Second World War Collection

Big ships of the British Royal Navy fleet at exercise on the waters of the Mediterranean Sea. Picture shows aircraft carrier HMS Formidable exercising with destroyers off Gibraltar

Queen Elizabeth II, Girl Guides Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret about to send a message by carrier pigeon to Lady Baden-Powell, at The Guide Headquarters. February 1943

Tea Healy daily mirror war correspondent during the Second World War. 22nd July 1942

Little Girl wearing wooly hat, coat and scarf, standing outside corner shop grocers with her dog, carrying a basket and looking at the shop vendor as he readjusts the sign outside the door which

Robert Blair "Paddy"Mayne was born in Newtownards, County Down
Robert Blair " Paddy" Mayne was born in Newtownards, County Down, the second youngest of seven children. The Mayne family were prominent landowners who owned several retail businesses in

Sir Winston Churchill and wife Clementine seen here returning by boat after an inspection of bomb damage in the docks, London. 27th September 1940

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill holding a Thompson submachine gun whilst smoking a cigar, during a visit to coastal defence positions near Hartlepool in the Second World War. 31st July 1940

Grenadier Guards, famous the world over, are now, as part of their mechanisation, equipped with motor cycles on which tommy guns are mounted

Queen Elizabeth II and the Queen Mother on the balcony of Buckingham Palace, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of VE Day. 8th May 1995

A Typhoon makes a pancake landing, on the edge of a rock strewn shore near Torquay in Devon. There were slight injuries to the pilot but no more

"Home again"pictures of the Royal Many submarine HMS Unrivalled which
" Home again" pictures of the Royal Many submarine HMS Unrivalled which has just returned from a successful patrol in the Mediterranean Sea

A Heinkel 111 bomber aircraft of the German Luftwaffe flies over Tower Bridge on the River Thames in London during the Battle of Britain in World War Two. 7th September 1940

The Cambridgeshire Home Guard pictured during the Second World War, 1941

Evacuees during World War Two. 3rd September 1939

Children prepare to be evacuated from Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, 11th September 1939

Children of Liverpool playing in a bomb site left since the end of the Second World war. 5th August 1954

Bomb damage to Keyes Garden on the Matthew Bank Estate, Jesmond, Newcastle. 29th December 1941

Scene showing a destroyed residential street in the city of Plymouth following an air raid by the German Luftwaffe during the Second World War. 13th August 1943

Captured German submarine U-1023 on show at West Bute Basin, Cardiff Docks, Circa July 1945. When hostilities ceased, boats still at sea were ordered to head for one of a number of designated ports

A two thousand pound unexploded bomb was discovered in the garden of a house at Belgrave Road, Plymouth today. It was necessary to evacuate 300 people until a Bomb disposal Squad had removed

Hull, Yorkshire, World War Two. A bomb disposal unit pictured with an unexploded bomb that has been found in Craven Street, Hull

Scene of destruction in Caroline Street, Kingston Upon Hull after an air raid on the city on the night of 24th June 1943

The Dunkirk evacuation, code-named Operation Dynamo, also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, was the evacuation of Allied soldiers during World War II from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk

A Second World War Avro Lancaster bomber pictured leaving RAF St Athan after a refit. 15th May 1996

Winston Churchill and Bernard Montgomery cross the Rhine. On March 25th Mr. Churchill with Field Marshal Montgomery crossed the East bank of the Rhine in an American L.C.U.P

Land girls on their way home from the field in military area East Anglia The harvest has to be got within fourteen days MSI WW2

Bomb damage in Bristol after an attack by a lone Nazi German Luftwaffe raider on 28th August 1942, eighteen months since the last attack of the Bristol Blitz in the Second World War

Members of the volunteer Overseas Contingent of the National Fire Service have issued with special kit in readiness for service

Dispatch Rider Violet Goozee. March 1944 P009053

Miners at Langley Park Colliery on their way to work stop for a glance at their record after achieving their target during the recent 12 weeks period. 20th September 1943

Air correspondents of London newspapers visit Royal Air Force Commands in North Africa. Picture (issued 1943) shows - A group of air correspondents with R.A.F

The Mayor of Reading, Councillor W. E. C. McIlroy, inspecting members of the Auxiliary
The Mayor of Reading, Councillor W.E.C. McIlroy, inspecting members of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) at a display in the city centre during the Second World War. 11th June 1942

Bombers of the German Luftwaffe in flight over London during the Battle of Britain. Picture shows: Two Dornier 217s flying above fires started by bombs in the neighbourhood of Beckton gas works in

Mr R. J. White, leader of an Isle of Wight ARP rescue party
Mr R.J. White, leader of an Isle of Wight ARP rescue party, has invented three pieces of apparatus to improve the manipulation of stretchers to prevent further injury to the patient

Picture taken at a British base when the British Royal Navy submarine HMS Ultimatum returned after a year of successful patrolling in the Mediterranean Sea where she sank a total of 6

Inside the factory of Messrs WM Lawrence and Co, Colwick, Nottingham. Aircrafts are being made in one half of the factory, and furniture in the other half. Picture taken 23rd October 1944

British Royal Navy warship HMS Warspite, flagship of Admiral Sir James Somerville, commanding the Eastern Fleet in the Indian Ocean during the Second World War. September 1942

Demolition squads at work after a Nazi Luftwaffe raid on Liverpool and Merseyside. Original caption suggests the picture was taken in Opie Street or Great Homer Street, Liverpool

The latest type of motor torpedo boat in use by the Royal Navy, discharging her weapons during exercises in the English Channel during the Second World War. July 1940

Lambeth and Kennington area of London - April 1941. Picture shows The Old Tennants Hostel on the left. Possibly Newburn Street but this is not confirmed

Clearance of an unexploded bomb in Hull during the Second World War. One of many dropped by the Luftwaffe on the city of Hull over three nights in May 1941

Members of a Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal Squad pose for the camera after successfully defusing a 500KG bomb in Craven Street, Hull

Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal Squad defusing a 500KG bomb in Craven Street, Hull. One of many dropped by the Luftwaffe on the city of Hull over three nights in May 1941

Picture shows The Sunderland. A new type of sea plane for the RAF. Pictured is a biplane, but it is related to the 2 winged plane

Successful removal of an unexploded bomb in Hull, North England after the Second World War. Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal pose with the weapon. Circa 1941

Discovery of an unexploded parachute mine in Hull after the Second World War. Navy and Army bomb disposal squads moving the parachute mine from the dredger to a waiting truck. May 1949

The Lord Mayor of Cardiff (Alderman James Hellyer - {pictured right}) drawing his Points ration book at the City Hall, Cardiff

British Army East Yorkshire regiment in training somewhere in England during the Second World War. Circa 1940

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