sexta-feira, 6 de novembro de 2009
'A friendly chat with the enemy', Christmas Truce, 1914.
Photograph, World War One, 1914.
During Christmas 1914, along parts of the Western Front unofficial truces between British and German soldiers took place. In the trenches on Christmas morning carols were sung and rations thrown across the opposing lines. It was not long before the more adventurous soldiers started to take matters into their own hands and venture into no-man's-land.
Cooking House of the 8th (The King's Royal Irish) Light Dragoons (Hussars), 1855 (c).
Crimean War, 1855.
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Camp of the 4th Dragoon Guards, convivial party French and English, 1855.
Crimean War, 1855.
The camp of the 4th Dragoon Guards. The woman has been identified as Mrs Rogers, the wife of a non-commissioned officer, whose skills as a cook and laundress were highly valued by Colonel Edward Hodge, commander of the Regiment.
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Indian Mutiny (1857-1859), 1858.
The Munchee Bau or old Citadel of Lucknow, 1858.
The Munchee Bau was abandoned by Sir Henry Lawrence and partly- blown up when he took up his position in the Residency. The mutineers began attacking the Residency compound on 4 July 1857. Lawrence, Chief Commissioner of Oudh, was killed almost immediately when a shell exploded in the room where he was resting. Command passed to Colonel John Inglis of the 32nd Foot, which formed the main British part of the garrison.
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A group of five Sikh Soldiers, Lucknow, 1857-58,
A group of five armed Sikh soldiers in front of the Jal Pari gateway in the Qaisar Bagh complex. Sikh soldiers of the Punjab remained loyal to the British throughout the Uprising and actively participated in breaking the siege at the Residency 120 and the retaking of Lucknow.
Madras Sappers & Miners, Lucknow,1857-58
A tinted photograph of a group of four armed soldiers in uniform in front of the Jal Pari Gateway in the Qaisar Bagh complex. ‘C’ Company of Madras Sappers & Miners joined Sir Colin Campbell in the second relief of Lucknow in November 1857
group of British soldiers, Lucknow,1857-58,
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Posing in front of the Jal Pari gateway in the Qaisar Bagh complex are a group of British officers, six of who have been identified. Capt. Wheeler (6th from left), Sergeant Magin (seated on Wheelers right), Lt. Hall (standing in the door dressed in white), W. H. Warner (seated in the door), Mr. Cavenah (seated in front of Warner), Lt. Maxwell, Adjudant of the 1st Bengal Fusiliers (third from right
British marines with captured shore batteries at Shimonoseki, September 5, 1864
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