Ballooning: Montgolfier, Blanchard, Charles & Roberts, and Lunardi’s hot-air balloons: With view over Chester from a balloon.

Armour: Suit of Armour AD 1480.

Shooting the Beam: Machinegunning from the cockpit. After Howard Leigh.

Battle of Barossa, 1811. General Graham’s notable victory over the French during the march to Cadiz. After William Heath.

Offensive and Defensive positions. Inside and outside guard and thrust, parade, tierce, carte and parry.Twelve examples.

Camp of the Light Division. Consisting of the Royal Horse Artillery, the Royal Artillery and the Rifle Brigade.

Britain rules the Clouds. With text relating to the RAF’s World Long distance record.

Major LG Hawker winning the VC over German Lines in 1915. With text describing the battle.

Battle of Vittoria. Wellington leading the Third Division towards the centre of attack.

Twelve drills from Return Ramrods (12th) to Shoulder Firelock (23rd).

Duke of Edinburgh’s Wiltshire Regiment 62nd & 99th. Now the Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire).

20th Hussars, amalgamated to the King’s Royal Hussars.

British Overseas: Bengal Army. Gurkhas, Sikhs, Cavalry and Infantry.

Battle of Albuera. Marshal Beresford engaged with the Polish Lancer.

Originally formed in 1689, the Rifles chose to disband rather than be amalgamated in 1968.

Charge of the Heavy Brigade of Royal Scots Greys. Crimean War.

British Overseas Forces: 16 crests from South Africa, Australia, Canada, Egypt, Guernsey, Hong Kong, India, Malay New Zealand.

Battle of Trafalgar: At 14:30 with HMS Victory disengaging herself from the Redoubtable lashed alongside HMS Temiraire taking her prize the Fougueux. To the left is HMS Royal Sovereign with her prize, the Santa Anna, totally demasted, and the other ships of the Lee division. On the right of the Victory is the Bucentaure with her main and mizen masts shot away and the wreck of the Santissima Trinidad. After the painting by Clarkson Stanfield.

Plan illustrating the position of the Allies under Lord Wellington during the Siege of Badajos (Badajoz) during the Spanish Peninsular War.

Battle of Laings Neck. Sir George Colley’s Staff before the battle.

Showing the opening of trenches as a technique in battle. Based upon the Siege of Barcelona in 1714 during the War of Spanish Succession.

Armour: Man at Arms AD 1483. With shield inscribed Anime- Ready and standard – Honny soit mal y pei, shame on whom thinks ill of it, motto of the Order of the Garter.

Battle of Cape St Vincent. The Salvador del Munda disabled by the Victory.

Orville Wright experimenting with flight.

Battle of Moodkee.

Capture of La Clorinde by HMS Eurotas 1814. The frigate was renamed HMS Aurora. After Thomas Whitcombe. Napoleonic Wars.

13th Hussars, amalgamated to the 13/18 Royal Hussars.

West India Regiment. India.

Battle of Cape St Mary 1804. The British Squadron attack of Spanish frigates laden with gold from the Americas caused Spain to declare war. After Nicholas Pocock. Napoleonic Wars.

Les Bobards: WWII German propaganda poster aimed at discrediting Radio Londres broadcasts in occupied France. Grotesque birds representing De Gaulle, freemasons, and Jews swarm from a radio tower in London.

Battle of Lepanto 1571. Venetian Galleon built in the 14th century.

British Army: One hundred and twelve regimental crests and badges.

Royal Welsh Fusiliers 23rd, amalgamated to the 1st Battalion, Royal Welsh.

Sir Robert Calder’s Action off the coast of Cape Finisterre 1805. Calder’s ship the ‘Prince of Wales’ in the foreground. After Thomas Whitcombe. Napoleonic Wars.

Fighter Monoplane.

Single seater fighter. Signed in pencil with text on verso.

Capture of the Spanish frigate Santa Dorotea by HMS Lion off Cartagena in 1798. After Thomas Whitcombe. French Revolutionary Wars.

Plan of the Battle of Cape St. Vincent, one of the great naval engagements of the Napoleonic Wars. British ships are in red and Spanish ships in green.

British Army: One hundred and fourteen Colours of the Army.

The 2nd Queen’s Own Rifles. Canada.

St James’s Day Battle 1666 North Foreland. The English, under the command of the Duke of Albermarle and Prince Rupert of the Rhine, and the Dutch, under Admiral de Ruyter. Second Anglo-Dutch War.

Capture of the Maria Riggersbergen of the Dutch East India Fleet by HMS Caroline 1806. After Thomas Whitcombe. Napoleonic Wars.

