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RMK70GTY–Walter Nowotny (1920-1944) was an Austrian-born German fighter ace of World War II. He tested the Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter and was killed in a crash in this aircraft following air combat with AAF fighters on November 8, 1944. no date or location.
RMGG2DHB–Drawing by Paul Jobert Soldiers killed in action France - World War I Vincennes. War museum
RMH3BP6X–Napoléon, Prince Imperial (full name: Napoléon Eugène Louis Jean Joseph Bonaparte (1856 – 1879) was the only child of Emperor Napoleon III of France and his Empress consort Eugénie de Montijo. After his father was dethroned in 1870, he relocated with his family to England. In England he trained as a soldier. Keen to see action, he participated in the Anglo-Zulu War and was killed in a skirmish with a group of Zulus in 1879.
RMGGH5AP–Major General Sir Robert Henry Sale GCB (1782 – 1845) was a British Army officer who commanded the garrison of Jalalabad during the First Afghan War and was killed in action during the First Anglo-Sikh War. He was nicknamed 'Fighting Bob,' because wherever there was fighting he was always in the thick of it.
RM2WRCBAE–Lt. N.D. Hughes, Photograph shows Lieutenant Norman David Hughes (1896-1918), killed in action during World War I., between ca. 1915 and 1918, Glass negatives, 1 negative: glass
RMMDHPA3–The death of Sir John Chandos in 1369 during a skirmish with the French. He was medieval English knight and close friend of Edward, the Black Prince and a founding member and 19th Knight of the Order of the Garter in 1348. Described by the medieval historian Froissart as 'wise and full of devices', as a military strategist Chandos is believed to have been the mastermind behind three of the most important English victories of the Hundred Years War: the Battle of Crécy, the Battle of Poitiers and the Battle of Auray.
RMB5MABY–2 G55 W1 1916 26 German soldiers killed in action History WWI Western Front Trench warfare Bodies of German soldiers killed in a
RMH04B1N–Emperor Napoleon entering the field of battle during the Second Italian War of Independence, also called the Italian War of 1859. It was fought by the Second French Empire and the Kingdom of Sardinia against the Austrian Empire in 1859 and played a crucial part in the process of Italian unification.
RMB5MAB0–2 G55 W1 1915 7 E German soldier killed in action WWI History WWI Western Front German soldier killed in action with hand granad
RMCF7CF1–German battery as an explosion kills horses in foreground, soldiers continue to load shells into a cannon
RM2NH0820–Action T4 bus for the transport to Hartheim Euthanasia Centre. Action T4 was the nazi campaign to kill people deemed 'incurably sick' which in reality meant people with psychiatric disorders and the insane. Between 275,000 and 300,000 people were killed in psychiatric hospitals in Germany and Austria, occupied Poland and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (now the Czech Republic. This image shows one of the buses used to transport the victims to their place of death. Photo https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3405322
RMB5MAD7–2 G55 W1 1917 20 WWI Scottish soldiers killed in action History WWI Western Front Soldiers of a Scottish regiment killed in acti
RM2NH081H–Action T4 bus for the transport to Hartheim Euthanasia Centre. Action T4 was the nazi campaign to kill people deemed 'incurably sick' which in reality meant people with psychiatric disorders and the insane. Between 275,000 and 300,000 people were killed in psychiatric hospitals in Germany and Austria, occupied Poland and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (now the Czech Republic. This image shows one of the buses used to transport the victims to their place of death parked at the Hadamar Euthanasia Centre. Photo https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=41046683
RMCEBTHY–General Wadsworths division in action in the Wilderness, near the spot where the General was killed during USA Civil War, 1864
RMD997G5–World War I 1914-1918: Grave of Jean Bouin (1888-20 September 1914) French Olympic runner and Rugby Union footballer, killed in action at Xivray. Stade Jean-Bouin, Paris named after him. 'Le Pays de France', 1915.
RMG5WJ63–Egerton, Frederick, 1868 - 2.11.1899, British naval officer, killed in action at Ladysmith, South Africa, portrait, drawing, 'Die Woche', Berlin, 2.12.1899,
RM2B01B7R–Great Britain: Major-General Charles George Gordon CB (28 January 1833 - 26 January 1885). Portrait, c. 1880s. Major-General Charles George Gordon, also known as Chinese Gordon and Gordon Pasha, was a British Army officer and administrator who saw action in the Crimean War and in China. He served the Khedive of Egypt in 1873, becoming the Governor-General of the Sudan. General Gordon was killed by Mahdist forces during the Mahdist War on January 26, 1885. The manner of his death is uncertain but it was romanticised in in the British media.
