Picardy Collection (page 4)

Australian machine-gunners returning from the trenches, France, World War I, 1916. During the Somme campaign

Interior of a signal exchange during the Battle of the Somme, France, World War I, 1916

A view of a British trench, Ovillers, France, World War I, 1916. Men of the 11th Battalion, the Cheshire Regiment, during the Battle of the Somme

The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment parading for the trenches, France, World War I, 1916
The loyal North Lancashire Regiment parading for the trenches, France, World War I, 1916. During the Somme campaign

A long white line. A common sight in France, World War I, 1916. A line of British army trucks during the Somme campaign

A huge shell, weighing 1400lb, Somme campaign, France, World War I, 1916. Ready to be fired by the 15-inch howitzer, or Grandmother as it was called

A complimentary message to Fritz, Somme campaign, France, World War I, 1916. Artist
A complimentary message to Fritz, Somme campaign, France, World War I, 1916. Notice the message chalked on the shell by one of the gunners

A British wiring party going up to the trenches, Somme campaign, France, World War I, 1916

Hot work at the guns, Somme campaign, France, World War I, 1916. British gunners busily engaged in putting over a curtain barrage

A sentry in the trenches looking through an improvised persicope, France, World War I, 1916. During the Somme campaign

Red Cross men in the trenches tend a wounded man, Somme campaign, France, World War I, 1916

German prisoners brought in from Contalmaison, Somme campaign, France, World War I, 1916

British soldiers searching captured German prisoners, Somme campaign, France, World War I, 1916

British mopping-up squad surprises a German straggler, World War I, Aisne, France, 1918

Meeting of Edward IV of England and Louis XI of France at Picquigny, France, 1475 (1864). Edward (1442-1483) and Louis (1423-1483)

Capture of Joan of Arc, Compiegne, France, 1430 (1864). Joan (1412-1431), the Maid of Orleans, captured by the Burgundians while defending Compiegne during the Hundred Years War

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

Meeting of Edward IV and Louis XI at Pecquigny, 1475 (1864). Artist: James William Edmund Doyle
Meeting of Edward IV and Louis XI at Pecquigny, 1864. Edward IV, ( 1442-1483) and Louis XI, (1423-1483) making an alliance at the Treaty of Picquigny negotiated for peace on 29 August 1475 between

An evening in the reserve trenches at Beaumont Hamel, France, World War I, 1914-1918. Stereoscopic card detail. (Colorised black and white print)

Compiegne: The Hotel de Ville, 1914. From The Manchester Guardian History of the War - 1914, Vol. I.. [John Heywood Ltd, London, 1914]

The Americans Lend a Hand, 1940-1942, (1943). Strategic bombing during World War II. A bombing attack by US Flying Fortresses knocks out a key airfield at Abbeville

A Scene of Desolation. - A Street in Peronne, 1919. Artist: War Office
A Scene of Desolation. - A Street in Peronne, 1919. For most of World War I the town of Peronne, Somme, was occupied by German troops. It was finally liberated on the 2nd September 1918

A Picardy Farmyard, c1900. Artist: Henry Silkstone Hopwood
A Picardy Farmyard, c1900. From The Studio Volume 49. [London Offices of the Studio, London, 1910]

La Cathedrale d Amiens, c20th century. Artist: Jules De Bruycker
La Cathedrale d Amiens, c20th century. From The Studio Volume 108. [The Offices of the Studio, London, 1934]

Amiens, 1911. Artist: Albany E Howarth
Amiens, 1911. From The Studio Volume 58 [London Offices of the Studio, London, 1913.]