Diplomatic Consul. Household half dress, 1st Class minister full dress, Consul dress and Consul undress.

First Madras Pioneers. India.

British Army Overseas: 9th Bengal Cavalry. Officers and Troopers.

20th Hussars, amalgamated to the King’s Royal Hussars. Officer and Trumpeter, Review Order.

Twenty-one types of uniform of different ranks. After the painting by the military artist Richard Simkin.

Silver Short Aluminium Aeroplane: View over Rochester and the Medway.

Exercising with her aircraft.

Signed in pencil with text on verso.

Showing tackle, shrouds, swifters, ratlines, stays, yards and jeers (1), Horses, stirrups, traces, pendants, troulers and blocks (2).

Battle of Bidassoa, 1813. Wellington’s defeat of French forces during the peninsular campaign. After William Heath.

Set of Four. Ships at Sea. A Calm, a Fresh Gale, a Squall and a Shipwreck.

Uniforms of the British Army Past and Present.

Ballooning: Airship Dirigible ‘Patrie’. Diagram of parts with explanation in French.

Disarm positions. Volte, tierce, thrust carte, defensive and Spanish guard. Twelve examples.

Steel armoured twin-screw turret-ship.

121 Guns. Last three decker, launched in 1859.

Artillery:1. Partridges (cannon charge of several missiles fired at once), 2 & 3 Petards (small bombs), and 4 an Infernal (volley gun).

British Overseas: Madras Army, Central India Horse and Hyderabad Contingent.

Yeomanry, Artillery, Rifle and Engineers.

Battle of Cape St Vincent 1797. Admiral Sir John Jervis defeating a larger Spanish fleet off Portugal. After Thomas Whitcombe. French Revolutionary Wars.

First Class Battleship.

The Third Gurgkhas. India.

Capture of La Pique 1795, by HMS Blanche under Capt Robert Faulknor off Guadeloupe. After Thomas Whitecombe. French Revolutionary Wars.

Battle of Leipsic: Flight of the French from the Allied Armies after their defeat at the Battle of Leipsic. Napoleonic Wars.

Embroidery. Tunics and sleeves for staff officers and military secretaries.

Single seater fighter. Signed in pencil with text on verso.

Artillery:1. Scorpion, 2. Catapullta, 3. Balista, 4. Lyonors, and a Warcart 5. covered and 6. uncovered with muskateers.

Plan of the Dutch and British Fleets during the Battle of Camperdown on the 11th October 1797.

Pair of maps showing the Battle of Wagram 1809. Shows the French and Austrian positions over the course of the two-day battle.

Ship converted to a Bark (1), Snow (2,) Bilander (3), Brig (4), Ketch (5), Schooner (6), Sloop (7), Zebec (8), Galliol (10).

Off the coast of Corfu by HMS Belle Poule under command of Captain James Brisbane.15 February 1809.

Plan of the Battle of Vitoria (21st June, 1813) during the Peninsular War. Shows the positions of the British and French armies. Vitoria was a significant victory for the Duke of Wellington as it broke the French army and forced a large-scale retreat from Spain. Despite relatively even numbers, both in combatants and casualties, the outcome was considered a major British victory as almost £1 million of supplies were captured after the French retreat.

Imperial Yeomanry Regiments: Fifty six badges of regiments in Great Britain and Ireland.

Twin engine transport. After Howard Leigh.

Battle of the Nile, Napoleonic Wars. Plan showing the positions of the British and French fleets on 1st August, 1798. Small inset map of the Bay of Aboukir showing the scene of action. This battle was a great victory for Horatio Nelson who was afterwards given the honorary title Baron of the Nile.

Plan of the Battle of Alexandria fought on 21st March, 1801 during the Napoleonic Wars. British positions are in red and French positions are in blue. Pale red and blue lines show the troop positions before and after the battle. Cavalry, infantry, and artillery are distinguished by different symbols.

Battle of Montevideo, 1807. Campaign on the River Plate. After William Heath.

Matelots: Sailors disembarking in Brazil. Matelot, Dutch for bed companion, was slang for sailors as they shared hammocks.

British Army: One hundred and twenty regimental ribbons and buttons.

General Viscount Kitchener of Kartoum, G.C.B., G.C.M.G. With details on the General below.

Greenhill Batteries (Major Chapman’s Battery). A quiet night. View from the battery towards Cape Chersonese and the Bay of Sevastopol.

Lateral view of a Dutch corvette (small, lightly armed warship).

