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Civilians after an air raid in Coventry. November 1940

At an experimental gunnery camp in Manorbier, Wales, members of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) are doing very secret work operating Kine- Theodolite instruments which record the burst of

Iris Richardson being carried by her colleagues in the Land Army at the YWCA hostel, Walton-on-Thames. April 1941

During his visit to the British sector somewhere in France, French President Albert Lebrun, accompanied by the Commander In Chief of the British Expeditionary Force Lord John Gort VC

A game of bottle kicking in Hallaton, Leicestershire. 10th April 1944

"Anzio Odeon", a dug-out at Divisional Headquarters
" Anzio Odeon", a dug-out at Divisional Headquarters, sandbagged and camouflaged, where films are shown to the men of the British Army serving on the Italian Front at Anzio

Activities and personnel at HMS Rajalyia, Royal Navy Station in Puttalam, Ceylon during the Second World War. Picture shows

Canadian fighter squadron which is led by Squadron leader Sir Douglas Bader, the famous RAF flying ace who lost both of his legs in an air accident in 1931

Over a thousand members of the Womens Auxiliary Air Force (WaF) are now in India working alongside the RAF in South East Asia Command

This Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) company of drivers was formed In the Middle East 14 months ago, and in the past six months they have made over a hundred trips

Royal Ascot 1955, Models, Colleen Pexter (left) of South Africa with Cynthia Oberholzer of Britain, Thursday 14th July 1955

Airmen of the Second Tactical Air Force Bomb Disposal Flight, assisted in clearing the streets and houses of the ruined city of Caen, Normandy of booby traps left by the fleeing Germans

Throughout the hours of darkness, WaF Flight mechanics are on duty servicing aircraft used for night training of pilots at a Flying Training Command Station in Scotland

Royal Ascot 1955, Mrs G Glenville-Williams, Thursday 14th July 1955

Some fighters of an Eastern escort carrier make their first kill on board HMS Empress at sea in the Pacific during the Second world War

Convoys, protected from Libyan air bases, bring enough supplies for months. In the central mediterranean, aboard HMS Euryalus. 4 December 1942

Troops supporting the N. F. S. and Fire Guards fighting fires in London. 13th March 1944
Troops supporting the N.F.S. and Fire Guards fighting fires in London. 13th March 1944

They carry on each Sunday at their usual corner although now the scene of ruin. Picture taken near Salvation Army Hall, Cambridge Heath, Mare Street, Hackney, during an air raid. October 1940

Mrs R. L. Henrique, wife of the Senior Magistrate at East London Juvenile Court
Mrs R.L. Henrique, wife of the Senior Magistrate at East London Juvenile Court, plays her part in a flying bomb incident. She is clerk to an incident officer

The RAF Spitfire squadron "County of Surrey"
The RAF Spitfire squadron " County of Surrey", known as " Churchills Own", of which the Prime Minister is honorary Air Commodore, arrived in India in 1942

Girl fireguard of twelve million trees. From the top of a 55ft fire watch tower in Rendlesham Forest near Woodbridge in East Anglia

British troops of the 6th Airborne Division reached the Baltic Coast of Wismar, due north of Schwerin, Germany on 3rd May where they made contact with a Russian armoured squadron which had pushed

Llanellys ARP squad, composed of members of the local fire brigade, photographed before their first gas test at fire station. In the picture Supt. W

Steel helmet for the use of civilians announced in the House of Commons by Mr. Herbert Morrison, Minister of Home Security. February 1941

A Home Guard camp near Cardiff, Wales. N. C. O gives a lesson on the Lewis gun
A Home Guard camp near Cardiff, Wales. N.C.O gives a lesson on the Lewis gun. September 1941

Some of the activities of the War Department Fleet of craft. They carry stores, ammunition etc. to sea forts, coastal gun sites etc. and also tow targets for coastal gun practice

Four Land Army Girls are mad with Mr. John Morgan. The Socialist MP for Doncaster, Yorks, put his foot in it when he told Parliament how these four girls had reclaimed 300 acres of wasteland at

British member of the Home Guard equipped with a Sten Gun. May 1942

Home Guard inspection, Cardiff. 1940

American paratroopers pictured in the C-47 of the Troop Carrier Air Division of the 12th Air Force, en route to dropping zones in Southern France during the Second World War

Firefighters in Paternoster Row, London. 30th December 1940

Locals watch an anti-invasion exercise in Lincolnshire. September 1942

Paper shortage - now that Newspaper Bills are not used, this Scottish newspaper vendor (J. Milner) has his bills printed on his back to attract public

Miss Ella Lane hostess and interpreter at the Birmingham Hospitality Club talks with Polish, Frenchmen and other foreigners who visit the club. 30th March 1945

Military Policeman Lance Corporal H. Wallis of 68 King Alfred Street, Derby is seen here exercising his police dog " Lady". May 1944

Parashooters in a Midland village. 3rd July 1940

After dinner scene at the Wellington Club, London. February 1944

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

Major General F. W. Festing, D. S. O. commanding the 36th Division visiting forward areas
Major General F.W. Festing, D.S.O. commanding the 36th Division visiting forward areas near Hopin in North Burma. He is travelling by jeep train

Mrs Miller with her 4-month-old baby at her house at Crowhurst Road, Brixton. September 1940

Picture shows Mrs Annie Kelly, boring a shaft of submarine. She is the wife of a crane driver in the same factory. Picture taken in Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England. Picture taken 4th October 1944

Marcel Folie, who comes from Paris, joined the fighting French in North Africa and was wounded during the liberation of France. 17th September 1944

Bobby, a cat, is eyes and ears to his mistress Miss Walker, of Chandos Road, London. This cat wakes his mistress, who is deaf and nearly blind, when the air raid alert sounds

At a football match held at Delivrand, in Normandy, a Scottish Pipe band, (Black Watch) entertained the crowd of French civilians and British troops who had gathered to watch the match

Using timber which is of no use for war production, a game of Land Army girls at Bywell near Newcastle Upon Tyne are supplying wood to keep the home fires burning

First pictures of the evacuated British Airborne Forces from Arhem, Holland during the Second world War. Sergeant C Bennet of the 1st Airlanding Brigade (home town Darlington)

The British cruiser HMS Ajax. September 1943

Leading Fireman Herbert Rogers is known to thousands of East London children as the Teddy Bear doctor. At regular intervals he visits the day nurseries and schools just like a real doctor

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