Head Quarters Collection (page 8)

General Sir Henry Rawlinson, Querrieu Chateau, France
General Sir Henry Rawlinson (1864-1925), British army officer, standing outside 4th Army Headquarters, Querrieu Chateau, northern France, during the First World War. Date: July 1916

Mr A. R. Girgrah arriving at Scout HQ
Mr A.R. Girgrah (Minister for Education and President of the Council) arrives at the official opening of the new Headquarters of the South Arabian Boy Scouts Association in Aden, Yemen. circa 1966

Chief Scout of Aden arriving
Yemeni Scouts line the street as a large black car carrying the Chief Scout of Aden, His Excellency the High Commission, Sir Richard Turnbull, G.C.M.G

General Joffre at his desk, WW1
General Joseph Joffre (1852-1931), Commander of the French Army during the first half of the First World War, seen here sitting at his desk at headquarters. Date: circa 1916

Air Scouts with their Commissioner
Headquarters Commissioner for Air Scouts talking with Air Scouts from Cheltenham with a de Havilland Chipmunk in the background. circa 1950s

Mr Mohamed Othman Shabel, building contractor for the South Arabian Boy Scout Headquarters, proudly displays his Thanks Badge in Aden, Yemen. circa 1966

Scout Headquarters in Aden
View of the main entrance to the new Headquarters of the South Arabian Boy Scouts Association in Aden, Yemen. circa 1966

Japanese Military leaders st Shenyang, Manchuria
The Heads of the Japanese Military at the headquarters of their Manchurian Armies at Mukden (now Shenyang), Manchuria following the end of the Russo-Japanese war (1904-1905)

Be Prepared or Headquarters. Date: 1912

Marshal Foch and General Pershing, Chaumont, France

General Falkenhayn and staff, Romanian Front HQ
German General Erich von Falkenhayn (1861-1922) (left of centre), Commander of the Ninth Army, together with his staff outside their Headquarters on the Romanian Front during the First World War

Mary Churchill visits the Church Army H. Q 1944
Subaltern Mary Churchill, A.TS, youngest daughter of Winston Churchill, lunched with the Reverend H.H Treacher, head of the Church Army, when she inspected hostel adjoining the headquarters. 1944

Mothers Union - Mary Sumner House, Westminster, London. The MU was founded by Mary Sumner in 1876. Date: 1923

British Consulate General Headquarters, Bushehr
The British Consulate General Headquarters at Bushehr (Bushire), Iran Date: circa 1903

Interpol H. Q. Paris
A model of the new Interpol headquarters, built just outside Paris in the 1960s. Date: 1960s

Broadcasting House 1948
BROADCASTING HOUSE, London, headquarters of the British Broadcasting Corporation Date: 1948

Millennium Stadium car park, aerial view

Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, aerial view

CHRISTOPHER COCKERELL (1910-1999). English engineer and inventor of the Hovercraft. Cockerell speaking with engineer Alan Pennington about the Hovertrain, with a model of it before them

NYC: HOMELESS, 1874. Station-House Lodgers: some of New York Citys homeless poor spending the night in the basement of the 17th precinct police station. After a drawing by Winslow Homer, 1874

KEYSTONE KOPS. A scene from In the Clutches of a Gang, c1913. Fatty Arbuckle is at the extreme right

UNITED NATIONS: SITE, 1946. View, looking north from 41st Street, of the site of the United Nations headquarters in New York City, December 1946. The Queensborough Bridge is in the background

PPRE2A-00026
General Ulysses S. Grant in field headquarters during the Civil War. Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century portrait

EVRV2D-00043
General Washingtons desk at his winter camp headquarters in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Digital photograph of a restored National Park site

EVRV2D-00039
General Washingtons headquarters at Valley Forge during winter encampment, Pennsylvania. Digital photograph of a reconstructed National Park site

EVRV2D-00037
General Washingtons headquarters at Valley Forge during winter encampment, Pennsylvania. Digital photograph of a reconstructed National Park site

EVRV2A-00247
General Washington is brought the news that the British had crossed the Brandywine to occupy Philadelphia, 1777. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

Curious effects of the strike: Unusual scenes in London
Unusual scenes include: a motor-bus used as a recruiting office; a flock of sheep walking down a road in London and volunteer workers improvising a cricket match in Rotten Row

Petersburg, Virginia, from General Lees headquarters
The Civil War in America : a view of Petersburg, Virginia, and its suburbs from General Lees headquarters. The upper panorama is intended to join the lower one end to end

5th Connaught Rangers HQ
A bivouac shelter at Kajali that served as the Battalion Headquarters for the 5th Connaught Rangers on the Bulgarian frontier, near Kosturino

Brooklyn, New York
Fire department headquarters, Brooklyn, New York

Italy - Canicatti, Sicily - Military Headquarters

Police Notice -- Street Crossing Signals
A Police Notice showing Street Crossing Signals in Bridge Street, New Palace Yard, London, close to Parliament and the Met Police headquarters

House of the Free Press, Bucharest, Romania
View of the House of the Free Press (or Press Freedom House) in Bucharest, Romania, the headquarters of various newspapers and media publications. It was built between 1952 and 1956

Ain Sefra, Algeria - Headquarters of the African Hunters
The Headquarters of the African Hunters at Ain Sefra, Algeria. The town is called " The Gateway to the Desert" and is very close to the Moroccan border

Luftwaffe HQ 1939
The Reichsluft Fahrt Ministerium (Luftwaffe HQ) in Berlin, Germany in 1939 at the start of World War II

Gallipoli - Police Headquarters
Fountain outside the Police Headquarters at Gallipoli

Tank D-17 at Flers
A Brigadier and his staff alongside Tank D-17, which was used as his headquarters, near Flers, On the 15 September 1916 this particular tank, commanded by Lt Stuart Hastie

Battle of Aisne 1914
11th Hussars headquarters at Babonval at the Battle of Aisne on the Western Front in France during World War I from 22nd-28th September 1914

MAB Headquarters, Carmelite Street, London
Headquarters of the Metropolitan Asylums Board at the corner of Carmelite Street on the Victoria Embankment, Central London

Local Government Board Offices, Whitehall, London
A view of the Local Government Boards headquarters, at the junction of Great George Street and Parliament Street, Central London

The Bonus Army H. Q taken by police
At the war veterans general headquarters:a stars and stripes flag of the Bonus Army flown as the police evicted demonstraters from a ruined building. Date: July 1932

Newcastle-upon-Tyne Cottage Homes, Ponteland
Childrens cottage homes at Ponteland, Newcastle upon Tyne. The homes were erected in 1901 by the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Union to accommodate pauper children away from the workhouse

Temple, 8th Century
The headquarters of the Knights Templar in London in the 8th century - the origin of the Temple of today

Steel Frame Building construction - London
The building of the Film House - 142 Wardour Street - an early photographic example of the technique of steel frame construction - still the favoured method of putting up a building seen everywhere

Indian (Commonwealth) troops at Gallipoli during the Dardanelles Campaign of 1915 - Headquarters Gully

Alexei of Russia during wartime
Tsesarevich Alexei Nikolaievich of Russia (1904-1918) in field uniform. While other Royal children performed small engagements or were photographed to raise money for war charities

Ordu - Turkey
Ordu - a port on the Black Sea Coast of Turkey. " Ordu" means army in the Turkish language (and the word has come down in modern English as the word horde )

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