Category:War Office Second World War Official Collection

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Liberation of Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp photographs from the Imperial War Museum (187 F)

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The British Army in North-west Europe 1944–45 images from the Imperial War Museum (1 C, 293 F)

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The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939–1945 photographs from the Imperial War Museum (852 F)

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West Indians in Britain during the Second World War (1 C, 26 F)

Media in category "War Office Second World War Official Collection"

The following 200 files are in this category, out of 7,228 total.

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Ram Kangaroo armoured personnel carrier during the assault by 15th (Scottish) Division on Blerick, Holland, 3 December 1944. BU1381.jpg 1,790 × 1,772; 313 KB
3.7-inch guns of 60th (City of London) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment fire a salvo to celebrate the Allied victory in Europe.jpg 797 × 800; 61 KB
4.5 inch AA gun in action Malta 10-06-1942 IWM GM 935.jpg 800 × 790; 60 KB
40 Squadron RAF Wellington at Gibraltar IWM GM 263.jpg 800 × 794; 69 KB
5.5 inch gun Faroe Islands 1941 IWM H 10575.jpg 800 × 787; 90 KB
5.5-inch guns firing in support of the Rhine crossing, 24 March 1945. BU2140.jpg 800 × 551; 48 KB
5.5-inch guns of 235 and 336 Medium Batteries, Royal Artillery, fire in support of the Rhine crossing, 21 March 1945. B15772.jpg 1,772 × 1,774; 406 KB
5.5-inch guns of 235 and 336 Medium Batteries, Royal Artillery, line up to fire in support of the Rhine crossing, 21 March 1945. B15767.jpg 1,772 × 1,778; 393 KB
6-inch naval gun overlooking Reykjavik Bay in Iceland, August 1940. H3124.jpg 2,480 × 1,654; 991 KB
6-pdr anti-tank gun of the 4th Hallamshires, 49th Division, guarding the road to Willemstad, Holland, 8 November 1944. B11790.jpg 800 × 800; 84 KB
8th Army Front- Italian Partisan Leader Honoured NA22066.jpg 800 × 798; 77 KB
8th Army Front- Italian Partisan Leader Honoured NA22067.jpg 798 × 800; 71 KB
8TH ARMY PERSONALITIES NA23572 (cropped).jpg 416 × 411; 25 KB
8TH ARMY PERSONALITIES NA23572 Arbuthnott.jpg 800 × 557; 36 KB
8th Army- the Drive To Bologna and Ferrara NA24093.jpg 800 × 795; 66 KB
8th Army- the Drive To Bologna and Ferrara NA24104.jpg 800 × 792; 119 KB
9.2 inch gun and crew Culver Point Battery 24-08-1940 IWM H 3233.jpg 800 × 550; 49 KB
9.2 inch gun on Gibraltar 1942 IWM GM 278.jpg 800 × 792; 113 KB
9.2inchHowitzerBarrelOnTrainDunkirk20March1940.jpg 800 × 649; 89 KB
9.2inchHowitzerFiringLarkhill20March1941.jpg 800 × 600; 39 KB
9.2inchHowitzerHastingsMay1940.jpg 800 × 600; 110 KB
9.2inchHowitzerMkIIAndChurchill7August1940.jpg 800 × 607; 91 KB
9.2inchHowitzerMkIIHastingsMay1940-2.jpg 800 × 602; 102 KB
A 'Vampire' sign outside an Army Blood Transfusion Service advanced blood bank in the Western Desert, 29 October 1942. E18700.jpg 800 × 780; 86 KB
A 17-pdr anti-tank gun in action in the Anzio bridgehead, Italy, 13 March 1944. NA12888.jpg 796 × 800; 95 KB
A 2 Pounder gun being fired by men of the Free French fighting with British units in the Western Desert, c 1942.jpg 800 × 673; 104 KB
A 2-inch mortar team of 1st Battalion, The Caribbean Regiment in Egypt, 21 August 1945. E31198.jpg 794 × 800; 90 KB
