Dead Collection

The Dead Tree. Things you might find in and around a dead tree include a dove, an owl, a bat, a pigeon or even a field mouse

Tower of Silence, Bombay (Mumbai), India
Parsi Tower of Silence (Dakhmeh), Bombay (Mumbai), India. circa 1890s

British soldiers take an enemy trench, WWI by Cyrus Cuneo
British soldiers take an enemy trench, using bayonets and bombs as they go, during an offensive on the Western Front during World War I. Date: 1916

Big game hunters with elephant, India
Big game hunters with a dead elephant, India. circa 1890s

British soldier tidying grave of fallen colleague, WW1
A British soldier tidying the grave of a fallen colleague on the Western Front during World War One. circa 1916

Three mummies, Egypt, with a living man sitting alongside. circa 1870

Large crocodile, Indochina (Vietnam)
Group of people surrounding a large crocodile (probably dead), in Indochina (Vietnam). circa 1890

Busy scene at a railway station. 20th century

Southern Railway Ratcatcher
Official Rat catcher for Southern Railway with Terriers and quarry. Date: 1924

Lloyd George and Lord Reading, Western Front, WW1
Lloyd George and Lord Reading visiting soldiers graves on the Western Front in France during World War One. circa 1916

German trench near Guillemont, Western Front, WW1
Scene in a German trench near Guillemont after British bombardment on the Western Front in France during World War One. circa 1916

Dead soldier at Flers, France, Western Front, WW1

British soldiers tending graves, Western Front, WW1

Delville Wood after fighting, Western Front, France, WW1
View of Delville Wood after fighting on the Western Front in France (Somme) during World War One. circa 1916

British soldier tending grave of fallen colleague, WW1
A British soldier tending the grave of a fallen colleague on the Western Front during World War One. A row of plants can be seen. circa 1916

The Passing of King Arthur

Market scene in Nafplion, Peloponnese, Greece
A scene at an open air market in Nafplion, a seaport town in the Peloponnese in Greece. The women are selling poultry, some of which are dead, some still alive. Date: 1965

Making a Guy in Addison Place
Two boys in Addison Place, North Kensington, London, stuff an old jacket with dead leaves to make a Guy in order to raise money for bonfire night. Date: 1956

Little Snow White, mourned by the seven dwarfs, is about to be brought back to life by the handsome prince. 20th century

Saint George / Byam Shaw
SAINT GEORGE " What Every Johnnie Bull Knows" drawn by Byam Shaw depicting a rather vicious looking St. George and a very dead dragon. -

War Pensions Poster
Information poster for the War Pensions committee, the state agency for caring for wounded and disabled men during the First World War. Date: c.1916

War Society Poster
Poster designed to raise funds for the 1914 War Society which supported wounded and disabled soldiers during World War One. Date: c.1915

The Cenotaph, Whitehall
The Cenotaph on Londons Whitehall, designed by Edwin Lutyens in 1920, has an inscription reading simply " The Glorious Dead". Date: 1930s

Titanic Death Form
A certificate or document officially declaring a member of staff on board the Titanic dead, issued in June 1912, two months after the disaster. Date: 1912

French Red Cross Poster

Music cover, El Matador, Spanish Waltz by Camillo Morena
Music cover for El Matador, a Spanish Waltz by Camillo Morena, dedicated to John Philip Souza. Published by Charles Sheard & Co, London. Showing a matador in the arena with a dead bull at his feet

Monument at Auschwitz
A monument to the dead Auschwitz Date: 1959

Dead girld finds her friends nor=t missing her
The dead girl returns - and finds her former friends feasting with no thought for her

Spirits seek to waken travellers sleeping at sea
Spirits of the dead seek to waken travellers sleeping at sea - but the sleepers sleep on, and the spirits wail in vain, forgotten

The ghost of a dead lover draws the bride away from her bridegroom - thou and I together, In the outcast weather Toss and howl and spin

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