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Western fan Sam Allardyce, Coventry City footballer, gets the Clint Eastwood look complete with gun. 11th November 1983
A special series of photographs taken to illustrate the preparedness of the Home Guards. They were all taken in the Dover and Folkestone area
A typical paratroop of Airborne Forces, complete with rubber crash helmet and Thompson machine gun, taking part in a training exercise in the English countryside during the Second World War
The British Advance east of Tilly in Normandy, Northern France during the Second World War. Following a heavy opening barrage on 25th June
The General Post Office Home Guard has a large number of "veterans"The General Post Office Home Guard has a large number of " veterans" of the last war in its ranks. Well equipped
Ploughing steadily through the broken water, these destroyers of a British flotilla at exercise, give a vivid impression of the power of our navy. Circa October 1940
Members of the French Resistance in Corsica. November 1943
Servicing commandos of the RAF have a busy time on the Normandy airfields assembling rocket projectiles for the Typhoons. July 1944
The Fairey Swordfish, a torpedo bomber biplane designed by the Fairey Aviation Company and W.S. Hunt and used by the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy. 13th August 1944
Consolidated PBY Catalina, an American flying boat, operating with RAF Coastal Command. 12th April 1941. (Embargo date). Pictured in flight, showing one of the gun turrets open
Royal Navy, Human Torpedo, 19th April 1944 (Embargo date). A manned rideable submarine diver propulsion vehicle
A flame throwing Bren Gun carrier named a "Wasp"A flame throwing Bren Gun carrier named a " Wasp" during training exercises at a tactical training school somewhere in India
A Bren Gun Carrier seen here taking part in Army exercises in Northern England Circa 1941
Reading Home Guard seen here during a exercise at a weekend training camp. 15th June 1942
Gwendolen Tulley poses with her rifle as she enjoys a shooting holiday, 1956
English Civil War, re-enactment, performed by The Sealed Knot, an educational charity, Reading, June 1980
A Thompson Machine Gun
Pint sized soldier, Mark Acklom, aged 3, from Greenways, Beckenham, Kent, wearing a miniature guards outfit, complete with rifle, stands guard outside Clarence House, London, 10th June 1976
Actor Brinsley Shaw seen here posing as Benny the Duck, a criminal in the King Vidor film Three Wise Fools. Circa August 1923
Oscar the four year old labrador adopted by Zulu Company of the Royal Marines seen here on patrol in the Radfan Mountains, Aden
Janet Suzman (Joan of Arc) Donald Sinden (centre standing) (Richard of York) and Brewster Mason (Right) (Warwick) seen here on stage at the RSC Stratford Upon Avon performing a scene from Henry VI
Operation Market Garden: Private A J Morgan of 143 Water Street, Port Talbot, and Private M F Thomas, of 15 Whitemill Terrace, Johnstown, Carmarthen
So What! I m a policeman, too! 5th November 1956. Nikita Khrushchev seen here at driving a tank through the ruins of Budapest
Bomber command load one of the new 12, 000 pound "earthquake"Bomber command load one of the new 12, 000 pound " earthquake" bombs onto a Lancaster II bomber, the same bombs that sunk the 45, 000 ton German battleship Tirpitz in Norway
The RAFs new 8, 000 lb bomb which is being dropped by the RAF on enemy targets in Italy and Germany along with the new 4, 000 lb bomb
When men of 104 Light Air Defence Regiment, Royal Artillery, (Volunteers), Newport, fire a 21 - gun salute to mark the coming of age of the Prince of Wales
A member of the Royal Army Physical Training Corps gives Mr Jacob Epstein, the famous sculptor, a private in the Jewish battalion of the Royal Fusiliers basic training in the use of the bayonet
Russian soldiers seen here suffering the effects of poison gas being cared for by members of the Russian Red Cross not far from the front line trenches. Circa August 1915
A German field commander on the Eastern Front commandeers a circus caravan as his parlour. Circa 1916
Sappers and gunners pull a artillery piece up the slope over the previously laid railway lines towards the temporary platform which has been strongly built with the trunks of trees
The Russian Christmas is twelve days behind ours but the Armies are already making preparations for their xmas celebration on the field
German troops seen here sniping at a Russian patrol from behind a breastworks built of sandbags as medics see to an injured soldier. Location not known. Circa 1915
The Company of the 7th Regiment of Chasseurs pose for the camera Circa 1915
German officers seen here during the campaign in Poland wearing sheepskin coats, which being white, protect them against being seen in the snow. They are drinking coffee from a field stove. Circa 1915
Russian soldiers seen here preparing a meal during their advance in to Galicia circa September 1914
The village of Cumin the scene of hard fighting. Won and lost by the Russians and the Germans again and again but now firmly held by the Russians. Circa December 1914
The British Steel Gala, Teesside. Children being shown how to use army rifles. 4th July 1993
Lee-Enfield Rifle No. 4, buried with full military honours at Bisley, Surrey, England, by a 26 strong party of Royal Navy Officers and Men, Thursday 7th July 1966
The Honourable Artillery Company form up, London, circa 1910
Firing a 56 round salute of 25 pounder blank at intervals of a minute (one round for each year of the Kings life) by a saluting detachment from a battery (senior battery of the Territirial Army)
British Royal Marines on guard in the Dardanelles. Circa June 1915
A new 12, 000 pound bomb which is being dropped by the RAF on industrial targets in occupied France and Germany, pictured in front of a Lancaster bomber. 13th March 1944
British officers inspect captured Turkish guns and material at Aziziya. This village was occupied by the British on 4/5 March 1917
Arab soldiers seen here manning the gun battery at Fort Jelana at Muscat. Circa 1916
A captured German howitzer taken from the Crown Princes Koenigsberg Regiment of Grenadiers. In the background is seen the Orthodox Church at Chartorysk Circa September 1914
Interior of the Birmingham Small Arms Company Limited (BSA), Circa 1930s
