British troops surrender in Singapore
Singapore. 1942-02-15. British troops surrender to the Japanese in the city area, after the unconditional surrender of all British forces following the successful invasion of Malaya and Singapore.
Empire Star Singapore Evacuation
At sea off Singapore, 12 February 1942. Troops on deck aboard the refrigerated cargo ship Empire Star which evacuated 2,514 people from Singapore to Batavia, and was damaged by Japanese bombing.
A British infantryman armed with a Bren gun stops for a smoke during t...
A British infantryman armed with a Bren gun stops for a smoke during training in the UK, March 1944. Private J Burroughs enjoys a cigarette.
A British infantryman prepares to fire a PIAT anti-tank weapon, Norman...
A British infantryman prepares to fire a PIAT anti-tank weapon, Normandy, 9 August 1944. An infantryman prepares to fire a PIAT anti-tank weapon, 9 August 1944.
American Decorations For British Officers at General Montgomery's Head...
American Decorations For British Officers at General Montgomery's Headquarters, Normandy, 13 July 1944 General Sir Bernard Montgomery (right) talking to the British Deputy Chief of Staff and Chief Administrativ... More
An Eighth Army Man on Leave, Wirral, Cheshire, 14 April 1944 TR1640
An Eighth Army Man on Leave, Wirral, Cheshire, 14 April 1944 Lance Bombardier Jack Grundy, of 441 Battery, 128 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, 50 Division during his seven days privilege leave with his family.... More
An Eighth Army Man on Leave, Wirral, Cheshire, 14 April 1944 TR1642
An Eighth Army Man on Leave, Wirral, Cheshire, 14 April 1944 Lance Bombardier Jack Grundy, of 441 Battery, 128 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, 50 Division, during his seven days privilege leave with his family... More
An Eighth Army Man on Leave, Wirral, Cheshire, 14 April 1944 TR1644
An Eighth Army Man on Leave, Wirral, Cheshire, 14 April 1944 Lance Bombardier Jack Grundy, of 441 Battery, 128 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, 50 Division, during his seven days privilege leave with his family... More
An Eighth Army Man on Leave, Wirral, Cheshire, 14 April 1944 TR1646
An Eighth Army Man on Leave, Wirral, Cheshire, 14 April 1944 Lance Bombardier Jack Grundy, of 441 Battery, 128 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, 50 Division, during his seven days privilege leave with his family... More
An Eighth Army Man on Leave, Wirral, Cheshire, 14 April 1944 TR1647
An Eighth Army Man on Leave, Wirral, Cheshire, 14 April 1944 Lance Bombardier Jack Grundy, of 441 Battery, 128 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, 50 Division, during his seven days privilege leave with his family... More
An Eighth Army Man on Leave, Wirral, Cheshire, 14 April 1944 TR1649
An Eighth Army Man on Leave, Wirral, Cheshire, 14 April 1944 Lance Bombardier Jack Grundy, of 441 Battery, 128 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, 50 Division, during his seven days privilege leave with his family... More
An Eighth Army Man on Leave, Wirral, Cheshire, 14 April 1944 TR1651
An Eighth Army Man on Leave, Wirral, Cheshire, 14 April 1944 Lance Bombardier Jack Grundy, of 441 Battery, 128 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, 50 Division, during his seven days privilege leave with his family... More
Blood supplies being drawn from an advanced blood bank, Holland, 5 Oct...
Blood supplies being drawn from an advanced blood bank, Holland, 5 October 1944. Blood supplies being drawn from an advanced blood bank, 5 October 1944.
Brigadier C P Jones, Cbe, Mc - Malaya Command Art.IWMARTLD5854
Brigadier C P Jones, Cbe, Mc - Malaya Command image: a half-length, seated portrait of Brigadier C P Jones, in uniform.
Brigadier G M Elliot, Dso, Mc - 51st Highland Division Art.IWMARTLD367...
Brigadier G M Elliot, Dso, Mc - 51st Highland Division image: A head and shoulder portrait of Brigadier G M Elliot in uniform.
