Observation Post Collection

Some of the men who took Tilloy, 10 Apr 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Some of the men who took Tilloy, 10 Apr 1917. Soldiers of the 13th Battalion, King's (Liverpool) Regiment with captured machine guns in front of a German mobile pill box and observation post

British observers in captured observation post, 6 Jun 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
British observers in captured observation post, 6 Jun 1917. British Artillery observing officers of the Royal Artillery, in a captured German observation post near Oosttaverne Wood

Distant Fronts, In Hejaz; Operations of the Arabian army: an observation post... 1917. Creator: Unknown
Distant Fronts, In Hejaz; Operations of the Arabian army: an observation post with machine-gunners; in the background, the Hejaz mountains, 1917

The Fourth Division; The Lookouts in a small observation post, 1917. Creator: Unknown
The Fourth Division; The Lookouts in a small observation post, 1917. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" [L'Illustration, Paris, 1924]

President of the Portuguese Republic on the front; Traveling through liberated region... 1917. Creator: Unknown
President of the Portuguese Republic on the front; Traveling through liberated regions from Oise to Nesle, the President is taken to the former observation post of Prince Eitel of Prussia

Pour une belle vue, v'là une belle vue!, 1847. Creator: Honore Daumier
Pour une belle vue, v'la une belle vue!, 1847. Pour une belle vue, v'la une belle vue!...j'decouvre tout Paris...tiens j'vois ma maison...tiens j'vois ma femme...tiens j'vois

Pour une belle vue, v'là une belle vue!.. 1847. Creator: Honore Daumier
Pour une belle vue, v'la une belle vue!.. 1847. Pour une belle vue, v'la une belle vue!...j'decouvre tout Paris...tiens j'vois ma maison...tiens j'vois ma femme...tiens j'vois

Renouvelé de la tour de barbe bleue, 1854. Creator: Honore Daumier
Renouvele de la tour de barbe bleue, 1854. Ostrogoff, ne vois-tu venir aucun secours de ton cote? - Je ne vois que la mer qui verdoye et la poudre que poudroye!'

The War in Naples - Victor Emmanuel giving commands to commence the bombardment... 1860. Creator: W Thomas
The War in Naples - Victor Emmanuel giving commands to commence the bombardment of Capua - from a sketch by our special artist

The King of Italy in France; The king leaving the observation post at Souville;...1917 Creator: Unknown
The King of Italy in France; The king leaving the observation post at Souville; as "honorary corporal" of the 3rd Zouaves, as his grandfather had been

'Les Americains dans le Saillant de Saint-Mihiel; Dans les positions de l'ennemi: observ... 1918
'Les Americains dans le Saillant de Saint-Mihiel; Dans les positions de l'ennemi: observateurs d'artillerie americains utilisant l'ancien observatoire allemand de Montsec

Les Guetteurs; on ne fume pas au poste d'ecoute, mais il est permis de macher sa pipe... 1916
Les Guetteurs; on ne fume pas au poste d'ecoute, mais il est permis de macher sa pipe, pour tromper l'attente, 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVIII

La vallee de Munster, 1916. Creator: Francois Flameng
La vallee de Munster, 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVIII. La Guerre Juillet, Aout, Septembre, Octobre, Novembre, Decembre 1916". (The valley of Munster)

La vie en Campagne; Cette cheminee eventree forme un poste d'observation parfait, 1914. Creator: Unknown
'La vie en Campagne; Cette cheminee eventree, dans les Flandres, forme un poste d'observation parfait, 1914. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919: Volume I" [L'Illustration

La Campagne Macedonienne; Sur le front de la 11e armee Serbe; un poste d'observation... 1916
La Campagne Macedonienne; Sur le front de la 11e armee Serbe; un poste d'observation devant le mont Vetrenik. 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVII

Sandbag Battery defended by the Guards - sketched on the morning of the Battle of Inkerman, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Sandbag Battery defended by the Guards - sketched on the morning of the Battle of Inkerman, 1854. Crimean War:..two 18-pounders which had been mounted on Sandbag battery were taken away

Sebastopol Batteries Firing at an Austrian Vessel, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Sebastopol Batteries Firing at an Austrian Vessel, 1854. Crimean War. Allied ship coming under fire from Russian guns at the strategic Black Sea port

The Quarries Field, Head-Quarters of Lord Raglan, off Sebastopol, 1854. Creator: Unknown
The Quarries Field, Head-Quarters of Lord Raglan, off Sebastopol, 1854. Crimean War: Fitzroy HJ Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, Master-General of the Ordnance of British Troops in the Crimea

The Siege of Sebastopol - Working Party of Highlanders and Sailors in the 21-Gun Battery, 1854. Creator: Unknown
The Siege of Sebastopol - Working Party of Highlanders and Sailors in the 21-Gun Battery, 1854. Crimean War....the French...opened heavily on the Quarantine Battery

British Outposts, near Sebastopol, 1854. Creator: Unknown
British Outposts, near Sebastopol, 1854. Crimean War: panorama showing Cossacks; Fort; English Steamer; Russian Soldiers Camp Cooking Houses

Lord Raglan and General Canrobert visiting the French Outposts opposite Sebastopol, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Lord Raglan and General Canrobert visiting the French Outposts opposite Sebastopol, 1854. Crimean War. General Canrobert...is looking at Sebastopol through his telescope...In the distance...may be

