'Stand Back!', John Bull helps little Belgium to bar the German invader, First World War mb-code DEC675-19 Saint Jerome

Saint Jerome

A cobbled street in Gerberoy

You'll Destroy that good old Book of Prayer between You

De Lesseps (1805-1894) built the Suez Canal to enable shipping to pass between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea rather than having to sail around the Cape of Good hope

Full length studio portrait of Archibald Billing seated and half-turned to the left as viewed

'Stand Back!', John Bull helps little Belgium to bar the German invader, First World War mb-code DEC675-19 Saint Jerome'Stand Back!', John Bull helps little Belgium to bar the German invader, First World War, 1914. Kaiser Wilhelm II tries to push against Britain in the form of John Bull and Belgium represented by a peasant in clogs. Illustration from The Great War by HW Wilson, Vol I, (London, 1914).