Men of the Long Range Desert Group relax with cigarettes after returning to headquarters at the end of a desert patrol, Siwa, Libya, 1942
A WAAF cadet in training lines up on parade, RAF Bridgenorth, Shropshire, 1941
A sailor poses by a ladder in the sunlight on board the armed merchant cruiser HMS ALCANTARA en route to Sierra Leone, 1942
A Royal Artillery searchlight monitors the night sky at the height of the Blitz, London, 1940
Wren officers framed by Sir Christopher Wren's Colonnade at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London, 1941
RAF fighter pilots relax between operations in their dispersal hut, Britain,1941
The bow of a new ship under construction, Tyneside, 1943
A company of WAAFs marches past a barrage balloon maintenance hangar, RAF Cardington, Bedfordshire, 1941
CECIL BEATON PHOTOGRAPHS: TYNESIDE SHIPYARDS, 1943
China 1944: A small boy posing with his fan above his head in Chengtu.
A street musician near Government House, Calcutta, India, 1944
WITH A GHURKA UNIT IN THE CHIN HILLS: GHURKAS LISTEN TO A PEP TALK FROM AN OFFICER