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Military Officers in Historic Uniforms

Portraits of military officers in vintage uniforms, capturing the essence of military heritage with medals and decorations.

C. A. Clowes ***** the middle east to late MP command in home arriving in Australia. January 09, 1942.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. Portraits. Portrait of a 2nd Lieutenant of the KNIL. March 1947. Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies

New Zealand military aboard Queen Viktoria.

Gordon Gray U.S. Secretary of the Army. September 06, 1949.

U.S. Germany Commands New Army On Western Front.Lieutenant General Leonard T. Gerow, who has long been associated with the planning and execution of the Allied campaign against Germany, is the commander of the new U.S. 15th Army on the Western Front. This is the fifth American and the eighth Allied army fighting against Germany on the Western Front. When Allied forces land in Normandy on June 6, 1944, General Gerow was a major general in command of the Fifth U.S. Corps, which, ***** with the Seventh Corps, made up the First Army forces that secured the beachhead. March 28, 1945. (Photo by U.S. Office of War Information Picture).

Anefo photo collection. Hie Holland England / Anefo London series. Lieutenant Hirsch. 1943. Britain

12/31/1915. Paul Koenig, captain of the German transatlantic submarine "Deutschland". Photograph Obtained in Baltimore (United States).

Sir Winston Churchill -- The Great Man's eightieth year. The Great Man's eightieth year - "He alone is worthy of the appellation (great) who either does great things, Or teaches how they may be done, or describes them with a suitable majesty When they have been done, but those only are great things which tend to render life more happy, which increase the innocent enjoyment and comforts. of existence, or which pave the way to a state of future bliss, more permanent and more pure". Milton the second defense of the people of England. .....As honorary Air Commodore of the Royal Auxiliary Air force. November 29, 1954.

Manchuria - Key To Victory In China's Civil War -- Man With A Load Of Trouble. "Unless an all-out effort is made to turn the tide of war, Central China, last reservoir of Kuomintang power, will face a complete collapse." That was the warning given by Chiang Kai-Shek on March 18 to an emergency meeting of commanders and governors. This is General Fu Tso-Yi, Kuomintang commander-in-chief for North China, whose task is to try and stem the Red tide. January 01, 1950. (Photo by P.A. Reuter Features Limited).

Col. Józef Kobyecki - commander of the 2nd Half-Brigade of the Independent Podhale Rifles Brigade; 1940 .

Anefo photo collection. Minister of Marine Schagen van Leeuwen. August 7, 1946

Submarines and Submarine Officers. 4 February 1943, Malta. Lieut M J L Duff, RN, 1st Lieutenant, P37.

Gen. L.W. Stotesbury

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. Half-length portrait of Air Vice Marshal E A B Rice, Air Officer Commanding No. 7 (Operational Training) Group, and former AOC of No. 1 Group. Photograph taken at 7 Group Headquarters, St Vincents, Grantham, Lincolnshire.

Captain E. de Roode, born in 1920.

Anefo photo collection. Portraits / Persons / Anefo London series. Lieutenant a.c.Domthof. March 1942. Britain, London

VADM F.E. Kruimink (Geb. 1917), Flag Officer staff of 1971-1972.

Second World War. Netherlands under German crew. Relatives of the German Wehrmacht in front of a residential building (well with the Hague)

Photographs Relating to the Minor Nuremberg Trials

Legionnaire, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. 1935. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Station Inspector R. S. V. Sanderberg.

Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder -- Deputy Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Britain. June 7, 1944. (Photo by British Official Photograph).

Second World War. Portrait of a relatives of the German Wehrmacht

Air-Raid Warden Griffin was enthroned. January 31, 1944.

García-Morato y Castaño, Joaquín (1904-1939), fotografiado en Ávila en 1937. Guerra civil.

Cassidy, K.C. October 11, 1941.

