Prince Albert in the uniform of a lieutenant in the Royal Navy Rhode Island Passengers disembarking from steamboats tied

Passengers disembarking from steamboats tied up in mid-stream at Hungerford Pier and ascending by stairs to footbridge level

German soldiers taking a rest during the First Battle of the Marne

by Robert Hooke

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View of Leicester Square

Prince Albert in the uniform of a lieutenant in the Royal Navy Rhode Island Passengers disembarking from steamboats tiedPrince Albert in the uniform of a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, 1918. The future King George VI (1895 1902) served in the Navy from 1910 until 1918, seeing action during World War I at the Battle of Jutland on board HMS 'Collingwood'. A photograph from the Illustrated London News: Coronation Record Number, (London, 1937).