1940s Collection (#94)

Convalescent troops, many who have returned from North Africa, provide holiday entertainment in Richmond Park. Many are form the Military Convalescent Dept at Kingston on Thames

A section of "D"Company 4th K. S. L. I. clearing a street in the town of
A section of " D" Company 4th K.S.L.I. clearing a street in the town of Brochterbeck. 6th April 1945

Every day more and more Arab recruits join up in the Palestine Buffa, which consists of nine Jewish and five Arab companies

Demolition by Royal Canadian Engineers of a wireless station in the Svalbard Islands during the Spitzbergen Raid. 3rd September 1941

Allied forces landing on Spitzbergen. Canadian troops leaving the SS Empress of Canada for shore. 24th August 1941

Infantry, guns and trucks 0f the 15th Scottish Division advance through Kleve, 16 February 1945

Men of the 1st Cheshire Regiment after crossing the Rhine in Buffaloes at Wesel, 23 March 1945. In support of No1 S.S. Commando Brigade

Soldiers of the 2nd Battalion the Essex Regiment, clearing snipers at the junction of Oude Kraan and Bergstraat in Arnhem, 14 April 1945. Note censor has painted out shoulder badges

Free French troops operating in the Bardia area, which is now in British hands, Members of a patrol are seen in their British pattern infantry truck. 5th April 1941

British Army Commando troops in training learn to surmount every obstacle, fight their way through any terrain and take their objective by storm

Sixty wounded soldiers from Roehampton Hospital pay a visit to Northwold Road Fire Station, Stoke Newington. London. They are entertained by The Mount Pleasanteers

King George VI inspecting the latest Typhoon aircraft fitted with rocket projectile apparatus at an R.A.F. station. Circa July 1944

Wounded British Army personnel, from local hospitals in Norfolk are entertained on by The Norfolk Broads Yacht Club, and area of Wroxham

Defences of the East Coast of Great Britain during the second World War. Picture shows the battery firing. July 1940

British troops at Crete. a gun on the look out for Italian raiders. December 4th 1940

Round the coasts of Britain a ceaseless watch is maintained by men of the Royal Artillery Coastal Defence Regiment.Shore based RA personnel work in co-operation with units of theRoyal Navy

Northrop N-3PB Nomad seaplanes of the Royal Norwegian Naval Air Service on patrol from their Icelandic base. These American-built aircraft

At a Battle school in the Western Command, students undergo a course in modern battle tactics on Commando lines. Charges are fired during practice assaults to give added realism

A British cross-Channel gun in action on the South Coast of England, during the Second World War. These guns are manned by gunners of the Royal Marines

American pilots of No 71 Eagle Squadron rush to their Hurricanes at Kirton-in-Lindsey, 17 March 1941

A gun from the rear turret of a Heinkel aircraft of the German Luftwaffe, brought down over Kent, is remounted in a position held by a company of the Somerset Light Infantry

Operation at sea saves sailors life. November 1944, on board the cruiser HMS Berwick, in northern waters. A destroyer rating believed to be suffering from appendicitis was transferred from his ship

Camera-gun footage shot from a Hawker Typhoon Mark IB flown by Flying Officer W V Mollett of No. 266 Squadron RAF, showing the shooting down of a Junkers Ju 52/3mg6e minesweeping aircraft of

Norwegians being evacuated along with their luggage from the Svalbard Islands late one evening during the Spitzbergen Raid. 2nd September 1941

Allied tanks laden with infantry move into a heavily bombed Munich on April 29, 1945

Bombs falling astern of HMS Ark Royal during an attack by Italian aircraft during the Battle of Cape Spartivento 27th November 1940

Details have just been released of the Armys commandos. These units of highly trained, picked men will be employed, on special duties

Charles Hazlitt Upham, New Zealand Expeditionary Force: has been awarded a V.C, for his exploits during the campaign in Crete, 22 - 30 May 1941 and Bar to VC, Western Desert, 14 - 15 July 1942

A Shorts Stirling takes off from RAF Lakenheath for a mining laying operation off the Dutch coast Circa May 1941

As part of their training, Air Training Corps cadets were privileged to visit a Bomber Command Station and were taken up in a Wellington for a short flight. Circa September 1943

General De Gaulle paid a visit to a midland tank factory, and he is seen here chatting to a member of the Home Guard, who is a winner of the Croix de Guerre. October 1941

British commandos watch fires burning in Stamsund on the Lofoten Island. The raid on the Island by No 3 Commando and No 4 Commando resulted in the oil refinery

H Nor MS Rose a Norwegian Flower Class Corvette seen here on convoy escort duties. 7th January 1943

Home Guards, well entrenched, with a bombing post in the background, guarding a road in the English countryside during the Second World War. August 1940

A Vickers Wellington DWI Mark II of No. 1 General Reconnaissance Unit at Ismaliya, Egypt, , showing the 48-foot diameter electromagnetic ring, for exploding magnetic mines

Bren gun carriers passing over a trench in which troops are taking cover during an army exercise on Caerphilly mountain, South Wales 1st April 1941

Dutch workmen help repair a dispersal at Volkel, Holland, while in the background ground crew service a Hawker Tempest of No. 3 Squadron RAF. Circa October 1944

Army cyclist board a Airspeed Horsa gliders in preparation for moving off to their take off positions during an invasion exercise in South East England. Circa April 1944

Crossing a road in Gennep which is dominated by enemy fire. Leading infantryman of C Company 5th Black Watch tosses a smoke bomb into centre of the road, which

A view of the hydro electric plant at Rjukan, Norway. Circa 1943

Infantrymen of the 1st Battalion The Green Howards pass a Bofors gun on their way to the front near Lanciano, Italy 1st January 1944

Advancing infantry of the 15th Scottish Division, 227 Brigade Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders, take up positions in newly captured trenches won from the Germans of the outer Siegfried Line

Sergenat W Page of Coulsdon, Surrey, and Leading Aircraftman G Skelsey of London fit a long-range fuel tank to a Hawker Typhoon Mark IB of No. 137 Squadron RAF at B78 Eindhoven, Holland

A Short Sunderland of No. 10 Squadronon the water after alighting to rescue 3 survivors from a Vickers Wellington of No. 172 Squadron RAF

Padre Dunning of the RAF, talks during a service at The Tower Circus in Blackpool Lancashire. Picture taken 5th March 1944

Short Stirling Mark I, N3658 LS-E, of No. 15 Squadron RAF, piloted by Flight Lieutenant Gilmour, encounters heavy flak at a height of 10, 000 feet over the French coast

Infantry of the Glasgow Highlanders and the Coldstream Guards double across the flat countryside towards the tanks and the covering smoke screen east of Nijmegen. 8th February 1945

Airspeed Horsa gliders marshalled in preparation for moving off to their take off positions during an invasion exercise in South East England. Circa April 1944

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