A 3-inch mortar crew from the Queens's Own Royal West Kents in action in Tunisia, 31 January 1943. NA576.jpg 1,772 × 1,783; 855 KB
A 4.2-inch mortar of 1st Infantry Brigade's support group, firing in support of the 5th Northamptonshire Regiment in the Anzio bridgehead, Italy, 18 May 1944. NA15216.jpg 765 × 800; 109 KB
A 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun and crew near Douai, France, November 1939. O327.jpg 1,770 × 2,480; 860 KB
A 6-pdr anti-tank gun portee, camouflaged to look like an ordinary lorry, North Africa, 27 October 1942. E18647.jpg 1,772 × 1,779; 364 KB
A 6-pdr anti-tank gun set up to protect a road in Nijmegen, Holland, 17 October 1944. B11053.jpg 1,810 × 1,772; 424 KB
A 6th Airborne Division sniper on patrol in the Ardennes, wearing a snow camouflage suit, 14 January 1945. B13676.jpg 1,796 × 1,772; 306 KB
A 7.2-inch howitzer in action during the attack on Bardia, 31 December 1940. E1513.jpg 800 × 635; 77 KB
A BCV (Bulk Contamination Vehicle.jpg 1,772 × 1,854; 634 KB
A boat load of Royal Engineers leaves HMS CAIRO on board a Motor Fishing Vessel to land at Narvik in Norway, June 1940. N326.jpg 2,480 × 1,608; 880 KB
A Bofors gunner writing a Christmas card for home, Holland, 8 December 1944. B12607.jpg 800 × 791; 78 KB
A Bren gunner of the 1st Gordon Highlanders in action near Nieuwkuik, Holland, 6 November 1944. B11751.jpg 800 × 792; 54 KB
A Bren gunner of the 8th Royal Scots at Moostdijk, Holland, 6 November 1944. B11758.jpg 1,797 × 1,772; 405 KB
A British 'Pheasant' 17-pdr anti-tank gun in action on the Medenine front in Tunisia, 11 March 1943. NA1076.jpg 758 × 800; 58 KB
A British 17-pdr anti-tank gun and Sherman tank near Cassino, Italy, 17 May 1944. NA15075.jpg 800 × 794; 115 KB
A British Army 15-cwt truck throws up a cloud of sand and dust while moving at speed along a desert track in North Africa, 1 November 1940. E974.jpg 800 × 598; 50 KB
A British Army doctor examines patients at a casualty clearing station in Tunisia, February 1943. NA722.jpg 800 × 799; 81 KB
A British Army mule train transports supplies in the Italian mountains, 21 November 1943. NA8984.jpg 800 × 795; 148 KB
A British Bren gun crew in a trench at Anzio, Italy, 13 March 1944. NA12887.jpg 800 × 794; 89 KB
A British casualty is brought back to a Universal Carrier being used to evacuate wounded, 49th (West Riding) Division, Operation 'Epsom', Normandy, 27 June 1944. B6048.jpg 2,481 × 2,480; 574 KB
A British DUKW carries supplies and American paratroopers across the Waal river at Nijmegen, 30 September 1944. B10434.jpg 1,772 × 1,778; 307 KB
A British infantry sergeant during the advance into Germany near Geilenkirchen, 5 December 1944. BU1434.jpg 1,656 × 2,480; 270 KB
A British infantryman prepares to fire a PIAT anti-tank weapon, Normandy, 9 August 1944. B8913.jpg 1,772 × 1,779; 364 KB
A British infantryman takes the surrender of the crew of an enemy supply truck in the Western Desert, 2 June 1942. E12810.jpg 800 × 792; 88 KB
A British jeep passes a sign warning against looting on the outskirts of Ravenna, Italy, 7 December 1944. NA20577.jpg 800 × 800; 116 KB
A British Lee tank crosses a river north of Imphal to meet the Japanese advance in Burma, 1944. IND3468.jpg 800 × 544; 71 KB
A British Light Tank Mk VI, wearing distinctive camouflage, on a firing range on Malta, 24 March 1942. GM474.jpg 1,790 × 1,772; 749 KB
A British Sherman tank advancing near Catania, Sicily, 4 August 1943. NA5522.jpg 800 × 782; 79 KB