RM2K2JYP0–World War I 1914-1918: Grave of Jean Bouin (1888-20 September 1914) French Olympic runner and Rugby Union footballer, killed in action at Xivray. Stade Jean-Bouin (Paris) named after him. 'Le Pays de France', 1915.
RM2FWRDDG–A German soldier who was killed manning his machine gun. This machine gun was part of a machine gun ‘nest’ in the Meuse-Argonne. 1918
RM2BW2DBP–As a result of determined military's action by the British forces, the rebels in control of the Old City of Jerusalem have been ousted and British authority re-establish. The British attack came after the Arabs had held the old city for a week. 22 Arabs were killed and 25 injured. This was the first time modern war equipment, including aeroplanes has been used in a campaign in the holy city. Photo shows: Members of the Palestine police force on guard at Zions Gate on Mount Zion, in the ancient wall of the Old City, as British forces deal with the rebels 24 October 1938
RMM66PAF–1805 DEATH OF LORD NELSON KILLED IN ACTION NAVAL BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR BRITISH AND FRENCH SAILING WARSHIPS DURING NAPOLEONIC WAR - q66054 CPC001 HARS STRENGTH VICTORY DEATH STRATEGY NAVAL EXCITEMENT LEADERSHIP CANNONS ONE PERSON WITH OTHERS ARTS MOBILITY ARMED FORCE ATLANTIC OCEAN CONFLICTING NAPOLEONIC SAILS 1805 B&W BATTLING BLACK AND WHITE HORATIO NELSON KILLED LORD LORD NELSON NAVAL BATTLE NAVAL WARFARE NELSON OCCUPATIONS OCTOBER 21 OLD FASHIONED SOUTHWEST COAST OF SPAIN TRAFALGAR WARSHIPS
RM2WRCAWN–Zed S. Honaker, Photograph shows Zed S. Honaker of Honaker, Virginia who was killed in action in 1918 during World War I., between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920, Glass negatives, 1 negative: glass
RMF2B3A0–Artist McClelland Barclay with his portrait of General Douglas MacArthur during World War II. In July 1943 he was killed when his ship was torpedoed in the Solomon Islands. He had gone into the combat to sketch the battle action. - (CSU 2015 6 218)
RMM6577Y–1860s 1864 DEATH OF CONFERERATE LT. GENERAL LEONIDAS POLK BY CANNON BALL AT PINE MOUNTAIN GEORGIA USA - h9845 HAR001 HARS BLACK AND WHITE CIVIL WAR CONFLICTS FATALLY GA KILLED IN ACTION LEONIDAS LT. MORTALLY OLD FASHIONED PINE MOUNTAIN THE FIGHTING BISHOP
RM2B01CFP–France/Vietnam: Lieutenant Bernard de Lattre de Tassigny (11 February 1928 - 30 May 1951), c. 1950. Bernard de Lattre de Tassigny was a French Army officer, who fought during World War II and the First Indochina War. Bernard de Lattre received several medals during his military career, including the Médaille militaire. He was killed in action at the age of 23, fighting near Ninh Binh. At the time of his death, his father, General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, was the overall commander of French forces in Indochina. Bernard's death received widespread newspaper coverage.
RMERH73K–Francis Ledwidge - portrait. Irish war poet. killed in action at the Battle of Passchendaele during World War I. 19 August 1887
RM2B00YRX–Vietnam: General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny (1889-1952), was a French military hero and commander in the First Indochina War. Having fought in the First World War and Rif War (Second Moroccan War), the aristocratic de Tassigny (nickname: 'Roi Jean') was a hero of the Free French in World War II. Later, he commanded French troops in Indochina during the First Indochina War. He won three major victories at Vinh Yen, Mao Khe and Yen Cu Ha and successfully defended the north of the country against the Viet Minh but his only son, Bernard de Lattre de Tassigny, was killed in action during the war.
RMG952P6–Noel Godfrey Chavasse was a British medical doctor and British Army officer who is one of only three people to be awarded a Victoria Cross twice. He was killed in action, with the Royal Army Medical Corps, in August 1917.