Battle of Albuera, 1811. Peninsular campaign. After William Heath

Capture of La Gloire 1795, by HMS Astraea under Captain Lord Henry Paulet near the Bay of Biscay. After Thomas Whitecombe. French Revolutionary Wars.

Set of Four. Ships at Sea. A Calm, a Fresh Gale, a Squall and a Shipwreck.

Military orders given by various European Princes for the bravery of their subjects or military victories.

Map showing the Battle of Austerlitz, fought between Napoleon’s Grande Armée against the Austrian and Russian armies. It was considered one of Napoleon’s greatest victories.

View of Waterloo (Wellington) Barracks home to the Crown Jewels.

Household Cavalry. Lt General Lord de Ros. Life Guards. SPY.

Camp of the 3rd Division commanded by Gen. Lt. Sir Richard England. The division fought in the Battle of Alma and at the Siege of Sevastopol.

British Overseas: Ceylon. Gun Lascar Corps.

Battle of Inkermann: Second Charge of the Foot Guards retaking the Sandbag battery.

British Army: 17 vignettes drawn from life of predominantly Guards regiments.

Koojak Pass, Balochistan: The first of three descents by the British Army of the Indus through the perilous pass. First Anglo Afghanistan War:

Battle of Bhurtpore 1826. Text on verso.

Single seater fighter. Signed in pencil with text on verso.

1st Battalion Middlesex Regiment, amalgamated to the Queen’s Regiment. Cap badge and colours.

1st Class Cruiser – Belted.

Battle of the Terrible and the Vengeance Privateers 1757. English Captain William Death battled French Captain Bourdas over the prize ship Grand Alexander. Only 26 men survived of nearly 500. In memorial frame.

Set of Four. Ships at Sea. A Calm, a Fresh Gale, a Squall and a Shipwreck.

Battle of Aliwal.

India and South Africa. Cavalry and Infantry.

Double view with decorative border of the names of the Winds in English and in Dutch.

Battle plan illustrating the respective positions of the English troops and their allies, against their French antagonists during the Battle of Salamanca in 1812 in the Spanish Peninsular War. The battle is perceived as an English victory as the French commander and his second in command were incapacitated by shrapnel wounds in the immediate beginning of the conflict leading to confusion in the French chain of command.

Torpedo Gunboat.

Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronté. With his signature below.

Sopwith Cuckoo single seater torpedo carrier: Signed in pencil with text on verso.

Battle of Paardeberg. Regiments under Geberak Cronje and Lord Roberts.

Cavalry Regiments including Scots Greys, Lancers, Hussars, Dragoons, Life Guards, RAC, RA and Coldstream. With key.

Dutch Second Rate 1670. Ranked on the basis of being over 500 tons with less than 90 guns.

Defeat of French Division before Badajos, 1811. After William Heath.

Nine views of Aeronautical inventions including the Autogiros, airships and early helicopters. With text.

Battle of the Boyne: Engraved by John Chapman.

British War Medals and Decorations: Sixty eight examples from 1793-1873.

Martinsyde Elephant single seater fighter: Signed in pencil with text on verso.

Capture and destruction of four Spanish Frigates 1804. Napoleonic Wars.

Austrian soldier on Half circle Guard with Russian soldier on St George’s Guard.

Plan of the Battle of Maloyaroslavets (24th October, 1812) during Napoleon’s retreat from Russia. Shows the Russian and French positions. Maloyaroslavets was an important battle during Napoleon’s retreat from Russia. Located about 80 miles southwest of Moscow, Maloyaroslavets blocked the route to Kaluga, Napoleon’s preferred method of retreat. Despite winning the battle, Napoleon was forced to accept that his preferred southern route out of Russia through Kaluga was no longer viable, and instead marched further north towards Smolensk through harsh winter conditions.

Sketches during the First Anglo-Boer War.

Lancer Regiments: 12th, 2nd and 9th.

After battle with HMS Bonne Citoyenne under the command of Captain William Mounsey.

Single seater fighter. Signed in pencil with text on verso.

Battle of Goojerat.

Gourkas. Christmas with the Lushai Expedition.

Thirty-two types with a key and brief history of battle honours. After Major John Masters.

HAC, Rifles, Inns of Court, Civil Service, Irish, Scots, Westminster, Paddington, Engineers, Tower Hamlets, Artists, 2nd and 3rd London.

From the Hendrick Vroom Armada Tapestries commissioned by Lord Admiral Howard but destroyed in the 1834 fire in the House of Lords.

Dive Bombers: After Howard Leigh.

Egyptian Camel Corps. En route to Wady Halfa

Sky Drill with the RAF.