A British Sherman tank advancing through Imprunetta, Italy, 3 August 1944. NA17565.jpg 800 × 799; 123 KB
A British Sherman tank and jeep of 4th Armoured Brigade entering the ruins of Cassino, Italy, 18 May 1944. NA15079.jpg 800 × 795; 129 KB
A British sniper demonstrates his camouflage at a sniper school in a French village, 27 July 1944. B8177.jpg 1,581 × 2,480; 510 KB
A British soldier eats his midday meal in a trench in the snow, while manning part of the front line along the River Maas in Holland, 8 January 1945. BU1598.jpg 1,772 × 1,855; 340 KB
A British soldier examines an abandoned German 'Nebelwerfer' near Troarn, Normandy, 20 July 1944. B7785.jpg 1,772 × 1,787; 449 KB
A British soldier gives a V-for-Victory sign to German prisoners captured at El Alamein, 26 October 1942. E18522.jpg 800 × 796; 53 KB
A British soldier inspects the grave of a German tank crewman, killed when his PzKpfw III tank was knocked out in the Western Desert, 29 September 1942. E17549.jpg 800 × 799; 98 KB
A British soldier reads up on Sicily, the target for the next Allied invasion, July 1943. NA4105.jpg 765 × 800; 67 KB
A camouflaged 5.5-inch gun of 'D' Troop, 111 Battery, 80th Medium Regiment (Scottish Horse) in action at Anzio, Italy, March 1944. NA12734.jpg 799 × 800; 117 KB
A captured German PzKpfw IV tank at 27th Armoured Brigade workshops, Normandy, 3 July 1944. B6344.jpg 1,774 × 1,772; 344 KB
A captured German PzKpfw IV tank at 27th Armoured Brigade workshops, Normandy, 3 July 1944. B6345.jpg 1,782 × 1,772; 375 KB
A carrier crew of 8th Rifle Brigade hands out chocolate to Dutch civilians during the advance of 11th Armoured Division in Holland, 22 September 1944. B10245.jpg 1,772 × 1,773; 414 KB
A Centaur Mk IV tank of the Royal Marines Armoured Support Group near Tilly-sur-Seulles, Normandy, 13 June 1944. B5458.jpg 1,772 × 1,780; 348 KB
A Challenger tank of 15th-19th Hussars, 11th Armoured Division, Holland, 17 October 1944. B11044.jpg 782 × 800; 73 KB
A Churchill tank and infantry advancing near Medjez-el-Bab, Tunisia, 8 May 1943. NA2578.jpg 798 × 800; 75 KB
A Churchill tank and other vehicles parade through Tunis, 8 May 1943. NA2880.jpg 794 × 800; 94 KB
A Churchill tank carrying infantry advances towards St Pierre Tarentaine, Normandy, 3 August 1944. B8567.jpg 1,786 × 1,772; 322 KB
A Churchill tank halts near infantry of the 1st London Irish Rifles near Tanara during the advance to the River Po, Italy, 23 April 1945. NA24460.jpg 800 × 798; 104 KB
A Churchill tank of 7th Royal Tank Regiment, 31st Tank Brigade, supporting infantry of 8th Royal Scots during Operation 'Epsom', Normandy, 28 June 1944. B6124.jpg 2,480 × 1,558; 523 KB
A Churchill tank of 9th Royal Tank Regiment, 31st Tank Brigade during the advance towards Goch, Germany, 19 February 1945. B14728.jpg 1,787 × 1,772; 335 KB
A CMP truck and motorcycle of 11th Royal Horse Artillery (Honourable Artillery Company), 1st Armoured Division, Tunisia, 22 April 1943. NA2315.jpg 794 × 800; 78 KB
A column of Churchill tanks and other vehicles at the start of Operation 'Veritable', NW Europe, 8 February 1945. BU1767.jpg 2,480 × 1,582; 312 KB
A Comet tank of 11th Armoured Division in the Weser bridgehead, Germany, 7 April 1945. BU3202.jpg 1,778 × 1,772; 383 KB
A Comet tank of 11th Armoured Division passes the camp gate at Bergen Belsen concentration camp, 15 April 1945. BU3928.jpg 1,825 × 1,772; 265 KB
