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R.E.8 of No 69 (later No 3) Squadron, Australian Flying Corps preparing to set out on a night bombing operation from Savy near Arras

R.E.8 of No 69 (later No 3) Squadron, Australian Flying Corps preparin...

R.E.8 of No 69 (later No 3) Squadron, Australian Flying Corps preparing to set out on a night bombing operation from Savy near Arras

Aviation in France - R.E8 (night)

Aviation in France - R.E8 (night)

R.E.8 of No 69 (later No 3) Squadron, Australian Flying Corps preparing to set out on a night bombing operation from Savy near Arras

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

A British casualty is brought back to a Universal Carrier being used t...

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. A casualty is brought back to a universal carrie... More

A British infantry sergeant during the advance into Germany near Geilenkirchen, 5 December 1944. BU1434

A British infantry sergeant during the advance into Germany near Geile...

A British infantry sergeant during the advance into Germany near Geilenkirchen, 5 December 1944. The face of battle: an infantry sergeant during the advance into Germany near Geilenkirchen, 5 December 1944.

A British sniper demonstrates his camouflage at a sniper school in a French village, 27 July 1944. B8177

A British sniper demonstrates his camouflage at a sniper school in a F...

A British sniper demonstrates his camouflage at a sniper school in a French village, 27 July 1944. A sniper demonstrates his camouflage at a sniper school in a French village, 27 July 1944. (He is wearing a Ger... More

A Cecil Beaton photograph of the navigator working at his chart table in an RAF Stirling bomber, 1941. D4738 2

A Cecil Beaton photograph of the navigator working at his chart table ...

A Cecil Beaton photograph of the navigator working at his chart table in an RAF Stirling bomber, 1941. 1940s vintage exhibition print of Cecil Beaton photograph D 4738. A Royal Air Force navigator working at h... More

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

A Churchill tank of 7th Royal Tank Regiment, 31st Tank Brigade, suppor...

A Churchill tank of 7th Royal Tank Regiment, 31st Tank Brigade, supporting infantry of 8th Royal Scots during Operation 'Epsom', Normandy, 28 June 1944. A Churchill tank of 7th Royal Tank Regiment, 31st Tank Br... More

A column of Churchill tanks and other vehicles at the start of Operation 'Veritable', NW Europe, 8 February 1945. BU1767

A column of Churchill tanks and other vehicles at the start of Operati...

A column of Churchill tanks and other vehicles at the start of Operation 'Veritable', NW Europe, 8 February 1945. Churchill tanks and other vehicles at the start of Operation 'Veritable', 8 February 1945.

A group of cheerful men from the Royal Artillery display chickens acquired for their Christmas dinner, Venray in Holland, 24 December 1944. B13093

A group of cheerful men from the Royal Artillery display chickens acqu...

A group of cheerful men from the Royal Artillery display chickens acquired for their Christmas dinner, Venray in Holland, 24 December 1944. A group of cheerful men from the Royal Artillery display chickens acqu... More

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

A hangar full of wrecked German aircraft at Schmarbeck airfield, Germa...

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. A hangar full of wrecked German aircraft at Schmarbeck airfield,... More

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

A Long Range Desert Group Chevrolet 30cwt 1533 truck negotiates the sl...

A Long Range Desert Group Chevrolet 30cwt WB truck negotiates the slope of a sand dune during a patrol in the desert, 27 March 1941. The Axis Offensive 1941 - 1942: A Long Range Desert Group truck negotiates th... More

A Short Sunderland Mk I of No. 10 Squadron RAAF, based at Oban in Scotland, August 1940. CH839

A Short Sunderland Mk I of No. 10 Squadron RAAF, based at Oban in Scot...

A Short Sunderland Mk I of No. 10 Squadron RAAF, based at Oban in Scotland, August 1940. Short Sunderland Mark I, P9604 'RB-J', of No. 10 Squadron RAAF Detachment based at Oban, Argyll, about to take off from Oban Bay.

A Short Sunderland Mk I of No. 10 Squadron RAAF, based at Oban in Scotland, August 1940. CH839

A Short Sunderland Mk I of No. 10 Squadron RAAF, based at Oban in Scot...

A Short Sunderland Mk I of No. 10 Squadron RAAF, based at Oban in Scotland, August 1940. Short Sunderland Mark I, P9604 'RB-J', of No. 10 Squadron RAAF Detachment based at Oban, Argyll, about to take off from Oban Bay.

