Officer Gallery

Ju-Jitsu suffragette

If you want to earn some time throw a policeman! The Ju-Jitsu suffragette shows how a policeman may be tackled. Mrs Garrud, the well-known suffragette, who is only four foot ten but skilled in the art of Japanese wrestling, disposes of a policeman. 1. the policeman attempts to arrest the suffragette 2. and the suffragette promptly forms the scissors 3. a hand-lock from a punch 4. the policeman is kept down by an arm-lock across the knee 5. the policeman is thrown, after the scissors 6. putting a lock on the policeman

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Bernard Montgomery

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, (1887 1976), Montgomery was in command the 3rd division assault on Northern France in 1944. The military manoeuvre began in the early hours of June 6th and included British, Canadian and U.S forces. General Montgomery was famous for his command of the Eighth Army in the North African campaign and his defeat of Erwin Rommel at the Battle of El Alamein. He had previously served in World War One, during which he won the D.S.O. Date: 1944

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Last Sleep of the Brave, Isandlwana, Zulu War, 1879 (oleograph)

5929357 A'Last Sleep of the BraveA, Isandlwana, Zulu War, 1879 (oleograph) by Neuville, Alphonse Marie de (1835-85); National Army Museum, London; (add.info.: A'Last Sleep of the BraveA, Isandlwana, Zulu War, 1879.
Oleograph after Alphonse de Neuville, 1881.
This work depicts a patrol from the 17th (Duke of CambridgeA's Own) Lancers discovering the bodies of Lieutenant Teignmouth Melvill and Lieutenant Nevill Josiah Aylmer Coghill, 24th (2nd Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot, who were both killed attempting to save the Queen's Colour of the 1st Battalion at the Battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879. The depiction of the 17th Lancers is however anachronistic as when the bodies were retrieved the lancers had yet to leave England for South Africa.); A© National Army Museum ; French, out of copyright

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