A Comet tank of 3rd Royal Tank Regiment, 11th Armoured Division, during the advance towards Lubeck, Germany, 2 May 1945. BU4976.jpg 800 × 793; 85 KB
A concrete caisson or 'Phoenix', part of the Mulberry artificial harbour for D-Day, under construction, 1944. H40320.jpg 1,877 × 1,772; 1.23 MB
A concrete caisson or 'Phoenix', part of the Mulberry artificial harbour for D-Day, under construction, 27 January 1944. H35379.jpg 2,480 × 2,485; 2.01 MB
A convoy of Allied lorries under enemy artillery and mortar fire on the road between Son and Eindhoven, Holland, 20 September 1944. In the foreground American paratroopers shelter in a ditch. BU1062.jpg 1,776 × 1,772; 293 KB
A Cromwell Mk V tank of 4th County of London Yeomanry, 22nd Armoured Brigade, 7th Armoured Division, leads a column of armour and soft-skin vehicles inland from Gold Beach, Normandy, 7 June 1944. B5251.jpg 1,777 × 1,772; 275 KB
A Cromwell tank crew of 4th County of London Yeomanry, 7th Armoured Division, preparing a meal in front of their vehicle, Normandy, 17 June 1944. B5681.jpg 1,772 × 1,777; 484 KB
A Cromwell tank of 7th Armoured Division, Normandy, 30 July 1944. B8183.jpg 1,772 × 1,772; 370 KB
A Crusader tank of 4th Light Armoured Brigade in the Western Desert, 20 September 1942. E17110.jpg 800 × 794; 80 KB
A Crusader tank of the 22nd Armoured Brigade returning after action in the Western Desert, 28 July 1942. E14950.jpg 800 × 800; 58 KB
A Crusader tank with its 'sunshield' lorry camouflage erected, 26 October 1942. E18461.jpg 800 × 793; 85 KB
A Daimler armoured car opens fire in the gloom of early morning at the start of the battle for Tripoli, 18 January 1943. E21333.jpg 758 × 800; 66 KB
A dummy cruiser tank being assembled at the camouflage school at Beaumetz, France, 24 April 1940. F4008.jpg 2,362 × 1,772; 1.87 MB
A French family returns to their village, Buron, near Caen, which was completely wrecked during the fighting, Normandy, 18 July 1944. B7688.jpg 771 × 800; 96 KB
A German POW captured during the Allied assault on Walcheren Island in Holland, November 1944. BU1247.jpg 1,772 × 1,781; 317 KB
A group of cheerful men from the Royal Artillery display chickens acquired for their Christmas dinner, Venray in Holland, 24 December 1944. B13093.jpg 2,497 × 2,480; 933 KB
A gunner at a 25-pdr battery chats to a local French girl in Normandy, 20 July 1944. B7828.jpg 1,772 × 1,837; 299 KB
A Gurkha soldier guards Japanese prisoners on their way to POW camps outside Bangkok, September 1945. IND4839.jpg 800 × 614; 98 KB
A hangar full of wrecked German aircraft at Schmarbeck airfield, Germany, 20 April 1945. In the foreground are Heinkel He 111 and He 177 bombers. BU4123.jpg 2,480 × 1,519; 560 KB
A Humber Mk II armoured car and crew of 'B' Squadron, 11th Hussars, Tripoli, 2 February 1943. E22008.jpg 800 × 798; 113 KB
A Humber Mk II armoured car of the 12th Royal Lancers on patrol south of El Alamein, July 1942. E14640.jpg 794 × 800; 74 KB
A Humber scout car and Comet tank of 11th Armoured Division in a devastated German town, 30 March 1945. BU2758.jpg 792 × 800; 109 KB
A line of Phoenix caisson units, part of the 'Mulberry' artificial harbour at Arromanches, 12 June 1944. B5726.jpg 1,789 × 1,772; 567 KB
A little girl holding an umbrella watches a despatch rider attempt to clear the carbuerettor of his motorcycle in torrential rain, 4 October 1943. NA7526.jpg 800 × 794; 102 KB
A long line of German prisoners being marched back along a road near Abbeville, 1 September 1944.jpg 800 × 795; 72 KB
