BAYONET PICTURES

As part of long term plans i have started collecting pictures of troops wearing their bayonets, I would appreciate any examples that people would like to share with me and the sites visitors, I shall be showing them here and ultimately adding them to the displays of the bayonets either in my collection or those supplied by other people.

AUSTRIA

1895 NCO with ball finial on muzzle ring 
Austrian with 1888 

 

AUSTRALIA

  Australian with hooked quillion 1907
WW1 1st A.I.F. photo, 13th Australian Service Corps wearing S.D. Cap, Bandolier & showing clear view of shoulder titles for 13 A.S.C. plus Hook Quillion Bayonet on 1903 pattern leather waist belt, 

 

BELGIUM

Belgian "Ambush" think the blades are Comblains
Belgian 1916?
Belgian with 1899 

 

FRANCE

French 1866
  1874 Gras
French 1892 Mannlicher 
2 Chasseurs a pied with Lebel 
 7 Artillerie a pied with Lebel 
1 Infantrie de ligne with Lebel 

 

GERMANY

  With Ersatz bayonet
 
 
S71
S98 
WWI German with Ersatz bayonet
WWI German with S71 
WWII German 84/98 
  German medic with Mosin Nagant Rifle
Thanks to M Curran
German with Czech VZ24 with muzzle ring 
84/98 
S98 
German WWI with ersatz bayonet
Ersatz mounted on Kar98 
  S98 
84/98's 
S98 
WWI German 98/05? looks a little thin in the steel scabbard so maybe a 1914? 
S98's 
1871 i thought but actually dress sword
(thanks to Jeff for correction)
German troops with ? bayonet but nice trodel

ITALY

  Young boy with what I think is a daisy rifle and bayonet
Thanks to Jeff Hayes this has been Identified as an Italian toy rifle with a folding bayonet
 

 

RUSSIA

  Russian Imperial Soldier 's with Berdan II Bayonet Photo, 1890s.
Thanks to my friends on BN for correcting my ID
  Russian WWI Soldier 's with Arisaka Bayonet Photo 1915, is this a UK issue or one captured from the Japanese during the war itself 

 

SERBIA

  Serbian picture, bayonet appears to be an 1895
  
Serbian picture appears to be an S98 bayonet 
  Serbian picture bayonet appears to be an 1895 
  The picture is from Serbia so I shall assume the troops are carrying long and short versions of the Yugoslavian M24 bayonets rather than Czech VZ23 and VZ24 models.
  Serbian picture, bayonet appears to be an 1895
 

USA

WWI Americans with 1905, note earl;y Krag hanger on center bayonet 
  Krag
 
 
  Krag? 
Doughboy with 1905 
  Scabbard looks like 1917? 

UK

UK troop with Metford rifle and 1888
Thanks to M Curran
1907 
  UK Home guard troop on watch at White Cliffs of Dover with P13/17 bayonet in home guard frog, detail of larger picture at a museum somewhere in the UK
  Commonwealth troop with Hooked Quillion 1907 on wall
Thanks to M Curran
Member of the Dublin Fusileers with trophy - S71
Thanks to M Curran

SWITZERLAND

Swiss 11 and 14

UNKNOWN

A series of pictures bought from Australia but of What and where and with what bayonet i have no idea.

Bayonet and rifle are identified as French, another picture of the lass has a date of 1944 and indicates southern Italy.