SHAPE Officials - Major General Warretn R. Carter, Major General E. C. V. Miller, Lt. General William Hansteen. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Anefo photo collection. Piet Hein to Korea commander. January 16, 1952. Korea

General Eisenhower Names His Staff:Photo Shows: Lieut. General Marcel Maurice Carpentier (France), to be Deputy Chief of Staff - Administration.General Eisenhower has announced the appointment of a seven-man staff to serve at Supreme Headquarters, three Britaons, two French, one American and one Italian. The name of the Deputy Supreme Commander is not yet announced. March 06, 1951. (Photo by Sport & General Press Agency Limited)

Allan Dawes - Aust. War Correspondent. August 30, 1943.

Ship's Officers Aboard a British Aircraft Carrier. 4 January 1943, Aboard HMS Formidable. Sub-lieutenant M Jefferson, RNVR, from Birmingham.

Ivan Stepanovich Konev (1897 - 1973) Soviet general and Marshal of the Soviet Union who led Red Army forces on the Eastern Front during World War II, responsible for taking much of Axis-occupied Eastern Europe.

Marshal S. Timoshenko. July 4, 1955.

Vice-Admiral Robert Jaujard, Flag Officer Central Europe. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

He flies plane higher than any man:Wing Commander W.F. Gibb the men who has flown an aircraft higher than any man in the world.The twin-jet British Canberra bomber has reached a height of more than 60,000-feet to better the official aircraft altitude record of 59,446-feet, the Bristol Aeroplane company announced March 24th. Whether an official attempt would be made on the world mark set by John Cunningham of Britain in a vampire jet in 1948 has not as yet been decided, it was stated. The Olympus-powered Canberra which was shown at the Farmborough air display last year, has been carrying out high Altitude flying tests for some time, when the above-record altitude was reached was not stated. March 25, 1953. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Anefo photo collection. General Lieutenant Jurgen Bennecke mentioned as a successor to Kielsmansegg. November 29, 1967

VADM TD MR. Ir. P.P. Van de Vijver (born 1920, 2002) was a flag officer equipment from 1970-1974.

E. Gossage - Air Marshall Aviation. January 1, 1944.

Submarine Officers. February and March 1943, at HMS Talbot, Malta. Sub Lieut R R Fernie, RN. Additional crew of HMS TIGRIS.

Airman Honoured. Capt. G.J. Powell of the Imperial airways has been granted the first master pilots certificate for land and Marine Aircraft. Capt. Powell was born in Wales. A new and unpublished photograph of Capt. G.J. Powell. May 25, 1936. (Photo by Universal Pictorial Press Ands Agency).

Soldiers on the Western Front during World War I participating in trench warfare.

RAF George Cross Recipients L/A Albert Matthew Osborne GC RAF. 13 July 1942.

Kurt Zeitzler, German infantry general. Portrait (unknown date).

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Pasports VII. Soldier with beret and in overall. 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Pilchowski.

Pilot G.U. Allen. November 1, 1931.

George Grivas -- "The Colonel." Age 55. Greying hair. Sturdy build. Former Greek Army officer and leader of guerrillas. An expert on disguises. Speaks with distinctive Athens accent Believed to be in personal charge of EOKA terrorist.British Undercover Men Hunt for Colonel -- Nicosia - British agents who worked with Greek guerrillas during the war were called to Cyprus Tuesday to help in the hunt for George Grivas (pictured here), 55-year-old mystery colonel believed to be the brains behind the anti-British terrorists in ****. ***** of Cyprus-born Grivas and a picture have been *****. As a hint of the difficulty facing the British in ***** him down, it is pointed out that Grivas operated ***** in Athens for nearly three years, defying arrest by the Germans with complete success. November 23, 1955.

Lieutenant General Claire Lee Chennault (September 6, 1893 July 27, 1958), was an American military aviator. A contentious officer, he was a fierce advocate of fight-interceptor aircraft during the 1930s when the U.S. Army Air Corps was focused primarily on high-altitude bombardment. Chennault retired in 1937, went to work as an aviation trainer and adviser in China, and commanded the 'Flying Tigers' during World War II, both the volunteer group and the uniformed units that replaced it in 1942.