RMKEGN8B–Captain Albert Ball, DSO, MC, being presented with the Freedom Of the city of Nottingham on 19th February 1917. Albert Ball, (14 August 1896 – 7 May 1917) was an English fighter pilot during the First World War. At the time of his death he was the United Kingdom's leading flying ace, with 44 victories, and remained its fourth-highest scorer behind Edward Mannock, James McCudden, and George McElroy. He was killed in action on 7th May 1917, when his aeroplane crashed in a field in France. He was awarded a posthumous Victorian Cross in June 1917.
RM2R330HC–On 20 March 1945, the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Halsey Powell (DD-686) was alongside the aircraft carrier USS Hancock (CV-19) when Japanese aircraft attacked. As the destroyer was getting clear, an aircraft overshot the carrier and crashed on Halsey Powell. Her steering gear jammed, but alert action with the engines averted a collision. Fires were put out, and although 9 were killed and over 30 wounded in the attack the ship reached Ulithi on 25 March.
RMH2CYDR–Fort Wagner was a beachhead fortification on Morris Island, South Carolina, that covered the southern approach to Charleston Harbour. The Union besieged the fort after an unsuccessful assault. After enduring almost 60 days of heavy shelling, with heavy casualties, the Confederates abandoned it on the night of September 6–7, 1863. withdrawing all operable cannons and the garrison.
RMD9667N–French Air ace Adolphe Pegoud, 4th from right, in front of his plane on the day when fellow officers presented him with a bouquet in celebration of his latest citation. Killed action 1915. First World War
RM2M3K0AT–William Redmond, MP (1861 - 1917), East Clare from 1891-1917. Although a strong campaigner for self-government for Ireland, Redmond volunteered for the British Army during the First World War and was killed in action in France, 1917. Date: 1910
RMCF7CF3–African chasseur & his wounded horse. African cavalry soldier with his dying horse, probably in France during World War I.
RM2M3PBFD–The Roll of Honour published in March 1919 and featuring portraits of officers killed in action towards the end of the First World War. Among the portraits is that of 2nd Lieut. W. E. S. Owen of the Manchester Regiment - the First World War poet, Wilfred Owen, who was killed in action near the Sambre Canal on 4 November 1918, a week before the cessation of hostilities. Date: 1919
RMTXGTF1–French Air ace Adolphe Pegoud, 4th from right, in front of his plane on the day when fellow officers presented him with a bouquet in celebration of his latest citation Killed action 1915.
RM2BW2DB5–As a result of determined military's action by the British forces, the rebels in control of the Old City of Jerusalem have been ousted and British authority re-establish. The British attack came after the Arabs had held the old city for a week. 22 Arabs were killed and 25 injured. This was the first time modern war equipment, including aeroplanes has been used in a campaign in the holy city. Photo shows: The British soldier manning a Lewis gun on one of the roofs overlooking the mosque area, stronghold of the Arab rebels in the Old City. 24 October 1938
RM2FWRDDR–A German soldier who was killed manning his machine gun. During the Meuse-Argonne offensive, Germans made extensive use of machine guns to hinder the American’s advance.