Brigadier Ivan de la Bere, Obe - in charge of troops during the siege ...
Brigadier Ivan de la Bere, Obe - in charge of troops during the siege of Malta image: A half-length portrait of Brigadier Ivan de la Bere, seated in uniform. On the wall behind him is a map of Malta.
Brigadier L Howard-jones, Obe, Reme - 8th Army, 1942-43 Art.IWMARTLD37...
Brigadier L Howard-jones, Obe, Reme - 8th Army, 1942-43 image: A half length portrait of Howard-Jones wearing uniform and a coat with fur neck and cuffs. He is holding a pair of binoculars and there is a hilly... More
Brigadier T G Rennie, Dso, Mbe - 154 Brigade, 51st Highland Division A...
Brigadier T G Rennie, Dso, Mbe - 154 Brigade, 51st Highland Division image: A head and shoulder portrait of Brigadier T G Rennie in uniform.
Captain a W Milborne-swinnerton-pilkington Mc Art.IWMARTLD243
Captain a W Milborne-swinnerton-pilkington Mc image: a head and shoulder portrait of Captain A W Milborne-Swinnerton-Pilkington in uniform.
Captain G L Hastings Mc Art.IWMARTLD1394
Captain G L Hastings Mc image: A head and shoulders portrait of Hastings wearing uniform.
Captain G L Hastings Mc Art.IWMARTLD244
Captain G L Hastings Mc image: a head and shoulder portrait of Captain G L Hastings in uniform.
Captain J L Lumby - 40 Battalion, Rtr Art.IWMARTLD1575
Captain J L Lumby - 40 Battalion, Rtr image: A head and shoulder portrait of Captain J L Lumby in uniform, wearing a beret.
Captain L E George, Mc Art.IWMARTLD4960
Captain L E George, Mc image: A half length portrait of George wearing a duffle coat over his uniform. He also wears a green beret marked with the badge of the SAS and has a moustache.
Captain W H Dothie, Mc, Ra Art.IWMARTLD1190
Captain W H Dothie, Mc, Ra image: A head and shoulder portrait of Captain W H Dothie in uniform.
Christmas With the British Liberation Army in Holland, 16 November 194...
Christmas With the British Liberation Army in Holland, 16 November 1944 A tank crew of the 4th Battalion, the Royal Tank Regiment, 4th Armoured Division, unpack a Christmas parcel. The crew who are shown with t... More
Christmas With the British Liberation Army in Holland, November 1944 T...
Christmas With the British Liberation Army in Holland, November 1944 A tank crew of the 4th Battalion, the Royal Tank Regiment, 4th Armoured Division, unpack a Christmas parcel near Weert in Holland. The crew w... More
Christmas With the British Liberation Army in Holland, November 1944 T...
Christmas With the British Liberation Army in Holland, November 1944 A tank crew of the 4th Battalion, the Royal Tank Regiment, 4th Armoured Division, unpack a Christmas parcel. The crew who are shown with thei... More
Christmas With the British Liberation Army in Holland, November 1944 T...
Christmas With the British Liberation Army in Holland, November 1944 A tank crew of the 4th Battalion, the Royal Tank Regiment, 4th Armoured Division, unpack a Christmas parcel. The crew who are shown with thei... More
Colonel H Medlicott Dso Art.IWMARTLD1390
Colonel H Medlicott Dso image: A head and shoulders portrait of Colonel H Medlicott in uniform.
Colonel M Saunders, Mc Art.IWMARTLD5399
Colonel M Saunders, Mc image: A head and shoulder portrait of Colonel M Saunders in uniform.
Company Sergeant-major Mcleod, Dcm - Seaforth Highlanders, 51st Divisi...
Company Sergeant-major Mcleod, Dcm - Seaforth Highlanders, 51st Division image: A head and shoulders portrait of McLeod wearing uniform.