Russian soldier using a periscope rifle, First World War, 1914-1918, (c1920). Creator: Unknown
Russian soldier using a periscope rifle, First World War, 1914-1918, (c1920). Taking the Enemys Range with a Hyposcope: a masked Russian officer at his trench-post

U. S. Military Telegraph Construction Corps, April 1864. Creator: Alexander Gardner
U.S. Military Telegraph Construction Corps, April 1864. Albumen print, pl. 62 from the album " Gardners Photographic Sketch Book of the War, Volume II" (1866)

Allatoona from the Etawah, 1866. Creator: George N. Barnard
Allatoona from the Etawah, 1866. Albumen print, plate 24 from the album " Photographic Views of the Sherman Campaign" (1866)

Defences of the Etawah Bridge, 1866. Creator: George N. Barnard
Defences of the Etawah Bridge, 1866. Albumen print, plate 23 from the album " Photographic Views of the Sherman Campaign" (1866)

Signal Corps, Rappidan River / Signal Corps Reconnoitering at Fredericksburg, Virginia
Signal Corps, Rappidan River/Signal Corps Reconnoitering at Fredericksburg, Virginia, 1863. Formerly attributed to Mathew B. Brady

With the Anzacs in Gallipoli: inside an Australian trench, First World War, 1915-1916, (c1920). One man is using a periscope rifle while another keeps watch by means of a periscope

Allied soldiers using periscopes, Flanders, First World War, 1915-1916, (c1920). Creator: Unknown
Allied soldiers using periscopes, Flanders, First World War, 1915-1916, (c1920). Ready to Repel an Attack: Canadian Infantry in the trenches wearing the new steel helmets

King George V visits the front, northern France, First World War, 1917, (c1920). Creator: Unknown
King George V visits the front, northern France, First World War, 1917, (c1920). His Majestys Fourth Visit to his Armies in the Field

British soldiers in East Africa, First World War, c1916, (c1920). Creator: Unknown
British soldiers in East Africa, First World War, c1916, (c1920). An Affair of Outposts: British officers watching operations from the roof of a native house in German East Africa

The Periscope in the Trenches, (1919). Creator: Unknown
The Periscope in the Trenches, (1919). Scene from the First World War, 1914-1919: The eye of the submarine has been pressed into service on land

Watching the Battle in France, c1915, (1919). Creator: Unknown
Watching the Battle in France, c1915, (1919). Scene from the First World War: Lord Kitchener on the occasion of one of his visits to the front reviewed the operations of the French Army

The Scaffolding and Observatory on St. Pauls in 1848, (1897). Creator: Unknown
The Scaffolding and Observatory on St. Pauls in 1848, (1897). Observation post built by officers of the Royal Engineers on top of the cross on St Pauls Cathedral in London

Look-out post, Fort Vaux, northern France, c1914-c1918. Photograph from a series of glass plate stereoview images depicting scenes from World War I (1914-1918)

Look-out post, Bois-le-Pretre, northern France, c1914-c1915
Look-out post, Bois-le-Pre tre, northern France, c1914-c1915. Photograph from a series of glass plate stereoview images depicting scenes from World War I (1914-1918)

Observation officer and signallers keep a sharp lookout, St Quentin, France, World War I, 1914-1918. Stereoscopic card detail. (Colorised black and white print)

Deep-Water Temperature. Up with the Thermometer. 12 July, 1894, 1894 (1897). From Farthest North, Vol. 1 by Fridtjof Nansen. [Archibald Constable and Company, London, 1897]

Reading the Temperature with a Lens. 12 July, 1894, 1894 (1897). From Farthest North, Vol. 1 by Fridtjof Nansen. [Archibald Constable and Company, London, 1897]

Magnetic Observations, c1895, (1897). From Farthest North, Vol. 1 by Fridtjof Nansen. [Archibald Constable and Company, London, 1897]

Artillery observation officer in forward post, France, World War I, 1914-1918. Artist: Realistic Travels Publishers
Artillery observation officer in forward post, France, World War I, 1914-1918. During the Advance on Wancourt. Stereoscopic card detail

Looking into the Orange Free State, Boer War, South Africa, 1900. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
Looking into the Orange Free State, Boer War, South Africa, 1900. View over the 12th Brigade camp and Signal Hill, Slingersfontein. Stereoscopic card

Observation post of General Mangin, 18th July 1918, Villers-Cotterets, Aisne, France, (1926). Artist: Francois Flameng
Observation post of General Mangin during the offensive of 18th July 1918, Villers-Cotterets, Aisne, France, (1926). General Charles Mangin was commander of the French 10th Army during the Second

An observation point, 1915. A print from Le Pays de France, 10th June 1915

French observation post in a tree, France, World War I, 1915. A print from Le Pays de France, 17 June 1915

Observation post in a tree, Woevre, France, World War I, c1914. A print from the Le Flambeau (the Torch)

The defence of Haut-Niger, French Sudan, 1891. Artist: Henri Meyer
The defence of Haut-Niger, French Sudan, 1891. The colony of French Sudan was established in 1891, corresponding to the territory of the modern nation of Mali

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