An advertising poster encouraging Britons to buy goods from within the British empire at a time of increasing trade protectionism, issued by the Empire Marketing Board in 1927. (Public Domain)

Painting by Edward Duncan (1803-1882) of the East India Company steamship Nemesis engaging with Chinese war junks during the First Opium War's Second Battle of Chuenpi, 7 January 1841. (Public Domain)

Painting by Richard Simkin (1840-1926) of the attack of the 98th Regiment of Foot on Qing Banner matchlock troops at Zhengjian on 21 July 1942 during the First Opium War. (Public Domain)

A 1962 photo by American Rear Admiral Harley Dean Nygren (1924-2019) of the abandoned British Antarctic base at Port Lockroy. (Public Domain)

Painting by John Henry Frederick Bacon (1865-1914) of the 28 Februray 1900 relief of Ladysmith by British reinforcements during the Second Boer War. (Public Domain)

Painting by Edward H. Cree (1814-1901) of the 1841 British assault on Canton during the First Opium War. (Public Domain)

A 2003 photo of Britian's Antarctic Rothera Station. (Public Domain)

Drawing by Lance Thackeray (1869-1916) of British reinforcements fighting Boer rangers at the siege of Ladysmith during the Second Boer War. (Public Domain) 

Photo by U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Nathan G. Bevier of a B-2 bomber taking off for an Operation Iraqi Freedom bombing mission while other B-52 bombers prepare to launch from Diego Garcia. (Public Domain)

Photo by Dino Sassi of the British Colonial Governor of the Seychelles, Sir Bruce Greatbatch,  inspecting a police guard of honour in 1972. (Public Domain)

Photograph of surrendering British troops of the Suffolk Regiment being held at gunpoint by Japanese infantry after the fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942. (Public Domain)

A 2009 map created by Wikipeida user Bambuway showing four lingqustic/cultural/economic organizations that are based around former empires. (Public Domain)  

A contemporary painting by Torajiro Kasai entitled 'The Allied Armies launch a general offensive on Pekin Castlel'. It shows American, British, and Japanese troops storming Peking to put an end to the Chinese siege of their legation quarter during the Boxer Rebellion, 14 August 1900. (Public Domain)

A 1910 children's encyclopedia map by Arthur Mees detailing the constituent and varied parts of the British Empire. (Public Domain)

A 1900 photo by Zjunlei ( - 1920) showing the Eight-Nation Alliance (Britain, Japan, United States, Russia, Germany, Austria and Italy) parading in Beijing following the defeat of the Boxer Rebellion. (Public Domain)

A 1902 photo by  Matthew Horace Hayes (1842-1904) of a British cavalrymans horse being offloaded from a ship in Port Elizabeth, Cape Colony. for deployment in the Second Boer War. (Public Domain) 

A painting by Edward H. Cree (1814-1901) of the First taking of Chusan from Qing China by British forces on 5 July 1840 during the First Opium War. (Public Domain)

A photo of Gandhi (Middle row, central figure) with the stretcher-bearers of the Indian Ambulance Corps during the Boer War, South-Africa. (Public Domain)

Aerial photo of unspecified date of British controlled Deigo Garcia showing the US operated military base. (Public Domain)

A 2006 photo by Ben Tullis of Britain's Signy Research Station on Signy Island in the Antarctic. The base was first established on 18 March 1947 on the site of a former whaling station. (Public Domain)

A 2008 photo by Chris Pearson of the former freezer plant at Ajax Bay, in the Falkland Islands. It was later used as a British field hospital during the Falklands War in 1982. (Public Domain)

An official Royal Navy photo taken 1 April 1982 of the Type 22 Frigate HMS Broadsword escorting HMS Hermes during the Falklands War. (Public Domain)

A photo by Kenneth Ian Griffiths of a Westland Wessex helicopter delivering supplies at Ascension Island in May 1982 during the Falklands War. Ascension Island was the key British logistical hub for all operations courtesy of its geography. (Public Domain)

Photo taken on 8 May 1941 by Mr H Hensser, the RAF official photographer of Arab Legionnaires guard the landing ground at H4 pumping station on the Iraq Petroleum Company pipeline in Transjordan, as Gloster Gladiators refuel during their journey from Ismailia, Egypt, to reinforce the besieged British garrison at Habbaniyah, Iraq (Public Domain)

A 1901 photo of the Chinese Wuwei Right Troop of Yuan Shikai escorting the Empress Dowager back to the Forbidden City. (Public Domain)

A painting by Torajirō Kasai depicting the September 1900 joint Anglo-Japanese attack on the Chinese held Bejing Castle during the Boxer Rebellion. (Public Domain).

A photo by Lieutenant A.R. Tanner of No. 1 Army Film & Photographic Unit depicting British troops looking at Baghdad during the Anglo-Iraqi War, 11 June 1941 (Public Domain). 

A 1962 offical British army photograph of two soldiers of the Queen's Own Highlanders on guard in the Seria oilfield in the then British protectorate of Brunei during the December 1962 Brunei revolt. (Public Domain)  

A photo by Bert Hardy taken 23rd April 1949 of British police talking to an old Malayan who may have information about communist bandits in the area during the Malayan Emergency. (Public Domain)

An 1886 map of the British empire showing the extent of the empire at that point. It epitomizes the presentation of the empire that the British establishment desired to be propogandized at the time- that of a unified empire, headed by a benevolent Britian whose harmonious and prosperous rule is admired by all imperial subjects. (Public Domain)

Photo taken 26 May 1965 during the Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation (1963-1966) of Malaysian Rangers leaping from a RAAF Helicopter. (Public Domain)

Painting by Fritz Neumann (1881-1919) of the Battle of the Taku Forts (1900) during the Boxer Rebellion. (Public Domain)

Photo taken 5 September 1966 of the Naval Forces Borneo parade to mark the withdrawal of the Royal Navy, Royal Australian Navy and Royal New Zealand Naval Forces after the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation. (Public Domain)

An advertising poster encouraging Britons to buy goods from within the British empire at a time of increasing trade protectionism, issued by the Empire Marketing Board in 1927. (Public Domain)

An August 1964 photo by the then British Army official photographer depicting British soldiers in Borneo being winched up into a helicopter during the Jungle operations of the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation. (Public Domain)

A 1967 photo of a British street patrol in Aden during the Aden Emergency (1963-1967). (Public Domain)

A 2006 photo taken from the International Space Station by a NASA astronaut. It depicts Port Said and the mediterranean enterance to the Suez Canal. (Public Domain) 

A 1967 photo of pro-independence protesters in Aden confronted by British soldiers during the Aden Emergency. (Public Domain)

A contemporary photo of the Icelandic patrol ship ICGV Odinn and British frigate HMS Scylla clashing in the North Atlantic during the Third Cod War (1975-1976). Firearms were not used during the Cod Wars, but instead manover, shunting and ramming was employed by both sides. (Public Domain)

A photo taken on 5 November 1956 by the then War Office official photographer showing British troops of the 3rd Battalion Parachute Regiment escorting a captured Egyptian solider on the beach of Port Said during the Suez Crisis. (Public Domain)

A contemporary photo of a British Army patrol in Kenya during the Mau Mau rebellion (1952-1960). (Public Domain)