RM2WRCB7X–Lt. Earl R. Churchill, Photograph shows Earl R. Churchill who was killed in action during World War I, July 29, 1918., between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920, Glass negatives, 1 negative: glass
RMKWDJD5–American soldiers graves in Cuba, c. 1898. From May 1898 until April 1899, US forces experienced 968 battle casualties and 5,438 deaths from disease in the Spanish American War (BSLOC 2017 10 60)
RMBBNEPN–events, Second World War / WWII, Russia, behind the front, funeral of a German aviator who was killed in action, Eastern Front, 16.7.1941,
RM2M3P82W–Francis Octavius Grenfell, V.C., and his twin brother, Riversdale 'Rivy' Nonus Grenfell, officers in the 9th Lancers. Francis earned the Victoria Cross in the early weeks of the First World War - awarded for gallantry while saving the guns of the 119th Battery, Royal Field Artillery at Audriegnes, Belgium. Rivy was killed shortly afterwards in September 1914. Francis was also killed in action in 1915. Well known and popular in society, the pair were talented polo players. A trust was set up in their memory after their death and a memorial service took place in 1915 attended by notable p
RMBBNANE–events, Second World War / WWII, Russia 1941, grave of Vasilij Georgevich Ivanov, political commissar of the Red Army, killed in action on 10.9.1941, photo taken by a German soldier, late 1941,
RMD1DE6A–Soldiers killed in action in a French station near Paris, France, in summer 1940. Place unknown. Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte
RMDB63NJ–events, Second World War / WWII, Soviet Union, Operation 'Barbarossa' (German Invasion of the Soviet Union), Army Group Centre, Belarus, soldiers of Rifle Regiment 74 (19th Panzer Division) on the bank of the Drisa river, 13.7.1941, right (with map): Major Krieg, the commander of 1st Batallion (killed in action on 29.12.1941), Additional-Rights-Clearences-Not Available
RM2GG1C70–(From the left) Under Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy; Vice Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. James McConville; Sgt. Maj. of the Army Daniel Dailey; Executive Director of Army National Military Cemeteries Karen Durham-Aguilera; and Arlington National Cemetery Senior Enlisted Advisor Master Sgt. Todd Parsons; render honors during the full honors gravesite service for U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Mihail Golin, in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, Jan. 22, 2018. Golin, an 18B Special Forces Weapons Sergeant assigned to 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) died Jan. 1,
RM2M3RHPB–The worst act of Sinn Fein arson: The Burning of the Customs House at Dublin on 24 May 1921. The Burning of the Custom House in Dublin took place on 25 May 1921, during the Irish War of Independence. The Custom House was the centre of Local Government in the British administration in Ireland. It was occupied and then burnt in an operation by the Irish Republican Army (IRA), involving over 100 volunteers. The action was a propaganda coup for the forces of the Irish Republic but was a military disaster for the IRA in the Irish capital. Five of its volunteers were killed (along with three civili
RM2MH5321–he Battle of Ball's Bluff was a battle in the American Civil War fought on October 21st 1861. It was won by the Confederate forces under General Nathan Evans and the Unionist senator,who was fighting as a colonel, was killed in the action. This painting depicts the death of Colonel Baker.
RM2M3P85E–Viscountess Charlemont, formerly Evelyn Fanny Charlotte Hull, daughter of Edmund Charles Pendleton Hull. She married James Edward Geale Caulfeild, 8th Viscount Charlemont, son of Hon. Marcus Piers Francis Caulfeild and Louisa Gwyn Williams, on 26 November 1914 (they were divorced in April 1940). She died on 14 October 1940, killed by enemy action. Pictured in The Sketch at the time she was working twelve hour shifts in a munitions factory, one of a number of society ladies who did so during the Great War. Date: 1915
RMCF7CHP–Dead horses in a road after the Battle of Haelen, fought by German and Belgian armies on August 12, 1914 near Haelen, Belgium
RMGA9APN–Mary Carlotta Dunnam, on a Gold Star Mothers and Widows Pilgrimage, visits the grave of her son, Ernest C. Dunnam, killed in action in France on September 15, 1918.
RMGJG80W–Smashed up German trench on Messines Ridge with dead soldiers, Battle of Ypres, Belgium, World War One
RM2B01B7X–Great Britain: Major-General Charles George Gordon CB (28 January 1833 - 26 January 1885). Portrait sketch by Amedee Forestier (1854 - 18 November 1930), c. 1880s. Major-General Charles George Gordon, also known as Chinese Gordon and Gordon Pasha, was a British Army officer and administrator who saw action in the Crimean War and in China. He served the Khedive of Egypt in 1873, becoming the Governor-General of the Sudan. General Gordon was killed by Mahdist forces during the Mahdist War on January 26, 1885. The manner of his death is uncertain but it was romanticised in in the British media.
RM2BW2DB7–As a result of determined military's action by the British forces, the rebels in control of the Old City of Jerusalem have been ousted and British authority re-establish. The British attack came after the Arabs had held the old city for a week. 22 Arabs were killed and 25 injured. This was the first time modern war equipment, including aeroplanes has been used in a campaign in the holy city. Photo shows: Royal Air Force plane circling over the Damascus Gate and the Governorate at Jerusalem during the campaign. A British convoy is seen in the King Solomon Road in centre. 24 October 1938
RM2B01B6R–Sudan/United Kingdom: 'Death of General Gordon at Khartoum'. Photomechanical print by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (8 August 1863 - 18 March 1930), 1895. Major-General Charles George Gordon (28 January 1833 - 26 January 1885), also known as Chinese Gordon and Gordon Pasha, was a British Army officer and administrator who saw action in the Crimean War and in China. He served the Khedive of Egypt in 1873, becoming the Governor-General of the Sudan. General Gordon was killed in Khartoum by Mahdist forces during the Mahdist War on January 26, 1885, and his death was romanticised back in the UK.
