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Portraits of Historic Military Leaders

Formal portraits of notable military figures, showcasing historical uniforms and commendations, emphasizing their roles in various conflicts.

General Beyers (1869 - 1914), became notorious in the early stages of the war for throwing up command of the South African Union Defence Force, when directing to act against German South-West Africa. 1914

General William Crawford Gorgas. Photograph.

Portrait of the French General Foch, promoted to Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor

War album 29, picture 7955.

David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty (1871-1936) British naval commander, World War I; Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916; Commander-in-chief Grand Fleet 1916; First Sea Lord 1919

General Beyers (1869 - 1914), became notorious in the early stages of the war for throwing up command of the South African Union Defence Force, when directing to act against German South-West Africa. 1914

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French General Leman, the defender of Liege 19140101

Admiral Sir Percy Moreton Scott, 1st Baronet (10 July 1853 18 October 1924) was a British Royal Navy officer and a pioneer in modern naval gunnery. Pictured In September 1915, following a Zeppelin raid on London, when he was tasked by the First Lord, Arthur Balfour to establish the London Air Defence Area to defend London from the increasing threat of air attack. Date: 1915

Spanish colonel Benito Marquez Martin

Spanocchi, Lelio Count Commander of the 21st Cavalry Rigade.

Elsevier photo collection. C.J. Van Raalten. Former Chief Inspector of Police in Amsterdam. 1920. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Marshal Ferdinand Foch a French soldier and Military theorist who lived between 2nd October 1851-20th March 1929. Was also an Allied Generalissimo during the First World War.

War album 96, picture 28775.

War album 29, picture 7894.

'Haakon', c1893. Artist: Unknown.

Supervisor O. Sandberg. Blekinge Coast Courts, BKB.

Gen. Mackensen

War Minister -- Wild V. Hohenborn

Gen. Von Eichhorn

Major General W.F. Biddle ca. 1910-1915.

Colonel Augste. .

Rear Adm. C. Cradock

Lutinant Anton Koppensteiner noble v. Highwood. (Rayon III.) Field artillery regiment no. 117.

Major Weber techn.roferent d.9.k.k.pomorzany. .

Feldseugmeister V.Benigen In Berecak, May 1917.

Excellence Field Marshal Alexander von Krobatin. .

Important men in Egyptian life in the 1900s to the 1920s (6/6). Lieutenant General Ali Abadi Pasha - served in the Egyptian army (1897-1903). circa 1930

Gen. von Emmich

JOHN DENTON FRENCH - British soldier. Date: 1852 - 1925

War album 29, picture 7891.

Gen. Sir John French

Gen. Michel

'Kriegsminister Graf Roon 1803-1879', 1934. Artist: Unknown.

Nelson A. Henry, Adjutant Gen. in uniform

Baron de Forest in uniform

General Geroge Barnett USMC Commandant circa 1905-1930.

Vintage Photograph. Rudolph von Kirchbach. German General during First World War.

Wm. Bromwell Melish

General Manuel Goded Llopis 1882 ñ August 12, 1936. Spanish Army general who was one of the key figures in the July 1936 revolt against the democratically elected Second Spanish Republic. Having unsuccessfully led an attempted insurrection in Barcelona, he was captured and executed by the Republican government

Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton

05/31/1913. From the Lauzien combat of the 11th of the Current. The Artillery Captain, D. Luis de la Guardia, wounded in the leg and belly in the same combat.

General Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien (1858-1930) British soldier. Commanded British II Corps and Second Army of the British Expeditionary Force in First World War. Chromolithograph.

General overall Count of Kirchbach.

'Major-General Sir H. H. Settle', 1902. Settle's Scouts were named after Colonel Sir H H Settle KCB DSO RE. From "South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. VII", by Louis Creswicke. The Caxton Publishing Co., London, 1902

Otto von Below 1857 - 1944 German general in First World War From Tannenberg published Berlin 1928

Maj. Gen. W.F. i.e., P. Biddle

French Army officer Alfred Dreyfus. Wrongfully convicted of treason in 1894.

'General Billot', c1893. Artist: Pierre Petit.

Alexander August Wilhelm von Pape (18131895). Royal Prussian infantry Colonel-General with the special rank of Generalfeldmarschall. Portrait. Engraving. Detail. "Historia de la Guerra Franco-Alemana de 1870-1871". Published in Barcelona, 1891.

Col. Christodoulou

Count Hellmuth von Moltke, chief of the general staff of the German army at the outbreak of war.

Portrait of Emil Bearberg Motiv: Portrait of Emil Björnberg, military flight driver and head of F 3, 1926-1932.

Gen. von Bulow

Lutinant Albrecht Putzker. Commander. d. 4. Regiments d. Tyrolean Kaiserjäger.

Important men in Egyptian life in the 1920s (2/6). Lieutnenant Fahmy Pasha (served 1883 - 1896) - Egyptian Army. Date: circa 1930

Hordyński Juchnowicz Zdzisław In the Uniform of Major General Austro Hunggarian Army Gutmann, Ludwig

Marshal Ferdinand Foch a French soldier and Military theorist who lived between 2nd October 1851-20th March 1929. Was also an Allied Generalissimo during the First World War.

Hermann von Francois 1856 - 1933 German infantry general From Tannenberg published Berlin 1928

Prinz Waldemar Von Danemark Lebensgefährlich erkrankt.Prince Waldemar Von Denmark, ein Unkel des Danischen Konigs Charistian A, Ist in Grünau in oberosterreich, Wo er als Jagdgast des Herzogs Von Braunschweing Weilt, schwer erkrankt. Die Aerzte Bezeichnen den Zustand des Im 79. Lebensjahre stehenden Prinzen als Lebensgefihrlich. Portrat Prinz Waldemar von Danemark. November 30, 1936.