Corporal Fowler Art.IWMARTLD3311
Corporal Fowler image: A head and shoulder portrait of Corporal Fowler in uniform, facing slightly to the left, wearing a beret.
Corporal Guise Dcm, Rifle Brigade Art.IWMARTLD2787
Corporal Guise Dcm, Rifle Brigade image: A head and shoulders portrait of Guise, who has turned to his left to face the viewer. He wears a desert issue shirt, with the ribbon of his Distinguished Conduct Medal... More
Corporal J L Nunn Art.IWMARTLD1133
Corporal J L Nunn image: A head and shoulder portrait of Corporal J L Nunn wearing a flying suit and goggles pushed up onto his helmet.
Corporal J Spencer Art.IWMARTLD3308
Corporal J Spencer image: A head and shoulder portrait of Corporal J Spencer in uniform, wearing a beret.
Corporal Murphy - 1 Parachute Battalion, Airborne Division Art.IWMARTL...
Corporal Murphy - 1 Parachute Battalion, Airborne Division image: A head and shoulder portrait of Corporal Murphy wearing a beret.
Corporal W J Courtney - 40 Battalion, Rtr Art.IWMARTLD1568
Corporal W J Courtney - 40 Battalion, Rtr image: A head and shoulder portrait of Corporal W J Courtney in uniform, wearing a beret.
Crews of amphibious DUKW vehicles rest by the roadside east of the Rhi...
Crews of amphibious DUKW vehicles rest by the roadside east of the Rhine, 25 March 1945. DUKW crews (including one soldier wearing a top hat) rest by the roadside east of the Rhine, 25 March 1945.
Farrier Sergeant Faris el Beini Art.IWMARTLD3085
Farrier Sergeant Faris el Beini image: a half-length portrait of Farrier Sergeant Faris el Beini in uniform, wearing a headscarf.
General Montgomery Decorates Men of the 50th Division, Normandy, 17 Ju...
General Montgomery Decorates Men of the 50th Division, Normandy, 17 July 1944 Lance Corporal G Baldwin, 7th Battalion, Green Howards receives the Military Medal from General Sir Bernard Montgomery for his galla... More
General Montgomery Decorates Men of the 50th Division, Normandy, 17 Ju...
General Montgomery Decorates Men of the 50th Division, Normandy, 17 July 1944 Lance Corporal R W Bennett, from Leicester, of the Royal Signals receives a Bar to the Military Medal which he won at Tripoli, for g... More
General Montgomery Decorates Men of the 50th Division, Normandy, 17 Ju...
General Montgomery Decorates Men of the 50th Division, Normandy, 17 July 1944 The Roman Catholic Chaplain to 2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment, Captain the Reverend W R Thomas, receives the Military Cross from Gene... More
General Montgomery Decorates Men of the 50th Division, Normandy, 17 Ju...
General Montgomery Decorates Men of the 50th Division, Normandy, 17 July 1944 Company Sergeant Major G Calvert, from Sunderland, of the 6th Battalion, Green Howards receives the Distinguished Conduct Medal from... More
General Sir Robert Gordon-finlayson Kcb, Cmg, Dso Art.IWMARTLD713
General Sir Robert Gordon-finlayson Kcb, Cmg, Dso image: A head and shoulders portrait of General Sir Robert Gordon-Finlayson in uniform.
Hunfrey Gale, cropped from Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary F...
Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force- Personalities Half length portrait of the Chief Administrative Officer, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, Lieutenant General Sir Humfrey Gale.
John Francis Martin Whiteley, cropped from Supreme Headquarters Allied...
Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force- Personalities Half length portrait of Major General J F M Whiteley, Chief of the Operations Staff, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force.
Lance-corporal Brindley Art.IWMARTLD3313
Lance-corporal Brindley image: A head and shoulder portrait of Lance-Corporal Brindley in uniform, wearing a beret, looking towards the right.
Lance-corporal W Drury - 40 Battalion, Rtr Art.IWMARTLD1572
Lance-corporal W Drury - 40 Battalion, Rtr image: A head and shoulder portrait of Lance-Corporal W Drury in uniform, wearing a beret.
