Brave Collection

Attack of the Ulster Division, 1 July 1916, (c1930). Creator: James Prinsep Beadle
Attack of the Ulster Division, 1 July 1916, (c1930). Scene from the Battle of the Somme in northern France during the First World War

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by William McLaren
King Arthur welcomes the Green Knight into the Banqueting Hall and invites him to dismount and eat with the company. Everyone is amazed to see the unexpected visitor

John Jack Travers Cornwell, Battle of Jutland
John Jack Travers Cornwell (1900-1916), posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his bravery on HMS Chester during the Battle of Jutland

Coastguards and civilians of Leysdown, Isle of Sheppey
Commemorative postcard, Heroes All! Five brave coastguards and two civilians of Leysdown, Isle of Sheppey, Kent, who rescued 20 members of the 2nd Walworth Boy Scouts Troop who got into difficulties

Propaganda poster: prime ministers statement
Second world war propaganda poster. Above a photograph of five brave airmen is a quotation from the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill: Never was so much owed by so many to so few

Image of Che Guevara on wall outside apartment, Havana, Cuba, West Indies, Central America

The Death of Socrates, 1787 (oil on canvas)
XOS1127648 The Death of Socrates, 1787 (oil on canvas) by David, Jacques Louis (1748-1825); 129.5x196 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; (add.info.: Socrates (c.469-399 BC)

Waterloo, The Charge of the Scots Greys (colour litho)
2780524 Waterloo, The Charge of the Scots Greys (colour litho) by Wood, Stanley L. (1866-1928) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Waterloo, The Charge of the Scots Greys)

How Piper Laidlaw won the Victoria Cross on September 25, 1915, (c1920). Creator
How Piper Laidlaw won the Victoria Cross on September 25, 1915, (c1920). Playing the 7th Kings Own Scottish Borderers out of their trenches at the Battle of Loos in the midst of the gas attack

Grace Darling, rowing with her father
Grace Horsley Darling (1815 - 1842), daughter of the lighthouse keeper, William Darling, on the Farne Islands, seen here rowing with her father to the sinking steamboat the SS Forfarshire in 1838

The Sortie Made by the Garrison of Gibraltar, 1789. Creator: John Trumbull
The Sortie Made by the Garrison of Gibraltar, 1789

Army Chaplain in Great War Deeds, WW1
An Army Chaplain holding a night service on the battlefield, with a packing case as an altar and a tin mug as a chalice. Reproduction of a painting by A C Michael in Great War Deeds

Suffragette Demonstration Rally Hyde Park
The Great Suffragette Demonstration held on 23rd July 1910. banners held aloft include Fortune Favours The Brave, Arise Go Forth & Conquer and the Emmeline Pankhurst banner. Date: 23rd July 1910

WW2 poster, Back Them Up! Showing a British commando raid on a German-held port in Norway. Date: 1940s

The Last Shot by Matania
A group of British seamen gunners straining to fire a final shot at a German ship as their own ship sinks beneath them. The caption notes that this was a common occurrence with light cruisers

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Confederate charge up Little Round Top, held by the 20th Maine Regiment, Battle of Gettysburg, 1863. Hand-colored halftone of a 19th century illustration

Flora MacDonald, Scottish Jacobite heroine, friend and helper of Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie)

Mad Metal Robot
THE MAD ROBOT by William P McGivern. A brave man fires a ray-gun at an advancing metal robot with large claws and a brain encassed in a glass-domed head Date: 1944

Moss, the dog. Moss the dog, owned by Mr Cledwyn Morgan of Ystradgynlais, near Swansea, Wales, bears the distinction of being a double hero

WW2 greetings card, Corporal Joan Pearson
WW2 greetings card, Corporal J.D.M. Pearson, official war picture by Laura Knight, official war picture from the National Gallery

St. Jerome Removing a Thorn from the Lions Paw, c
XAL178985 St. Jerome Removing a Thorn from the Lions Paw, c.1445 (oil on panel) (see 178986 for detail) by Colantonio, Niccolo Antonio (fl.1455-62); Museo e Gallerie Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples

A Rehearsal of the Wild West show
A series of sketches by Ralph Cleaver of rehearsals for Colonel Codys " Wild West" show at Olympia, including Sioux braves racing horses, cow girls and cowboys

Blucher and Napoleon
Blucher the Brave extracting the Groan of Abdication from the Corsican Bloodhound

