Rifles Collection (#2)

Sir Douglas Haig and Vice Admiral Keyes at Dover
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig (1861-1928) and Vice Admiral Sir Roger John Brownlow Keyes (1872-1945) inspecting a Royal Navy guard of honour on their arrival at Dover, Kent. circa December 1918

Peshawar - Pathan Tribesmen with rifles (matchlocks)

The end of the Zulu wars
Mounted Infantry skirmishing with Zulus in a sketch by an ILN special artist. British troops wearing pith helmets and carrying rifles showing British soldiers on the higher ground

Royal Scots Rifles
THE ROYAL SCOTS 4th and 5th Battalions Queens Edinburgh Rifles

The Corps of guides (Cavalry and Infantry), the Anglo-Indian Army of the 1880s (colour litho)
PNP314312 The Corps of guides (Cavalry and Infantry), the Anglo-Indian Army of the 1880s (colour litho) by Simkin, Richard (1840-1926) (after); Private Collection; (add.info)

Scotland and France, Old Allies (colour litho)
3096270 Scotland and France, Old Allies (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Scotland and France, Old Allies)

Four riflemen in action. 1868

The 93rd Highlanders entering the breach at the storming of the Secundrabagh, Lucknow
NAM310664 The 93rd Highlanders entering the breach at the storming of the Secundrabagh, Lucknow, 16th November 1857 (w/c) by Norie, Orlando (1832-1901); National Army Museum

The Zouaves took one of the barricades by a dashing bayonet charge
STC397090 The Zouaves took one of the barricades by a dashing bayonet charge, illustration from Battles of the Nineteenth Century by Archibald Forbes, G.A

Battle of Belmont. Nov. 23rd, 1899. Boer-British War, pub. 1900 (colour litho)
2630686 Battle of Belmont. Nov. 23rd, 1899. Boer-British War, pub. 1900 (colour litho) by American School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: General Pieter Arnoldus Cronje (1836-1911)

Scrap : Guardsmen
Two British guardsmen with their rifles shouldered. Date: late 19th century

Finsbury Rifles Dart Club, North London
Group photo, Finsbury Rifles Dart Club outside their headquarters and drill hall, 17 Penton Street, Islington, North London. Date: 1930

Iraq threat to Kuwait, 1961
Page from The Illustrated London News, 8 July 1961 reporting on the tensions in Kuwait after the Iraqi leader General Kassem had claimed Kuwait should be part of Iraq

School Sentry 1914
A member of the Artists Rifles (Territorial Army Regiment) on sentry duty at the entrance to Lancing Street L.C.C. School at Kings Cross, London, in the first week of war. Date: 5 August 1914

Soldiers of a West Indian Regiment, Western Front, WW1
A group of soldiers from the British West Indies Regiment, ready for action on the Western Front in France during the Somme offensive, World War One. Date: 1916

Surprise Attack, 1871 (oil on canvas)
BAL172725 Surprise Attack, 1871 (oil on canvas) by Vereshchagin, Vasili Vasilievich (1842-1904); 82x206.7 cm; Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Private - 83rd Regiment of Foot. The regiment became the Royal Irish Rifles in 1881

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

Wartime poster, The British Colonial Empire (African Rifles)
Wartime poster, The British Colonial Empire, featuring a member of the Kings African Rifles, with the regiment badge below, and the names of all the colonial countries listed on either side. 1940s

Crashed biplane with crew resting in the desert, Iraq
A crashed biplane in the desert with resting crew, somewhere in Iraq

United Arts Volunteer Rifles, 1916
United Arts Volunteer Rifles constructing defences at Woldingham during World War I in 1916

Chitral Combat 1895
The Chitral expedition - from a sketch by. Mr. A.D Greenhill Gardyne. Officers and men struggle against the enemy 100 yards from the point of the cliff at Chitral

Union and Confederate Army Uniforms (colour litho)
PNP277166 Union and Confederate Army Uniforms (colour litho) by American School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: American Civil War)

Japanese infantry, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905 (colour litho)
2775571 Japanese infantry, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905 (colour litho) by European School, (20th century); Private Collection; Look and Learn / Valerie Jackson Harris Collection.

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

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.

The Belgian National Rifle Association at Brussels: the firing-point, 1865. Creator: Unknown
The Belgian National Rifle Association at Brussels: the firing-point, 1865. Annual meeting '...to which English volunteers were also specially invited...[Illustration showing] the kind of boxes

Meeting of the Belgian National Rifle Association at Brussels: the targets, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Meeting of the Belgian National Rifle Association at Brussels: the targets, 1865. Annual meeting '...to which English volunteers were also specially invited...No "wrong targets" can be

Prizes and Prize-Winners of the Calcutta Volunteer Rifle Matches at Barrackpore, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Prizes and Prize-Winners of the Calcutta Volunteer Rifle Matches at Barrackpore, [India], 1865. Participants in '...competitive trials in skill as marksmen...The gentlemen grouped around this

The National Rifle Association prize meeting at Wimbledon: the picket going camp rounds, 1865. Creator: Unknown
The National Rifle Association prize meeting at Wimbledon: the picket going camp rounds, 1865. View of '...the nightly picket of members of the Victoria Rifle Corps, fully accoutred and armed

The National Rifle Association prize meeting at Wimbledon:...the Horatio Ross Prize, 1865. Creator: Unknown
The National Rifle Association prize meeting at Wimbledon:...the Horatio Ross Prize, 1865. '...for a combined performance of running, loading, and firing...The competitor

The National Rifle Association prize meeting at Wimbledon: Mr. Sharman...winner, Queen's Prize
The National Rifle Association prize meeting at Wimbledon: Mr. Sharman, 4th West York Rifle Volunteers, winner of the Queen's Prize, 1865. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. Herbert Watkins