Capt. J.H. Gibbons.

Gen. Niox

'Le general Mangin; Commandant les troupes d'attaque qui ont repris Douaumont.', 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVII. La Guerre Juillet, Aout, Septembre, Octobre, Novembre, Decembre 1916".

Louis François France d'Espèrey (25 May 1856 8 July 1942)French general during World War I. commander of the large allied army based at Salonika; conducted the successful Macedonian campaign which caused the collapse of the Southern front and triggered the armistice

Military assistants at E.J. (Individual railways) Captain H.G. Sundelin in 12 mta at not 1921-1924

Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, British soldier, c1920. Artist: HW Barnett.

General Sir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien, British soldier, First World War, 1914.Artist: John Saint-Helier Lander

Armando Diaz, 1st Duke of the Victory (December 5, 1861 February 28, 1928) was an Italian general of Spanish descent and a Marshal of Italy. world war one. 1917

General Erich Ludendorff, German First World War general, 1926. Artist: Unknown

Portraits of officers and soldiers at the Russian war showplatz.

Stationsskrivare K. J. J:son Nordenwall.

J. Th. Th. C. van Dam van Isselt. +

general Amadeo Balmes Alonso, the military commander of Las Palmas at the start of the Spanish Civil War.

War album 29, picture 7887.

Maurice Gustave Gamelan (20 September 1872 18 April 1958) was a French general. Gamelan is remembered for his unsuccessful command of the French military in 1940 during the Battle of France and his steadfast defence of republican values.

Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke, Baron von Moltke from 1843, Count von Moltke from 1870, known as Moltke the Elder, popularly known as The Great Silent One (born 26 October 1800, died 24 April 1891), was a Prussian field marshal, authentic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, exact date of depiction unknown, historical, man in uniform with decorations standing seriously and resolutely in a shaded room

Marshal PHILIPPE PETAIN French soldier in 1916, while in charge of the army at Verdun

military Germany Saxony persons General von Gerstorff commander of the 5th Royal Saxon Infantry Brigade 63 portrait drawing 1914 uniform First World War WWI officer 20th century historic historical,

06/30/1916. Illustrious Literary. Mr. Adolfo Afonte Martínez, first lieutenant of the Isabel Ii infantry, who has won the 2000 Pesetas prize in the Dramatic Works contest organized by the Madrid city council. -approximate date.

Lt. Col. Daniel W. Flagler, Commanding Officer, Watertown Arsenal, 1889-1891 , Military officers. Records of U.S. Army Operational

General H. Joseph Jacques Cesaire Joffre, who prepared the French army to meet what he considered the inevitable conflict, and is now directing the machine he created.

Weare, Lt. -Gen.Sir H.F., K.C.B., circa 1885, maker unknown.

LUIS AIZPURU. MILITAR Y POITICO ESPAÑOL. ALTO COMISARIO DE ESPAÑA EN MARUECOS EN LOS AÑOS 1923 - 1924. REPRODUCCION FOTO.

Elsevier photo collection. J.S. Wolff, police commissioner Hilversum. 1937. Hilversum, Noord-Holland

E. Leach C.B, Late 50th Regt. N.Z. 1863-6, Egypt 1882, Soudan 1884-5, 1904, London, by Lafayette Ltd. (London).

Photographic portrait of Alexander Kolchak (1874-1920) a Russian polar explorer and commander in the Imperial Russian Navy, who fought in the Russo-Japanese War and the First World War. Dated 20th Century

General Sir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien, 1858 to 1930, British soldier and commander of the British II Corps. Corps. From South Africa and the Transvaal War, by Louis Creswicke, published 1900, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Major-General Sir Hector Archibald MacDonald, aka Fighting Mac,1853 to 1903. Distinguished Victorian soldier. From the book South Africa and the Transvaal War by Louis Creswicke, published 1900.

General Fred Funston

Scharroo, local commander of the enjoyment groups in Rotterdam, Anonymous, c. 1937 photograph Photo of man in uniform, semi -figure to the left, with in pen signature and date. At the rear in pencil Note: 'Local Commander / Enjoyers Rotterdam. / capitulated May 1940 '. Netherlands paper. ink writing (processes) Rotterdam

Aleksei Brusilov (1853 17 March 1926). Russian general most noted for the development of new offensive tactics used in the 1916 Brusilov Offensive

Hptm. Anton Dietrich von Riedelsheim. (Commander of the Vioz section.).

Unterintendant Forstner. (Rayon III.) .

Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1850-1916) Irish-born British soldier and statesman. Regained Sudan for Egypt. Commander-in-Chief South Africa: Secretary of State for War at beginning of World War I in 1914. Lost in the sinking of HMS 'Hampshire'. Chromolithograph card 1917.

General Antonescu. June 06, 1942.

Gen. Birdwood

U.S. Army General William H. Beck ca. early 1900s.

Black and white photograph of World War II (1939-1945); portraits of Russian Marshal Seymon Budyonny (1883-1973).

Admiral Sir Tom Phillips (1888 - 1941), who was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Eastern Fleet on 1 December 1941. He subsequently commanded 'Force Z' during the Japanese invasion of Malaya. He went down with his flagship H.M.S. Prince of Wales during the battle. Date: December 1941

David Beatty, 1. Earl Beatty, 1871 to 1936. Admiral of the fleet of the Royal Navy., Historically, digitally restored reproduction of a template from the 19th century, Record Date Not Stated

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