American Indians. Sitting Bull addressing a meeting of brave
Sitting was an inspirational Sioux Chief, who together with Crazy Horse, defeated Custer and tried to prevent the American Indians being forced into reservations

RAF Sea King Helicopter crew attend a mountain rescue incident in the Lake District UK
Ashley Cooper / SpecialistStock

Grace Darling, lighthouse keeper's daughter
Grace Horsley Darling (1815 - 1842), daughter of the lighthouse keeper, William Darling, on the Farne Islands, who rowed with her father to the sinking steamboat the SS Forfarshire in 1838

Afghan Futtehabad 1879
At the battle of Futtehabad during the Afghan War, Lieutenant Hamilton of the Guide Corps is awarded the Victoria Cross for his brave cavalry charge

Royal Field Artillery in Great War Deeds, WW1
Captain Douglas Reynolds, Driver J H C Drain and Driver F Luke of the Royal Field Artillery, saving the gun from hostile fire at Le Cateau, for which they won the Victoria Cross

HMS Good Hope in Great War Deeds, WW1
HMS Good Hope of the British Royal Navy going down with her last guns firing, in an action against overwhelming odds off the coast of Chile, South America

William Thompsons fight off Poole, Dorset, 30 May 1695. Thompson was a local fisherman whose fishing boat was fired on by a French privateer near the Isle of Purbeck

Will you follow me, men?, c61 AD, (1905). Artist: As Forrest
Will you follow me, men?, c61 AD, (1905). The British Queen Boudicca (or Boadicea) of the Iceni encourages her soldiers to fight the Romans

WWI - Wounded soldier in the arms of his nurse
WWI - Wounded soldier (who has lost his arm) in the arms of his nurse - Comrades in Arms. Date: circa 1917

Severn Tunnel Diver
The brave diver Alexander Lambert descending the shaft into the flooded tunnel. In Fleuss diving gear, he closed the headwall door and prevented further flooding

Rodolfo Gaona Jimenez, Mexican bullfighter
Rodolfo Gaona Jimenez (1888-1975), Mexican bullfighter, known as the Caliph de Leon. He moved to Spain in 1908. Date: circa 1910

The Maquis (French Resistance) attack a group of German soldiers. Date: 1944

RF- Adelie Penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) on iceberg. Yalour Islands, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica. February

Corporate J. L. Dawson VC
Corporal James Lennox Dawson VC of the Royal Engineers (1891-1967) pictured performing the action for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross in October 1915

Lance-Corporal Jarvis in Great War Deeds, WW1
Lance-Corporal Charles A Jarvis of the Royal Engineers, winning the Victoria Cross by fixing a firing charge for the demolition of a bridge, under heavy fire

Maps Wrens London
Christopher Wren seizes the opportunity of the Great Fire to draw up plans for a brave new London - which alas will be only partially realised. Date: 1666

Nelson killing the polar bear (chromolitho)
2817221 Nelson killing the polar bear (chromolitho) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Nelson killing the polar bear)

Victoria Cross: Lieuts T Melvill and N J A Coghill, at Isandhlwana, 1879 (colour litho)
6019810 Victoria Cross: Lieuts T Melvill and N J A Coghill, at Isandhlwana, 1879 (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Lieuts T Melvill and N J A Coghill)

English League Division One match at Fratton Park. Portsmouth 0 v Liverpool 2. John Aldridge of Liverpool shoots at goal as goalkeeper Alan Knight comes out to save. 27th February 1988

A Heroic Deed of the Royal Horse Artillery Near Compiegne, (1919). Creator: Unknown
A Heroic Deed of the Royal Horse Artillery Near Compiegne, (1919). Scene from the First World War: at the Battle of Nery in September 1914, the British 1st Cavalry Brigade and L Battery

Tandem skydivers, Waldviertel, Austria

Heroic deeds of the War - Corporal Josephine M C Robins
Heroic deeds of WW2 - Corporal Josephine M C Robins, a member of the Womens Auxiliary Air Force (WaF). Awarded the Military Medal (MM)

Victoria Cross - Lieutenant William Leefe Robinson
Victoria Cross posthumously awarded to John Travers Cornwell (1900-1916) - for his gallantry at the Battle of Jutland. Cornwell was a Boy Seaman First Class on H.M.S Chester

Admiral Raby wins the Victoria Cross
Commander Raby R.N. Boatswains mate Henry Curtis and John Taylor (Captain Forecastle), win the Victoria Cross for their heroic rescue of a soldier of the 57th regiment

Red Army recruitment poster, showing a Soviet sailor and soldiers fighting: Forward to the Don!

