron Sliis, who yesterday complimented His Majesty the King.

French Soldier Smiles for the Camera

Dog and Handler wearing gas masks at the battle front. Strecher bearers carry a wounded man in the background, the war dogs were frequently employed to locate wounded men in no man's land Date: 20th century

. 1/5 Battalion, London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade) Corporal Bartlett, from Kentish Town, London, served in the Arras Sector of the Western Front. He was posted missing, aged 20, during the German Spring Offensive on 28 March 1918. Corporal Bartlett is commemorated on the Arras 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.

British soldier leaves his family and home to go to the front at the beginning of world war one 1914

10/17/1937. Civil war. One of the heavy caliber projectiles launched over Madrid, of Italian origin.

Women in the First World War A full-length portrait of an Office of Works messenger.

Portrait, two lieutenants portrait of two lieutenants sitting outside building on the ore.

Historic photo, policeman, ca. 1918

The standard bearer of the First Mobile Artillery Bodyguard Brigade / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères

Evelyn Owen & his sub-machine gun. June 01, 1942. (Photo by Frederick John Halmarick/Fairfax Media).

Industry during the First World War A female worker carries a sack of coke on her back up a flight of stairs at a London gas works during the First World War.

Lieut. S.A. Andrew

05/31/1914. Parliamentary Figures. Don Juan Antonio Gamazo, Count of Gamazo, deputy.

08/09/1908. Bernabé Fuente Roldan, murderer of the boy Lucas. Photo: bravo.

A soldier with rifle and fixed bayonet, eve of war on the Turkish border, the Balkans armed for the conflict, photograph by Aldo Molinari, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXIX, No 40, October 6, 1912.

Field weather station X. Shield with instruments, reading the stroller thermometer. .

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.

Capt. C.C. McCarthy of MEADE

Military transport on the line between Nässjö - Falköping.

Prince Arthur in Canada, 1870. 'The return of his Royal Highness Prince Arthur from the United States to the seat of the British American Government at Ottawa has been reported by telegraph...We have received from Mr. W. Notman, photographic artist, of Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto, several excellent portraits of his Royal Highness and the gentlemen about him, in the costumes they have worn upon some public occasion; and one of them, which is engraved, shows the Prince half-attired in uniform, half in the walking-dress suitable to a Canadian winter. The temperature at this time of the year, to

Second World War. Netherlands under German crew. Relatives of the German Wehrmacht in a park with plastic of a lying deer (well with the Hague)

Nadezhda Teffi (1872-1952) as Nurse during World War I, Anonymous

Thomas war flag. Title from item, From Brady negative: LC-BH832-631. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Admiral R.S. Lew

The monarch Alfonso XIII with his military instructor Juan Lóriga, Count of Grove, in 1895.

Clarence Rhode (d.1958) traversed the Yukon River by rowboat as a boy, flew the Alaskan outback as a bush pilot during the Second World War, and supervised the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's aircraft division in Alaska following his Army service. In. Subjects: Alaska; Refuge Centennial; History. . 1998 - 2011.

Germany Before the First World War 1890 - 1914 Official Christmas card of Kaiser Wilhelm II sent to Hugh, 5th Earl of Lonsdale in 1911. The card features a photograph of the Kaiser dressed as a huntsman with his kill.

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