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Military Ceremonies and Parades

Black and white archival footage of military ceremonies from 1945 to 1954, highlighting soldiers in formation, award presentations, and honor guard events.

Lockdown shot of army soldiers playing music and marching against sky

Description: The Nigeria Regiment of the West African Frontier Force. Location: Nigeria africa

Welsh Guards Relieved At Last Changing Of Guard For King Edward -- The 1st. Batt. Walsh Guards carrying King Edward's Royal standard into Buckingham Palace this morning. The 1sat. Batt. Grenadier Guards performed the last changing of the guard of King Edward's reign when they relieved the 1st. Batt. Welsh Guards , the regiment with which King Edward was always closely associated, both as Prince of Wales and as King. December 11, 1936.

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The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) is the military arm of the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), a political group composed of ethnic Kachins in northern Burma (Myanmar). In May 2012, the Associated Press reported that the rebel group had 8,000 troops. From 1961 until 1994, the KIA fought a grueling and inconclusive war against the Burmese junta. Originally the KIA fought for independence, but now the official KIO policy goal is for autonomy within a federal union of Burma. The Kachin are an ethnic minority group that is indigenous to Burma. The northernmost region of Myanmar is Kachin State where about 3 million Kachin people live. They are mostly Christian these days, and are renowned for their traditional herbal medicines.

Therell be no more “slope arms”,“order arms” on“present arms” on British barrack squares.These three commands, which have been with the British Army almost since the first muskets appeared, are to be pensioned off.Now that the War Office has officially adopted the Belgian FN rifle for ceremonial purposes and arm drill, infantry experts have had to draw up a new drill routine.Awkward knobs on the new rifle make it somewhat different to handle to the old types.New commands will be “Shoulder arms”, “Trail arms”, and “Salute”.Soldiers standing at attention with the new rifle will, in the new drill, carry it "at the trail" - horizontally - which they do normally when marching at ease. May 01, 1948. (Photo by Reuterphoto).

Funeral of the late King Willem II in Delft on April 4, 1849 (page 5), 1849 print The funeral of the late King Willem II in Delft on April 4, 1849. Fifth leaf in a series of five contiguous magazines. On this magazine the last part of the funeral procession with the letters MM-UU. print maker: Netherlandspublisher: Haarlem paper cortege, funeral procession Delft

Photo collection Government information service. DIAS Opening States General. undated. The Hague, South Holland

May 8, 1943 - Soldiers stand by for inspection by the Commanding General.

SS-Leibstandarte, Adolf Hitler's personal bodyguards, marching at the the Nazi Party Rally in Nuremberg in 1933, life-sized photos in an exhibition space, permanent exhibition, "Fascination and Terror", Documentation Centre Nazi Party Rally Grounds, Nuremberg, Middle Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Aviation day military aviation at Kemajoran airport. Videiate guard military aviation. March 9, 1947. Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Kemajoran, Dutch East Indies

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection Cadets of No 5 Officer Cadet Battalion assembled in Neville Court, Trinity College, Cambridge.

09/30/1915. At the Cavalry academy. HM the King (X) Addressing the New Students after the Pledge of Flag.

Queen Presents New Standards -- The Queen, Colonel-In-Chief, is shown here during the ceremony in which at Windsor home park today April 28 she presented new standards to the household cavalry - the life guards and the royal horse guards (the blues). May 13, 1953. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

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Arab Legion Manoeuvres -- Horsemen of the British trained Arab legion, line the hills outside Amman, were king Abdullah has his Palace. The future of this British officered force when King Abdullah leads his men in the Palestine invasion is still unknown. May 12, 1948. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

King's birthday celebration Scotch, Scots regiment with the National Standard and their regimental colours 1936, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

Noble papal guards in Napoleonic uniform. 1920

Presidential Citation Ceremony - Col. John A. Feagin, Co Of China Sub-Sector Of Atc. Col. Feagin Is From San Antonio, Texas. China.