The War in Denmark: the assault on No. 4 Redoubt at Düppel...by our special artist, 1864. Creator: Unknown
The War in Denmark: the assault on No. 4 Redoubt at Duppel - from a sketch by our special artist, 1864. 'Since the seaward redoubts, No. 1 and No

The War in Denmark: Prussian outposts before Düppel: "Wer da?" ("Who goes there?"), 1864
The War in Denmark from a sketch by our special artist with the allied German armies: Prussian outposts before Duppel: "Wer da?" ("Who goes there?"), 1864

Danish infantry soldiers - photographed from the life, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Danish infantry soldiers - photographed from the life, 1864. Engraving from a sketch '...by our own Artist at the head-quarters of the Prussian army...[of] two of the Danish infantry soldiers;

The War in America: camp of Federal prisoners on Belle Isle, Richmond..., 1864. Creator: Unknown
The War in America: camp of Federal prisoners on Belle Isle, Richmond - from a sketch by our special artist, 1864. '...in Richmond especially the prisons are full to overflowing...the

Landing of Sir Rutherford Alcock, K.C.B., at Yokohama, Japan, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Landing of Sir Rutherford Alcock, K.C.B., at Yokohama, Japan, 1864. Engraving of '...a sketch by Mr. Wirgman, our Special Artist, which...represents the landing of Sir Rutherford Alcock

The War in Denmark: the Prussian assault on Redoubt No. 6 at Düppel on April 18…, 1864. Creator: Unknown
The War in Denmark: the Prussian assault on Redoubt No. 6 at Duppel on 18 April - from a sketch by our special artist on the Prussian side, 1864. View of '...the assault upon Redoubt No

The Volunteer Review at Blackheath, near Guildford, on Easter Monday, 1864. Creator: Unknown
The Volunteer Review at Blackheath, near Guildford, on Easter Monday, 1864. View of '...the military evolutions of Easter Monday on Blackheath - an open piece of undulating ground

The War in Schleswig: chapel at Gravenstein used as a Prussian barrack..., 1864. Creator: Unknown
The War in Schleswig: chapel at Gravenstein [in Denmark] used as a Prussian barrack - from a sketch by our special artist, 1864

Union soldiers at Point Lookout, Tennessee, 1873
1574446 Union soldiers at Point Lookout, Tennessee, 1873; (add.info.: Colour print depicting Union soldiers at Point Lookout, Tennessee)

The King's Own Regiments of the Indian Army who came to the coronation of King George V, 1910
2915344 The King's Own Regiments of the Indian Army who came to the coronation of King George V, 1910. From The Illustrated London News, 1910.; Photo © Hilary Morgan

Camp of 60th Rifles, 1870 (engraving)
1575732 Camp of 60th Rifles, 1870 (engraving); (add.info.: Engraving depicts the camp of the 60th Rifles at the Kaminstiquia River, Ontario, Canada. Dated 1870); Universal History Archive/UIG

chocolate wrapper. circa 1900. depicting French soldiers in action
5306266 chocolate wrapper. circa 1900. depicting French soldiers in action; Universal History Archive/UIG

The King's Own Regiments of the Indian Army who came to the coronation of King George V, 1910
2915345 The King's Own Regiments of the Indian Army who came to the coronation of King George V, 1910. From The Illustrated London News, 1910.; Photo © Hilary Morgan

Guardians of the Empire. The overseas forces who came to England for the coronation of King George V
2915340 Guardians of the Empire. The overseas forces who came to England for the coronation of King George V. From The Illustrated London News, 1910.; Photo © Hilary Morgan

Welsh soldiers, illustration from The Western Front, pub. by Country Life Ltd, 1917 (litho)
STC400462 Welsh soldiers, illustration from The Western Front, pub. by Country Life Ltd, 1917 (litho) by Bone, David Muirhead (1876-1953); Private Collection; The Stapleton Collection

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"From the Battle of the Pyrenees to World War One: A Tribute to Rifles" Step into history and discover the remarkable journey of rifles, from their pivotal role in battles to their symbolic significance. The Rifleman of 95th (Rifles) Regiment of Foot stands tall as a testament to bravery and precision on the battlefield. In World War One, badges adorned by Scottish Regiments showcased their unwavering loyalty and dedication. These emblems became symbols of honor, reminding us of the sacrifices made by those who served. The Royal Logistic Corps played a crucial role in ensuring that rifles reached the hands of soldiers when they were needed most. Their tireless efforts behind-the-scenes ensured that every rifle counted in times of conflict. One cannot forget John Moses Browning's contribution to firearms innovation. His genius designs revolutionized rifle technology, leaving an indelible mark on warfare throughout history. Gun Running by Ulster Volunteer Force tells a tale shrouded in controversy but highlights how they are become tools for political movements seeking change or resistance against oppression. The Three Coldstream Guards - Crimean Braves exemplify courage under fire during one of history's most brutal conflicts. Their unwavering determination serves as an inspiration even today. Even during moments meant for celebration, such as Christmas and New Year, Coldstream Guards found themselves immortalized on cards – a reminder that duty never rests even during festive times. During both World Wars, posters like "The British Commonwealth Nations Together" emphasized unity among nations while "Types of the British Army" highlighted diverse roles within military ranks – all united under one common purpose: protecting freedom with rifles at hand. As we delve into historical accounts depicting riflemen during Peninsular War or gaze upon powerful images captured on posters showcasing these formidable weapons, let us remember that behind every rifle lies stories untold – tales etched forever in our collective memory.