A sniper applying camouflage face cream at a British sniper school in Normandy, 27 July 1944. B8174

A sniper applying camouflage face cream at a British sniper school in ...

A sniper applying camouflage face cream at a British sniper school in Normandy, 27 July 1944. A sniper applying camouflage face cream at a sniper school in a Normandy village, 27 July 1944.

A soldier battling his way through a sandstorm in the Western Desert during 1942. CBM1358

A soldier battling his way through a sandstorm in the Western Desert d...

A soldier battling his way through a sandstorm in the Western Desert during 1942. The Western Desert 1942: A sandstorm in the desert: a soldier battling his way to his tent.

A soldier fires a PIAT near St Martin-des-Besaces, Normandy, 1 August 1944. B8335

A soldier fires a PIAT near St Martin-des-Besaces, Normandy, 1 August ...

A soldier fires a PIAT near St Martin-des-Besaces, Normandy, 1 August 1944. A soldier fires a PIAT near St Martin-des-Besaces, 1 August 1944.

A Vickers machine-gun in action near Geilenkirchen, Germany, 5 December 1944. BU1452

A Vickers machine-gun in action near Geilenkirchen, Germany, 5 Decembe...

A Vickers machine-gun in action near Geilenkirchen, Germany, 5 December 1944. A Vickers machine-gun in action near Geilenkirchen, 5 December 1944.

After The Push by CRW Nevinson 1917

After The Push by CRW Nevinson 1917

After The Push by CRW Nevinson 1917 Public domain photograph related to the British military forces, World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Air cadets learn the basics of flight at RNAS St Merryn in Cornwall, February 1944. A22064

Air cadets learn the basics of flight at RNAS St Merryn in Cornwall, F...

Air cadets learn the basics of flight at RNAS St Merryn in Cornwall, February 1944. Flight Lieutenant Prince Birabangse, well known in peacetime as the racing motorist B Bira, but now Chief instructor at the sc... More

Airborne troops cross back over the Rhine in a captured German Kubelwagen car, March 1945. BU2549

Airborne troops cross back over the Rhine in a captured German Kubelwa...

Airborne troops cross back over the Rhine in a captured German Kubelwagen car, March 1945. Airborne troops cross back over the Rhine in a captured German Kubelwagen car, 24 - 25 March 1945.

An abandoned Messerschmitt Bf 109G and a pair of Ju 88G night-fighters in a hangar at Wunstorf airfield in Germany, captured by 6th Airborne Division, 8 April 1945. BU3260

An abandoned Messerschmitt Bf 109G and a pair of Ju 88G night-fighters...

An abandoned Messerschmitt Bf 109G and a pair of Ju 88G night-fighters in a hangar at Wunstorf airfield in Germany, captured by 6th Airborne Division, 8 April 1945. Me 109 and Ju 88G aircraft in a hangar at Wun... More

An AFPU (Army Film and Photographic Unit) jeep displaying a large union flag drives down the Champs Elysees in Paris, 26 August 1944. BU89

An AFPU (Army Film and Photographic Unit) jeep displaying a large unio...

An AFPU (Army Film and Photographic Unit) jeep displaying a large union flag drives down the Champs Elysees in Paris, 26 August 1944. An AFPU jeep displaying a large union flag drives down the Champs Elysees in... More

An Incident on the Western Front Art.IWMART2660

An Incident on the Western Front Art.IWMART2660

An Incident on the Western Front image: A view of a dogfight involving five aircraft. In the upper foreground a biplane of the RAF flies towards a stricken German biplane, which is falling towards the ground l... More

An infantry landing craft (LCI) approaching the shore to take off wounded from Walcheren, Holland, November 1944. BU1283

An infantry landing craft (LCI) approaching the shore to take off woun...

An infantry landing craft (LCI) approaching the shore to take off wounded from Walcheren, Holland, November 1944. The occupation of Walcheren Island is going fast. Flushing is in the hands of the British and tr... More

An SAS jeep manned by Sergeant Schofield and Trooper Jeavons of 1st SAS near Geilenkirchen, Germany, 18 November 1944. B11921

An SAS jeep manned by Sergeant Schofield and Trooper Jeavons of 1st SA...

