Guns Collection (page 4)

Battle of Saratoga - General Arnold Wounded in the Attack on the Hessian Redoubt
BAL111624 Battle of Saratoga - General Arnold Wounded in the Attack on the Hessian Redoubt, 17th October 1777 (engraving) (b&w photo) by American School, (19th century); Private Collection; American

American machine gunners, Grandpre, France, WW1
American machine gunners at Grandpre, north eastern France, during the First World War. Date: 18 October 1918

HMS Crescent, Edgar-class cruiser, WW1
HMS Crescent, an Edgar-class cruiser. Launched in 1892, took part in the First World War. Date: 1911

British 6 inch Howitzer, near Achicourt, France, WW1
A British 6 inch (26 cwt) Howitzer, designed by Vickers in 1915 for use during the First World War. It continued in use during the Second World War

An Ambuscade, (1901). Creator: Unknown
An Ambuscade, (1901). Ambush during the Second Afghan War, Afghanistan, in 1878: local fighters lie in wait for British forces. After a painting made late 19th-early 20th century

Sharp shooters, Sea Girt, New Jersey, USA
Sharp shooters in action, firing at targets in Sea Girt, New Jersey, USA. Date: circa 1910

Blenheims and Messerschmitts by G. H. Davis
The fight between Bristol Blenheims and Messerschmitt 110 destroyer planes over the North Sea during the Second World War

French artillery shells being loaded for transport
French soldiers load artillery shells for their guns at Verdun onto a lorry for transport. 1916

4th Hallamshire Machine Gun Section, c. 1914-1918
From an album of photographs of the Hallamshire Rifles (1st Hallamshire Volunteer Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment). From an original item at Sheffield Libraries: arc00436

Spanish Police arrest a smuggler. Behobia, Basque Country, Spain

German gunners with heavy artillery, France, WW1
German gunners in action with heavy artillery near Verdun, north eastern France, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

De Havilland 2 plane with Lewis gun, WW1
A British De Havilland 2 plane with a Lewis gun attached during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Four-gun Bristol fighter plane at Agincourt, France
A four-gun Bristol fighter plane of No. 22 Squadron, RAF, with one Vickers and three Lewis guns, at Agincourt, France, towards the end of the First World War

Lewis Gunner WWI
A soldier with a Lewis gun at Gallipoli during World War I

Second Battle of Bullecourt 1917
Australian soldiers loading an 18 pounder gun at the second Battle of Bullecourt (Battle of Arras) on the Western Front in France during World War I in May 1917

Look-out in 1917
A soldier in a look-out post in a trench using a camouflaged periscope to keep watch on the British Front in France during World War I in 1917

HMS New Zealand at sea
HMS New Zealand with canopies covering the guns. HMS New Zealand was an Indefatigable class battlecruiser built in 1910 as a gift to Britain from the people of New Zealand

Turkish Warship - Sultan Selim I

Illustration of FW190 Fighter; Second World War, 1942
Illustration showing a German Focke-Wulf 190 fighter airplane, with cutaways of the engine and machine-guns, August 1942. This image showed some of the features of the latest FW190 captured by

American Anti-Aircraft Guns near London; Second World War, 1
Illustration showing an American anti-aircraft unit firing at enemy bombers, during a German raid on London in 1944. The gun shown is a 90-mm weapon

War with Russia - 5
The long-drawn out battle of the Vistula ends in a crushing defeat of the Red Army by the Poles, seen here posing later in the year with guns taken from the bolsheviks

Womens Battalion Death
Recruits in the Womens Shock Battalion of Death pose for a propaganda picture while learning to use their guns

Cruiser Aurora
The cruiser Aurora, lying at St Petersburg, whose guns gave the signal for the Bolshevik attack on the Winter Palace

Firing Ship Guns
The crew of a British ship fire shells from a deck gun and are greeted by a vision of Horatio Nelson, the naval hero of years gone by

Historic gun outside the Mississippi State Capitol, built in 1903, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America, North America

