Army Collection

Grenadier Guards, famous the world over, are now, as part of their mechanisation, equipped with motor cycles on which tommy guns are mounted

Queen Elizabeth II. Princess Elizabeth as Junior Commander in the ATS inspecting The Motor Transport Training Centre at Camberley, Surrey during the Second World War. Circa May 1945

SAS A model in full SAS combat kit. Posed by model. 29th September 1988

PARATROOPERS HUDDLE AGAINST THE ROCKS ON MOUNT LONGDON DURING THE FALKLANDS WAR, 12/6/1982

A two thousand pound unexploded bomb was discovered in the garden of a house at Belgrave Road, Plymouth today. It was necessary to evacuate 300 people until a Bomb disposal Squad had removed

Hull, Yorkshire, World War Two. A bomb disposal unit pictured with an unexploded bomb that has been found in Craven Street, Hull

D-Day- shells being unloaded into the secret dump. 1944

Lieut General Bernard Montgomery newly appointed commander of the 8th Army seen here discussing tactics with officers from the 22nd Armoured Brigade

Military vehicles in Abbey Road, Torquay in July 1949. Adverising signs - Ovaltine Guinness and Oxydol

The 1st Battalion The Green Howards marching in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, to exercise their right and privilege as freemen of the town. 28th February 1981

The Turkish invasion of Cyprus. A British armoured car, draped with the Union Jack, helps to guard a refugee convoy as it leaves Nicosia. 22nd July 1974

The Mayor of Reading, Councillor W. E. C. McIlroy, inspecting members of the Auxiliary
The Mayor of Reading, Councillor W.E.C. McIlroy, inspecting members of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) at a display in the city centre during the Second World War. 11th June 1942

American soldiers from Company E, 358th Infantry, 90th Division, move through the concrete Dragons Teeth of Siegfried line near Habscheid, Germany, as they move up to the front. 12th February 1945

The Tank, Infantry, Mk III, Valentine was an infantry tank produced in the United Kingdom during the Second World War. More than 8, 000 of the type were produced in eleven marks

Members of a Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal Squad pose for the camera after successfully defusing a 500KG bomb in Craven Street, Hull

Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal Squad defusing a 500KG bomb in Craven Street, Hull. One of many dropped by the Luftwaffe on the city of Hull over three nights in May 1941

Successful removal of an unexploded bomb in Hull, North England after the Second World War. Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal pose with the weapon. Circa 1941

Discovery of an unexploded parachute mine in Hull after the Second World War. Navy and Army bomb disposal squads moving the parachute mine from the dredger to a waiting truck. May 1949

British Army East Yorkshire regiment in training somewhere in England during the Second World War. Circa 1940

Tankmen of the Canadian Army rest by their Sherman tanks after the tank battle which took place between the Hitler Line and Gustav Line on the Italian Front battlefield

Early rider! He roars through the air with the greatest of ease...the kid who makes jumping over nine men look like childs play

Experts are to investigate an at risk castle site hidden between two of Tynesides busiest locations. The privately-owned Ravensworth Castle is concealed by woodland from the A1

The Coldstream guards seen here being given their order before mounting the guard at Buckingham Palace 1st September 1959

Alfieri. Army Training. No. 30 Physical Development Centre. Barracks. 1942. 1st May 1942
Alfieri. Army Training. No.30 Physical Development Centre. Barracks. 1942. 1st May 1942

famous American jazz singer and entertainer ADELAIDE HALL performing on stage at an ENSA concert at RAF Hendon in North London on 17 October 1939 performing the song " Hang Out Your Washing On

The Sutton Coalfield Battalion of the Warwickshire Home Guard paraded for inspection. Captain Wilfrid Bigwood the Commanding Officer

A Sherman tank of a South African unit of the Eighth Army enters the city of Florence through the Porta Romano. August 1944

Sergeant Roy Roberts of 62 Cardiff Road, Taffs Well, who played Second Row forward for Cardiff rugby team before the war, and Sergeant Tom Harvard of 21 Thomas Street, who played for Swinton

British Army Gunner S. R. Gosden of 67 Catherine Street, Reading
British Army Gunner S.R. Gosden of 67 Catherine Street, Reading, seen here in the back row of this group of Royal Artillery men in the Middle East during the Second World War. Circa 1942

Removal of of a 250 pound unexploded World War Two bomb at Fenners Works in Marfleet, East Yorkshire by Bomb Disposal experts of the Royal Engineers. Circa 1941

Discovery of a 500 pound unexploded American bomb in King George docks, Hill after the Second World War. Bomb disposal squad clear the danger. April 1948

Brtitish Army soldiers of the Royal Engineers undertake a bomb disposal at St James Park, London Picture shows: Sappers excavating the land for the 1000 lb bomb believed to be embedded between 20 to

Her Majestys Procession march down Northumberland Avenue led by Colonel B. J. O. Burrows, O.B.E. T.D. and Five Companies of the Foot Guards as they escort the Queens coach to Westminster Abbey for

Members of the Bomb disposal squad measuring the length of a time delayed bomb taken from a shop in Brixton Hill, South London during the Second World War. Circa 1940

Members of a army bomb disposal squad rolling a unexploded German bomb through a London Park after defusing it. The bomb was later taken to Hackney Marsh where it was exploded. Circa September 1940

Members of a army bomb disposal squad placing an explosive charge around the fuse of an unexploded German bomb in a London Park prior to detonation. Circa September 1940

Armoured Tractor, ploughing fields littered with shells and bombs, 31st August 1967. Forestry Commission volunteers help reclaim 900 acres of a Royal Artillery range for forestry work, Trawsfynydd

Heavy equipment drop rehearsal April 1967 Regiment at Aldershot barracks go through a practise movement using the Armstrong Whitworth Argosy Transport Aircraft

Coronation of King George V. The procession pictured passing through Marble Arch, London. 22nd June 1911

World War II: Mascot: Children. Master Andrew James Paviour, 4

The Reich Chancellery Gardens in Berlin, were the body of Hitler And Eva Braun were burned in a bunker at the end of World war II. July 1945 OO1833A-001

Colin Firth filming in "Tumbledown"the story of Lieutenant Robert Lawrence (l)
Colin Firth filming in " Tumbledown" the story of Lieutenant Robert Lawrence (l), a Scots Guards officer who was shot through the head during The Falklands War - November 1987 (nov 87-6641)

Picture taken during the Allied Army journey to the East Bank of the Rhine. Horse and Hamilcar gliders were towed by Halifax and Stirling aircraft of the RAF

The R. E. M. E. - Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers is the British Army
The R.E.M.E. - Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers is the British Armys newest corps. It has been in operation since October 1st, 1942

Men of the East Yorkshire Regiment during the Second World War. Circa 1940

General Kinzel (German General of Infantry) puts his signature to the surrender of the German land, sea and air forces in Northern Germany, Holland and Denmark

Alan Wood, The Daily Express war correspondent with the 1st Airborne Division at Arnhem. Seen here typing out his copy for the paper from the safety of a trench. 20th September 1944

A team from the 1st Bn. Green Howards headed by 26 year old Captain David Husband is visiting its traditional recruiting grounds for the next fortnight

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