An SAS jeep manned by Sergeant Schofield and Trooper Jeavons of 1st SAS near Geilenkirchen, Germany, 18 November 1944. A jeep manned by Sergeant A Schofield and Trooper O Jeavons of 1 SAS near Geilenkirchen in ... More

Assembling Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire in front of the Rock of Gibraltar

Assembling Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire in front of the R...

Airmen of the Special Erection Party assemble a Hawker Hurricane and a Supermarine Spitfire Mark V unpacked from crates at North Front, Gibraltar. The Special Erection Party was established at Gibraltar in July... More

Austro-hungarian Army Mobilisation, July 1914 Q81840

Austro-hungarian Army Mobilisation, July 1914 Q81840

Austro-hungarian Army Mobilisation, July 1914 Citizens in Budapest read about the Austro-Hungarian Army's mobilisation in newspapers at the start of the First World War, 30 July 1914.

Aviation in Britain Before the First World War RAE-O453

Aviation in Britain Before the First World War RAE-O453

Aviation in Britain Before the First World War DERA FARNBOROUGH (ROYAL AIRCRAFT ESTABLISHMENT). The army airship Baby landing. In the foreground a group of cyclists watch from behind a set of railings.

Aviation in Britain Before the First World War- the work of Samuel Franklin Cody in Airship, Kite and Aircraft Aeronautics 1903 - 1913 RAE-O1083

Aviation in Britain Before the First World War- the work of Samuel Fra...

Aviation in Britain Before the First World War- the work of Samuel Franklin Cody in Airship, Kite and Aircraft Aeronautics 1903 - 1913 Demonstration of passenger carrying kites designed by S F Cody, with a wom... More

Aviation in Britain Before the First World War- the work of Samuel Franklin Cody in Airship, Kite and Aircraft Aeronautics 1903 - 1913 RAE-O488

Aviation in Britain Before the First World War- the work of Samuel Fra...

Aviation in Britain Before the First World War- the work of Samuel Franklin Cody in Airship, Kite and Aircraft Aeronautics 1903 - 1913 Demonstration of a two man kite designed by S F Cody for use by the Britis... More

Blackburn Skua landing on HMS Ark Royal

Blackburn Skua landing on HMS Ark Royal

The Royal Navy during the Second World War A Blackburn Skua landing on HMS ARK ROYAL.

Blood supplies being drawn from an advanced blood bank, Holland, 5 October 1944. B10550

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.

BOAC Boeing Model 314A Clipper on Lagos Lagoon

BOAC Boeing Model 314A Clipper on Lagos Lagoon

British Overseas Airways Corporation and Qantas, 1940-1945. Boeing Model 314A 'Clipper', G-AGCA "Berwick", of BOAC, lands on Lagos Lagoon, Nigeria, for moorings at the West African flying boat terminal at Iquoi <Ikoyi>.

BOAC Short S.33 'C' Class Empire Flying Boat "Cleopatra" circles Durban

BOAC Short S.33 'C' Class Empire Flying Boat "Cleopatra" circles Durba...

British Overseas Airways Corporation and Qantas, 1940-1945. Short S.33 'C' Class Empire Flying Boat, G-AFRA "Cleopatra" of BOAC, circling Durban, South Africa, prior to landing on the harbour after flying the "... More

Brigadier General F M Carleton Dso Documents.20718

Brigadier General F M Carleton Dso Documents.20718

Brigadier General F M Carleton Dso

Bristol Beaufighter Mk IIF night fighter of No. 255 Squadron RAF at Hibaldstow, Lincolnshire, 5 September 1941. ATP10603B

Bristol Beaufighter Mk IIF night fighter of No. 255 Squadron RAF at Hi...

Bristol Beaufighter Mk IIF night fighter of No. 255 Squadron RAF at Hibaldstow, Lincolnshire, 5 September 1941. Beaufighter Mark IIF night fighter, R2402 ‘YD-G’, of No. 255 Squadron RAF, on the ground at Hibald... More

Britain Before the First World War Q81841

Britain Before the First World War Q81841

Britain Before the First World War Racegoers at Royal Ascot before the First World war.

Britain's new Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, with President Truman and Marshal Stalin at the Potsdam Conference in Berlin, 1 August 1945. BU9496

Britain's new Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, with President Truman an...