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

West German Service Chiefs:Major-General Eberhard BurandtJunior Divison Leader in Ministry of Defence, since April 1971; born in Gross - Trampken, January 1923. January 01, 1923. (Photo by Camera Press)

Anefo photo collection. Kamp Amersfoort, internment camp for war criminals and collaborators. An interned former campstaffaard after bald-off. 1945. Amersfoort

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Makassar. Visit of Prime Minister Beel; Troop displacement; Hadjizwaard; Major General Sas. Territorial troop commander of South Celebes Colonel Scheffer. December 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Portrait of Chef Defendency General Der Genie P.J. Graaff.

First lieutenant kite B. Hernephof, born in 1926.

Segeant S.D. Cameron Who was Castigated by ***** in the Annand morals charge appeal Judgment ***** A Strong defence of Sgt. Cameron, Shown above ***** been made by Police *****. July 31, 1953. (Photo by Associated Newspapers)

Black and white photograph of World War II (1939-1945); Portrait of British General Bernard Montgomery (1887-1976), Commander-in-Chief of the 8th British Army who defeated Rommel in the desert.

Anefo photo collection. Vice Admiral Pinke during radio speech. July 20, 1949

Elsevier photo collection. Schout-at-night c.w. Slot appointed commander naval power i.p.v. vice-admiral j.j.d. Willinge. February 10, 1951

Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, USN, in his new uniform of 5 star admiral

Second World War. Portrait of a relatives of the German Wehrmacht

Railway personnel at the luggage department, the Bergslager's railway.

Anefo photo collection. National Socialist Movement. J. H. Feldmeyer, foreman Dutch SS. 1940

SHAPE Officials - Major General Warretn R. Carter, Major General E. C. V. Miller, Lt. General William Hansteen. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Photographs Relating to the Minor Nuremberg Trials

. 6 Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment Lt Col Leahy was resident sectional engineer to the Pacific Railway in Argentina before the War. He returned to England and obtained his commission in the York and Lancaster Regiment in 1914. Lt Col Leahy served in Gallipoli and in Egypt, before being posted to the Western Front where he was Mentioned in Despatches. He was killed by a shell, aged 35, while directing his men during a raid on German trenches on 17 July 1918. Lt Col Leahy is buried at Mazingarbe Communal Cemetery Extension. 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 th

ERWIN ROMMEL (1891-1944). Author: WILLRICH W. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. France.

Portrait of Sergeant Gustaf Starck, 1938 Portrait of Sergeant Gustaf Starck, Military Flight Driver, Flight Pans and Aerial Mechanics. 2 pictures.

Anefo photo collection. Dutch kites trained Canada. 1940-1945}. Canada

Anefo photo collection. General Major E. Gitz, commander of the first army corps. January 14, 1974. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Lt. Col. F. G. Hassett, former commander of the ***** battalion in Korea, newly appointed commandant of the School of Lnfantry, Victoria. November 22, 1954.

Rear Admiral John H. Cornell.

Here Comes the Band. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Portrait of a brigadier deraal der Military administration c.L.J. Van Lent.

Portrait of Lieutenant-Ter-Sea of the First Class H. van Eijsden (1953), Commander of the mine hunter Hr.Ms. Harlingen (M 854) in 1991.

Portrait of man ,. Records of U.S. Army Operational

David Beatty, Admiral of the British Royal Navy, 1st Earl Beatty, 1871 to 1936, from L'Illustration, 1916, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Snr. Stewart Dawson. October 16, 1941.

Matron Fall, A. I. E. on return from Middle East. January 01, 1942.

Man ,. Records of U.S. Army Operational

07/31/1921. Lieutenant D. Juan Lamb Aponte, died in the Monte Arruit position.

