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The Hampshire Regiment serving with the British Expeditionary Force in France during the Second World War. Photo shows: A group of men standing as the tea is handed out. March 1940
A battalion of the Middlesex Regiment serving with we British Expeditionary Force in France during the Second World War. Photo shows: A class going through a drill with a Vickers gun. March 1940
Artillery fire from American guns blasted Germans from their positions which they held in the town of Wallendorf, Germany. Furniture has been removed from blazing homes. September 1944
The Battle of Monte Cassino, a series of four assaults by Allied Forces against the Axis held Winter Line during the attempted advance on to Rome, Italy in the Second World War
First pictures after the British entry into Amiens, France during the Second world War. Picture shows: These women had denounced the local resistance and Communists
Private R. G. Davis of Plough Lane, Wokingham, sends this snapshot of himself readingPrivate R.G. Davis of Plough Lane, Wokingham, sends this snapshot of himself reading the " Reading Standard" to his fiancee in Reading from his base in the Middle East during the Second
The War Cabinet pose for a picture at Downing Street, circa October 1941. Picture shows standing L-R: Sir Edward Bridges, Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles F. A
The band of an Army Technical School leads the parade of Officers and men of HMS Garth from the railway station to the Town Hall in Wokingham, Berkshire during the Second World War. 26th January 1945
Trainees at a Royal Engineers Transportation training centre repair locomotive wheels in one of the workshops during the Second world War. 24th August 1943
A group of Reading men serving in Iceland with the Royal Artillery during the second World War. The picture was sent by Gunner F. G. Clements (left, front row). Circa January 1942
Princess Mary, the Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood, pictured at an ATS Training depot near Reading during the Second World War
The YMCA have a number of travelling tea cars with the british Expeditionary Force serving in France. They provide tea and light refreshment for the troops
Major John Begg, the Canadian officer second in command during the Dieppe raid of August 1942, for which he won the the Distinguished Service Order at an investiture ceremony on 27th October 1942
Soldiers of an anti aircraft battery at an un-disclosed location close to Birmingham. 12th October 1939
Come to the cookhouse door. Serving out dinner at an anti aircraft battery at an un-disclosed location close to Birmingham. 12th October 1939
Thrusting north and east from Eindhoven, Netherlands, british troops crossed the Bois Le Duc canal on 22nd September 1944
An American Sherman tank on the British front in Normandy, Northern France, mounting a 17 pounder British gun. The conversion has been made in the United Kingdom
These photographs give some indication of what a gigantic task the construction of the two prefabricated ports, their towing across the Channel, and installation off the coast of Normandy entailed
No time is lost in repairing slightly damaged tanks on the Italian front. This tank was hit by a 75mm shell in the Eighth Army battle for Termoli. Craftsman Bird of Birmingham and his assistant Dvr
After stiff opposition from tanks and infantry British troops managed to form and hold a bridgehead across the Albert Canal south of Gheel. Here a squadron of British tanks wait to move up
Intensive exercises are now being held along the coast of North Africa. Men of the army and navy are practising invasion tactics and landing tanks and vehicles from LCTs (landing craft tanks)
Units of General Transport, RASC, Medical Corps, Hamburg, Royal Engineers and CREs embark on a landing ship tank from Hamburg, Germany bound for Norway
A Wildcat plane passes over a US Navy Landing Ship as it discharges a Sherman tank onto a beach during pre-invasion training exercises in the United States
Two pre-fabricated Ports, each as big a a Gibraltar were manufactured in Britain in segments, towed across the Channel and set down off the coast of Normandy
Tanks and convoys on the way to the Ardennes salient. circa January 1945
A French tank fires at an enemy position on the outskirts of Belfort, France, while infantry pick of running targets from cover at the side of the road
Sherman tanks pass other tanks and crew waiting for the order to advance on Caen, which was captured by British and Canadian forces on 9th July 1944
On the second day of their attack on German positions forming a pocket around the Dutch town of Overloon, south of Nijmegen, British army troops advanced to take the town on 14th October 1944
Troops from the British Army of the Rhine (BOAR) leaving the Empire Lance at the Mulberry Dock in Hull, preparing for demobilisation and some returning home on leave. 16th August 1946
A British Armoured Brigade in the Middle East, inspected by the General officer commanding Corps. After the inspection the general took the salute at the " Drive Past" using an armoured car
US War Corespondent aboard one of the landing craft bringing re-enforcements to the Normandy coast 10 days after the D-Day landings 16th June 1944
US Soldiers searching for land mines on the grass verges of the roads in and around Cherbourg. 30th June 1944
Russian students receiving bayonet training. This picture taken when Russia had joined the Allies in fighting Germany. After first having cooperated with Germany in invading Poland whilst remaining
Russian volunteers enlisting for The Volunteer Force. This picture taken when Russia had joined the Allies in fighting Germany
British troops of the 79th in an unknown Normandy town in Northern France a month after the D-Day landings chat with local children 5th July 1944
British troops outside the bath house in an unknown Normandy town in Northern France a month after the D-Day landings 5th July 1944
Sailor on a landing craft poses with a captured German helmet and rifle after delivering re-enforcements to the Normandy coast 10 days after the D-Day landings 16th June 1944
Army padres do much to relieve the suffering of the wounded soldier in Casualty clearing stations. At rush periods the have worked in the operating theatre to relieve the overworked staff
A British Armoured Division operating near Pyingyaing between Kalewa and Shwebo, assembled armour in strength for the first time in the Burma campaign on Christmas Day and Boxing Day
"Anzio Odeon", a dug-out, sandbagged and camouflaged" Anzio Odeon", a dug-out, sandbagged and camouflaged, where films are shown to the men of the British Army serving on the Italian Front at Anzio. 6th March 1944
Royal Engineers Transportation Training Centre during the Second World War. A railway coach being dismantles by trainees at the centre. 24th August 1943
British Army drummer George Mansbridge of 27 Anbrook Road, Reading during the Second World War. April 1956
Polish Independence Day Sunday service at the Cenotaph in London. Picture shows: The march prior to the laying of the wreath. Circa 1945
British Army battery claims honour of the last shot on the Eighth Army battle front. The last shell in the hands of the man who fired it, Gunner Vernon Walker of Hampshire, Sussex
An American soldier stands on guard, surrounded American built locomotives at a rail junction somewhere in Britain". These locomotIves will be used to transport men
Preliminary peace conference on board the HMS Nelson in Penang. 29th August 1945
Preparations for the Allied invasion of Normandy, Northern France during the Second World War. The mounting mass of materials produced by factories, and the training of men to use them
Field Marshal Busch, C in C German Armies in North West Europe, meets the man who defeated him, Field Marshall Montogmery, at the latters HQ on Luneburg Heath