Britain's new Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, with President Truman and Marshal Stalin at the Potsdam Conference in Berlin, 1 August 1945. Clement Attlee with President Truman of the United States and Marshal S... More

British infantry in action in the streets of Geilenkirchen, Germany, December 1944 BU1335

British infantry in action in the streets of Geilenkirchen, Germany, D...

British infantry in action in the streets of Geilenkirchen, Germany, December 1944 Infantry in action in the streets of Geilenkirchen, December 1944.

British infantry march through a German village near Geilenkirchen, 5 December 1944. BU1409

British infantry march through a German village near Geilenkirchen, 5 ...

British infantry march through a German village near Geilenkirchen, 5 December 1944. Infantry march through a German village near Geilenkirchen, 5 December 1944.

British Sherman tanks and infantry during the advance on Caen, Normandy, 9 July 1944. B6758

British Sherman tanks and infantry during the advance on Caen, Normand...

British Sherman tanks and infantry during the advance on Caen, Normandy, 9 July 1944. Sherman tanks and infantry during the advance on Caen, 9 July 1944.

British Ships of the First World War Q21817

British Ships of the First World War Q21817

British Ships of the First World War British Light Cruiser SYDNEY, 1913.

British soldiers chatting to German girls, 16 July 1945. BU8902

British soldiers chatting to German girls, 16 July 1945. BU8902

British soldiers chatting to German girls, 16 July 1945. Two British soldiers chatting to three German girls. A scene of the growing fraternization between the occupying forces and German civilians.

British supply trucks crossing a Bailey bridge over the Maas in full flood at Maeseyk in Holland, 25 November 1944. B12119

British supply trucks crossing a Bailey bridge over the Maas in full f...

British supply trucks crossing a Bailey bridge over the Maas in full flood at Maeseyk in Holland, 25 November 1944. Lorries crossing a Bailey bridge over the Maas in full flood at Maeseyk in Holland, 25 November 1944.

Cecil Beaton Photographs- General CBM1725

Cecil Beaton Photographs- General CBM1725

Cecil Beaton Photographs- General A young Jewish refugee from Poland wearing a cap, with his hands tucked in his armpits, in a camp in Palestine.

Cecil Beaton Photographs- General; British Army, Long Range Desert Group CBM1212

Cecil Beaton Photographs- General; British Army, Long Range Desert Gro...

Cecil Beaton Photographs- General The Western Desert 1942: Head and shoulders portrait of a bearded member of the Long Range Desert Group wearing a woolly cap at the wheel of his jeep.

Cecil Beaton Photographs- General; British Army, Long Range Desert Group CBM2264

Cecil Beaton Photographs- General; British Army, Long Range Desert Gro...

Cecil Beaton Photographs- General Travels in the Middle East 1942: Two Yezidee recruits to the Iraqi Levies with plaited hair and Arab head-dresses and robes.

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Political and Military Personalities; Feisal II, King of Iraq CBM2392

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Political and Military Personalities; Feisal...

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Political and Military Personalities Political Personalities: King Feisal II of Iraq lying on a mosaic floor, looking up at the camera.

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 DB1

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 DB1

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 The interior of the process shop, looking up towards the ceiling. It is remarked on the caption that the image resembles a cathedral due to the light entering ... More

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 DB143

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 DB143

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 A close up portrait of a plater's helper who is looking away from the camera.

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 DB154

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 DB154

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 A boy, who is an apprentice fitter, sits amongst a pile of cables, posing for the photographer.

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 DB156

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 DB156

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 A close up of a boy carrying laths of timber.

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 DB160

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 DB160

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 A boy working as a caulker looks towards the camera. His clothes are rippped and his face darkened by dirt.

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 DB17

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 DB17

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 The interior of the drawing office. Workers can be seen concentrating on various plans.

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 DB221

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 DB221

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 The keel of a ship in a dry dock.

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 DB24

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 DB24

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 A close-up of a young man working on plans in the drawing office.

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 DB34

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 DB34

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 Looking down the causeway between two slipways. The vast size of the shipyards is emphasised by the stocks and cranes dominating the image.

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 DB38

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 DB38

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 Bent frames are shown in the foreground. The giant ribs of a ship in the preliminary period of construction can be seen in the background.

