Army Collection (page 2)

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

Abyssinian War October 1935 A Italian mule train on its way to the advance outpost of Makale takes advantage of a shady groves to escape the fierce rays of the noonday sun

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

A Sherman VC Firefly tank of 24th Lancers, 8th Armoured Brigade, near St Leger, 11 June 1944. The Sherman Firefly was based on the US M4 Sherman Tank but fitted with the powerful 3-inch calibre

Prince Charles on a commando course at Lympstone, Devon February 1975

Actors Windsor Davies and Don Estelle from the hit BBC Series it ain t half hot mum. June 1975

ARGENTINE SOLDIERS THROWING THEIR WEAPONS ONTO A PILE AT PORT STANLEY AFTER SURRENDERING TO THE BRITISH TASK FORCE DURING THE FALKLANDS WAR - 1982

Colin Firth (r) in "Tumbledown"the story of Lieutenant Robert Lawrence (l)
Colin Firth (r) 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)

ROYAL NAVY ESCORTS WITH THE TASK FORCE DURING THE FALKLANDS WAR IN 1982

FALKLANDS WAR TASK FORCE - SOLDIER TALKING TO CHILDREN & DRINKING HOT DRINK - April 1982

Filming of "Tumbledown"the story of Lieutenant Robert Lawrence (l)
Filming of " 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)

Famous brothers meet on land: Lieutenant General Sir Alan Cunningham of the British Army, Commander-in-Chief of the British Middle East Command, with his older brother

Stage Door Canteen, 201 Piccadilly, Central London. Masses of rubbish have to be cleared out before alterations for the Club can be carried out

Soldiers of an anti aircraft battery in the West Midlands, seen here training. 12 December 1941

Women of the ATS operating the height finder optics at an anti aircraft battery in the West Midlands. 12 December 1941

A Bren Carrier being guided through barbed wire during the first stages of the offensive against the Axis Forces in Libya, North Africa in World War Two. December 1941

Women of the Auxiliary Territorial service (ATS) in the North West of England during the Second World War. 19th May 1942

A prototype Cromwell tank is put through its pace for King George VI and the Queen at an un-named Midlands tank factory. 26th February 1942

At an experimental gunnery camp in Manorbier, Wales, members of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) are doing very secret work operating Kine- Theodolite instruments which record the burst of

Driver Don Brinton of the Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) Air Dispatch Service, dressed in the full kit of the service which includes battle dress, roll top pullover, flying suit lined with fur

Pegu, the vital road and rail junction 50 miles north of Rangoon, Burma on the wide Pegu river has fallen to the Allied Fourteenth Army in their sweep Southwards to the Burma coast. Picture shows: R

Australian troops land at Jacquinot Bay in New Britain, Papua New Guinea during the battle in the Far East in the Second World War

One of the most momentous conferences of the war began in January 1943 near Casablanca, Morocco when American President Roosevelt

British Army private serving on the front line in Burma during the Second World War. April 1945

Burma DUKWs (known as Ducks) take supplies and reinforcements from the Chindwin River to forward British troops driving on Mandalay, Burma during the Second World War

First members of the WaF in Berlin, Germany at the end of the Second World War in Europe. Section officer P. hack of Palmers Green, London and Section Officer H

The so called "Tobacco factory"at Carocetto, Italy
The so called " Tobacco factory" at Carocetto, Italy, scene of bitter fighting during the bridgehead battle, fell to British troops on 28th May 1944

The landing craft, vehicle, personnel (LCVP) or Higgins boat, a landing craft used extensively in amphibious landings in World War Two

Operation Blackcoc was an operation to clear German troops from the Roer Triangle, formed by the towns of Roermond and Sittard in the Netherlands

The aftermath of the Battle for Caen. The town fell to Canadian and British troops on the 9th July after a sustained bombardment which caused substantial damage to the town

Number 1 Commando Brigade led the British assault across the Elbe River. They had captured their objective, Lauenburg by dawn on April 29th 1945

Men of C. Company, the Border Regiment, waiting to repulse a German attack, who were barely a hundred yards away during the battle in the Netherlands. 20th September 1944

The wreckage of a Junkers Ju 88 F1+BT Wk Nr 7188 of III / KG 76 at Wychbold
The wreckage of a Junkers Ju 88 F1+BT Wk Nr 7188 of III/KG 76 at Wychbold. The aircraft was damaged by Sgt Jankowiak of 307 Squadron and also hit by anti aircraft guns in the Liverpool area

The remains of 281 and 283 Hales Lane, Smethwick after Heinkel He 111 1G+KM Wk Nr 1555 of 4./KG 27 was shot down by Defiant N3387 of 151 Squadron and crashed into the houses

Operation Blackcock (14th - 26th January 1945) was an operation to clear German troops from the Roer Triangle, formed by the towns of Roermond and Sittard in the Netherlands

Inside the ruins of the Reichstag. Circa July 1945

French civilians stand at attention and an American Army Gl salutes as the American and French flags are unfurled side by side in the centre of the city of Cherbourg

Wounded fighting men from Roehampton Hospital enjoying a trip to the local fair at Putney Heath, accompanied by their friends and families on a visiting day at the end of the Second World War

Female munition workers of a London war factory put on their make-up before staging a show to entertain girls of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS)

Six soldiers back from Burma, all from Droitwich, Worcestershire, enjoy a dinner at the Royal Exchange public house back in Droitwich

The new cap badge of the Parachute Regiment. May 1943

Madame Scarlett, hotelkeeper of the Hotel Des Fleurs in Les Andrelys on the Seine, France, proudly wearing her blouse made from a Union Jack flag as she welcomes liberating British troops into

Yugoslav partisans have been supplied with British Armoured cars and American tanks suited to the difficult country in which they must be used

Operating with the partisans in Yugoslavia are numbers of RAF personnel. As promised by Winston Churchill some months ago " Every effort in our power will be made to aid

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