Double view with decorative border showing a sailor’s rite of passage on crossing the equator and the waterspout or sea tornado.

19th Royal Hussars, amalgamated to the 15th/19th.

WWII: American Military Decorations, Awards and Service Ribbons. With description of appropriate protocols and dress.

Battle of Cape Ortegal 1805. Sir Richard Strachan’s capture of four French ships completed Nelson’s victory at Trafalgar. After Thomas Whitcombe. Napoleonic Wars.

2nd Battalion Norfolk Regiment, amalgamated to the Royal Anglican Regiment. Cap badge and colours.

Set of Four. Ships at Sea. A Calm, a Fresh Gale, a Squall and a Shipwreck.

Sixteen medals awarded between 1842-1866 including the Crimea.

Harry Grace a Dieu or Great Harry: Two views of the flagship of Henry VIII from a depiction in the Anthony Roll, a tudor naval record at the Pepys Library.

Map of Egypt showing the routes of the British and French armies during Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign of 1798-1801. Two insets show the Battle of the Pyramids and the Battle of Aboukir, two critical skirmishes between the French and Ottoman armies.

Royal Irish Fusiliers 87th Princess Victoria’s, amalgamated to Royal Irish Rangers.

Sailing ship going downwind. Nautical architecture after Captain Henry Sbonski de Passebon.

Plan of the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt in October 1806, fought between Napoleon I of France and Frederick William III of Prussia and resulting in a French victory.

Guards: Uniforms of different ranks of the Grenadier, Coldstream, Scots and Irish Guards after the military artist Richard Simkin.

Capture of Sekukuni’s Stronghold. British troops storming the citadel.

Welsh Guards at the Bank of England. Guardians of Britain’s Gold.

6th Regiment Hussars. Canada.

Pilot, Plane and the Complete Flying course.

Battle of the Glorious First of June 1794. British fleet under Lord Howe and the French under Rear-Admiral Villaret-Joyeuse. Le Vengeur ensuring safe passage. French Revolutionary War.

Single seater fighter. Signed in pencil with text on verso.

Cavalry Camp: Camp of the Scots Greys, Royals, Hussars, Dragoons and Inniskillens. Maj Gen James Scarlett and his entourage on the left. Key available.

Capture of the Castor 1794. HMS Castor was regained by her British crew before she made a French port. After Thomas Whitcombe. French Revolutionary Wars.

Gliders taking off from a hill. Training a Glider pilot.

Lieut. WB Rhodes-Moorhouse winning the VC over Courtrai in 1915. With text describing the battle.

Battle of Ulundi: 15,000 Ingobamkhosi led by Uumntwana Ziwedu Kampande were defeated by some 4,000 infantry and cavalry under Lord Chelmsford. Anglo-Zulu War.

1st Royal Dragoons, amalgamated to the Blues and Royals. Trooper of the First Rank, review order.

Pictorial evolution of the uniform from 1660 to 1834.

Foot Guard: Royal Scot Fusilier on horse with a Grenadier and a Coldstream on foot.

Battle of Waterloo after George Jones RA. Jones served in the Peninsular war, and was noted both for his realistic depictions of military engagements and striking resemblance to Wellington..

8 views of ships from numerous lines including the Red Star and White Star.

Rifle Regiments: King’s Royal, Scottish, Irish and Rifle Brigade.

Victorian Mounted Rifles. Australia.

Battle of Salamonda, 1809. Retreat led by Marshal de Soult after the defeat at Oporto. After William Heath.

Capture of La Forte by HMS Sybille off Bengal 1799. After Thomas Whitcombe. French Revolutionary Wars.

Rangoon: The Army in formation with the earliest depiction of a Congreve Rocket. First Anglo Burmese War.

Accoutrements. 16 military and naval belts.

Royal Navy: Commander, Captain, Admiral, Surgeon Lieutenant, Sub-Lieutenant.

Armour: Knight of the Montford Family AD 1286.

Frigate: 42 gun Frigate c1780.

Large folding poster from the Daily Mail illustrating warships, aircraft flags and artillery relevant to the Great War.

British Bombers and Fighters. Types of military aircraft forming equipment of R.A.F. squadrons at home and abroad.

After its defeat by HMS Implacable and Centaur in the Baltic Sea during the Anglo-Russian War.

Long range night bomber with twin Rolls Royce kestrel engines.

Prussian soldier on Outside hanging Guard with Swiss soldier on Inside hanging Guard.

Battle off Cabareta Point 1801. The Rea Carlos and San Hermenegildo in flames during the routing by Capt. James de Saumarez off the coast of Spain. After Thomas Whitecombe. Napoleonic Wars.