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 DB41

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 DB41

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 In the foreground drag chains lie stacked up, they are used to brake the ship's launching. On the right hand side the ribs of a ship in a slipway can be seen. ... More

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 DB54

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 DB54

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 Looking up at the cranes that dominate the shipyards.

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 DB65

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 DB65

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 Shipbuilding: A girl welder with protective head gear raised from her face. In the background a ship under construction in a slipway can be seen.

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 DB75

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 DB75

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 Shows a plate shearing machine in a yard surrounded by various other buildings. Men are busy working.

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 DB84

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 DB84

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 Two welders, one of whom is a woman, at work.

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 DB9

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 DB9

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 An interior view of a mould loft showing the large templates used in shipbuilding.

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Women's Horticultural College, Waterperry House, Oxfordshire, 1943 DB253

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Women's Horticultural College, Waterperry Ho...

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Women's Horticultural College, Waterperry House, Oxfordshire, 1943 A horticultural school for women now training students in all branches of agriculture and horticulture with special r... More

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Women's Horticultural College, Waterperry House, Oxfordshire, 1943 DB263

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Women's Horticultural College, Waterperry Ho...

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Women's Horticultural College, Waterperry House, Oxfordshire, 1943 A horticultural school for women now training students in all branches of agriculture and horticulture with special r... More

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Women's Horticultural College, Waterperry House, Oxfordshire, 1943 DB264

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Women's Horticultural College, Waterperry Ho...

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Women's Horticultural College, Waterperry House, Oxfordshire, 1943 A horticultural school for women now training students in all branches of agriculture and horticulture with special r... More

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Women's Horticultural College, Waterperry House, Oxfordshire, 1943 DB265

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Women's Horticultural College, Waterperry Ho...

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Women's Horticultural College, Waterperry House, Oxfordshire, 1943 A horticultural school for women now training students in all branches of agriculture and horticulture with special r... More

Cheering crowds greet British troops in Paris, 26 August 1944. BU21

Cheering crowds greet British troops in Paris, 26 August 1944. BU21

Cheering crowds greet British troops in Paris, 26 August 1944. Cheering crowds greet British troops in Paris, 26 August 1944.

Commandos of 48 (RM) Commando coming ashore from landing craft at St Aubin-sur-Mer on Juno Beach, 6 June 1944. B5217

Commandos of 48 (RM) Commando coming ashore from landing craft at St A...

Commandos of 48 (RM) Commando coming ashore from landing craft at St Aubin-sur-Mer on Juno Beach, 6 June 1944. Commandos of 48 RM Commando coming ashore from landing craft at St Aubin-sur-Mer on Juno Beach, 6 June 1944.

Crimean War 1854 - 1856 Q71103 photograph by Howlett and Cundall

Crimean War 1854 - 1856 Q71103 photograph by Howlett and Cundall

Crimean War 1854 - 1856 Portrait of Pipe Major John Macdonald, 72 Highlanders, with bagpipes.

Crimean War 1854 - 1856 Q71646 photograph by Howlett and Cundall

Crimean War 1854 - 1856 Q71646 photograph by Howlett and Cundall

Crimean War 1854 - 1856 Portrait of Piper David Muir, George Glen, Donald McKenzie and Colour Sergeant William Gardner, 42nd Royal Highlanders, posed grouped round a table with drinks at Aldershot.

Crimean War 1854-56 Q71085 photograph by Howlett and Cundall

Crimean War 1854-56 Q71085 photograph by Howlett and Cundall

Crimean War 1854-56 Crimean War casualties with amputated legs who were seen by HM Queen Victoria when she visited Chatham Hospital. Left to right - William Young, Henry Burland and John Connery. John Connery i... More

Crimean War 1854-56 Q71581

Crimean War 1854-56 Q71581

Crimean War 1854-56 Men of the 17th Lancers. Public domain photograph related to the British military forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Crimean War 1854-56 Q71600 - Public domain photogrpaph

Crimean War 1854-56 Q71600 - Public domain photogrpaph

Crimean War 1854-56 Sergeant J. Breeze,11th Hussars, Sergeant B. Owen, Grenadier Guards, Bombadier Henry Linsden, Royal Artillery, Corporal Chas. Motton, Scots Fusiliers, Private Andrew Robins, Royal Artillery ... More

Crowd cheers the Kaiser at the Berliner Stadtschloss, 1914

Crowd cheers the Kaiser at the Berliner Stadtschloss, 1914

Germany at the Start of the First World War, 1914 Crowds cheer the Kaiser on the balcony of the Berliner Schloss after the German Government announced the order to mobilise and declared war on Russia. The fol... More

D-day - British Forces during the Invasion of Normandy 6 June 1944 B5110

D-day - British Forces during the Invasion of Normandy 6 June 1944 B51...

