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

Diamond Jubilee Review of the Royal Navy’s 165 ships, included 21 battleships and 44 cruisers.

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

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

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

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.

Battle of Castalla, 1813. Lt Gen Sir John Murray successful defence during the peninsular campaign. After William Heath.

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

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

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.

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

Capture of La Chiffonne by HMS Sybille, Seychelles 1801. After Thomas Whitcombe. French Revolutionary Wars.

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

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.

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

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

British Overseas: Officers of the Bengal Lancers, Cavalry, Punjab Infantry, Madras Sappers and Balochees.

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

Attack on the Road to Bayonne 1813. Sir John Hope advancing. After William Heath.

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.

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

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

West India Regiment. India.

Departmental Staff. Medical, Vetinary Commisary.

Sloop.

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

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

The Mountain Battery: After the celebrated war artist RC Woodville. First Anglo-Sudan War.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Battle of Aliwal.

Battle of the Boyne: Engraved by John Chapman.

Battle of Goojerat.

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

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.

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.

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

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

The 2nd Queen’s Own Rifles. Canada.

1st Class Cruiser – Belted.

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

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.

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

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.

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..

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.

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

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.

Long range night bomber with twin Rolls Royce kestrel engines.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Dive Bombers: After Howard Leigh.

Capt FH West winning the VC over German Lines in 1918. With text describing the battle.

Rear Guard 4th Ghurkha rifles. After Maj. Alfred Lovett.

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.

Cap badge and colours.

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

Artillery: Battering Ram.

Battle of Bhurtpore 1826. Text on verso.

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

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

From 1831-77 they were known as the Scot Fusilier Guards.

Twelve drills from Present Arms (24th) to Shoulder Firelock (35th).

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

6th Regiment Hussars. Canada.

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

10th Prince of Wales Own Royal Hussars, amalgamated to the Royal Hussars

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yeomanry, Artillery, Rifle and Engineers.

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

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

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.

Signed in pencil with text on verso.

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

Torpedo Gunboat.

Egyptian Camel Corps. En route to Wady Halfa

Battle of Maida, 1806. After William Heath.

British Overseas: Bombay Army. Cavalry, Lancers Grenadiers, Infantry, Sappers and Miners.

The oldest regiment in the British Army.

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

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

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

Spanish soldier on Spanish Guard with Italian soldier on Italian Guard.

English soldier on Outside Guard with French Soldier on Inside Guard

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.

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

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

Embroidery. Gold and Silver cap badges and ranks.

Royal Scots Greys: Second Dragoons in marching order.

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

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

Charge of the Life Guards.

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

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.

Twelve examples of the three Rank Firings, Officer Fusee and Sword Salute.

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

Fighter Monoplane.

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

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

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

Armour: Knight of the Birmingham Family AD 1420.

Pilot, Plane and the Complete Flying course.

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

India and South Africa. Cavalry and Infantry.

Battle of Pomba 1811. A successful rearguard action by Marshal Ney during the retreat of Marshal Messena from Torres Vedras. After William Heath.

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.

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

Uniforms of the British Army Past and Present.

Wavre. Detailed battle plans of the Battle of Wavre in 1815.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Handley Page Halifax: RAF’s Longest-Range Bomber:

Showing the techniques of taking a principal bastion. Based upon the Siege of Barcelona in 1714 during the War of Spanish Succession.

Battle of Aboukir. Bonaparte leading the battle in 1799 to defeat the Ottoman Army.

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

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

Armaments for use in sieges by land and sea. With key in German.

The Third Gurgkhas. India.

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.

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

Victorian Mounted Rifles. Australia.

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

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

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

Exercising with her aircraft.

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

Armour: Knight of the Montford Family AD 1286.

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

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.

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

With a sinking Le Vengeur 1794. Revolutionary Wars.

Pictorial evolution of the uniform from 1660 to 1834.

1st Royal Dragoons, amalgamated to the Blues and Royals. Trooper of the first rank.

Steel armoured twin-screw turret-ship.

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.

Battle of Moodkee.

Armour: Suit of Armour AD 1480.

Sketches during the First Anglo-Boer War.

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

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

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

Orville Wright experimenting with flight.

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

HMS Queen. First class twin screw battleship.

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

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

Sky Drill with the RAF.

Signed in pencil with text on verso.

Placing the Waterloo colours at Wellington Barracks.

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

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

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.

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

National Gliding Contests. Glider in action with photographers beneath.

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

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

First Class Battleship.

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.

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.

Battle of Albuera. Marshal Beresford disarming a Polish lancer. After William Heath.

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

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.

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

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

Fighter Monoplane.

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

First Class Battleship.

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.

British Ships: Six views including the Royal Anna, the Royal Sovereign and different 2nd and 3rd rates.

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

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

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

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

Battle of Bayonne. Siege by Lt General Hope in the last battle of the peninsular campaign. After William Heath.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Battle of Balaclava. Charge of the Light Brigade. The infamous charge of the light brigade of Royal Lancers led by Lord Cardigan.

Prince Arthur served in the Army for 40 years in various parts of the Empire and was the King’s representative for Canada during WWII.