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At the War Office Selection Board school. All candidates for promotion from the ranks undergo a three days course to determine whether they have the qualities necessary to make a good officer
Canadian soldiers on the Italian front during the Second World War. New field telephone device but the same " Old Bill"
Picture taken early in 1944 on the 14th Army front in Arkan. Japanese infiltration groups trying to reach Imphal, Manipur, suffered very heavy casualties at the hands of British and Indian troops
Yugoslav partisans of Marshal Titos Yugoslav National Liberation Army are making good use of their stay in Malta to learn the use of both Allied and enemy small arms
Three pipers of the Kings Own Scottish Borderers infantry regiment with the battalion mascot " Bill", who seems to be practicing a song to accompany the music. September 1940
Women of the W. A. C. I - Women s. Auxiliary Corps, IndiaWomen of the W.A.C.I - Women s. Auxiliary Corps, India, equivalent of the British ATS are releasing fighting men by doing many skilled
A Royal Engineer bulldozer seen here on Gold beach. June 16th 1944
In a Combined Operation on the night 27th and 28th February 1942, joint forces of the Royal Navy, the Army and the Royal Air Force attacked an destroyed an important German radio location post at
British forces entered Addis Ababa on 5th April 1941 having advanced more than 1800 miles in less than 60 days. Picture shows
Crusader tanks get ready for action in Tunisia during the North African campaign of World War Two. December 1942
German child soldiers captured near Kulmbach, Germany by the US 3rd Army. They were being marched to the Czech border, and though issued with army uniforms had not been given any arms. April 1945
A famous Scottish Regiment on manoeuvres in Malaya during the Second World War. The troops show how they have adapted themselves to the conditions of warfare which would prevail in Malaya by cutting
British soldiers of General Andersons First Army at work on the telephone system which links up all the various companies of the battalion in the hills of North Africa. Issued: January 1943
The first ATS / EFI (Expeditionary Force Institute) girls to arrive for duty inThe first ATS /EFI (Expeditionary Force Institute) girls to arrive for duty in Berlins canteens spent a few days looking over the citys British canteens before starting work
August 1945. Peacetime for Europe. Picture shows the Berlin, and the ATS (The Auxiliary Territorial Service) on Bank Holiday
Polish troops of the 2nd Corps in Italy. The continue to train, even after hostilities have ended. Picture taken 25th May 1945
Troops in Bridport, Devon, are entertained in a mobile theatre. Picture taken 27th March 1941
Scenes inside Dambacha Fort after it was captured by patriots of Abyssinian Emperor Haile Selassie and Sudanese troops. Picture shows: Troops
With the fall of the Abyssinian fortress of Dessie, located between Addis Ababa and Amba Alagi, Italian resistance in Abyssinia is virtually at an end
Soviet Red Army troops cross a bridge over the River Spree as they now gradually close in on the core of German resistance in the city of Berlin near the end of World War Two
General view of Banquet Hall, decorated with Russian banners and pictures of Stalin and Roosevelt during a banquet after a meeting of the American and Soviet armies at Torgau
Surrender at Stalingrad. End of the German Sixth Army. Picture shows: A group of German soldiers surrender to the Soviet Red Army as the white flag is hoisted. February 1943
Troops assist rescue workers to release bomb victims trapped under the ruins of their homes in Scarborough Street, Hull May 1942
Picture shows: Advacing detachments of the Soviet Red Army among the remnants of a German supply train on the Russian front during the Second World War. February 1942
A Soviet Red Army infantry unit pursuing the retreating enemy German army during the battle on the Eastern Front in the Second World War. February 1942
Soldiers of the Soviet Red Army reading newspapers to catch up on the latest news from all war fronts and from home in their positions on the Russia Front during the Second World War. July 1941
The first ATS of SouthEast Asia Command arrive in Ceylon during the Second World War. Pictured awaiting transport after their arrival. 16th July 1945
A contingent of Cypriot Muleteers which recently landed in France have now taken up the duties with the B.E.F. with their mules. They are engaged in carrying stores, etc. for various units
Members of the Home Guard seen here firing Z Battery short range anti aircraft missiles. July 1942
Soldiers of the 24th Guards Brigade give covering fire to a fighting patrol advancing into Rosennano to clear the village of German snipers 9th July 1944
Some of the girls of the Womens Royal Army Corps who are learning to handle motorcycles and other transport at the womens Territorial Camp at Rolston, East Yorkshire. 31st August 1949
The Queens West Surrey Regiment receives The Freedom of Guildford, Surrey. During the march down the historic High Street, Mrs Violet Turner with her little daughter Gabriel
Men of the East Yorkshire Regiment training in Gloucestershire, Southern England during the Second World War. Circa 1940
Men from the 33 Signal Regiment (V) at the Alamein Centre, Huyton, leaving the Barracks to line the Queens route in St Helens during her Silver Jubilee Tour. 21st June 1977
The Battle of Arnhem. British Tanks advance into Holland. The Battle of Arnhem was a major battle of the Second World War at the vanguard of the Allied Operation Market Garden
Picture shows Field Marshal Sir Bernard L Montgomery wearing his red beret with badge of the Parachute Regt, also the jumping jacket
The Battle of Arnhem. The British Second Army linked with airbourne troops at Eindhoven on 19th September and drove on another 37 miles towards Nijmege
The Battle of Arnhem. Picture shows bridges across the River Waal (Rhine) The road bridge is on the left, that British troops seized on the 21st September
Soldiers of the South Vietnamese army advance on Viet Cong positions in Trang Bang just days after the peace treaty between the USA and North Vietnam was signed in Paris. 31st January 1973
A Bren Gun Carrier of the 2nd Battalion East Surrey Regiment on display at their barracks in Kingston Upon Thames. Circa April 1938
Soldiers of the 30th Surrey Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery, part of the Territorial Army sign in for their summer training camp at the TA barracks in Surbiton Road, Kingston Upon Thames
Some of the Militiamen from Birmingham and the Midlands seen here being issued with their uniforms at Whittington Barracks, Lichfield, this morning
A bandsman of the South Staffordshire Regiment seen here rehearsing with a boy soldier at the Regimental Training Depot. 15th September 1939
16-year-old Karen Richardson of Low Fell, gateshead. She couldn t joint the army because of her tattooed arms. 3rd July 1976
The Bizerte Crisis 1961 French soldiers on the streets of Bizerte. July 21st 1961 The crisis arose after Tunisian forces surrounded
Allied troops proceed inland into Northern France on the mission to liberate France and Europe following the Normandy landings of 6th June 1944
The Mayor of Stratford Upon Avon, Councillor Patrick Dare, pictured with Major General THF Foulkes, representing the Commandant of the Corps of Royal Engineers
A unexploded parachute mine outside 10 Ellerby Grove, East Hull being visually inspected before being defused. 23rd February 1941