D-day - British Forces during the Invasion of Normandy 6 June 1944 Sherman tanks and other vehicles of 13th/18th Royal Hussars, 27th Armoured Brigade, aboard LCT 610 approaching the French coast, 6 June 1944. T... More

D-day - British Forces during the Invasion of Normandy 6 June 1944 B5114

D-day - British Forces during the Invasion of Normandy 6 June 1944 B51...

D-day - British Forces during the Invasion of Normandy 6 June 1944 Troops of 3rd Infantry Division on Queen Red beach, Sword area, circa 0845 hrs, 6 June 1944. In the foreground are sappers of 84 Field Company ... More

D-day - British Forces during the Invasion of Normandy 6 June 1944 B5225

D-day - British Forces during the Invasion of Normandy 6 June 1944 B52...

D-day - British Forces during the Invasion of Normandy 6 June 1944 Wrecked landing craft on Nan Red beach, Juno area, at St Aubin-sur-Mer, 6 June 1944. This was the area where 48 (RM) Commando landed, suffering... More

Douglas DC-3 of BOAC at Gibraltar, silhouetted by searchlights on the Rock

Douglas DC-3 of BOAC at Gibraltar, silhouetted by searchlights on the ...

A Douglas Dakota of BOAC at Gibraltar, silhouetted by searchlights on the Rock. A Douglas Dakota of BOAC, silhouetted by night at Gibraltar by the batteries of searchlights on the Rock, as it is prepared for a ... More

Fitting engines to Supermarine Spitfires at North Front, Gibraltar

Fitting engines to Supermarine Spitfires at North Front, Gibraltar

Airmen of the Special Erection Party fitting the engines to Supermarine Spitfire Mark Vs during assembly at North Front, Gibraltar. Behind them can be seen the fuselages of Hawker Hurricanes sheltered in their ... More

General Subjects Taken in China and Japan 1910 - 1942 Q82506

General Subjects Taken in China and Japan 1910 - 1942 Q82506

General Subjects Taken in China and Japan 1910 - 1942 Public domain photograph related to the British military forces, World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

German POWs captured during the Allied assault on Walcheren Island in Holland, November 1944. BU1267

German POWs captured during the Allied assault on Walcheren Island in ...

German POWs captured during the Allied assault on Walcheren Island in Holland, November 1944. The occupation of Walcheren Island is going fast. Flushing is in the hands of the British and troops fanning out to ... More

German prisoners taken during Operation Goodwood, 19 July 1944

German prisoners taken during Operation Goodwood, 19 July 1944

The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 German prisoners taken during Operation 'Goodwood', 19 July 1944.

Germany Before the First World War 1890 - 1914 HU68385

Germany Before the First World War 1890 - 1914 HU68385

Germany Before the First World War 1890 - 1914 The construction of the Kiel Canal, 1887 - 1895. The huge Baltic Lock at Holtenau under construction. This lock controlled access between the Baltic Sea and the ... More

Germany Before the First World War 1890 - 1914 HU68387

Germany Before the First World War 1890 - 1914 HU68387

Germany Before the First World War 1890 - 1914 Construction of the Kiel Canal, 1887 - 1895. Kaiser Wilhelm II lays the foundation stone for the high bridge near Levensau, 21 June 1893. The Kiel Canal, a 61 mi... More

Germany Before the First World War 1890 - 1914 HU68390

Germany Before the First World War 1890 - 1914 HU68390

Germany Before the First World War 1890 - 1914 Construction of the Kiel Canal, 1887 - 1895. The Baltic Lock at Holtenau opens to shipping, 30 September 1894. The Kiel Canal, a 61 mile long waterway linking th... More

Germany Before the First World War 1890 - 1914 Q81824

Germany Before the First World War 1890 - 1914 Q81824

Germany Before the First World War 1890 - 1914 Head and shoulders portrait of Kaiser Wilhelm II wearing the parade uniform of an Garde Heim officer in the Prussian Kurassier (Heavy Cavalry) Regiment No 1, Imper... More

Germany Before the First World War Q81727

Germany Before the First World War Q81727

Germany Before the First World War A military parade along Unter den Linden, Berlin shortly before the First World War.

