Soldiers Collection (page 7)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Picture taken in Germany during the Second Word War shows four German parachute troops, as the type used in Crete in May 1941. Circa May 1941

It is now possible to reveal the Interesting story behind the shooting down of a JU 83 from Fair Island off the North of Scotland

A battalion of the Leicester Regiment serving with the British Army in the Middle East during the Second World War. Photo graph shows: Captain R.E

Combined Operations raid on Dieppe on 19th August 1942. Canadian and U. K
Combined Operations raid on Dieppe on 19th August 1942. Canadian and U.K. Special Service Troops carried out the raid with a detachment of a U.S

Belgian people go wild with excitement as the first American troops roll in to Soignies, Belgium. Youngsters how their joy by shaking hands with the American troops of an Armoured Infantry unit as

A battalion of the Hampshire Regiment serving with we British Expeditionary Force in France during the Second World War. Photo shows

First pictures of the British Army entry in to Brussels, Belgium during the Second world War. Photo shows: The Palais de Justice set on fire by fleeing Germans as the British entered the city

Aerial view of the 1st US Army Trucks and equipment rolling across a pontoon bridge over the Rhine, towards the Eat bank of the river

Lorries, Bren Carriers and despatch riders all fork part of this long convoy of Canadian men and equipment moving in to Caen during the Battle of Normandy in the Second World War. July 1944

The Suffolk Regiment serving with the British Expeditionary Force in France during the Second World War. Photo shows: The mens billet. March 1940

Allied troops in Holland following the liberation of Europe. British troops of Airbourne division who fought heroically at Arnhem

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 reading
Private 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 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

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

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)

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