Lieutenant E White - 40 Battalion, Rtr Art.IWMARTLD1571
Lieutenant E White - 40 Battalion, Rtr image: A head and shoulder portrait of Lieutenant E White in uniform, wearing a beret facing slightly to the left.
Lieutenant G R Weil Art.IWMARTLD3312
Lieutenant G R Weil image: A head and shoulder portrait of Lieutenant G R Weil in uniform, wearing a beret, turning to the left.
Lieutenant W F Smyth - a gunner officer Art.IWMARTLD4060
Lieutenant W F Smyth - a gunner officer image: a head and shoulder portrait of Lieutenant W F Smyth in uniform.
Lieutenant-colonel a D Merriman, Gc Art.IWMARTLD2345
Lieutenant-colonel a D Merriman, Gc image: A head and shoulder portrait of Lieutenant-Colonel A D Merriman in uniform, facing slightly to the left.
Lieutenant-colonel a S Pearson - Dso and Bar, 1 Bn, 1st Parachute Brig...
Lieutenant-colonel a S Pearson - Dso and Bar, 1 Bn, 1st Parachute Brigade image: A head portrait of Lieutenant-Colonel A S Pearson wearing a beret, looking to the right.
Lieutenant-colonel N D Leslie, Gso 1 - 51st Highland Division Art.IWMA...
Lieutenant-colonel N D Leslie, Gso 1 - 51st Highland Division image: A head portrait of Lieutenant-Colonel N D Leslie in uniform.
Lieutenant-colonel R C Thomson- (yorks and Lancs Regt), Gso 1 Mountain...
Lieutenant-colonel R C Thomson- (yorks and Lancs Regt), Gso 1 Mountaineering Wing, Mountain Warfare Training Centre image: Head and shoulder portrait of Lieutenant-Colonel R C Thomson in uniform, viewed in profile.
Lieutenant-general H C Lloyd, Cb, Dso, Mc Art.IWMARTLD1134
Lieutenant-general H C Lloyd, Cb, Dso, Mc image: A head and shoulder portrait of Lieutenant-General H C Lloyd in uniform, turning to the right.
Lieutenant-general H E de R Weatherall, Cb, Dso, Obe, Mc - Commander-i...
Lieutenant-general H E de R Weatherall, Cb, Dso, Obe, Mc - Commander-in-chief, Ceylon image: A head portrait of Lieutenant-General H E de R Weatherall.
Lieutenant-general Sir Frank Messervy Kbe Cb Dso and Bar Art.IWMARTLD5...
Lieutenant-general Sir Frank Messervy Kbe Cb Dso and Bar image: a half-length portrait of Lieutenant-General Sir Frank Messervy sitting at his desk. He is wearing uniform, but his cap lies on a cabinet behind him.
Lieutenant-general Sir Frank Messervy, Kbe, Cb, Dso and Bar Art.IWMART...
Lieutenant-general Sir Frank Messervy, Kbe, Cb, Dso and Bar image: a half-length portrait of Lieutenant-General Sir Frank Messervy in uniform, seated with his hands clasped in his lap.
Lieutenant-general Sir Ronald Adam, Bart, Cb, Dso, Obe Art.IWMARTLD404
Lieutenant-general Sir Ronald Adam, Bart, Cb, Dso, Obe image: A head and shoulders portrait of Adam wearing uniform.
Lieutenant-general Sir Wilfred Lindsell, Kbe, Dso, Mc Art.IWMARTLD1132
Lieutenant-general Sir Wilfred Lindsell, Kbe, Dso, Mc image: A head and shoulder portrait of Lieutenant-General Sir Wilfred Lindsell in uniform, turning left.
Major C Tremayne Mc and Bar Art.IWMARTLD1395
Major C Tremayne Mc and Bar image: A head and shoulders portrait of Tremayne wearing uniform.
