Leaders Collection (#34)

Boys and officers of Western Scout Troop, South Africa
Boys and officers of Western Scout Troop, Johannesburg, South Africa, on a wooden structure

Group photo, No. 10 Jewish Scout Troop, South Africa
Group photo, No.10 Jewish Scout Troop, Port Elizabeth, South Africa

Group photo, Harrismith Scout Troop, South Africa
Group photo of Harrismith Scout Troop, Orange River Colony, South Africa

Group photo, Pretoria Scout Troop, South Africa
Group photo of Pretoria Scout Troop, South Africa

Transvaal Boy Scouts combined camp
Group photo from the first Transvaal Boy Scouts Association combined camp, South Africa. Date: 1909

Officers of Western Scout Troop, in camp
Officers of Western Scout Troop, Johannesburg, South Africa, in camp

Group photo, 2nd Hillbrow Scout Troop, Johannesburg
Group photo of 2nd Hillbrow Scout Troop, Johannesburg, South Africa

Transvaal Boy Scouts Association camp
Group photo of Commissioners Staff at a Transvaal Boy Scouts Association combined camp, South Africa. Date: 1913

Scouts of the 1st Wilston Troop, Queensland, Australia
Scouts of the 1st Wilston Troop, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, with Lady Goold Adams presenting Colours for special Red Cross work

Officers of the 1st Ashanti Troop, Gold Coast, West Africa
Officers of the 1st Ashanti Scout Troop, Coomassie (Kumasi), Gold Coast, Ghana, West Africa

Brigadier-General E. Eyre Carter by Percival Anderson
Brigadier-General E. Eyre Carter, CB, CMG, Director of Supplies to the British Expeditionary Force. He got his CMG for the South Africa campaign where he was with Army Head Quarters

Major-General Sir John Steevens by Percival Anderson
Major-General Sir John Steevens, KCB, KCMG (1855-1925), British Army Director of Equipment and Ordnance Stores during the First World War

Lieut-General Sir Nevil Macready by Percival Anderson
General SIR CECIL FREDERICK NEVIL MACREADY (1862 - 1946) British Army officer serving in senior staff appointments in the First World War

Lieut-General Sir John Steven Cowans by Percival Anderson
Lieutenant-General Sir John Steven Cowans, KCB, MVO (1862 - 1921), Quartermaster-General adn member of the Army Council during the Great War in a pencil portrait by Lieutenant Percival Anderson

General Sarrail
General MAURICE SARRAIL (1856 - 1929) commander of the third army at the battle of the Marne (1914) then of French forces in Gallipoli and later Salonika (1915-17). Date: 1916

General Sir Francis Lloyd
Lieutenant General Sir Francis Lloyd GCVO KCB DSO (12 August 1853 26 February 1926), British army officer. He rose to become Major-General commanding the Brigade of Guards

People outside Baden Powell House, London
People outside Baden Powell House, South Kensington, London -- scouts, cubs, guides, brownies and adult leaders. Date: circa 1960s

General Sir Smith-Dorrien
Colour, decorated portrait of General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien (1858-1930). On the outbreak of World War I, he was given command of the II Corps of the British Expeditionary Force

Gujur Sirdars with attendant, India
Three Gujur Sirdars (Sikh leaders) with attendant, India. Date: circa 1890s

Jat Sirdars with attendant, India
Three Jat Sirdars (Sikh leaders) with attendant, India. Date: circa 1890s

The Next Man In - General Sir Douglas Haig
A photograph of General (later Field-Marshal and Earl) Sir Douglas Haig (1861-1928), after his appointment as Commander-in-Chief of the British army, succeeding Sir John French, in December 1915

A Pope with church leaders, a comet, an eclipse and accompanying text. Date: 1493

Sir Douglas Haig with Generals Joffre and Foch, WW1
Sir Douglas Haig with French Generals Joffre and Foch, probably at Beauquesne, France, in August 1916 during a visit from King George V, World War One. Date: circa 1916

Haig and Rawlinson, Western Front, WW1
Sir Douglas Haig, British Commander-in-Chief, with Sir Henry Rawlinson, Army commander, at an HQ on the Western Front in France during the Battle of the Somme, World War One. Date: circa 1916

