Military History Collection
We are in the process of building our Military History Collection, selecting some of the most iconic images from World War 1, World War 2, and other earlier conflicts and have a number of prints available from our online shop.
We hope you enjoy our work and please contact us if you have any specific requests.
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Aerial Graflex camera in action, circa 1917-18One of the main uses of aircraft during World War 1 was to carry out reconnaissance over enemy lines. In this image we can see the aviator using a Graflex camera.
Photographer unknown, original image from the US National Archives, colourised by Touch The Past.
Photographer unknown, original image from the US National Archives, colourised by Touch The Past.
Abandoned Boy, 1945Original photographer Toni Frissell, "“I was told he had come back from playing and found his house a shambles—his mother, father and brother dead under the rubble…he was looking up at the sky, his face an expression of both confusion and defiance. The defiance made him look like a young Winston Churchill."
Eisenhower and BradleyGenerals Eisenhower and Bradley General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, and General Omar N. Bradley, CG, 12th Army Group, examine a suitcase of silverware, part of German loot stored in a salt mine 500 m underground at Merkers.
British and American combined Chiefs of Staff at the Quebec Conference, September, 1944.G.C. Marshall, Admiral W.D. Leahy, Roosevelt, Churchill, Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooks, Field Marshal Sir John Dill; (standing) Maj. Gen. Hollis, Gen. Sir Hasting Ismay, Admiral E.J. King, Air Marshal Sir Charles Portal, H.H. Arnold, Admiral Sir A.B. Cunningham
Fox Green Landing, Omaha Beach, 1944A LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel) from the U.S. Coast Guard-manned USS Samuel Chase disembarks troops of Company A, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division (the Big Red One) wading onto the Fox Green section of Omaha Beach (Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France) on the morning of June 6, 1944. American soldiers encountered the newly formed German 352nd Division when landing. During the initial landing two-thirds of Company E became casualties.
German General Anton Dostler before his executionGerman General Anton Dostler is tied to a stake before his execution by a firing squad in the Aversa stockade. The General was convicted and sentenced to death by an American military tribunal. Aversa, Italy.
Mrs HammondMrs Hammond, American Red Cross, serving water to badly wounded British soldier on platform of railroad station at Montmirail, France, May 31, 1918.
Six men of the Royal Artillery at the Western Front, during World War IFrom the National Archives of Scotland
Nurses of a Field Hospital, 1944Nurses of a field hospital who arrived in France via England and Egypt after three years service.
Original photographer, Parker.
Colourised by Touch The Past
Original photographer, Parker.
Colourised by Touch The Past
Robert Spence with his wife Margaret and son Robert (1917)Taken before Robert headed off to serve in Ypres, never to return. He was wounded in the arm, which was then amputated, but he sadly died later of gas gangrene.
Private commission.
Private commission.