Army Collection (#11)

The badge worn by personnel of the HM Minesweepers. April 1945

At the beginning of the New Year thousands of sailors, marines, soldiers and airmen of Combined Operations Command will be wearing the Commands new badge

British Army infantry in training exercises to keep a high level of fitness. The british Armed forces are maintaining the highest possible standard

Knocked out or captured enemy tanks near El Alamein. 24th January 1944

British troops in France. Tank crews double off to their tanks during Second World War. 17th January 1940

Loader of the 73mm gun in General Grant tank. 12th June 1942

American built General Grant tank at a British forward tank HQ in Libya. 4th June 1942

General Grant tank in Western Desert during Second World War. Circa 1942

General Grant tanks moving into battle during Second World War. 4th June 1942

Cruiser tank in action in France during Second World War. June 11th 1940

American General Lee tank at El Alamein. 26th July 1942

American General Grant tank exercise in England. 17th June 1942

Members of the Junior Training Corps and the Army Cadet Force undergoing a toughening up course at a Military camp in the North of England, in preparation of their calling up for service

Maintenance crew remove track from a General Grant tank in the Libya desert. June 14th 1942

Canadian Troops arrive in Liverpool, Merseyside. Picture taken 22nd May 1940

German Mk. III tank with 75 mm gun knocked out at Salerno. Circa September 1943

British troops in Berlin are getting a little extra luxury this week. Although this little extra luxury is only a modest kipper, which arrived from Hull, England in large numbers

Abyssinian patriot soldiers fighting against the Axis occupation forces of the German and Italian armies in Abyssinia, East Africa during the Second World War. 27th January 1941

Twenty three year old Mrs Artemis spends a few last moments together with her husband Michael, who she married only a week ago, before he joins the British Army during the Second World War

Lord Harrowby taking the salute at a parade of Walsall L. D. V. 19th July 1940
Lord Harrowby taking the salute at a parade of Walsall L.D.V. 19th July 1940

Members of the Birmingham Home Guard attend a drumhead service 23rd March 1941

General Sir Robeit Cordon-Finlayson taking the salute at the Home Guard march - past in Victoria Square, Birmingham 23rd March 1941

Men of A Company 3rd Battalion, Birmingham Home Guard, paraded at the Apollo Cinema, Pype Hayes in front of Captain S. A. Godsall MC 4th August 1940

Bren Gun Carriers straight off the production line are put through their paces at Leyland & Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon company at Smethwick. 4th June 1941

Members of the Home Guard, search the wreckage of Heinkel He 111 G1+EM Wk Nr 3971 of 9./KG 55 which was heavily damaged by a night fighter

Members of the L. D. V. seen here completing a course of intensive training to prepare them
Members of the L.D.V. seen here completing a course of intensive training to prepare them as instructors in physical and bayonet training

Captain S. A. Godsall MC addresses the men of A Company 3rd Battalion, Birmingham Home Guard, before they paraded at the Apollo Cinema, Pype Hayes 4th August 1940

Home Guard volunteers for the L. D. V. at Wolseley Motors Birmingham factory parading
Home Guard volunteers for the L.D.V. at Wolseley Motors Birmingham factory parading through the works gate. 13th July 1940

Wounded soldiers and their nurses at the Botanical Gardens, Birmingham, where they were entertained by the Alexandra Musical Society. 7th July 1940

Heavy Anti Aircraft Batteries situated close to the City of Birmingham for the defence of the munition, aircraft, and tank factories dotted around the city

Members of the Home Guard parade for inspection at an un-named Birmingham location 15th June 1941

The wreckage of Junkers Ju 88 3Z+AL Wk Nr 2170 of 3. / KG 77 which was shot down by F / Lt D
The wreckage of Junkers Ju 88 3Z+AL Wk Nr 2170 of 3./KG 77 which was shot down by F/Lt D A P McMullen and Sgts J Fairweather DFM in a Defiant of 151 Squadron and crashed near Nuneaton. 9th April 1941

A10 Cruiser tanks straight off the production line are put through their paces at Leyland & Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon company at Smethwick. 4th June 1941

Troops of the 7th Somerset Light Infantry, 43rd (Wessex) Division resting in the village of Bauchen during the assault on Geilenkirchen in Germany, 18th November 1944

Soldiers of the 1st Battalion Glasgow Highlanders seen here in their snow camouflage on patrol at Gangelt, Germany. 11th January 1945

British amphibious tanks leave the west bank of the Lower Rhine heading eastwards. Another tank can be seen behind it on the river bank. The photograph was taken by a low flying RAF aircraft

An elderly German man in Plauen, on the US 3rd Army front, eats a meal from a cup which remained whole when his house was wrecked during the advance of General Pattons troops. 23rd April 1945

Behind the biggest smoke screen in the history of war, British armour and infantry move into position for the offensive - the ?final heave?

FFI patrol of 1st French Army carries a caricature of Hitler away from a Rhine River position. The placard was displayed on one bank of the river

First picture of the Soviet Red Army in Vienna. capital of Austria captured by troops of the Third Ukrainian Front on 13th April 1945 after eight days of stubborn fighting

In their drive forward down the Pi Chaung and Kaladan valleys on the Arakan fronts, British and West African troops of the 81st Division have advanced more than 50 miles in 40 days

Soviet Red Army ski troops on their way to advanced lines, riding on sledges and tanks in their ongoing battle against the German Army on the Eastern Front. February 1942

German army defeat at Moscow during the ongoing battle against the Soviet Red Army on the Eastern Front during World War Two. Heavy German guns smashed by Soviet artillery. February 1942

Three soldiers of a Company of a British Army regiment watching for snipers in the German village of Stein, one of twelve captured during the new offensive by General Dempseys Second Army on the Roer

Access to Burma for troops and supplies must be maintained and many roads are being built by the Army under unimaginable difficulties

It is 75 miles from Hopin to Mawlu fourteen days journey through a monsoon swept jungle, over Japanese road blocks, through little devastated villages where every possible track is mined

A Chinese mule team hauls a Chinese Howitzer over the mountainous terrain of the Burma Road to the fighting front against the Japanese in China. November 1944

German civilians who have been picked up in villages and brought back to Kleve in our transport and given food and shelter as the Allied army pushes deeper into Germany 16th February 1945

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