RM2WRCAPF–Preston V. Wall, Photograph shows Private Preston V. Wall of Beach, North Dakota who was killed in action during World War I., between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920, Glass negatives, 1 negative: glass
RMF2AY3H–Stephen P. Hopkins, son of Harry Hopkins, in basic training at Parris Island. Aug. 12, 1943. Hopkins left Office Training School to become a regular soldier because he was 'anxious to go overseas and back up what my father stands for.' He was killed during a night attack Feb 2, 1944 in the Marshalls Island. (CSU 2015 9 883)
RMG5J83F–Collect picture of Private Harry Wilkinson of the Lancashire Fusiliers who was killed in action in Belgium in 1915. The British soldier who has been missing for 87 years will be finally laid to rest in a war cemetery in Belgium. * Private 9950 Harry Wilkinson, of the 2nd Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers, died during his battalion's attack on November 10, 1914. But his body was only uncovered in January 2000 at Ploegsteert Wood in Belgium, along with his tag and Lancashire Fusiliers cap badge. Forensic tests by Commonwealth War Graves Commission confirmed his identity.
RF2JCP761–A murdered and tortured Ukrainian woman in a white dress and bloodstains lies on the floor of the house, a protest action by Ukrainian women, protecti
RM2M3JYEF–Two simple graves with crosses of soldiers killed in action during the Zulu war. Date: 1879
RMD9667X–French Air ace Adolphe Pegoud. Wreckage of plane in which Pegoud was killed in action, 1915. First World War
RM2M3PA9E–Lieutenant George Mitchell of the 1st Battalion, Black Watch, killed in action 1915. He was a nephew of Percy Illingworth, MP, a great sportsman and boxer, challenging the French champion Georges Carpentier to a bout before the war. Date: 1915
RM2GG1C92–The U.S. Army Honor Guard, The 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) Caisson Platoon, and The U.S. Army Band, “Pershing’s Own”, conduct the funeral of U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Mihail Golin in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, Jan. 22, 2018. Golin, an 18B Special Forces Weapons Sergeant assigned to 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) died Jan. 1, 2018, as a result of wounds sustained while engaged in combat operations in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. Golin deployed to Afghanistan in September 2017 with the 2nd Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group, in suppo
RM2M98NM0–Memorial postcard for Lieutenant Albert Auerbach (1894-1918), who served with the 1st/3rd Battalion, London Regiment, Royal Fusiliers during the First World War and was killed in action at Bouchavesnes, Somme, northern France, on 1 September 1918, and buried at Sailly-Saillisel Military Cemetery. With a poem by Bernard Littewood.
RMB5MAAA–2 G55 W1 1915 19 E WWI Killed German soldiers 1915 History WWI Western Front German soldiers killed in action after being hit by
RM2MH52H9–The Battle of Ball's Bluff was a battle in the American Civil War fought on October 21st 1861. It was won by the Confederate forces under General Nathan Evans and the Unionist senator,who was fighting as a colonel, was killed in the action. This painting depicts the death of Colonel Baker.
RM2M3PBEK–Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC (18 March 1893 4 November 1918), English poet and soldier, one of the leading poets of the First World War. Photograph of him in uniform as a 2nd Lieutenant with the Manchester Regiment. He was killed in action near the Sambre Canal on 4 November 1918, a week before the ceasing of hostilities. Date: 1918
RMB5MADY–2 G55 W1 1917 7 E German soldiers killed Oise Photo History WWI Western Front German soldiers killed in action Dept Oise France
RM2M3P7G5–Raymond Asquith (1878-1916), eldest son of Prime Minister H. H. Asquith, lawyer and member of the group of Edwardian intellectuals known as the Coterie. Killed in action at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette on 15 September 1916 was seen as symbolic of the end of the Edwardian era during World War I. Page from The Tatler reporting on his death, with a quote from The Times. Date: 1916
RM2M3P8WE–Front cover of The Sketch magazine featuring a portrait of Kenneth Powell (8 April 1885 18 February 1915), British athlete and tennis player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics and in the 1912 Summer Olympics. In 1908 he participated in the 110 metre hurdles competition but was eliminated in the first round. He was also a competent tennis player and partnered the Wimbledon champion, Anthony Wilding while at Cambridge hurdles competition. Powell was killed in action during the First World War, serving as a private with the Honourable Artillery Company near Ypres. Date: 1915
RM2B01CBB–Vietnam: 2nd Lieutenant Bossant, marine infantry, killed in action in the Battle of Bac Vie, 12 February 1885. Lithograph portrait by Paul Henri Thiriat (30 December 1868 - 11 April 1943), 1887. The Tonkin Campaign (French: Campagne du Tonkin) was an armed conflict fought between June 1883 and April 1886 by the French against, variously, the Vietnamese, Liu Yongfu's Black Flag Army and the Chinese Guangxi and Yunnan armies to occupy Tonkin (northern Vietnam) and entrench a French protectorate there.