Neutral Armistice Commission In Korea: Colonel Asper, Second Swiss Delegate. September 06, 1953. (Photo by Camera Press).

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. A man in uniform poses. He wears glasses and a dark beret. May 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Reginald Yorke Tyrwhitt, 1st Baronet of Terschelling and of Oxford, 1870 to 1951. Admiral of the Royal Navy in World War I. From The Illustrated War News, 1915.

Cold But Unperturbed Although he has one of the coldest of jobs in this weather, the London 'Bobby' wears a warm smile as he goes about his beat today January 6. January 16, 1937. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Wehrmacht soldier in a chair. A Wehrmacht soldier is in a chair. He is wearing glasses. Rear stands: BK. bei frie. An earlier photo shows him with this frie.

Mordechai Maklef 1920 - 1978 ; third Chief of Staff of the Israel Defence Forces from 1952-1953

High ranking Nazi party official Adolf Wagner circa late 1930s or early 1940s.

Squadron Leader Isitt, 1937, Wellington, by Spencer Digby Studios. Spencer Digby / Ronald D Woolf Collection. Gift of Ronald Woolf, 1975.

"Aid To Japs" Court Martial -- Mr. Thomas Durden, surprise witness in the Major Boon court martial, seen at Curzen St. this morning.The Court Martial of Major Cecil Boon, accused of aiding the Japanese while a prisoner of war in Hong Kong, entered its 16th day at Curzon Street, London, this morning (Friday). Yesterday Major Boon was cleared of six of the 11 charges which were brought against him, and will defend himself in the other five. At the court this morning was Mr. Thomas Durden, of Epson, a member of the same R.A.S.C. company as Major Boon, who is the only witness to come forward offering evidence in defence of Boon. For the prosecution were 44 witnesses. September 13, 1946.

When Japanese Machine Gun "Panay" Survivors.Mr. Clarence E. Gauss, U.S. ***** Shanghai.The 54 survivors of the U.S. Gunboat Panay, bombed by Japanese, were rescued from the water and landed at Hsiashan, 12 miles above Nanking. There, however, they were again in grave danger. Japanese troops were machine-gunning the waterfront, and apparently press ***** mass attack on the town. Mr. Clarence E. Gauss, ***** United State Consul in Shanghai, at once made a ***** protest and the attack was called off. December 13, 1937. (Photo by Keystone).

Royal Air Force Ferry Command, 1941-1943. Air Commodore E J Kingston McClaughry, Air Officer Commanding No. 44 (Ferry Service) Group, photographed at Group Headquarters, Gloucester.

Stratheden arrivals. Mr. T.A Handford, a superintendent in the Colonial Police Service, on his way to the Solomon is to take charge of the police force there. He was former in charge of the Gold Coast police for 7 years. He expects to be in the Solomon is for a least 2 years. His force ***** of about 300 men mostly. August 15 1955. (Photo by Ted Foster).

Portrait of Anton Adriaan Mussert, born Werkendam 11 May 1894, chief engineer of the Provincial Waterstaat (1917-1934), general leader of the National-Socialist movement in the Netherlands (1931-1945), died The Hague, 7 May 1946. Bustlicht to the left of forward.

Wing Commander R. Creswell, C.C. Operation Training Unit, Williamtown. September 9, 1954. (Photo by Kenneth Charles Redshaw/Fairfax Media).

Jack Hatfield (John Gatenby "Jack" Hatfield, 1893-1965), British Olympic swimming champion born in Middlesborough. Pictured here while serving as a gunner in the Royal Garrison Artillery in the First World War. According to the caption, 'his physique was declared by the Army doctor as "absolutely perfect." Date: 1916

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. A man in uniform poses. He wears glasses and a dark beret. May 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

E Buckmaster. October 29, 1944.

Anefo photo collection. Series Border Correction Germany. Cup with Hitler's Nor. 19 April 1948. Germany

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