Battalion Collection (#8)

How Todger Jones won the VC at Morval
How Todger Jones, 1st Battalion Cheshires, won the VC at Morval - 25th September 1916. By Stanley Llewellyn Wood (1866-1928). Date: 1916

Professional golfers in Sportsmens Battalion
Five professional golfers who had joined the Sportsmens Battalion. From left; H. Fulford (Bradford), R. Jacobs (Bedford), E. Jones (Chislehurst), Jas. Bradbeer (Porters Park) and Pl

3 / 20th London Regiment (Blackheath & Woolwich) in training
The Army in training, in this instance the 3/20th London Regiment (Blackheath and Woolwich). 1. Round the cook house, 2, the boot repairers, 3, bayonet practice, 4. non-commissioned officers 5

Swan Fountain Pen advertisement, World War One
Advertisement for Swan fountain pens the business mans pen...now the soldiers pen with the product placed in front of a silhouette of a battalion charging forward with bayonets fixed. Date: 1916

Austrian Kaiserjaeger soldiers, WW1
Austrian Kaiserjaeger (Tyrolean regiment) soldiers during the First World War. They are fighting an Italian Bersaglieri battalion in the southern Tyrol. Date: circa 1917

Officers of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Group photograph of officers of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in Crete. The 1st Battalion were posted to Crete and Malta from 1907 to 1911. Date: C.1910

Christmas card from John, York and Lancs Regiment, 2 / 4th Hallamshire Battalion at the Front, 1917
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CIVIL WAR: COMPANY A, 1864. Company A, United States Engineer Battalion in Petersburg, Virginia. Photograph, August 1864

George V pictured in erman uniform with Kaiser Wilhelm II
King George V pictured in German uniform alongside his cousin Kaiser Wilhelm II (in the uniform of the British Dragoon Guards!)in 1912

British regimental crest -Cherat Hills, Pakistan
British Indian Regimental Badges Carved into the Rock Face in the Cherat Hills. Cherat was a hill station and sanatorium for British troops above the village of Saleh Khana commanding a view over

Aucklands advance from its battalion headquarters
This drawing relates to an incident on the 14th/15th September 1916 and is described in a book entitled A Saga of the Sword by Austin F. Britten, published by Arrowsmith, London 1928

Operation Prairie
October 1966: Five team members of F Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Regiment, US Army, wade through a waist-deep stream, roofed over by dense jungle, about 400 metres south of the de-militarized zone

American troops at Saint Souplet, France, WW1
American troops of the 301st Tank Battalion, going into action at Saint Souplet, northern France, as part of the Somme Offensive during the First World War

Soldiers resting in trench 1918
First battalion Northamptonshire Infantry resting in a British Front line trench at Molain, near Vaux Andigny, in France during World War I on 17th October 1918

11th Sudanese Battalion
Battle of Omdurman; the 11th Soudanese in the trenches awaiting the Dervish attack Date: 2nd September 1898

The Field of Waterloo on the Morning of the Battle, Sunday, June 18, 1815, 1902. Artist: Richard Simkin
The Field of Waterloo on the Morning of the Battle, Sunday, June 18, 1815, 1902. After David Henry Parry (1793-1826). From Battles of the Nineteenth Century, Vol. I

1st Battalion The East Yorkshire Regiment, c1910

The war crisis in the city: The closing of the London Stock Exchange, 1914. World War I meant that the Exchange market closed from the end of July 1914 until 1915

The Indian Platoon of the First Battalion, The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment. Poona, India, 1
The 1st Battalion took part in the Egypt Intervention in 1882, fighting in the second battle at Kassassin on 9 September and the Battle of Tel el-Kebir a few days later

The Battalion Boxing Team of the First Battalion, The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment. Poona, I
The 1st Battalion took part in the Egypt Intervention in 1882, fighting in the second battle at Kassassin on 9 September and the Battle of Tel el-Kebir a few days later

The Young Soldiers Football Team of the First Battalion, The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment. P
The 1st Battalion took part in the Egypt Intervention in 1882, fighting in the second battle at Kassassin on 9 September and the Battle of Tel el-Kebir a few days later

The Battalion Hockey Team of the First Battalion, The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment. Poona, I
The 1st Battalion took part in the Egypt Intervention in 1882, fighting in the second battle at Kassassin on 9 September and the Battle of Tel el-Kebir a few days later

The Battalion Football Team of the First Battalion, The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment. Poona
The 1st Battalion took part in the Egypt Intervention in 1882, fighting in the second battle at Kassassin on 9 September and the Battle of Tel el-Kebir a few days later

The Battalion Signallers of the First Battalion, The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment. Poona, In
The 1st Battalion took part in the Egypt Intervention in 1882, fighting in the second battle at Kassassin on 9 September and the Battle of Tel el-Kebir a few days later

The Machine Gun Platoon of the First Battalion, The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment. Poona, Ind
The 1st Battalion took part in the Egypt Intervention in 1882, fighting in the second battle at Kassassin on 9 September and the Battle of Tel el-Kebir a few days later

The Battalion Band of the First Battalion, The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment. Poona, India, 1
The 1st Battalion took part in the Egypt Intervention in 1882, fighting in the second battle at Kassassin on 9 September and the Battle of Tel el-Kebir a few days later

The Drums and Bugles of the First Battalion, The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment. Poona, India
The 1st Battalion took part in the Egypt Intervention in 1882, fighting in the second battle at Kassassin on 9 September and the Battle of Tel el-Kebir a few days later

