01446 Collection (page 3)

Home Guards, well entrenched, with a bombing post in the background, guarding a road in the English countryside during the Second World War. August 1940

A Vickers Wellington DWI Mark II of No. 1 General Reconnaissance Unit at Ismaliya, Egypt, , showing the 48-foot diameter electromagnetic ring, for exploding magnetic mines

Bren gun carriers passing over a trench in which troops are taking cover during an army exercise on Caerphilly mountain, South Wales 1st April 1941

Dutch workmen help repair a dispersal at Volkel, Holland, while in the background ground crew service a Hawker Tempest of No. 3 Squadron RAF. Circa October 1944

Army cyclist board a Airspeed Horsa gliders in preparation for moving off to their take off positions during an invasion exercise in South East England. Circa April 1944

Crossing a road in Gennep which is dominated by enemy fire. Leading infantryman of C Company 5th Black Watch tosses a smoke bomb into centre of the road, which

A view of the hydro electric plant at Rjukan, Norway. Circa 1943

Infantrymen of the 1st Battalion The Green Howards pass a Bofors gun on their way to the front near Lanciano, Italy 1st January 1944

Advancing infantry of the 15th Scottish Division, 227 Brigade Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders, take up positions in newly captured trenches won from the Germans of the outer Siegfried Line

Sergenat W Page of Coulsdon, Surrey, and Leading Aircraftman G Skelsey of London fit a long-range fuel tank to a Hawker Typhoon Mark IB of No. 137 Squadron RAF at B78 Eindhoven, Holland

A Short Sunderland of No. 10 Squadronon the water after alighting to rescue 3 survivors from a Vickers Wellington of No. 172 Squadron RAF

Padre Dunning of the RAF, talks during a service at The Tower Circus in Blackpool Lancashire. Picture taken 5th March 1944

A Christening in an Air Raid Shelter. The Blitz, (September 1940-May 1941), nighttime bombing raids against London and other British cities by Nazi Germany during World War II

Short Stirling Mark I, N3658 LS-E, of No. 15 Squadron RAF, piloted by Flight Lieutenant Gilmour, encounters heavy flak at a height of 10, 000 feet over the French coast

Infantry of the Glasgow Highlanders and the Coldstream Guards double across the flat countryside towards the tanks and the covering smoke screen east of Nijmegen. 8th February 1945

Airspeed Horsa gliders marshalled in preparation for moving off to their take off positions during an invasion exercise in South East England. Circa April 1944

Lieutenant A. Garwood, the commander of the Sherman tank, feeding an elephant with biscuits from the turret of his tank on the road at Taungtha, Burma, 14 April 1945

El Jaich EI Arabi, the Arab Legion, was formed after the last war by the Emperor Abdulla, with the assistance of Captain Peaks as military adviser

The end of this Ju88C of KG 40 was caught on the gun camera of Flight Lieutenant Joseph Singletons Mosquito II on 11 June 1943

Destroyer waiting at a jetty at Barentsburg in the Svalbard Islands to take Russian miners and their families off to the SS Empress of Canada. Spitzbergen Raid 25th August 1941

The wireless operator / air gunner of a Lockheed Hudson Mark I of No
The wireless operator/air gunner of a Lockheed Hudson Mark I of No. 206 Squadron RAF based at Bircham Newton, Norfolk, signals with an Aldis lamp to four other aircraft of the Squadron to "

Fires burning in Stamsund on the Lofoten Islands as British commandos leave.The raid on the Islands resulted in the oil storage facilities being destroyed

Britishtroops inn the Faroe Islands during the Second World War. British soldiers making friends with local children. May 1940

German stores burn on Maloy Island, Norway following a Commando raid on the island that result with the whole of the German garrison either dead or a prisoner of war. 27th December 1941

Airborne soldiers board a Airspeed Horsa gliders in preparation for moving off to their take off positions during an invasion exercise in South East England. Circa September 1943

HMS Kipling with her guns manned and ready for action whilst on patrol in the Western Approaches. Circa May 1940

British and Canadian armed forces occupy Iceland during the Second World War. Pictures of British Army soldiers on the island. August 1941

An oil factory burns in Vaagso, 27 December 1941. British troops can be seen on the quay in the foreground

More and still more guns are being mounted around the coast of Britain to give an invader a warm reception should he attempt a landing

Women flight mechanics are working for the R. A. F. in Flying training Command
Women flight mechanics are working for the R.A.F. in Flying training Command. Each aircraft is inspected every 24 hours and thoroughly overhauled after it has flown a stipulated time

British armed forces occupy Iceland during the Second World War. Picture shows: British Army Bren Gun carriers crossing a river on the island. August 1941

Barrage balloons for merchant ships 31st October 1941 Balloons being transferred from the balloon launch to merchant ships off the coast of Greenock

A Bren gunner of the 15th Scottish Division 2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders in one of the trenches that forms the Siegfried Line looking out across the flooded landscape 10th February 1945

Infantry moving across country and down muddy tracks en route for Geilenkirchen. 18th November 1944

Reconnaissance photograph taken by a Spitfire of 542 Squadron of the completely destroyed town centre of Julich, Germany, two days after the daylight attack by aircraft of Nos, 4, 6 and 8 Groups

A Valentine bridgelayer of the 3rd Independent Bridge Building Company, Royal Armoured Corps, spans a damaged bridge near Meiktila, Burma. 28 March 1945

A Bristol Blenheim Mark IV, V5589, of No. 113 Squadron RAF based at Asansol, India, veers out of control as it is shot down by Japanese fighters while carrying out a low-level bombing attack on two

A thick columns of black smoke rising from a Japanese train attacked by Bristol Beaufighters at Kokkogon, about 40 miles along the branch line from Pyinmana, on the Rangoon-Mandalay railway, Burma

A lady working in a munitions factory. She is using what looks to be a bow saw. Location unknown Picture taken 22nd June 1942

Mrs C Sheppherd in the driving seat of a Bofors 40mm a gun. The occasion is a mock up battle in the North West of England, where families have been allowed to attend. Picture taken 18th January 1942

A lady does her acrobatic routine, entertaining the troops in one of the many organised events throughout World War Two to lift the spirits of the armed forces, and the nation

Twenty Four year old leading seaman Taylor, representing the Navy, thanking the 800 female munition workers who have turned out to see him

Paratroopers in training. Picture taken 24th October 1941

Welsh Fusiliers Regiment. A soldier takes the regiment mascot for a walk. His horns are painted gold, and they pass a soldier playing the drum. Picture taken 18th July 1942

War munition workers. Two ladies. Picture taken 2nd April 1941

The Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) ladies. Caption suggests these are pay clerks. Picture taken 9th March 1942

War munition workers. A lady in her thick rubber protective overall. Picture taken 6th June 1942

The Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) under instruction for a drill. Caption suggest the male is Sergeant Withers. Picture taken 3rd October 1941

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