A Long Range Desert Group Chevrolet 30cwt 1533 truck negotiates the slope of a sand dune during a patrol in the desert, 27 March 1941. E2298.jpg 2,069 × 1,949; 1.57 MB
A look-out on board a Royal Indian Navy sloop scans the horizon using binoculars during anti-submarine escort duties in the Indian Ocean, 1945. IND4218.jpg 800 × 565; 52 KB
A lorry mounted anti-tank gun in the Western Desert being manned by New Zealand LRDG troops as they return to Cairo, 27 March 1941. E2301.jpg 770 × 800; 59 KB
A malaria warning sign on the Anzio front in Italy, advising troops to cover up in the evening to avoid mosquito bites, 10 May 1944. NA14700.jpg 800 × 795; 67 KB
A Marmon-Herrington Mk II armoured car armed with an Italian Breda 20mm gun, near Tobruk, Libya, 8 May 1941. E2872.jpg 785 × 800; 74 KB
A Matilda tank crew overhauling their vehicle near Tobruk, 1 December 1941. E6864.jpg 758 × 800; 65 KB
A Matilda tank under camouflage netting in Tobruk 18 November 1941 IWM photo E6589.jpg 562 × 528; 96 KB
A member of a Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) patrol poses with a Vickers 'K' Gas-operated machine gun on a Chevrolet 30-cwt truck, May 1942. E12410.jpg 797 × 800; 80 KB
A member of No. 9 Commando at Anzio, equipped for a patrol with his Bren gun, 5 March 1944. NA12469.jpg 800 × 790; 89 KB
A member of the Home Guard demonstrates a rifle equipped to fire an anti-tank grenade, Dorking, 3 August 1942. H22061.jpg 1,772 × 1,778; 921 KB
A member of the PAN (Partisan Action Netherlands) guides British troops to German positions near Valkenswaard, 25 September 1944. B10309.jpg 798 × 800; 131 KB
A motorcycle despatch rider delivers a message to the signals office of 1st Border Regiment at Orchies, France, 13 October 1939. O129.jpg 2,346 × 1,772; 1.03 MB
A mule column of the 2nd Punjabi Regiment carries supplies to the front line, Burma, 1944. IND3423.jpg 800 × 564; 117 KB
A mule handler of the Royal Indian Army Service Corps shoeing one of the mules, during an exercise in the UK, 16 November 1940. H5591.jpg 1,772 × 2,417; 972 KB
A nurse with a patient at Sandleford Priory, a country house at Sandleford in Berkshire, one of many taken over by the Joint War Organisation (of the British Red Cross and Order of St John) to provide convalesc H10497.jpg 1,772 × 1,778; 618 KB
A nurse with a patient at Sandleford Priory, a country house at Sandleford in Berkshire, one of many taken over by the Joint War Organisation (of the British Red Cross and Order of St John) to provide convalescent care a H10497.jpg 797 × 800; 64 KB
A parachute soldier demonstrates the exit point from the tail of a Whitley bomber converted to parachute-dropping, RAF Ringway, January 1941. H6531.jpg 1,772 × 2,428; 803 KB
A parade of 'Old Contemptibles' - men who had served in France and Belgium in 1914 - in the Local Defence Volunteers, soon to be renamed the Home Guard, 1 July 1940. H2005.jpg 2,375 × 1,772; 1.19 MB
A patrol from the 2nd Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers at Anzio, Italy, March 1944. NA13224.jpg 799 × 800; 115 KB
A patrol of the 2-7th Queen's Regiment enters the village of Pugliano, Italy, September 1943. NA6961.jpg 800 × 800; 140 KB
A PIAT (Projectile Infantry Anti-Tank) in action at a firing range in Tunisia, 19 February 1943. NA756.jpg 793 × 800; 76 KB
A PIAT gunner of the 1st Norfolk Regiment during the advance on Wanssum, Holland, 26 November 1944. B12153.jpg 796 × 800; 67 KB