Poster for a Military Exhibition at Earls Court
Poster advertising a Military Exhibition at Earls Court, London, depicting a brave British soldier, a British Lion, and Britannia

Warrior of the native American Indian Tribe, the Lipan, c. 18
Illustration showing a Lipan native American Indian brave on horseback, with head band and buckskin suit, carrying a rifle

Anti-Bourgeois Poster
A big brave communist worker fixes a poster on a wall while a contemptible little bourgeois capitalist in his top hat cowers in fear

Three Billy Goats Gruff, 1908 (w / c on paper)
OVR423075 Three Billy Goats Gruff, 1908 (w/c on paper) by Munthe, Gerhard Peter Frantz Vilhelm (1849-1929); Private Collection; (add.info)

Sergeant Somers holding back the enemy by bombing them when a barricade was being raised
STC413345 Sergeant Somers holding back the enemy by bombing them when a barricade was being raised (litho) by Valda, John Harris (d.1941); Private Collection; (add.info)

Pony Express Riders, c. 1860 (b / w photo)
PNP246299 Pony Express Riders, c.1860 (b/w photo) by American Photographer, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Nelly Bligh, the dog. This dog, called Nelly Bligh, owned by Mr Mallion, Hubbards Farm, Lenham Heath, Lenham, Kent, saved the the life of her master. Mr Mallion was knocked down and bitten by a boar

Private John Caffrey VC
Illustration recording the VC action of Private John Joseph Caffrey VC (1891-1953) at La Brique, France in November 1915. His citation reads as follows: On 16 November 1915 near La Brique, France

14th Hussars - Colonel Brown Victoria Cross Re-enactment
Victoria Cross Re-enactment of the bravery of Colonel Edward Douglas Brown (Edward Douglas Browne-Synge-Hutchinson VC) (18611940) of the 14th Hussars - who

Starry Gazey Pie, Mousehole, Cornwall
A mouthwatering example of a Starry Gazey Pie, served up on Tom Bawcocks Eve (23 December) at Mousehole in Cornwall. The dish, with fish heads and tails sticking out of it, is unique to Mousehole

Warrior Square, Hastings
A view of the square complete with promenaders strolling along the seafront. The sea is choppy with waves breaking against the sea-wall but a boating party brave it. Date: 1860s

Patriotic Postcard - Officer and Union Flag
For the Old Flag A World War One era officer, pointing his pistol toward the enemy. Standing up tall before the Union flag, for King and Country... Date: circa 1916

Allies - Brave Belgium by Archibald Wells
A Belgian cavalry man sits astride his horse against the backdrop of a combined Belgian and Union Jack flag, a symbol of the two countries combined loyalties during World War One

Orange at Waterloo
On the field of battle, the Prince of Orange bestows the medals hes wearing to reward his brave troops

Mountain rescue team members in the Scottish Highlands
Ashley Cooper / SpecialistStock

Saving Swiss Souls
A brave English Salvationist preaches to the clientele of a Swiss tavern, but any moment now the police will arrive and accuse of her of breaching the peace

A lifeboat in Mallaig Scotland
Ashley Cooper / SpecialistStock

Jannifer Waight 4 1 / 2 yrs. With Porcupine at the London Zoo. London, February 1953 D898
Jannifer Waight 4 1/2 yrs. With Porcupine at the London Zoo. London, February 1953 D898

The Indian Frontier War, 1897: The storming of the Dargai Ridge by the Gordon Highlanders
The Indian Frontier War, 1897: The Storming of the Dargai Ridge by the Gordon Highlanders, October 20, (1901). Fighting between British troops and Afridi tribesmen on the North-West Frontier

Acrobates - acrobats
A delightful illustration from Larousse Encyclopedia detailing a variety of acrobatic entertainers performing impressive physical feats. Date: 1930

D'Amato, the faithful orderly, 1911 (chromolitho)
2782555 D'Amato, the faithful orderly, 1911 (chromolitho) by European School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: D'Amato, the faithful orderly, 1911)

Corlazzoni, Italian alpine soldier, 1903 (chromolitho)
2782552 Corlazzoni, Italian alpine soldier, 1903 (chromolitho) by European School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Corlazzoni, Italian alpine soldier, 1903)

