Troops Collection (page 3)

British troops in Manchester enjoying fun in the snow during the Second World War. 8th February 1942

Pte. Price and Sgt. E. Parry, part of the 36th British Division in Burma (Myanmar). Circa 1940s

British infantry on leave arrive at a British park during the Second World War. 2nd January 1945

Colour Sergeant J. E. Pardoe (left) tries on a bowler hat in Gibraltar whilst waiting to
Colour Sergeant J.E. Pardoe (left) tries on a bowler hat in Gibraltar whilst waiting to board the troopship that is due to take him home. With him is RQMS H.F.W. Hallam. 11th June 1945

Piles of mail bags sorted by soldiers in Liverpool. 19th December 1943

Sergeant Ted Okey helps a French woman bathe her child whilst Tommy Dalby talks to the father and grandmother. 31st July 1944

Private C. White after killing five Japanese soldiers who attacked his Bren gun post. 9th October 1944

Flying Officer R. Harvey, Squadron Leader A. G. Williams, Flight Sergeant A
Flying Officer R. Harvey, Squadron Leader A.G. Williams, Flight Sergeant A. Watts and Wing Commander J.M Bazin, all of whom took part in the the final attack on the German battleship Tirpitz

The British 36th Division celebrating St. Andrews Day in Myanmar. 25th December 1944

Senior Officers of Allied Land Forces South East Asia, leaving 36th Division Headquarters for an inspection of front line troops with Major General F.W. Festing (driving). 16th March 1945

"Anzio Odeon", a dug-out at Divisional Headquarters
" Anzio Odeon", a dug-out at Divisional Headquarters, sandbagged and camouflaged, where films are shown to the men of the British Army serving on the Italian Front at Anzio

A Home Guard camp near Cardiff, Wales. N. C. O gives a lesson on the Lewis gun
A Home Guard camp near Cardiff, Wales. N.C.O gives a lesson on the Lewis gun. September 1941

8th Army returning on leave from the Middle East. (left) Corpl. A. Beckett of Wem, Shropshire, Corpl. P.G Drew of Exeter and (right) Corpl F. T

At a football match held at Delivrand, in Normandy, a Scottish Pipe band, (Black Watch) entertained the crowd of French civilians and British troops who had gathered to watch the match

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tanks and convoys on the way to the Ardennes salient. circa January 1945

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

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

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