Great Britain Before the First World War Q81813

Great Britain Before the First World War Q81813

Great Britain Before the First World War Wealth in Britain before the First World War. The annual summer regatta at Henley on the River Thames shortly before the outbreak of the First World War

Guardsmen of 3rd Irish Guards in a Loyd carrier, wrapped up against the clouds of dust, during Operation 'Goodwood', Normandy, 18 July 1944. B7533

Guardsmen of 3rd Irish Guards in a Loyd carrier, wrapped up against th...

Guardsmen of 3rd Irish Guards in a Loyd carrier, wrapped up against the clouds of dust, during Operation 'Goodwood', Normandy, 18 July 1944. Guardsmen of 3rd Irish Guards in a Loyd carrier, wrapped up against t... More

Handley Page Hampden Mk I of No.455 Squadron RAAF, based at Leuchars in Scotland, May 1942. COL182

Handley Page Hampden Mk I of No.455 Squadron RAAF, based at Leuchars i...

Handley Page Hampden Mk I of No.455 Squadron RAAF, based at Leuchars in Scotland, May 1942. A Handley Page Hampden Mark I, AT137 'UB-T', of No 455 Squadron RAAF based at Leuchars, Fife, Scotland, in flight abov... More

Handley Page Hampden Mk I of No.455 Squadron RAAF, based at Leuchars in Scotland, May 1942. COL182

Handley Page Hampden Mk I of No.455 Squadron RAAF, based at Leuchars i...

Handley Page Hampden Mk I of No.455 Squadron RAAF, based at Leuchars in Scotland, May 1942. A Handley Page Hampden Mark I, AT137 'UB-T', of No 455 Squadron RAAF based at Leuchars, Fife, Scotland, in flight abov... More

HMS Defence Q42620. Warship photograph collection

HMS Defence Q42620. Warship photograph collection

HMS Defence HMS DEFENCE under way 1913. Public domain image of a British navy ship, steamship, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Imperial War Museum Photograph Archive Collection Q70203

Imperial War Museum Photograph Archive Collection Q70203

Imperial War Museum Photograph Archive Collection Public domain photograph - children, 1920s, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Infantry of 15th (Scottish) Division advance through waist-high corn, supported by Churchill tanks of 7th Royal Tank Regiment during Operation 'Epsom', Normandy, 28 June 1944. B6119

Infantry of 15th (Scottish) Division advance through waist-high corn, ...

Infantry of 15th (Scottish) Division advance through waist-high corn, supported by Churchill tanks of 7th Royal Tank Regiment during Operation 'Epsom', Normandy, 28 June 1944. Infantry of 15th (Scottish) Divisi... More

Infantry of 50th Division moving forward near St Gabriel, Normandy, 6 June 1944. B5277

Infantry of 50th Division moving forward near St Gabriel, Normandy, 6 ...

Infantry of 50th Division moving forward near St Gabriel, Normandy, 6 June 1944. Infantry of 50th Division moving forward near St Gabriel, 6 June 1944.

Infantry of the York and Lancaster Regiment in the village of Fontenay-le-Pesnel, Normandy, 25 June 1944. B5942

Infantry of the York and Lancaster Regiment in the village of Fontenay...

Infantry of the York and Lancaster Regiment in the village of Fontenay-le-Pesnel, Normandy, 25 June 1944. Infantry of the York and Lancaster Regiment in the village of Fontenay-le-Pesnel, 25 June 1944.

Invasion of Walcheren Island (westkapelle) BU1268

Invasion of Walcheren Island (westkapelle) BU1268

Invasion of Walcheren Island [westkapelle] The occupation of Walcheren Island is going fast. Flushing is in the hands of the British and troops fanning out to the West are close to the Marine Commandos coming d... More

Invasion of Walcheren Island (westkapelle) BU1273

Invasion of Walcheren Island (westkapelle) BU1273

Invasion of Walcheren Island [westkapelle] The occupation of Walcheren Island is going fast. Flushing is in the hands of the British and troops fanning out to the West are close to the Marine Commandos coming d... More

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