Field-Marshal Earl Roberts
Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts (18321914), Anglo-Irish soldier and one of the most successful commanders of the Victorian era - notable for his actions during the African wars

Cartoon, One Who Might Have Helped, WW1
Cartoon, One Who Might Have Helped. Showing Lord Kitchener and General Pau, defenders of France at the start of the First World War, sitting at a desk with books and maps

Major General C. T. Nicholson, GOC of the 34th Division during the Battle of the Somme, replacing his predecessor, Major Ingouville-Williams who had been killed by German artillery fire near

Major-General Thomas Stanton Lambert (1871-1921), GOC of the 32nd Division during the First World War. Silhouette by Captain H. L. Oakley who was Lamberts ADC. Date: c.1919

Remembrance Day, 1920
The twelve war leaders as pall bearers at the Remembrance Day service at the Cenotaph (called Armistice Day pre-World War Two) on 11th November 1920, l to r: Sir Hedworth Meux, Earl Beatty

President Wilson visiting George V
World War One Leaders, President Wilson of the United States visiting King George V. Date: January 1919

Soviet posters, WW2
Soviet posters of Stalin (centre), Zhukov (left) and Vasilevsky (right). Date: circa 1940s

General Alexis Nicholaievitch Kuropatkin
Alexei Nikolaievitch Kuropatkin (1848-1925), Russian Imperial Minister of War (1898-1904), active in the Russo-Japanese War. Pictured here on the front cover of The Tatler at that time. Date: 1904

Egmont & Rebel Leaders
Lamoral, graaf van Egmont, though a noble and related to the Hapsburgs, opposes the policies of Felipe II and meets secretly with other rebels on the Scheldt. Date: 4 November 1565

Claude Duc De Guise
CLAUDE DE LORRAINE, premier duc de GUISE French soldier and statesman, grandfather of Mary Queen of Scots : first in dynasty of prominent Catholic leaders. Date: 1496 - 1550

Bombardment Thrones Europe Fall Tyrants Happiness
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Plate 18 Secret Meeting Civilis Leaders Trier
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Leaders Pacification Kagoshima Rebels Celebrating
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New Zealand: Examination of the Maori Leaders, Te Whiti and Tohu, at New Plymouth, Taranaki

The Crisis in Egypt: the Khedive and some Leaders of the National Party

Uncorking old sherry, William Pitt stands in the House of Commons, facing the opposition which is represented by bottles containing the heads of the most well-known opposition leaders including Fox

General George Washington at Trenton, 1792 (oil on canvas)
XOS909407 General George Washington at Trenton, 1792 (oil on canvas) by Trumbull, John (1756-1843); 235x160 cm; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

The Death of General Montgomery in the Attack on Quebec, December 31, 1775, 1786
XOS909400 The Death of General Montgomery in the Attack on Quebec, December 31, 1775, 1786 (oil on canvas) by Trumbull, John (1756-1843); 62.5 x 94 cm; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

The Allied Sovereigns in Paris, 1815, Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, Louis XVIII
XJF909388 The Allied Sovereigns in Paris, 1815, Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, Louis XVIII, King of France, Francis I, Emperor of Austria and Frederick William III, King of Prussia

Lloyd the Lubricator, from Punch magazine, November 13, 1907 (etching)
XJF867818 Lloyd the Lubricator, from Punch magazine, November 13, 1907 (etching) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: David Lloyd George (1863-1945)

Phocion, 1825 (engraving)
KW421819 Phocion, 1825 (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Illustration from Crabbs Historical Dictionary depicting Phocion (c.402-c.318BC)

President Theodore Roosevelt of the United States of America and the German Kaiser Wilhelm II
BAL41668 President Theodore Roosevelt of the United States of America and the German Kaiser Wilhelm II, in the dispute over the German Blockade of Venezuela, 1902 by Ferris

Two Rabbis (pen & ink on paper) (b / w photo)
XIR345971 Two Rabbis (pen & ink on paper) (b/w photo) by Bruegel, Pieter the Elder (c.1525-69); Stadelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt-am-Main

Scene after the Battle of Waterloo, 18th June 1815 (engraving)
XPH335459 Scene after the Battle of Waterloo, 18th June 1815 (engraving) by German School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

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