Indian women training for air raid precautions (ARP) duties in Bombay, 1942.
Sir Stafford Cripps with Mahatma Gandhi on the steps of Birla House, Delhi, during his mission to India, April 1942.
Indian soldiers mingle with men of the 81st West African Division after the latter had arrived in India for jungle training. The first African colonial troops to fight outside Africa, the 81st Division went on to Burma in December 1943.
British troops rest with their mules after crossing the Chindwin River near Sittaung in Burma, 17 November 1944.
A British infantry patrol cautiously approaches a damaged building in a Burmese village, 1944.
Two soldiers visit the Military Cemetery at Kohima to pay their respects to their former comrade Lance Corporal John Harman VC, 1945.
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.
A Gurkha soldier guards Japanese prisoners on their way to POW camps outside Bangkok, September 1945.