mail_outline sales@mediastorehouse.com
283 items
Combined Fleet Invasion exercises in North East England in 1934. Fleet of the Royal Navy off Grimsby
Men of the East Yorkshire Regiment during the Second World War. Circa 1940
Scenes in Hull, the most severely damaged British city or town during the Second World War, with 95 percent of houses damaged
A Lewis gun party of the East Yorkshire regiment having a preliminary trial prior to the inspection of the battalion by Major General W N Herberts who was accompanied by Colonel J Underwood
Clearing away rubble at a scene of destruction in London following an air raid during the Second World War. Circa 1941
Scenes in Hull, East Yorkshire showing the Prudential Tower on Queen Victoria Square after it was severely hit during an air raid on the night of 7th-8th May 1941
Picture shows a baby in Brussels, Belgium, wearing a bonnet with the British regiment The Royal Engineers name on it, and the colours as a ribbon below
Belgian officer placing a wreath at the execution stake at a Gestapo prison in an old Belgian Fort. It is possible that this is Fort Breedonk, where other pictures in this set were taken
Troops enter their coaches after returning from the biggest ever Combined Operations daylight raid on the German-occupied port of Dieppe, northern France, during the Second World War
Rescue work under way at Fairfax Road, Harringay, London after a V1 flying bomb had crashed in a residential area on 10th December 1944
Inspection of the Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) during the Second World War. Circa 1941
General Petit, Chief of Staff to General Charles De Gaulle, presenting the colours by the people of the French colony in Bristol to Lieutenant Martin of the Free French Forces to take to the Free
Picture shows an RAF (Royal Airforce) party for children of Belgium, in Brussels. One of the airmen is dressed up as Father Christmas
British Troops buying Grapes in Brussels. Their regiment is unknown. At this time, between 17Ð25 September 1944, Operation Market Garden saw Allied forces move from Belgium to The Netherlands
An ass in the street in Sicily, Italy, following Operation Husky. August 1943
Queen Alexandrias Nursing Sisters at work behind the front line in the Caen-Tilly sector. Advanced casualty clearing station nearest to the front line
Military police looking at a signpost in the Normandy village of Courseulles which points the distance to Caen and Paris. France. June 1944
Polish infantry hold heights in the snow-swept Apennines. Picture from the 8th Army front, Italy. In a sector held by Polish infantry
Czech-Slovak soldier being introduced to his new baby. 1940
People of Messina welcome the end of bombing. Citizens of Messina, last Sicilian town to fall into Allied hands, coming out of the tunnel (in background)
Bombardier Reg Kraushaar of Deptford and wife, pictured putting on his tie. He had been in the Army for five years. Before that he was a GPO storeman
Italians love music, so the pipers of the British Army entertained them frequently in the public squares. Small liberties such as this touched the Sicilians deeply. November 1943
Sheep left in Caumont, France. August 1944
Free French forces. November 1944
Gilly, the Australian mascot of an RAF Training School, saw the first enemy plane brought down over this country in the early months of the war
Troops following up a tank in Sicily, Italy. August 1943
Allied landing craft approaching the Island of Elba behind a smokescreen early in the morning of 17th June 1944
Cardiff City striker Robin Friday whose fractured cheek will keep him out of soccer for a fortnight - 27th January 1977
The shattered wharves of Messina reduced to a desolation of dust and rubble as a result of the Intensive Allied bombing which accompanied enemy attempts to evacuate Sicily. August 1943
Tunisia. First Army in action. A company of 1st army infantrymen, supported by 30 tanks, were given an objective to storm in the advance towards Tunis. They captured the position
As British troops enter Brussels an effigy and portraits of Hitler are burnt amid cheers from the crowd. 6th September 1944
Marie (Cinderella) Antoinette lives in a farm next to an RAF airstrip in Normandy. For her confirmation at the local church she was dressed in a frock made of parachute silk with shoes specially
German aerodrome close to the Belgian village of Wonbiek camouflaged to look like an extension to the village. October 1944
As British troops enter Brussels local residents celebrate their liberation by dancing a ring-o-roses whilst singing " Hanging out the washing on the Siegfried line". September 1944
Battle of the Oued Zarga, Medjez El Bab Road. When they had gained their immediate objective, the hill town of Chaouach, the 1st Army put out patrols to discover the extent of the the German retreat
RAF and USA Air Force attack enemy lines in Tunisia. RAF roundels and the USA Air Force star fly together in formation in Tunisia
Men of Rifle Brigade picking off German snipers operating in a high building. Tunisia. May 1943
Army equipment exhibition in Lyon following D-Day. 1944
British troops going to the front line shortly after D-Day in June 1944
German woman hangs washing by Siegfried Line, France. Circa 1944
D-Day- shells being unloaded into the secret dump. 1944
Scene from D-Day. 6th June 1944
RAF official war artist Walter Thomas Monnington busy on a portrait of Flight Lieutenant Rumbold (of the Typhoon Squadron) in the garret of a house that stands on a captured German House
A baths the first luxury a Tommy looks forward to when taking a few hours off from the front line. Pictures, Tommies waiting for a turn in the tub in Bayeux, Normandy. July 1944
British and German Red Cross Men meet, France. August 1944
British soldiers keep themselves warm and have some food during a break in fighting, France. Circa 1944
Beer being loaded onto a plane for the troops in France. August 1944
On the German frontier. American traffic pouring over the frontier. September 1944
