Military Collection (page 19)

First pictures of the evacuated British Airborne Forces from Arhem, Holland during the Second world War. Sergeant C Bennet of the 1st Airlanding Brigade (home town Darlington)

Members of a field kitchen staff of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) taking cover in a trench as the alarm sounds for an air raid at Cromer, Norfolk during the Battle of Britain. August 1940

Members of an Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) Ambulance Company pictured in battle training in the Lake District during the Second World War

The boys of the 61st (Middlesex) A. A. cadets show off their fitness at a display at
The boys of the 61st (Middlesex) A.A. cadets show off their fitness at a display at the London District School of Physical training at Hendon

Royal Navy patrol frigates of the 1st escort group, HMS Affleck and her sister ships Gore, Gould, and Garlies destroyed two German U-boats of the Kriegsmarine in the Atlantic Ocean at Gibraltar

The recent heavy rains have taken the creases out of the kilts and Piper Milne of Cainery Road, Aberdeen, and Piper Fraser of Kintore, both of a Scottish military pipe band

A group of 10 veteran seaman serving with the training ship HMS Implacable, which, as the French warship Ddugay-Trouin, fought at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805

Group of US Army nurses first to land with the vanguard of American troops on Normandy beachheads, take time for dinner on the site of the Field Hospital

The first party of Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) attached to the 21st Army Group arrive in Normandy, Northern France following the successful Allied landings on the beaches on 6th June

On board the HMS Duke of York for the concert tour organised by the Council for Encouragement of Music and Art (CEMA) at a Northern Naval base. The series of concerts had record audiences

Deciding matters that affect the whole Far East is this conference photographed at Singapore Naval Base Headquarters. At the head of the table is the Commander-in-Chief, Far East

Prime Minister Winston Churchill sent a message of congratulations to General Sir F. A. Pile GOC in C, Anti Aircraft Command

Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) on duty at a London Military headquarters during the Second world War. At a London District Military Headquarters, ATS are employed on a variety of jobs

160 specially selected Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS), NCOs and privates have been chosen to work in the Statistical Branch of the War Office to co-operate with civilian experts in finding out

Recuperating Royal Navy servicemen, injured during the Second World War, take part in a bandy-chair race accompanied by their nurses at Sports Day held at Maristow Royal Naval Hospital in South

Scene at the Ministry of Pensions hospital at Stoke Mandeville in Buckinghamshire, England during the Second World War. Picture shows: Spinal and paralysed patients

British Fifth Army at Anzio Bridhead during the Second World War. Despite having to attend fires day and night on the bridgehead at Anzio, Italy

Eight enemy Messerschmitt ME 109 planes were destroyed and two damaged by Allied fighters in two sorties over Tripolitania. In the first sortie an R.A.F

A Surrey hospitals former casualty ward has been made into a well lit, busy workshop where wounded and injured servicemen are restoring their wage.earning confidence

Wounded soldiers recuperating at a hospital in England during the Second World War, seen here relaxing with their carers amongst the trees and nature on the hospital grounds. 20th May 1943

Field Marshal Viscount Gort (1886 - 1946): General Viscount Gort, Commander in Chief BEF with Air Vice Marshal C H B Blount, commanding the Air Component, outside the Hotel Moderne, Arras, France

The heavy flow of traffic over the two main roads in the bridgehead at Anzio, Italy has caused the surface to deteriorate

Wounded servicemen enjoy a Christmas meal and party held for them by nurses, carers and staff at a war hospital in England during the Second World War. 25th December 1945

Choir and musicians composed of wounded servicemen at an Emergency Medical Service (EMS) hospital in Stoke Mandeville during the Second World War

American troops stationed in Britain during the Second World War. Some of the American troops seen her making a cheery " V for Victory" sign at their base. 26th June 1942

Spahis were light cavalry regiments of the French army recruited primarily from the indigenous populations of Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco

Fifth Army beach-head at Anzio on the road to Rome. One month after the landings still sees bitter fighting in the Anzio-Nettuno bridgehead

Submariners pictured outside Buckingham Palace as they attend an investiture. Petty Officer Allanson, Chief Engine Room Artificer Hutching, Chief Engine Room Artificer Walker and ST

Private Leslie Youngs, aged 20, of the Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) Air Dispatch Service, dressed in the full kit of the service which includes battle dress, wool roll top pullover, flying suit

Home Guard Stand Down Parade in London. Left to right: C. S. M. W. L. Malcolm and C. S
Home Guard Stand Down Parade in London. Left to right: C.S.M. W.L. Malcolm and C.S.M. R. Wallace, both of the Ulster Home Guard. 3rd December 1944

Lieutenant General Sir John Harding, British 13th Corps Commander, visits the 10th Hussars regiment in Sagrado, Italy. he is seen talking to officers

The Western Desert Air Transport Service has carried out valuable work in the North African campaign. They facilitated every stage of the advance

Picture taken at Pinderfields Rehabilitation Centre in Wakefield, Yorkshire showing soldiers, sailors and airmen and colliers being put through their paces

Women of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) entertain soldiers who were injured in the Allied Normandy landings of Northern France

General Eisenhower, newly appointed Supreme Allied Commander of the British and Expeditionary Forces organising in the United Kingdom for the liberation of Europe

Photograph taken by Flying Officer T. C. Scott (Coastal Command
Photograph taken by Flying Officer T.C. Scott (Coastal Command) after a Junkers 188 of the German Luftwaffe had been shot down by his RAF Coastal Command Mosquito off Point Penmarch

South Wales Borderers of the British Army 36th Infantry Division advancing across fields to make contact with the enemy south of Bahe in Burma on the road to Mandalay. January 1945

RAF Mosquitoes supporting the 14th Army in Burma during the Second World War pictured at a Mosquito station on the Arakan front. Left to right: Squadron Leader I.A

General Auchinleck and Air Marshall Tedder at a war council at GHQ in Cairo. 26th March 1942

Ships searchlights illuminate Gibraltar Harbour at night during the Second World War. 31st December 1943

Flying Officer Bill Draper of 8 Humewood Drive, Toronto, Canada, tells an interesting listener how he shot down a German Luftwaffe FW 190 in a head on attack

The tea ritual is observed even among the ruins of Ortona, Italy for Canadian soldiers K.H. Riddle of Granby, Quebec and S

Scottish troops practice bayonet training in England. 21st September 1939

North African Arab soldiers are assisting the RAF on Tunisian airfields. Loading bombs on the carriages for transportation to the aircraft and bomb dumps

British army soldiers Private J. Stutter (left) of Elie, Fifeshire, Scotland and Private M. Cambridge of Leeds eating their dinner in the snow on the Eighth Army Front in Italy during the Second

Allied soldiers of the Fifth Army fight to extinguish flames in an ammunition dump in the beach-head area of Anzio, Italy after a German bombing raid

From dusk to dawn, at an important un-named works in Birmingham, the works Home Guard man a specially built look-out tower

The first supply of British medical supplies for the civilian population of Belgrade, Yugoslavia arrived on 19th March 1945. The consignment consisted of drugs and dressings. Captain H

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