Sapper Collection

The Autumn Campaign: sketches in the Southern Camp, 1872. Creator: Unknown
The Autumn Campaign: sketches in the Southern Camp, 1872. British Army manoeuvres

Siege operations at Chatham: explosion of a mine, 1871. Creator: Unknown
Siege operations at Chatham: explosion of a mine, 1871. British Army exercises

Siege Operations at Chatham: destruction of the stockade by gun-cotton and powder, 1871. British Army training

Siege Operations at Chatham: stockade prepared for blowing up with gun-cotton and powder, 1871. British Army training

Chatham Siege Operations: blowing up rafts on the Medway, 1871. Creator: Unknown
Chatham Siege Operations: blowing up rafts on the Medway, 1871. British Army training

Chatham Siege Operations: explosion of mines under the Medway, 1871. Creator: Unknown
Chatham Siege Operations: explosion of mines under the Medway, 1871. British Army training

Siege Operations at Chatham: single sap, with shield, 1871. Creator: Unknown
Siege Operations at Chatham: single sap, with shield, 1871.British Army training

Siege Operations at Chatham: sappers working behind sap roller, 1871. Creator: Unknown
Siege Operations at Chatham: sappers working behind sap roller, 1871. British Army training

Siege Operations at Chatham: necklace of gun-cotton round a beam, 1871. Creator: Unknown
Siege Operations at Chatham: necklace of gun-cotton round a beam, 1871. British Army training

Siege Operations at Chatham: lighting the fuse for the powder-bags, 1871. Creator: Unknown
Siege Operations at Chatham: lighting the fuse for the powder-bags, 1871. British Army training

Siege Operations at Chatham: festoon of gun-cotton on the stockade, 1871. Creator: Unknown
Siege Operations at Chatham: festoon of gun-cotton on the stockade, 1871. British Army training

Aerostiers et Observateurs en Ballon; Tandis que le ballon, abandonne a son sort, acheve de bruler a terre

The War in China - Punjaub-street, or La Grande Rue, Pehtang... 1860. Creator: Unknown
The War in China - Punjaub-street, or La Grande Rue, Pehtang - from a sketch by our special artist, C. Wirgman, 1860. European and Indian soldiers

Sapper of the Swiss Guards, 1779. Creator: Johann Georg Wille
Sapper of the Swiss Guards, 1779

Du tardenois a la Picardie; en Picardie: le passage de l'Avre, entre Morisel et Moreuil, le 8 aout 1918, au matin; construction d'une passerelie par le genie et les chasseurs, 1918

Sur le Marne; le fusil allemand contre char d'assaut, examine par un de nos sapeurs, 1918. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" [L'Illustration, Paris, 1924]

Le telephone a l'arriere du front; apres un bombardement, les sapeurs telephonistes, munis de leur masque, posent une ligne dans un fond ou persist l, action des gaz, 1918

Les specialistes dans la bataille: Pionniers et Sapeurs; La vie souterraine: construction d'une galerie, 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVIII

Les specialistes dans la bataille: Pionniers et Sapeurs; La Sape. Bas-relief par le sculpteur L'Homme, mobilise comme sapeur, 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV

Destruction of the Docks, Sebastopol - from a sketch by J. A. Crowe, 1856. Crimean War

Inspection of the Royal Sappers and Miners at Brompton Barracks, Chatham, by Sir John Burgoyne, 1856

Un sapeur-mineur a son obscur et perilleux travail dans une galerie, 1915. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919: Volume I" [L'Illustration, Paris, 1926]

Electric Telegraph for the Seat of War - Plough for Laying the Wire, 1854. Crimean War

Sappers repairing the road between Schumla and Varna, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Sappers repairing the road between Schumla and Varna, 1854. British soldiers during the Crimean War

Sappers, from Souvenirs d'Italie: Expédition de Rome, 1853. Creator: Auguste Raffet
Sappers, from Souvenirs d'Italie: Expedition de Rome, 1853

Sappers going to the trenches, from Souvenirs d'Italie: Expédition de Rome
Sappers going to the trenches, from Souvenirs d'Italie: Expedition de Rome, 1854

Sapping in full swing, from Souvenirs d'Italie: Expédition de Rome
Sapping in full swing, from Souvenirs d'Italie: Expedition de Rome, 1858

Travelling sappers, from Souvenirs d'Italie: Expédition de Rome
Travelling sappers, from Souvenirs d'Italie: Expedition de Rome, 1853

Squad of sappers and miners coming ashore in a sampan at Chemulpo, c1904

Entrance to a Sap along the French Front, First World War, 1915, (c1920). Creator: Unknown
Entrance to a Sap along the French Front, First World War, 1915, (c1920). The mine subsequently exploded in this sap killed a great number of Germans

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

Pioneers of the Imperial Guards Corps, 1867. Artist: Piratsky, Karl Karlovich (1813-1889)
Pioneers of the Imperial Guards Corps, 1867. From a private collection

Sapper (Lt-Col Cyril McNeile), 1937. Artists: Unknown, WD & HO Wills
Herman Cyril McNeile, MC (1888-1937), 1937. Commonly known as Cyril McNeile and published under the name HC McNeile or the pseudonym Sapper, he was a British soldier and author

Sappers and miners at work, Ypres salient, Belgium, World War I, c1915-c1917. Digging a tunnel under Hill 60

Mining at Messines Ridge, Belgium, World War I, 1914-1918. The Battle of Messines was launched on June 7, 1917 by British General Herbert Plumers Second Army

French sappers laying mines, France, First World War, 1914. French military engineers at Belfort, near the German frontier. Illustration from The Great War by HW Wilson, Vol I, (London, 1914)

A French sapper digging a tunnel to place a mine under the enemy lines, France, 1915

Fench sappers in gas masks re-laying telephone lines after a bombardment, 1918

Siege of Chartres, French Religious Wars, 1568 (1570). Artist: Jacques Tortorel
Siege of Chartres, French Religious Wars, 1568 (1570). Sappers working to undermine a bastion forming part of the citys defences

Uniform of military sapper-firemen, France, 1823. Artist: Charles Etienne Pierre Motte
Uniform of military sapper-firemen, France, 1823. A print from Collection des Uniformes de L Armee Francaise presentee au Roi, Paris, 1823

Front cover of Le Pays de France, 9 September 1915. French sappers placing a mine under a German trench

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