Major C Tremayne Mc and Bar Art.IWMARTLD246
Major C Tremayne Mc and Bar image: a head and shoulder portrait of Major C Tremayne in uniform.
Major E Offord - 40 Battalion, Rtr Art.IWMARTLD1576
Major E Offord - 40 Battalion, Rtr image: A head and shoulder portrait of Major E Offord in uniform.
Major R Harvey, Ramc - 26th General Hospital, captured in Greece Art.I...
Major R Harvey, Ramc - 26th General Hospital, captured in Greece image: a head and shoulder portrait of Major R Harvey in uniform, turning towards the right.
Major the Viscount Stopford - 1 Bn, London Irish Rifles (royal Ulster ...
Major the Viscount Stopford - 1 Bn, London Irish Rifles (royal Ulster Rifles) image: a head and shoulder portrait of Major The Viscount Stopford in uniform.
Major W J Riddell, Chief Instructor of the Mountaineer Wing of the Mou...
Major W J Riddell, Chief Instructor of the Mountaineer Wing of the Mountain Warfare School, Mef image: a half-length portrait of Major W J Riddell wearing a white parka and holding a walking pole. He is shown i... More
Major-general D a H Graham, Cbe, Dso, Mc - 51st Highland Division Art....
Major-general D a H Graham, Cbe, Dso, Mc - 51st Highland Division image: A head and shoulder portrait of Major-General D A H Graham in uniform.
Major-general F N Mason Macfarlane Cb, Dso, Mc Art.IWMARTLD242
Major-general F N Mason Macfarlane Cb, Dso, Mc image: a head and shoulder portrait of Major-General F N Mason Macfarlane in uniform.
Major-general Francis Casement, Dso and Bar, Deputy Director of Medica...
Major-general Francis Casement, Dso and Bar, Deputy Director of Medical Services, Southern Command, 1940 image: A head and shoulder portrait of Major-General Francis Casement in uniform.
Major-general G C Kemp, Cb, Mc Art.IWMARTLD3256
Major-general G C Kemp, Cb, Mc image: half-length portrait of Major-General G C Kemp in uniform.
Major-general R F E Whittaker, Cb, Obe, Td, Aa Command, 1942 Art.IWMAR...
Major-general R F E Whittaker, Cb, Obe, Td, Aa Command, 1942 image: a half-length portrait of Major-General R F E Whittaker in uniform, shown sitting at a table with a cigarette in his right hand.
Major-general R F S Denning, Cb Art.IWMARTLD5922
Major-general R F S Denning, Cb image: a half-length portrait of Major-General R F S Denning in uniform.
Major-general W H Oxley, Cbe, Mc - General Officer Commanding Troops M...
Major-general W H Oxley, Cbe, Mc - General Officer Commanding Troops Malta image: A half-length portrait of Oxley in military uniform.
Major-general W N Herbert Cb, Cmg, Dso and Bar Art.IWMARTLD405
Major-general William Norman Herbert Cb, Cmg, Dso and Bar image: a head and shoulder portrait of Major-General W N Herbert in uniform.
Major-general W P H Hill, Cb, Cmg, Dso Art.IWMARTLD138
Major-general W P H Hill, Cb, Cmg, Dso image: Head and shoulder portrait of Major-General Walter Pitts Hendy Hill wearing a suit.
Major-general W. Green, Cb, Dso and two Bars, Commander, South-western...
Major-general W. Green, Cb, Dso and two Bars, Commander, South-western Area, 1940 image : A head and shoulder portrait of Major-General William Green in uniform.
Nevil Brownjohn, cropped from The Second World War- Personalities TR26...
The Second World War- Personalities Half length portrait of the Deputy Quartermaster General, Middle East, Major General N C D Brownjohn.
Operation Moonlight Sonata- Bomb Damage in Coventry, November 1940 H56...
Operation Moonlight Sonata- Bomb Damage in Coventry, November 1940 Troops march through the centre of devastated Coventry on 16 November 1940. In the background are the tower and spire of Holy Trinity parish ch... More
Special Operations Executive (soe) and Special Forces Agents during th...