Hoffmann Photographs 1933 Adolf Hitler's official photographer, and a Nazi politician and publisher, who was a member of Hitler's intimate circle.

Nazi rally Germany circa 1929-30

Field marshal Friedrich at the old 14. Corps, inspection in star. .

Vintage Photograph. Row of flags waving on flagpoles near United Nations building, New York City, Frame 3

The Home Front in Britain during the Second World War The War Effort: Boy Scouts, Cubs and Sea Scouts with a cartload of waste paper which they collected for salvage at Balderton, Nottinghamshire.

Drivers at Quartermaster Depot

Le Duc et la Duchess de Windsor Assistent a La Chasse a courre en foret de Rambouillet.Le duc et la Duchesse de Windsor ont assiste a La Celle Les Bordes, en Foret de Rambouillet, a la traditionnelle chasse a courre de la Saint Hubert. On les voit ici ecoutant le rapport des chasseurs. April 17, 1950. (Photo by Photo Express)

Gis And Aussies Guard Tokyo Shrine -- Pvt. Harry Hill, Newcastle, Australia; PFC Robert E. Schoon, Palmer, IA.; Pvt. Emmet L. Framer, Dangannon, Va., and Pvt. Bill Taylor, Melbourne, Australia, (left to right) stand guard in front of the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo. The Shrine has been opened to Allied occupation personnel for the first time. Americans and Australians have been assigned to guard it. These Australian and American Servicemen have been assigned to stand guard in front of the Meiji Shrine, Tokio, which has been opened to Allied occupation personnel for the first time. July 5, 1947. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Command transfer.kolonel-kite-observer J.N. Mulder, Knight Military William Order (RMWO) (right), the command over the Ypenburg airbase over to Colonel kite H.J. Doornbos (left).

Photo collection Government information service. The Great Hall in the Binnenhof, The Hague, during the Grote Meeting of States General in 1651. Painting by Dirck van Delen. 1651. The Hague, South Holland

Palestine is a name given to the geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. The region is also known as the Land of Israel, the Holy Land and the Southern Levant. In 1832 Palestine was conquered by Muhammad Ali's Egypt, but in 1840 Britain intervened and returned control of the Levant to the Ottomans in return for further capitulations. The end of the 19th century saw the beginning of Zionist immigration and the Revival of the Hebrew language. The movement was publicly supported by Great Britain during World War I with the Balfour Declaration of 1917. The British captured Jerusalem a month later, and were formally awarded a mandate in 1922. In 1947, following World War II and the Holocaust, the British Government announced their desire to terminate the Mandate, and the United Nations General Assembly voted to partition the territory into a Jewish state and an Arab state. The Jewish leadership accepted the proposal but the Arab Higher Committee rejected it; a

''The Visit of the German Emperor to Rome; the Grand Review of the Italian Troops at Centocelli, the Bersaglieri passing the Saluting Point', 1888. From, 'The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper Volume 38. July to December, 1888'.

Poll photo collection. In Jordan. Glubb Pasha on horseback at a Jordanian Army Arab Legion parade. 1953. Amman, Jordan

Passing in review , Military parades & ceremonies, Military personnel, Military facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Changing of the Guard, 1. Königlich Sächsisches Husaren-Regiment König Albert Nr. 18, Buildings in Großenhain, Barracks in Saxony, Military facilities of Germany, Brass instruments, 1912, Landkreis Meißen, Großenhain, 1. Husaren, Regiment Wachablösung

Adolf Hitler, German Nazi dictator, inspecting occupied Paris, France, 1940. Creator: Unknown.

Changing of the Guard, Fortresses in the Czech Republic, Military facilities, Marching, Buildings in Terezín, Main gate small fortress (Terezín), 1913, Ústí nad Labem Region, Theresienstadt, Kleine Festung mit abmarschierender Wache

K-19: THE WIDOWMAKER (2002), directed by KATHRYN BIGELOW.

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