Paratroopers in front of an Armstrong Whitworth Whitley of No. 295 Squadron at Netheravon, October 1942.
Major-General Frederick Browning, commanding the British 1st Airborne Division, Netheravon, 2 October 1942.
A paratrooper drops from a static balloon during training, 2 October 1942.
Field Marshal Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, standing in front of a Lockheed Lodestar aircraft of No. 234 Squadron SAAF.
Land Army girls being taught to saw wood at the Women's Timber Corps training camp at Culford in Suffolk.
Paratroopers dropping from an Armstrong Whitworth Whitley of No. 295 Squadron at Netheravon, October 1942.
The dawn sky is lit by the bombardment before the assault on Thiepval, 15 September 1916, during the Battle of the Somme.
A horticultural school for women now training students in all branches of agriculture and horticulture with special regard to producing disease free crops.Hard work but fun, digging a trough for seed sowing in the experimental vegetable gro