A Polish family registering at No.17 Displaced Persons Assembly Centre in Hamburg Zoological Gardens, 18 May 1945. BU6634.jpg 799 × 800; 113 KB
A Priest 105mm self-propelled gun negotiates a hairpin bend on a mountain road near Mondaino during the advance through the Gothic Line, Italy, 6 September 1944. NA18392.jpg 800 × 799; 104 KB
A Recruit Joins the British Army H17178.jpg 800 × 604; 59 KB
A Recruit Joins the British Army H17179.jpg 800 × 606; 52 KB
A Recruit Joins the British Army H17180.jpg 769 × 800; 49 KB
A Recruit Joins the British Army H17181.jpg 800 × 798; 65 KB
A Recruit Joins the British Army H17182.jpg 792 × 800; 44 KB
A Recruit Joins the British Army H17183.jpg 774 × 800; 51 KB
A Recruit Joins the British Army H17184.jpg 760 × 800; 53 KB
A Recruit Joins the British Army H17185.jpg 770 × 800; 58 KB
A Recruit Joins the British Army H17186.jpg 760 × 800; 61 KB
A Recruit Joins the British Army H17187.jpg 773 × 800; 44 KB
A Recruit Joins the British Army H17188.jpg 760 × 800; 66 KB
A Recruit Joins the British Army H38584.jpg 796 × 800; 62 KB
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A Recruit Joins the British Army H38586.jpg 794 × 800; 63 KB
A Recruit Joins the British Army H38587.jpg 800 × 798; 63 KB
A recruit jumps from a tower during parachute training at Chesterfield in Derbyshire, 17 September 1942. H22994.jpg 1,772 × 1,772; 664 KB
A sapper from 211 Field Park Company, Royal Engineers, attached to 44th Infantry Division, carrying 'Molotov Cocktails' made from beer bottles, Woodlands near Doncaster, 3 September 1940. H3641.jpg 2,403 × 1,772; 1.25 MB
A sergeant of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps bandages the wounded ear of 'Jasper', a mine-detecting dog at Bayeux in Normandy, 5 July 1944. B6496.jpg 1,772 × 1,777; 460 KB
A Sherman ARV (armoured recovery vehicle) and other specialised armour moving up to cross the Rhine, 24 March 1945. BU2080.jpg 800 × 544; 54 KB
A Sherman BARV (Beach Armoured Recovery Vehicle) and Sherman tanks of 13th-18th Royal Hussars during the regiment's move from Petworth to Gosport, prior to embarking for D-Day, 2 June 1944. H38987.jpg 1,813 × 1,772; 1,011 KB
A Sherman command tank of 13th-18th Hussars, 8th Armoured Brigade, near the River Waal at Nijmegen, 15 October 1944. B10996.jpg 800 × 793; 69 KB
A Sherman tank and Crusader anti-aircraft tank of the Staffordshire Yeomanry, 27th Armoured Brigade, during Operation 'Goodwood', Normandy, 18 July 1944. B7522.jpg 1,774 × 1,772; 333 KB
A Sherman tank being recovered from the river Biferno near Campo-Marino, Italy, October 1943. NA7725.jpg 800 × 799; 88 KB
A Sherman tank crew from 27th Armoured Brigade with a German swastika flag they captured during the attack on Caen, Normandy, 10 July 1944. B6904.jpg 777 × 800; 88 KB
A Sherman tank crew of 'C' Squadron, 13th-18th Royal Hussars rest and write letters home by the side of their vehicle, Normandy, 10 June 1944. B5425.jpg 800 × 788; 127 KB
A Sherman tank of 11th Armoured Division passing through Leende, Holland, 22 September 1944. B10255.jpg 800 × 501; 67 KB
A Sherman tank of 19th Armoured Regiment, 4th New Zealand Armoured Brigade supporting infantry of 6th NZ Infantry Brigade, during a reconstruction of the action at Cassino, Italy, 8 April 1944. NA13800.jpg 798 × 800; 99 KB
A Sherman tank of 23rd Armoured Brigade coming ashore from a landing craft at Anzio, Italy, 22 January 1944. NA11035.jpg 800 × 785; 83 KB