Special Operations Executive (soe) and Special Forces Agents during the Second World War Lieutenant Odette Marie-Céline Sansom, George Cross, MBE. Odette Sansom served as a courier with F Section, Special Oper... More
Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force- Personalities TR2623
Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force- Personalities Half length portrait of Major General C H H Vulliamy DSP, the Signals Officer in Chief, SHAEF.
The British Army in Burma 1945 SE1928
The British Army in Burma 1945 Private Britland and Private Lyon of the Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) take cover in the undergrowth during the advance on the village of Myitson, February 1945.
The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 B10558
The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 A casualty being given a blood plasma transfusion at No 20 Field Dressing Station near Oostemalle, Belgium, 6 October 1944.
The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 B11139
The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 Men of the 1st Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, 53rd Division, with German prisoners, 23 October 1944.
The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 B15267
The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 Private G Mills of 2nd Gloucestershire Regiment, armed with a PIAT, 6 March 1945.
The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 B15363
The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 Private Thomas Childs of 1st Herefordshire Regiment, 11th Armoured Division, reads a letter from home in his dug-out near Sonsbeck, 6 March 1945.
The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 B9770
The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 Troops in universal carriers handing out cigarettes to local people at Pont Audemer, France, 27 August 1944.
The British Army in the Normandy Campaign 1944 B5291
The British Army in the Normandy Campaign 1944 Lance Corporals A Burton and L Barnett of 6th Airborne Division guarding a road junction near Ranville, 7 June 1944. Horsa gliders can be seen behind.
The British Army in the Normandy Campaign 1944 B5344
The British Army in the Normandy Campaign 1944 Airborne troops with French civilians near Ranville, 10 June 1944.
The British Army in the Normandy Campaign 1944 B5667
The British Army in the Normandy Campaign 1944 Troops at 2nd Army HQ betting on the Epsom Derby, 17 June 1944.
The British Army in the UK- Evacuation From Dunkirk, May-June 1940 H16...
The British Army in the UK- Evacuation From Dunkirk, May-June 1940. An evacuated soldier, wearing a French overcoat, changes his socks and boots at Dover.
The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-45 H29600
The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-45 Private Roland Smith, 8th Parachute Battalion, 1st Airborne Division poses with his Sten gun at Bulford, 3 May 1943.
The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-45 H39075
The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-45 Major-General Richard Gale, GOC 6th Airborne Division, addresses his men, 4 - 5 June 1944.
The crew of a Sherman tank named 'Akilla' of 1st Nottinghamshire Yeoma...
The crew of a Sherman tank named 'Akilla' of 1st Nottinghamshire Yeomanry, 8th Armoured Brigade, after having destroyed five German tanks in a day, Rauray, Normandy, 30 June 1944. The crew of a Sherman tank nam... More
The Second World War - Personalities TR1235
The Second World War - Personalities Major General S W Kirby CIE OBE MC, Director of Civil Affairs.
The Second World War - Personalities TR1237
The Second World War - Personalities Major General S W Kirby CIE OBE MC, Director of Civil Affairs.
The Second World War- Personalities TR2720
The Second World War- Personalities Lieutenant General R M Scobie, General Officer Commanding Allied Land Forces Greece, with his Brigadier General Staff, Brigadier H S K Mainwaring (left) and his Military Advi... More
The Second World War- Personalities TR2724
The Second World War- Personalities Lieutenant General R M Scobie, General Officer Commanding Allied Land Forces Greece, at his desk looking at a map with his Brigadier General Staff, Brigadier H S K Mainwaring... More
The Second World War- Personalities TR2726
The Second World War- Personalities Lieutenant General R M Scobie, General Officer Commanding Allied Land Forces Greece, at his desk looking at a map with his Brigadier General Staff, Brigadier H S K Mainwaring... More
War Office Second World War Official Collection B10047
War Office Second World War Official Collection Public domain photograph related to the British military forces, World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description