Siege of Mek'ele, Ethiopia, 1896 (chromolitho)
2782553 Siege of Mek'ele, Ethiopia, 1896 (chromolitho) by European School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Siege of Mek'ele, Ethiopia, 1896)

The order before everything!, 1892 (chromolitho)
2782550 The order before everything!, 1892 (chromolitho) by European School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The order before everything!, 1892)

The drummer boy of Custoza, 1848 (chromolitho)
2782551 The drummer boy of Custoza, 1848 (chromolitho) by European School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The drummer boy of Custoza, 1848. Liebig card, published early 20th century)

"The Ramsgate Life-boat: Morning after a Heavy Gale - Weather Moderating"...by E.W Cooke. R.A
"The Ramsgate Life-boat: Morning after a Heavy Gale - Weather Moderating" - from the picture by E.W Cooke. R.A. 1864. Engraving of a painting

WW1: The Hartmannswillerkopf bugle (illustration)
8684967 WW1: The Hartmannswillerkopf bugle (illustration) by Job, pseudonym for Onfray de Breville, Jacques (1858-1931); (add.info)

WW1: Bullet contempt (illustration)
8684962 WW1: Bullet contempt (illustration) by Job, pseudonym for Onfray de Breville, Jacques (1858-1931); (add.info.: Events of the war 1914-1918 illustration Job The contempt for bullets Facts of)

Private William Jones defending one of the wards in the field hospital at the Battle of Rorke's Drift
UIG5419907 Private William Jones defending one of the wards in the field hospital at the Battle of Rorke's Drift, South Africa in January 1879 during the Anglo-Zulu War

The death of Emerson Hamilton Liscum at the Battle of Tientsin, China, during the Boxer Rebellion. 1841 -1900
UIG5419663 The death of Emerson Hamilton Liscum at the Battle of Tientsin, China, during the Boxer Rebellion. 1841 -1900. Colonel Emerson Hamilton Liscum, 1841 - 1900. U.S. Army officer

Orthodox priest leading Russian troops into battle, Russo-Japanese War, 1904 (litho)
8655650 Orthodox priest leading Russian troops into battle, Russo-Japanese War, 1904 (litho) by Feller, Frank (1848-1908) (after); Private Collection; (add.info)

Dinner for holders of the Victoria Cross, London, 1929 (b/w photo)
8626574 Dinner for holders of the Victoria Cross, London, 1929 (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Dinner for holders of the Victoria Cross)

Two wounded Irish dragoons hold off the enemy at a farmhouse after the retreat from Mons (litho)
3252908 Two wounded Irish dragoons hold off the enemy at a farmhouse after the retreat from Mons (litho); Private Collection; (add.info)

Irish Guards beat back a German cavalry charge with bayonets during WWI (litho)
3252855 Irish Guards beat back a German cavalry charge with bayonets during WWI (litho); Private Collection; (add.info.: Irish Guards beat back a German cavalry charge with bayonets during WWI)

Hidatsa warrior (Moennitarri) and Otoe chief. North American people: Moennitarre Indian and Oto Indian
FLO4605334 Hidatsa warrior (Moennitarri) and Otoe chief. North American people: Moennitarre Indian and Oto Indian. After Karl Bodmer's portraits for Prince Alexander Philipp Maximilian of

Sarcee man Massika in feather headdress and face tattoo or scarification
FLO4605335 Sarcee man Massika in feather headdress and face tattoo or scarification, and Blackfoot chief Mehkskeme-Sukahs with feather headdress, medicine fetish and bearskin cape

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Unyielding courage echoes through history, from the valiant soldiers of the Attack of the Ulster Division to the chivalrous Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. In every era, brave souls have emerged, like Grace Darling rowing fearlessly with her father and Corporal Joan Pearson sending WW2 greetings cards filled with hope. Propaganda posters inspired a nation as prime ministers made bold statements, while Che Guevara's image on a Havana wall symbolized unwavering bravery in Cuba. The Mad Robot on Amazing Stories magazine cover ignited imaginations with tales of daring adventures, just as Army Chaplains in Great War Deeds provided solace amidst chaos. Moss, Mr Cledwyn Morgan's loyal dog from Ystradgynlais exemplified unwavering loyalty and courage. Even amidst tragedy, such as the brave Titanic engineers who faced their fate head-on or the garrison's heroic sortie during Gibraltar's siege in 1789 by John Trumbull’s brushstroke; bravery shines bright. And let us not forget suffragette demonstrations rallying at Hyde Park for equality – a testament to fearless determination throughout time.