Historical Period

The British Navy Guards the Freedom of Us All

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Three Supermarine Spitfire Mk.I aircraft of 19 Squadron.

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A heavily-armed jeep patrol from 'L' Detachment SAS in North Africa, 18 January 1943.

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Winston Churchill reads a newspaper on the platform at St Andrews railway station, during a tour of defences and naval forces in Scotland, 23 October 1940.

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Use Spades Not Ships

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Train to be a Nurse

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To Dress Extravagantly in War Time

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Squadron Leader Brian 'Sandy' Lane, CO of No. 19 Squadron (centre) confers with Flight Lieutenant Walter 'Farmer' Lawson and Flight Sergeant George 'Grumpy' Unwin at Fowlmere near Duxford, September 1940.

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Potatoes - Feed Without Fattening and Give You Energy

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Pilots of No. 303 (Polish) Squadron RAF with one of their Hawker Hurricanes, October 1940.

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Mr Churchill Inspecting a 'Tommy' Gun, 31 July 1940

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Men of the 8th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment going up to the line near Frezenberg during the Third Battle of Ypres, 1917.

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Keep Mum - She's Not so Dumb! - Careless Talk Costs Lives

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For Progress in the Future - Save Now

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A raiding party of the 10th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) waiting for the signal to go. John Warwick Brooke, the official photographer, followed them in the sap, into which a shell fell short killing seven men. Near Arras, 24 March 1917.

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A Douglas Dakota of BOAC at Gibraltar, silhouetted by searchlights on the Rock.

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Your Britain - Fight for it Now [South Downs]

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Wounded men being tended in a trench near Beaumont Hamel on the morning of the initial assault, Battle of the Somme, 1st July 1916.

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Wounded British soldier showing shrapnel damage to his steel helmet caused near Hamel on the Somme Front in December 1916.

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Women Wanted as Ambulance Drivers

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Women pilots of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) in flying kit at Hatfield, 10 January 1940.

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Winston Churchill, cigar in mouth, gives his famous 'V' for victory sign during a visit to Bradford, 4 December 1942.

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Winston Churchill, accompanied by Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery and Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, inspects tanks of 7th Armoured Division in Berlin, 21 July 1945.

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Winston Churchill with his Chiefs of Staff in the garden of 10 Downing Street, 7 May 1945.

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