RM2M3PA8N–Ettie, Lady Desborough, one of the great Edwardian society hostesses, who famously lost her two elder sons in the First World War. The inset picture shows the poet, Julian Grenfell, her eldest who was killed by a shell splinter in May 1915. The Tatler magazine claims that the figure on the left is his brother Gerald William ('Billy'), was killed in action in July 1915 and the boy on the right is Ivo. In fact, the same photograph, minus the inset was published in The Bystander in 1913 and describes the two boys as Julian (left) and Billy (right). It seems that this page shows Julian twice,
RMB2JNHB–events, Second World War / WWII, France, grave of a German soldier, private Paul Neubrand, killed in action 15.5.1940,
RM2WRCATC–Domenico Dimasi, Photograph shows Private Domenico Dimasi, of Greensburg, Pennsylvania who was killed in action on May 29, 1918 during World War I., between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920, Glass negatives, 1 negative: glass
RMKWC2W9–'X' over image of each man who was killed in action in Battle of Midway, June 3-7, 1942. Pilots of Marine Scout Bombing Squadron VMSB 241 on Midway Atoll in 1942. Lofton R. Henderson, Commander of Marine Scout Bombing Squadron 241 was the first Marine Aviator to die during that battle. World War 2. (BSLOC 2015 13 118)
RM2BTPN0T–Madrid again under fire. Shell that killed three, injured 15. British women MPs in danger. This picture just received in London from Madrid, was taken by photographer in an ambulance as rebel bombs and shells rained down in the intense bombardment which the rebels are again directing on the city. People can be seen running for their lives in the Gran Via, Madrid street, as a shell hits a building on the right. This shell killed three persons and injured 15. The people running in the centre were caught by the explosion and badly hurt. This bombardment also endangered the lives of the Duchess of
RMW7CKX6–Wreckage of the aeroplane in which French pilot Adolphe Pegoud was killed in action, 1915 Artist: Unknown
RMF7NMMY–Ensign Jesse L. Brown, seated in the cockpit of an F4U-4 Corsair Fighter plane, the U.S. Navy’s first black naval aviator. While in Korea, he was killed in action and posthumously awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.
RMMW2A9Y–. Utah Battery in Action on McCloud Hill, Philippines. Scanned from 1899 book. Apparently cropped from 1899 U.S. Government image described: 'Fire!' Utah Battery on McCloud Hill, Sunday morning, February 5, 1899. This shot did great execution among the Insurgents on San Juan Bridge. A soldier was killed near this gun a few minutes after this shot. Images Collected by Brigadier General Adolphus W. Greely, Chief Signal Officer (1887-1906). War Department. Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1899. Archibald Wilberforce, editor 623 Utah Battery San Juan Bridge
RMFF6NYE–events, Second World War / WWII, Soviet Union, graves of members of the German 9th Panzer Division, 1st Panzer Army, Army Group South, in the Ukraine, summer 1941, photo taken by a member of the German Reich Labour Service (Reichsarbeitsdienst, RAD), Additional-Rights-Clearences-Not Available
RM2WXKNG8–World War I Photos: Americans of the 79th Division killed in action near Etraye ready for burial on Molleville farm near Etraye, Meuse, France ca. 1918
RMBA829W–Schill, Ferdinand von, 6.1.1776 - 31.5.1809, Prussian military officer, death, killed in action during street fighting in Stralsund, wod engraving, 19th century,
RM2M3PEYJ–Cecil Patrick Healy (28 November 1881 29 August 1918) Australian freestyle swimmer of the 1900s and 1910s, who won silver in the 100 m freestyle at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm. He also won gold in the 4 נ200 m freestyle relay. He was killed in the First World War at the Somme during an attack on a German trench. 1918
RM2MH53JT–The Battle of Ball's Bluff was a battle in the American Civil War fought on October 21st 1861. It was won by the Confederate forces under General Nathan Evans and the Unionist senator,who was fighting as a colonel, was killed in the action. This painting depicts the a bayonet charge by the Unionist troops
