Title

Sending a semaphore signal using flags, c1880. Artist: Geoffrey Douglas Giles

Caption

Sending a semaphore signal using flags, c1880. Members of the Middlesex (Victoria Rifles) Volunteers, 4th Volunteer Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps, signalling. The man looking through the telescope observes a signal from the previous station on relay and reads it out so it can be sent on by his team to the next station using their flags. Illustration from Her Majesty's Army. (London, c1880).
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1880

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B65_461

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (4,0Mb) / 15,9in x 12,2in / 4778 x 3655 (300dpi)

Keywords

communication communications flag flags telescope British color colour military war Victorian century banner Britain signal soldiers soldier concept signalling standard military uniform 19th century semaphore Military personnel nineteenth century Oxford Science Archive chromolithograph Geoffrey Douglas Giles GD Giles Giles Geoffrey Douglas Giles GD chromolithograph