Images Dated 18th February 2009

Advertising print for Cavanders Army Club cigarettes

Advertising print for Cavanders Army Club cigarettes. She : Tell me, what do you boys call a washout He : A place where one can't get Army Club cigarettes. Dated March 1918, on reverse. Will Owen

© David Cohen Fine Art/Mary Evans Picture Library

1918, 1st, Advertising, Army, Boys, Call, Cartoon, Cavanders, Cigarettes, Club, Dated, Great, He, Historical, History, March, Military, Owen, Place, Print, Reverse, She, Tell, War, Washout, World, Ww1, Wwi

HMS Bulwark Sails for the Far East

HMS Bulwark is pictured sailing from her home port of Devonport to spearhead one of the Royal Navy's largest deployments of recent years, Taurus 09.
Under drizzly skies, HMS Bulwark waved goodbye to family and friends for the six months she will spend as Flagship to Commander UK Amphibious Task Group

© Crown Copyright

William I, Prince of Orange, (1816).Artist: Charles Turner

William I, Prince of Orange, (1816). Known as William the Silent (1533-1584), he was the leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish that sparked the Eighty Years War and led to the independence of the United Provinces in 1648. In 1580 William was declared an outlaw with a price on his head by Philip II of Spain and was assassinated by Balthasar Gerard, a French Catholic, four years later. A print from Fifteen Splendid Portraits of Royal Personages, engraved in mezzotinto by Richard Earlom, Charles Turner and R Dunkarton, printed by J McCreery, Black Horse Court, Fleet Street, London, 1816

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