Mauritians Serving in the British Army
Mechanics work on the port engines of an Avro Lancaster
MEETING OF THE SUPREME COMMAND, ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, LONDON, 1 FEBRUARY 1944
Members of the London Fire Brigade train their hoses on burning buildings in Queen Victoria Street, EC4, after the last and heaviest major raid mounted on the capital during the 'Blitz'.
Members of the O'Rourke family sleeping in an air raid shelter under the railway arches in Bermondsey, London during November 1940.
Members of the Women's Land Army climbing over a gate on a British farm during the First World War.
Members of the Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF) on parade in 1918.
Members of the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) move a torpedo for loading into a submarine at Portsmouth, 29 September 1943.
Members of the Women's Royal Naval Service sampling the Christmas pudding at Greenock in Scotland, 19 December 1942.
Men of 12 Platoon, 'B' Company, 6th Royal Scots Fusiliers prepare to advance at the start of Operation 'Epsom', Normandy, 26 June 1944.
Men of 137th Brigade, 46th Division, are addressed by Brigadier General J C Campbell VC CMG DSO on the Riqueval Bridge after breaking the German's Hindenburg Line defences on 29 September 1918.
Men of 1st Parachute Battalion in action at Arnhem during Operation 'Market Garden', 17 September 1944.
Men of 7th Battalion, The Green Howards on an exercise among the sand dunes at Sandbanks, near Poole in Dorset, 31 July 1940.
Men of an RAF Repair and Salvage Unit working on a damaged Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX of No 403 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, at a forward airstrip in Normandy, 19 June 1944.
Men of Royal Irish Rifles resting in a communication during the opening hours of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916.
Men of the 11th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in a captured German communications trench near Havrincourt during the Battle of Cambrai, November 1917.
Men of the 2nd Australian Division in the front line at Croix du Bac, near Armentieres, 18 May 1916.
Men of the 51st Highland Division charging with fixed bayonets during a training exercise in the desert, North Africa, 23 September 1942.
Men of the 5th South African Reconnaissance Regiment; Firing their captured 37 mm Breda gun at enemy vehicles which are throwing a mirage reflection
Men of the 8th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment going up to the line near Frezenberg during the Third Battle of Ypres, 1917.
Men of the Airborne Division adjusting their harnesses..
Men of the Border Regiment resting in shallow dugouts near Thiepval Wood, Somme, August 1916.
Men of the East Yorkshire Regiment crossing newly won ground at Frezenburg in 1917 during the Third Battle of Ypres.
Men of the Empire - To Arms!