RM2M3P7E8–Lieutenant Henry Webber, J. P., South Lancashire Regiment (1849 - 1916), the oldest recorded soldier to be killed during the First World War. He had worked at the Stock Exchange since 1872, and was a keen athlete being particularly well known as a cricketer. He was a regular member of the Horley eleven and in later years had a man run for him. He pestered the War Office to be given a commission and eventually was gazetted as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 7th Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment and went to France as a transport officer. He was killed by shell fire at Mametz Wood on 21 July 1916
RMTXGTB4–French Air ace Adolphe Pegoud. Wreckage of plane in which Pegoud was killed in action, 1915
![A memorial service at St. Peter's Church, Eaton Square for Captain Francis Grenfell, V.C., and his twin brother Captain Riversdale ("Rivy" or 'Rivvy") Grenfell, V.C., twins in a family of fifteen children who both served with distinction in the 9th Lancers during the First World War, were talented polo players and well known in society. Francis was the first officer VC of the war, being awarded it for gallantry in action against unbroken infantry at Andregnies, Belgium, on 24th August 1914, and for gallant conduct in assisting to save the guns of the 119th Battery, Royal Field Stock Photo](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2M3P85N/a-memorial-service-at-st-peters-church-eaton-square-for-captain-francis-grenfell-vc-and-his-twin-brother-captain-riversdale-quotrivyquot-or-rivvyquot-grenfell-vc-twins-in-a-family-of-fifteen-children-who-both-served-with-distinction-in-the-9th-lancers-during-the-first-world-war-were-talented-polo-players-and-well-known-in-society-francis-was-the-first-officer-vc-of-the-war-being-awarded-it-for-gallantry-in-action-against-unbroken-infantry-at-andregnies-belgium-on-24th-august-1914-and-for-gallant-conduct-in-assisting-to-save-the-guns-of-the-119th-battery-royal-field-2M3P85N.jpg "A memorial service at St. Peter's Church, Eaton Square for Captain Francis Grenfell, V.C., and his twin brother Captain Riversdale ("Rivy" or 'Rivvy") Grenfell, V.C., twins in a family of fifteen children who both served with distinction in the 9th Lancers during the First World War, were talented polo players and well known in society. Francis was the first officer VC of the war, being awarded it for gallantry in action against unbroken infantry at Andregnies, Belgium, on 24th August 1914, and for gallant conduct in assisting to save the guns of the 119th Battery, Royal Field Stock Photo")
RM2M3P85N–A memorial service at St. Peter's Church, Eaton Square for Captain Francis Grenfell, V.C., and his twin brother Captain Riversdale ("Rivy" or 'Rivvy") Grenfell, V.C., twins in a family of fifteen children who both served with distinction in the 9th Lancers during the First World War, were talented polo players and well known in society. Francis was the first officer VC of the war, being awarded it for gallantry in action against unbroken infantry at Andregnies, Belgium, on 24th August 1914, and for gallant conduct in assisting to save the guns of the 119th Battery, Royal Field
RM2B01CBA–Vietnam: 2nd Lieutenant Emile Portier, 111th Line Battalion, killed in action at Dong Dang, 23 February 1885. Lithograph portrait by Charles-Lucien Huard (12 February 1837 - 22 January 1899), 1887. The Tonkin Campaign (French: Campagne du Tonkin) was an armed conflict fought between June 1883 and April 1886 by the French against, variously, the Vietnamese, Liu Yongfu's Black Flag Army and the Chinese Guangxi and Yunnan armies to occupy Tonkin (northern Vietnam) and entrench a French protectorate there.
RM2M3PA1N–Scenes from the film version of the stage play, An Englishman's Home, produced by B and C Film in 1914. Originally written by Guy du Maurier (who was killed in action in 1915), the play presciently predicted what might happen if there was an invasion of Britain. After the outbreak of the First World War, the play had enhanced significance and was adapted for cinema.
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