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Members of a Home Guard Anti-Aircraft battery in Reading, Berkshire during the Second World War. 6th July 1942

Edward Bakewell (extreme right, front row) of 8 Hart Street, Reading and Stanley Goodman (back row, cross) of 153 Elm Park Road

Driver W. C. Abery serving in the Royal Army Service CorpsA(RASC) in the Middle East
Driver W.C.Abery serving in the Royal Army Service Corps(RASC) in the Middle East, seen here reading his local newspaper the " Reading standard" during some down time at his camp

Corporal E. W. Stone of the RAF, former schoolmaster at park Lane School, Tilehurst
Corporal E.W. Stone of the RAF, former schoolmaster at park Lane School, Tilehurst, reading his local newspaper the Reading Standard while serving in the Middle East during the Second World War

Signalman Stanley Davey of 228 Oxford Road, Reading, with Mr and Mrs Hannay, who entertained him and another signalman soon after their arrival in South Africa. 12th July 1943

Two brothers of Reading, Berkshire, Leading Aircraft-man Ronald Couch of the Royal Air Force and Driver Eric Couch of the Royal Army Service Corps (RASC)

Bristol Beaufighter night fighter crews of No. 600 Squadron RAF, resting in their crew hut at Colerne, Wiltshire before taking off on patrol

Infantry of the US 9th Army pass a chow-line in the streets of Neuss, Germany after its capture. Tanks can be seen in the background. 6th March 1945

Lance Corporal C. G. Fowler and Company Quartermaster Sergeant Patey, of Reading
Lance Corporal C.G. Fowler and Company Quartermaster Sergeant Patey, of Reading, Berkshire, read their local newspaper, " The Reading Standard" during some down time while serving in India

Mr G Ebsworth with his baby aged two, Berry Daniels. Baby Daniels was shielded by his mother when their Anderson shelter, near the Thames Estuary, suffered a close hit

With blackened face is Miss Peggy Jewell, 26 year old Wren, helps to salvage furniture from her bombed home at Lucas Terrace, Plymouth, where she lived with her aged mother. May 1944

Members of the Royal Australian Air Force enjoy a dip in the cool sea waters as a refresher from the intense midday heat during a rest period in the Philippines where they are assistant General

Soviet nurses on the front line tend to wounded soldiers of the Red Army in a shattered building during the street fighting battle in the town of Voronezh, Russia in the Second World War

In accordance with a request from the Norwegian High Command, British naval forces have evacuated the entire civilian population from an island behind the German lines off the coast of northern

Bombed out family on Clydeside, Glasgow. 15th March 1941

After the bombs - sing song! After enemy aircraft had rained destruction on Plymouth during a 5am raid, households at Pennycross, Plymouth

A coastal crew operating a 9. 2 howitzer gun in action on the coast of England during
A coastal crew operating a 9.2 howitzer gun in action on the coast of England during the Second World War. They fire a shell weighing 350 lbs. 29th March 1941

H. M. S. Exeter returns with improvised deck repairs. Pictured, damage to the bridge
H.M.S. Exeter returns with improvised deck repairs. Pictured, damage to the bridge. 15th February 1940

A surrendered German U-boat in the English channel heads to an Allied port under guard from a British tranpsort vessel. The U-Boat surrendered in accordance with the terms of surrender laid down to

Barbara Willlamson of London, England, and Fleurette Pelly of Dublin, Ireland, both of the Womens Auxiliary Service in Burma

Visit of Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia, to Rangoon, the capital city of Burma

Flying the Hump, the mountains which lie between India and China, is reputed to be one of the most exciting flights in the world

British troops drive into Germany. A jeep manned by Sergeant A Schofield and Trooper O Jeavons of 1 SAS near Geilenkirchen in Germany

A group of soldiers from Reading, Berkshire, pictured while serving in the Middle East during the Second World War. Standing on the right is Corporal W.E

Snow falls on the 8th Army front. British troops clear the main route forward. January 1944

Miss I. McAree was a tailoress but has out down her scissors and has begun cutting 5 1/2" thick steel with a flame cutter for tanks

8th Army engineers begin the construction of a new bridge over the river Uniti outside Ravenna, Italy. December 1944

Wounded being loaded into jeeps during the capture of Caen. 9th July 1944

RAF gold coast spitfire squadron in Italy. Squadron Leader Derrick A. S
RAF gold coast spitfire squadron in Italy. Squadron Leader Derrick A.S. Colvin (seated on the bonnet of a jeep) talks to R.A.F. pilots before a flight. January 1944

8th U. S. A. A. F. bombers attack the Junkers aero engine plant at Strasbourg. 27th May 1944
8th U.S.A.A.F. bombers attack the Junkers aero engine plant at Strasbourg. 27th May 1944

Bob Sheppard and his fiddle being greeted by his sister, Mrs F. Hughes. 11th September 1944

Villagers in Waen Village, Flintshire, have not been able to have a cup of tea for nearly a week because their main water supply has run completely dry

Picture taken December 1944 when British army troops of the 86th Division advanced from " Rail" Indaw and linked up with he 4th Corps near Banmauk

How the Jersey islanders kept in touch with what was going on in England. Although he Germans confiscated all radio sets and threatened severe penalties to anyone listening to the BBC home made

A Czechoslovakian delegate, Mrs Elizabeth Sichrova, examines childrens wear at an exhibition held in Savile Row, London, to help the Allied delegates to see what the British Hosiery

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

The Pound family of Islington, London, return home from being evacuated to Harborough, Leicestershire. The family race up the steps of the home with Mr Pound who stayed behind, in the background

4th Division riflemen search for Nazi snipers after taking the German town of Prum. February 1945

A jeep passes British and Canadian troops after the capture of Caen. 9th July 1944

When an F bomb demolished Mrs Rayners home she was in an Anderson shelter yards from the bomb with her four children. She is seen with her daughter Susan outside the shelter. July 1944

"Mothers Corner"with Mrs Whithard as the "Mother"
" Mothers Corner" with Mrs Whithard as the " Mother" is a popular feature of the YMCA, at Gattis in the Strand

Home guard at Weybridge, Surrey. 14th May 1943

Corporal Kildin and Land girl Joyce Smith, with some of the 275 pigs which form part of the farming activities at a Royal Canadian Air Force bomber station in Great Britain

Canadians stationed at a lonely farmhouse have named the N. A. A. F
Canadians stationed at a lonely farmhouse have named the N.A.A.F.I Cripes Cafeteria because Mr. Cripes, the manager, has a variety of farmyard livestock which he keeps in his spare time

Lance corporal E. Nosworthy home on leave. December 1943

23-year-old Maud Steel is the youngest of many women working in signal boxes on the Southern Railway. On her early shift she leaves her home in Brighton at 5.20am

Villagers, hamlets and farms will be affected if total evacuation for military purposes is put into effect in a large South West coast area

Ken Sadler, "the happiest man of Petworth"has been totally blind half his life
Ken Sadler, " the happiest man of Petworth" has been totally blind half his life, now makes baskets for this years potato harvest, at his pretty cottage at the foot of Shimmings Hill

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