A Sherman tank of 26th Armoured Brigade, 6th Armoured Division, at Arezzo in Italy, 16 July 1944. NA16963.jpg 790 × 799; 72 KB
A Sherman tank of 8th Armoured Brigade in Kevelaer, Germany, 4 March 1945. B15145.jpg 1,772 × 1,777; 409 KB
A sniper applying camouflage face cream at a British sniper school in Normandy, 27 July 1944. B8174.jpg 1,582 × 2,480; 445 KB
A sniper from "C" Company, 5th Battalion, The Black Watch in position in a ruined building in Gennep, Holland, 14 February 1945. B14626.jpg 1,854 × 1,772; 303 KB
A sniper from "C" Company, 5th Battalion, The Black Watch, 51st (Highland) Division, in position in the loft space of a ruined building in Gennep, Holland, 14 February 1945. B14628.jpg 1,817 × 1,772; 343 KB
A soldier fires a PIAT near St Martin-des-Besaces, Normandy, 1 August 1944. B8335.jpg 2,480 × 1,565; 460 KB
A soldier from 101st Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment prepares for D-Day by reading his French handbook at a camp near Portsmouth, 29 May 1944. H38831.jpg 1,807 × 1,908; 763 KB
A soldier from No. 1 Commando climbs up a steep rock face during training at Glencoe in Scotland, 19 November 1941. H15667.jpg 1,775 × 1,772; 680 KB
A soldier from the 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade, 7th Armoured Division, emerges from his foxhole armed with a PIAT, 28 December 1944. B13235.jpg 796 × 800; 94 KB
A soldier from the Cameron Highlanders looks through a periscope in the Fort de Sainghain on the Maginot Line, 3 November 1939. O228.jpg 1,772 × 2,291; 917 KB
A soldier of 6th King's Own Scottish Borderers, 15th (Scottish) Division, searches wrecked buildings in Blerick, a suburb of Venlo in Holland, 5 December 1944. B12527.jpg 1,790 × 1,772; 393 KB
A soldier of the 7th Battalion, The Black Watch, cuts through barbed wire during training at Sumburgh in the Shetland Islands, 20 April 1941. H9025.jpg 1,794 × 1,772; 1.07 MB
A soldier standing in the ruins of Kleve in Germany, reading a German poster calling for civilians to conserve fuel supplies for the war effort, 13 February 1945. B14572.jpg 1,772 × 1,832; 268 KB
A South African Marmon-Herrington armoured car crew stops to take a compass bearing during a patrol in the Western Desert, 13 April 1942. E10601.jpg 791 × 800; 89 KB
A squad of Home Guard soldiers training to defend a street with 'Molotov cocktail' petrol bombs, March 1941. H8128.jpg 2,500 × 2,480; 1.68 MB
A symbolic photograph of British soldier standing guard on a beach in southern England, 7 October 1940. H4610.jpg 2,306 × 1,772; 1.12 MB
A Union Flag hangs defiantly from a building in the aftermath of the air raid which devastated the centre of Coventry on the night of 14-15 November 1940. H5598.jpg 2,347 × 1,772; 935 KB
A union flag hangs in the main street of Les Andelys in Normandy as British forces arrive, 31 August 1944. The woman in the foreground is Madame Scarlett, wife of an expatriate Englishman and owner of the Hotel B9869.jpg 800 × 799; 124 KB
A union flag hangs in the main street of Les Andelys in Normandy as British forces arrive, 31 August 1944. The woman in the foreground is Madame Scarlett, wife of an expatriate Englishman and owner of the Hotel des Fleu B9869.jpg 800 × 799; 136 KB
A union flag hangs in the main street of Les Andelys in Normandy as British forces arrive, 31 August 1944. The woman in the foreground is Madame Scarlett, wife of an expatriate Englishman and owner of the Hotel des Fleurs. B9869.jpg 1,773 × 1,772; 434 KB
