'Back Them Up!', 1940 (c)
'Back Them Up!', 1940 (c). Propaganda poster, after artist Terence Cuneo, World War Two, 1940 (c). Coastal artillery gun crew in action.
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Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, airship designer, c 1910.
Oil painting in military regalia. Count von Zeppelin (1838-1917) started designing and building engine-powered dirigibles (which became known as zeppelins) after retiring from the army. As a military officer he had been commended for bravery during the Franco-Prusian War of 1870-71, and had achieved the rank of brigadier commander. Zeppelin started working on his plans for the dirigible in 1873, but only succeeded in constructing the first dirigible in 1900. Although it was a technical failure, he succeeded with his second attempt, the LZ-2, in 1905. The German military took up the Zeppelin project only to abandon it after its failure in air raids against England in World War I.
'Employment of a Balloon at the Battle of Fleurus', Belgium, 26 June 1794.
Steel engraving. Military reconnaisance from the air was first carried out by Napoleon's Republican army during the French Revolutionary Wars (1789-1795) in 1794. A balloon was inflated with hydrogen and held in place by two cables. The French could then observe enemy battle tactics from a safe distance, giving them both a military and psychological advantage. This image shows the 'Entreprenant' balloon at the Battle of Fleurus in Belgium on 26 June 1794. This battle was of great strategic importance to the Revolution because it protected the road to Paris.
'It is Far Better to Face the Bullets than to be Killed at Home by a Bomb', 1915 (c)
'It is Far Better to Face the Bullets than to be Killed at Home by a Bomb', 1915 (c). Recruiting poster, unknown artist, World War One, 1915 (c). A German Zeppelin, caught in the beam of a searchlight, hovers above a silhouette of the London skyline. The first Zeppelin raid on Britain was at Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in January 1915. London was first attacked on 31 May 1915, when seven people were killed and £18,000 worth of damage caused. In the months that followed, fifty further Zeppelin raids took place and a blackout was imposed on the city. Original issued by the Publicity Department, Central Recruiting Depot, Whitehall, printed by Andrew Reid and Company Limited, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1915 (c).
Embarkation of the Sick at Balaklava, 1854-1855
Embarkation of the Sick at Balaklava, 1854-1855.Coloured lithograph by E Morin, from 'The Seat of War in the East - First Series' after William Simpson, published by Paul and Dominic Colnaghi and Company, 5 February 1855.
Line of German Army trucks, Second World War, 1 September 1939.
German military vehicles at 7.50 am, possibly during the invasion of Poland.
Lieutenant J C Haughton, 1842
Lieutenant J C Haughton, 31st Bengal Native Infantry, 1842. Coloured lithograph by and after Lieutenant Vincent Eyre, Bengal Artillery, 1843 (c). The artist's original drawings were made during his captivity in Afghanistan after the Retreat from Kabul during the 1st Afghan War (1838-1842). From 'Portraits of the Kabul Prisoners', a set of pre-publication coloured lithographs later published by John Murray in 1843.