5th Battalion East Surrey regiment on parade, Chakrata, 1917

Grenadier guard battalion, 1786-1806 (19th century). Artist: W Korn
Grenadier guard battalion, 1786-1806 (19th century)

1 / 5 RWR battalion camp, Samarra, Mesopotamia, 1918
1/5 RWR battalion camp, Samarra, Mesopotamia, 1918. Mesopotamia, formerly part of the Turkish Ottoman empire, was under British military control from October 1918

A battalion approaching the front, Mont Pertois, France, First World War, 20 April 1917

George V with a wounded soldier, 7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters, March 1918
King George V with a wounded soldier, 7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters, First World War, March 1918. Illustration from George V and Edward VIII, A Royal Souvenir, by FGH Salusbury

King George V with the 7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters, First World War, March 1918
King George V with the 7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters after Bullecourt, First World War, March 1918. Illustration from George V and Edward VIII, A Royal Souvenir, by FGH Salusbury

Death of Colonel Malleville, Battle of Solferino, 24th June 1859, (1891). Artist: Henri Meyer
Death of Colonel Malleville, Battle of Solferino, 24th June 1859, (1891). A print from the Le Petit Journal, 27th July 1891

Rhodogune, 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
Rhodogune, 1615. A plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs, by Blaise de Vigenere, Paris, 1615. Fround in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

Prise de la Porte St Denis le 28th Juillet 1830, Revolution of 1830, Paris
Prise de la Porte St. Denis le 28th Juillet 1830, Revolution of 1830, Paris. The battle at Porte St Denis, between the people and a royal battalion

French Foreign Legion, Morocco, c1900. French postcard

French Foreign Legion, Ain Temouchent, Algeria, 1899. French postcard

Battle of Rivoli won by the Emperor Napoleon I, 14 January 1797, (c1835-1884)
Battle of Rivoli won by the Emperor Napoleon I, 14 January, 1797, (1800-1899).The battle of Rivoli in northern Italy occurred as Austrias General Alvintzy made his fourth

Bayonet training H. A. C. Reserve 1916
Honourable Artillery Company at Camp en Route training ground, practising close combat with bayonet and sandbags. Date: 1916

Training H. A. C. Reserves 1916
Honourable Artillery Company at Camp en Route training ground, practising essential requirements needed for battle at the Front in World War One. Date: 1916

Attack on Logeast Wood, appropriate the battalions trophies
During the advance on the Western Front there was a race amoung men near a captured enemy gun for the honour of making upon it the name of the battalion to which it fell. Date: 1918

Weapon training while on safari
Photograph of weapon training while on safari. One of 41 photographs taken by Lt Roger Perkins, 4th (Uganda) Bn King?s African Rifles, 1956-1957

Rifleman J Furnell with Rifleman Swift, 2nd Irish London Rif
Lantern slide of Rifleman J Furnell with Rifleman Swift, 2nd Irish London Rifles, manning a machine gun built from the parts of five captured enemy guns

Tank of 4th Battalion Coldstream Guards
Photograph, 19th Oct 1944: tank of 4th Battalion Coldstream Guards. Associated with World War Two, North West Europe (1944-1945). Date: 1944

Before Sebastopol Nov 1854 - The Sentry
Before Sebastopol Nov 1854. The Sentry. Pen and ink and watercolour by Lt (later Col) Henry John Wilkinson (1829-1911), 1st Battalion, 9th (The East Norfolk) Regiment of Foot, 1854

Royal Sussex Regiment soldier, Bangalore, India, WW1
Studio portrait, Royal Sussex Regiment soldier, 2/6 Battalion, Bangalore, India, 20 November 1916. Date: 1916

Female soldier Y Company, Princess of Waless Royal Regiment
Digital photograph: A female soldier serving with Y Company, The 1st Battalion, Princess of Waless Royal Regiment, is one of a platoon of soldiers to visit a local Iraqi Police Training facility as

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"Battalion: A Legacy of Courage, Valor, and Unity" In the realm of military history, the term "battalion" resonates with tales of bravery and unwavering dedication. From Matania's poignant depiction of the Last Absolution of the Munsters to the indomitable spirit embodied by the United States Naval Construction Battalions - Seabees, battalions have left an indelible mark on our collective memory. The 1st Battalion Scots Guards in 1958 stood as a testament to their regiment's rich heritage, while Captain Noel Godfrey Chavasse's VC exemplified extraordinary heroism amidst adversity. The survivors of the 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade carried forward their fallen comrades' legacy with unyielding determination. Across continents and conflicts, battalions etched their names into history. The 9th Hampshire Regiment found themselves in Vladivostok during tumultuous times, just as the brave soldiers from the 5th Battalion Connaught Rangers defended Basingstoke during World War I. Meanwhile, thousands of miles away in Siberia, it was the gallant men from the 9th Battalion Hampshire Regiment who faced unimaginable challenges head-on. Within each battalion beats a heart that symbolizes unity and tradition. The rhythmic cadence emanating from a regimental drum echoes through time alongside memories forged by those like St Michaels Mount's Grenadier Guards. In positions along Western Front trenches during WWI, members of Rifle Brigade displayed unwavering resolve against all odds. Beyond battlefields lie stories intertwined with camaraderie and resilience. St Michaels Mount stands not only as an island but also as a village and harbor where bonds were forged among warriors who called themselves brothers-in-arms. Through triumphs and tribulations alike, battalions have proven that strength lies not only in numbers but also in shared purpose.