A Universal Carrier and mortar team of the Indian 6th Royal Frontier Force in Italy, 13 December 1943. NA9785.jpg 800 × 795; 127 KB
A Universal Carrier crew of the 2nd Sherwood Foresters fire a 2-inch mortar from their vehicle in the Anzio bridgehead, Italy, April 1944. NA13646.jpg 800 × 800; 55 KB
A Valentine tank crew in Tunisia reading letters by the side of their vehicle, December 1942. NA285.jpg 800 × 797; 79 KB
A veteran sergeant in the Dorking Home Guard cleans his Tommy gun at the dining room table, before going on parade, 1 December 1940. H5850.jpg 2,387 × 1,772; 1.13 MB
A Vickers machine gun of 2-7th Middlesex Regiment in the Anzio bridgehead, Italy, 8 March 1944. NA12616.jpg 800 × 788; 84 KB
A Vickers machine-gun in action near Geilenkirchen, Germany, 5 December 1944. BU1452.jpg 2,480 × 1,634; 404 KB
A Vickers machine-gun team of 7th Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, 59th (Staffordshire) Division in position in a field of corn at Someren in Holland, 21 September 1944. BU1086.jpg 800 × 510; 89 KB
A view looking towards Cassino, Italy, 17 March 1944. NA13010.jpg 798 × 800; 66 KB
A view of 'Pegasus Bridge' over the Caen Canal at Benouville, 12 July 1944. Two of the Horsa gliders that brought the 'coup de main' force in on the night of D-Day can be seen in the background. B7032.jpg 800 × 502; 48 KB
A Westland Lysander of No. 13 Squadron RAF based at Hooton Park, Cheshire, provides aiming practice for members of the Home Guard, at the Western Command Weapons Training School at Altcar, near Formby, 17 Septe H4209.jpg 2,315 × 1,772; 925 KB
A working party of the 1st Battalion Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders at Aix in France, November 1939. O225.jpg 2,427 × 1,772; 1.19 MB
A wounded British officer being helped through the snow to a dressing station during the Vaagso Raid, Norway, 27 December 1941. N495.jpg 1,793 × 1,772; 798 KB
A wounded soldier, evacuated from Normandy, enjoys a cup of tea on a hospital train, 7 June 1944. H39254.jpg 1,772 × 1,785; 765 KB
A wrecked bus stands among a scene of devastation in the centre of Coventry after the major Luftwaffe air raid on the night of 14-15 November 1940. H5593.jpg 2,350 × 1,772; 1.04 MB
A13 Cruiser Mk IVA tank being checked over shortly after arrival in Egypt, 1 November 1940. E1004.jpg 800 × 602; 47 KB
Abyssinian Patriots Attacking the Fort of Derba Marcos E2472.jpg 800 × 798; 162 KB
Admiral of the Fleet Earl Mountbatten of Burma IND5295.jpg 800 × 449; 63 KB
Admiral of the Fleet Earl Mountbatten of Burma IND5298.jpg 800 × 614; 72 KB
Admiral of the Fleet Earl Mountbatten of Burma IND5302.jpg 800 × 616; 72 KB
After the Battle Around Tel-el-eisa E14744.jpg 800 × 778; 161 KB
Air Raid Damage in Great Britain during the Second World War H8799.jpg 780 × 800; 54 KB
Air Raid Damage in Great Britain during the Second World War H8803.jpg 800 × 797; 43 KB
Air Raid Damage in London during the Second World War H36089.jpg 800 × 792; 99 KB
Air Raid Damage in the United Kingdom 1939-1945 H8138.jpg 800 × 600; 95 KB
Airborne troops admire the graffiti chalked on the side of their glider as they prepare to fly out as part of the second drop on Normandy on the night of 6th June 1944. H39178.jpg 3,508 × 2,472; 1.76 MB
Airborne troops cross back over the Rhine in a captured German Kubelwagen car, March 1945. BU2549.jpg 2,480 × 1,626; 306 KB

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