Damaged interior of Albert Cathedral, France, World War I, c1914-c1918. Artist: Nightingale & Co
Damaged interior of Albert Cathedral, France, World War I, c1914-c1918. Stereoscopic card detail

British tank in front of ruined buildings, Peronne, France, World War I, c1916-c1918. Artist: Nightingale & Co
British tank in front of ruined buildings, Peronne, France, World War I, c1916-c1918. Stereoscopic card detail

The Sun going down over no mans land on the Somme, France, World War I, c1914-c1918. Stereoscopic card detail

Hundreds of German guns captured at Couralette, France, Battle of Somme, World War I, 1916. Stereoscopic card detail

High explosive shells bursting in Mametz Wood, France, World War I, 1916. Artist: Realistic Travels Publishers
High explosive shells bursting in Mametz Wood, Somme, France, World War I, 1916. Mametz Wood was the objective of the 38th (Welsh) Division at the Battle of the Somme

Mine crater at La Boiselle, the Somme, France, World War I, c1916-c1918. Artist: Realistic Travels Publishers
Mine crater at La Boiselle, the Somme, France, World War I, c1916-c1918. The crater was created by a massive underground mine placed in tunnels beneath the German lines by British sappers of

Coronation of Hugh Capet as King of France, Noyon, 1st July 987 (1882-1884). Artist: Ahurel
Coronation of Hugh Capet as King of France, Noyon, 1st July 987 (1882-1884). Hugh Capet (c938-996) was elected King of France in 987, founding the Capetian dynasty

Lord Cornwallis and Joseph Bonaparte embrace in Amiens, France, 1802 (1882-1884). Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738-1805) was a British colonial administrator and soldier

German prisoners of war beside the ruins of the basilica of Albert, France, World War I, 1914-1918. Stereoscopic card detail

Engineers repairing a light railway, Hangard, France, World War I, 1914-1918. Artist: Realistic Travels Publishers
Engineers repairing a light railway, Hangard, France, World War I, 1914-1918. Stereoscopic card detail

Aerial view of the ruins of the town and basilica of Albert, France, World War I, 1914-1918. Stereoscopic card detail

Trench warfare on the Hindenburg Line, Bellicourt, France, World War I, 1917-1918. Artist: Realistic Travels Publishers
Trench warfare on the Hindenburg Line, Bellicourt, France, World War I, 1917-1918. The Hindenburg Line was a vast system of defences built on the Western Front by the Germans in the winter of

Prussians captured by Old Contemptibles in the advance at Pozieres, World War I, 1914-1918. Old Contemptibles was the name self-adopted by British troops belonging to the regular army in 1914

Soldiers crossing the river Ancre, Battle of the Somme, France, World War I, 1916. Artist: Realistic Travels Publishers
Soldiers crossing the river Ancre, Battle of the Somme, France, World War I, 1916. Scene during the Allied attack on Thiepval Ridge. Stereoscopic card detail

African chasseur, two Turcos and three British soldiers, Soissons, France, First World War, 1914
African chasseur, two Turcos (tirailleurs) and three British soldiers, Soissons, France, First World War, 1914. Illustration from The Great War by HW Wilson, Vol I, (London, 1914)

A British soldier on sentry duty after the fall of Peronne, France, First World War, 1917, (c1920). Someone has pasted a picture of the British royal family to the side of the sentry-box

Street scene after the fall of Peronne, France, First World War, 1917, (c1920). Illustration from The Illustrated War Record of the Most Notable Episodes in the Great European War 1914-1918

Wrecked building, Grande Place, Peronne, France, First World War, 1917, (c1920). A sign in German on the town hall reads: Nicht argern, nur wundern (No anger, just amazement)

Smashed locomotive at Peronne, France, First World War, 1917, (c1920). Illustration from The Illustrated War Record of the Most Notable Episodes in the Great European War 1914-1918, seventh edition

Damaged railway station at Roye, France, First World War, 1918, (c1920). Illustration from The Illustrated War Record of the Most Notable Episodes in the Great European War 1914-1918

The front line at Ovillers, Battle of the Somme, Picardy, France, July 1916 (1935). From A Concise History of the World, introduction by Sir John AR Marriott (Associated Newspapers Ltd, 1935)

King George V (1865-1936) at St Georges Hill, near Fricourt, 10th August 1916, (1936)
King George V (1865-1936) (1936) with General Sir Henry Seymour Rawlinson and General Congreve at St Georges Hill, near Fricourt, 10th August 1916

A wood in the Somme area, France, 1916, (c1920). Destruction during the First World War. Illustration from Story of the British Nation, Volume IV, by Walter Hutchinson, (London, c1920s)

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