Man-o-War of 1793. After the painting by Chevalier Eduardo de Martino.

Battle of Trafalgar: ‘England Expects That Every Man Will Do His Duty’. Admiral Horatio Nelson’s famous signal at the commencement of the Battle of Trafalgar 21st October 1805.

Battle of Waterloo: Charge of the Life Guards after Luke Clennell.

Kirby Kite record breaking glider.

Battle of Copenhagen during Napoleonic Wars. Plan showing the positions of the Danish and British Fleets on 2nd April 1801.

Attack on the Malakoff: The French storming the Russian Redoubt, which effectively ended the 11 month siege of Sebastopol.

HMS Victoria and Albert: The Royal Yacht.

Battle of Tel -El-Kebir. Charge of the Highland Brigade.

Battle of Tel El Kebir: Bird’s Eye with key of General Wolseley’s victory over the Egyptian forces.

Battle of Kassassin, August 1882. Moonlight charge by the Household Cavalry.

Charge of the Life Guards.

Battle of St. Domingo 1806. The Royal Navy’s under Sir Admiral John Duckworth defeating the French in the last battle of the Napoleonic Wars. After Thomas Whitecombe. Napoleonic Wars.

Dramatic bombing of the Dortmund-Ems Canal by Flight Lieutenant Learoyd, VC with explanatory text.

With a sinking Le Vengeur 1794. Revolutionary Wars.

Battle of Morales,1813. British Hussars defeating the French cavalry. After William Heath.

View of the plane under construction with a half scale model as comparison. After Roland Davies.

British Warships: Battle-Cruisers. Cross-section of HMS Repulse with diagrams of HMS Reknown and HMS Repluse. With text.

Battle of Plassey. British East India Company victory over the Nawab of Bengal and the French 1757.

Plan of the Siege of Acre (Akko), the ancient walled city in modern-day Israel. The failed French siege, which lasted from 19th March to 21st May 1799, was a turning point in Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign against the Ottoman Empire. The map shows the French seige positions in blue and the British fleet under Commodore Sidney Smith in red. Smith used his command of the seas to bombard the French positions and to bring provisions to the city. Napoleon was ultimately forced to break the seige and return southwards towards Egypt, crushing his hopes of taking Syria from the Ottoman Empire.

8th King’s Royal Irish Hussars, amalgamated to the Queen’s Royal Irish Hussars.

Sloop.

Gloster Gladiator: Single Seat Fighter. After Howard Leigh.

Indian Cavalry at Malta. Review of troopers by HRH the Duke of Cambridge.

Pilot and Cup. The race was not run from 1939-45.

Dogger (1), Galley under sail (2) Galley rowing (3), Ship with sails fully extended and partially (4,5).

Royal South Africa tour. Lateral cross section with key after GH Davies.

Last Shot in the Soudan: After the celebrated war artist RC Woodville. First Anglo-Sudan War:

Battle of Fuentes d’Onor 1811. Wellington’s successful action with Portuguese against the French. After William Heath.

British Warships: Destroyers. Cross-section of interior, Tribal class at exercise and HMS Lightening. With text.

First Class Battleship.

Royal Scots Greys: Second Dragoons in marching order.

Hot Day in the Batteries: View towards Forts Constantine and St Nicholas with the docks to the left and the Malakoff to the right. Key available.

Milford Haven 1405. Lord Berkeley destroying the French fleet off the coast.

Twelve drills from Dress to the Right to Ram down Cartridge (11th).

The Anglo-Dutch Fleet under Admiral Lord Exmouth battled to end the enslavement of Europeans by Omar Agha, Dey of Algiers. After the paintings by Thomas Luny.

Canadian Mounted Troops. The Colonial Procession Passing through Trafalgar Square.

Plan of the Battle of Krasnoi (16th, 17th, & 18th November, 1812) during the Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow. Shows the positions of the French and Russian armies, differentiating between infantry, cavalry, and artillery. The Battle of Krasnoi was one of the final engagements during the French retreat from Moscow and marked a decisive victory for the Russian forces. Despite saving much of the core of his army from destruction, Napoleon was forced to abandon most of his remaining artillery and supplies.

A much decorated officer, Scots Guards, Paget fought most notably in the 2nd Boer War with Lord Roberts. SPY.

Battle of Vimiera, 1808. Wellington’s defeat of the first French attempt to invade Portugal. After William Heath.

Battle of Grijo1809. The successful defeat by Wellington of the 2nd attempt to invade Portugal. After William Heath.

HMS Queen. First class twin screw battleship.