Carhampton Apple Tree
APPLE TREE CUSTOM Trees are toasted with mulled cider while singing a wassail song; cider-soaked toast is left for robins, and guns are fired to frighten evil spirits

Commander Dundas shooting ostriches on the plains, Jubba River, Somalia (engraving)
8631464 Commander Dundas shooting ostriches on the plains, Jubba River, Somalia (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

12-bore single-trigger over-and-under boxlock ejector gun by Sauer-Beretta, No. P06097 (wood & metal)
3431707 12-bore single-trigger over-and-under boxlock ejector gun by Sauer-Beretta, No. P06097 (wood & metal) by European School

Wild swan shooting (engraving)
8631467 Wild swan shooting (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Wild swan shooting. Illustration from Black and White)

Pennsylvania coal strike - in Atlantic camp showing guns of deputies, between c1910 and c1915.

War game-10 in. gun practice - USS Seattle, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
War game-10 in. gun practice - USS Seattle, between c1910 and c1915. Shows the USS Washington which was renamed the Seattle in Nov. 1916.

Chinese sailors, 1911. Creator: Bain News Service
Chinese sailors, 1911. Shows sailors who accmpanied Rear Admiral Chin Pih Kwang of the Imperial Chinese Navy to Grant's Tomb in New York City on Sept. 18th, 1911.

Col. C.B. Winders [i.e, Winder], 1911. Creator: Bain News Service
Col. C.B. Winders [i.e, Winder], 1911. Shows Ohio marksman C.B. Winder who served as a Corporal in the Ohio Army National Guard, with a gun.

Sir Genille Cave Brown Cave, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Sir Genille Cave Brown Cave, between c1910 and c1915. Shows cowboy and bartender Sir Genille Cave-Brown-Cave, 12th Baronet (1869-1929).

Mrs. Adolph Topperwein. [with gun], between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Mrs. Adolph Topperwein. [with gun], between c1910 and c1915.

At the Traps, Travers Island, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
At the Traps, Travers Island, between c1910 and c1915.

Juarez, Adobe house riddled, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Juarez, Adobe house riddled, between c1910 and c1915.

Rebels in action, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Rebels in action, between c1910 and c1915.

H.M.S. Shannon Vickers Sons & Maxims Gun Works, 1915. Creator: Bain News Service
H.M.S. Shannon Vickers Sons & Maxims Gun Works, 1915. The Vickers, Sons and Maxim ordnance and ammunition factory at Barrow-in-Furness, England.

Armored auto, Turkey, 1916. Creator: Bain News Service
Armored auto, Turkey, 1916.

Eaux-Fortes Modernes. Plate 197. Arabes d'Oran (Arabs of Oran), 1833. Creator: Eugene Delacroix
Eaux-Fortes Modernes. Plate 197. Arabes d'Oran (Arabs of Oran), 1833. Shows an outdoor setting with two men, one reclining and facing the viewer

Taking Big Bulgar Guns to Tchataldja #12, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Taking Big Bulgar Guns to Tchataldja #12, between c1910 and c1915. Shows Bulgarians taking guns to Catalca, Turkey during the Balkan Wars.

Bulgar Big Siege Gun, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Bulgar Big Siege Gun, between c1910 and c1915.

Rapid fire guns before Tchataldja #1, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Rapid fire guns before Tchataldja #1, between c1910 and c1915. Shows Bulgarians? with guns near Catalca, Turkey during the Balkan Wars.

Taking Big Bulgar Guns to Tchataldja #2, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Taking Big Bulgar Guns to Tchataldja #2, between c1910 and c1915. Shows Bulgarians taking guns to Catalca, Turkey during the Balkan Wars.

Bulgar Battery, Tchataldja #13, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Bulgar Battery, Tchataldja #13, between c1910 and c1915. Shows Bulgarian with guns at Catalca, Turkey during the Balkan Wars.

Army rifle shooting, Olympic games, 1912. Creator: Bain News Service
Army rifle shooting, Olympic games, 1912. 5th Olympic Games, held in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1912.

Travers Island, New York, National Championship [guns], between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Travers Island, New York, National Championship [guns], between c1910 and c1915.

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