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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
Munition girls at work at a Welsh shell factory working for the Ministry of Supply during the Second World War. Circa 1941
A Royal Air Force officer addressing workers at a factory near Reading, Berkshire during the Second world War. 10th April 1942
A Royal Air Force officer etched women workers at a factory near Reading, Berkshire during the Second world War. 10th April 1942
A group of recruits for the Reading Home Guard Ant-Aircraft Battery pictured on parade observed by NCOs and Officers during the Second World War. 1st June 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
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
A French tank fires at an enemy position on the outskirts of Belfort, France, while infantry pick of running targets from cover at the side of the road
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
These two- men had a tough task : they had to breach a mine field barring the approach to Brachelen, Germany. They camouflaged their M.1. rifles with adhesive tape to avoid being seen by the enemy
A party of six Canadian members of Parliament Messrs. W Ross Macdonald, A. G. Slaght, A. Fournier, H. Jackman, H.J. Coldwell and J.H. Blackmore recently saw the cross channel guns
Soldiers manning one of the thousands of coastal defence guns against possible German invaders somewhere in England during the Second World War. August 1940
After long months and even years of hard training and battle, US soldiers register apparent happiness at embarkation for invasion of Normandy, Northern France
American soldiers laden with equipment and weapons assemble on board a small landing craft. ahead of the D-Day invasion and landings on the coast of Normandy, Northern France. Circa 4th June 1944
Landing craft infantry of the 9th Canadian Infantry prior to their landing on Juno beach during the D-Day landing sin Normandy, Northern France. 6th June 1944
Photo taken from an American landing craft approaching a beachhead oh the northern coast of France shows American soldiers ready to leap into the surf during the D0-Day landings in Normandy
Glyn Jones of the Newport Home Guard during the Second World War. Circa 1941
Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm pilots in training exercises during the Second World War. Picture shows: Wheeling out the torpedo to be fitted to their aircraft. March 1941
A veteran from the previous war gives instructions on how to use a Tommy gun at a Home Guard camp near Cardiff. September 1941
Soldier taking advantage of cover as he fires his gun in a South Wales training exercise during the Second World War. October 1941
Men of the Royal Northumberland fusiliers have recently undergone practice exercises at beach landing on invasion lines. Small boats are brought closely into shore
Private Morris of Acton, London, part of the British Airborne troops in Holland, on guard at Divisional Headquarters. The Airborne flag, bearing Pegasus, the flying horse of Greek mythology
Private J. Connington of Selby, Yorkshire fighting with the 1st Allied Airborne Army in Holland with his Sten Gun. 20th September 1944
Member of the Army Reconnaissance Corps. 27th September 1942
Naval ratings undergoing training with Tommy guns for the first time. 29th November 1940
While many people thin the Army is training for defensive action against the enemy, British Army Commanders have other ideas
The RAF 12000 lb Tallboy bomb, the first completely streamlined heavy bomb to be used during the second World War and the forerunner to the 22, 00 lb " Grand Slam" bomb which followed
At dawn on 22nd October 1944, the British Second Army struck westwards from Oss towards the important town and rail junction of Hertogenbosch, some 12 miles away
Dakota transport planes being unloaded on a captured airfield in southern Italy during the Second World War. In the foreground is the skeleton of a burnt out Italian CR42 single seat fighter plane
Following a recent counterattack by the Germans some British troops in Holland having held the advance, put in a counterattack of their own
Picture showing how Britain prepared for an attempted invasion by German forces during the Second World War. Weapons developed by the Petroleum Warfare Department include this vertical flame throwing
How to extinguish an incendiary bomb. If a stirrup pump is unavailable, a half-filled sand bag should be held up to protect the face and upper body
How to extinguish a fire bomb. A man crouches in the doorway of a smoke filled room and aims his stirrup pump around the edge of the door in an attempt to extinguish the fire. January 1941
To counter possible attempts by the enemy to land troops on Scottish lochs, by seaplanes, armed motor boat patrols have been established
Abyssinian patriot soldiers fighting against the Axis occupation forces of the German and Italian armies in Abyssinia, East Africa during the Second World War. 27th January 1941
General Sir Robeit Cordon-Finlayson taking the salute at the Home Guard march - past in Victoria Square, Birmingham 23rd March 1941
Heavy Anti Aircraft Batteries situated close to the City of Birmingham for the defence of the munition, aircraft, and tank factories dotted around the city
Members of the Home Guard parade for inspection at an un-named Birmingham location 15th June 1941
The solider in the corner waited quite a while for this bus, Why?, Well, hes just home on leave and the conductress is his wife, He is Corporal Hugh Cameron of the RASC, Royal Army Service Corps
A Chinese mule team hauls a Chinese Howitzer over the mountainous terrain of the Burma Road to the fighting front against the Japanese in China. November 1944
British troops began work on the erection of defences immediately after arriving upon the Greek shores. Photo shows: General Sir Archibald Wavell, G.O
Soldiers of the British expeditionary Force have a break for refreshments in the snow covered countryside of Northern France during the Second World War. 4th January 1940
