Historical Period

Australian troops wait behind Quinn's Post, Gallipoli, after it was retaken on 29 May 1915.

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Australia has Promised Britain 50,000 More Men

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Aufhalten! [Stop him!]

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Armourers 'bombing up' a Sea Harrier on board HMS INVINCIBLE during the Falklands War, 1982.

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Anti-gas drill at Old Woolwich Road School in Greenwich, London during 1941.

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An Australian officer wading through the mud, Gird Trench, Gueudecourt.

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An Australian carrying his wounded mate to a medical aid post for treatment, Gallipoli, 1915.

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An Argentine Dagger aircraft makes a low-level attack on RFA SIR BEDIVERE in San Carlos Water in the Falkland Islands, 24 May 1982.

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Aircrews of No. 149 Squadron RAF approach a line of Vickers Wellington Mark IAs at Mildenhall, Suffolk for an early morning training sortie. The Squadron's operations at this time were directed mostly against German naval installations and shipping.

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Air photo of a gas attack.

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Air Officer Commanding Malta, Air Vice Marshal Sir Keith Park, in the cockpit of his personal Supermarine Spitfire V before his ceremonial take-off at Malta's new aerodrome at Safi, May 1943.

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Aerial photograph showing front line trenches and mine craters near Loos in 1917.

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Address your Letters Plainly

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A wounded First World War soldier with facial injuries has a plaster cast made of his face so that a mask can be produced to cover his wounds.The work was undertaken at the 3rd General Hospital in Wandsworth, London.

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A well concealed and revetted trench, between two-lines of trees. Gommecourt, given up by the Germans in March 1917.

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A Vickers machine gun team wearing PH Type anti-gas helmets in action near Ovillers during the Battle of the Somme, 1916.

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A veteran sergeant in the Dorking Home Guard cleans his Tommy gun at the dining room table, before going on parade, 1 December 1940.

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A Tank

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A Sherman tank crew of 'C' Squadron, 13th/18th Royal Hussars rest and write letters home by the side of their vehicle, Normandy, 10 June 1944.

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A shell bursting amongst the barbed wire entanglements on the battlefield at Beaumont Hamel, December 1916.

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A sergeant of the Lancashire Fusiliers in a flooded dugout opposite Messines near Ploegsteert Wood, January 1917.

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A raiding party from the 9th Battalion, Scottish Rifles (Cameronians), leaving a sap and making for the German lines, 11 April 1917.

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A paratrooper drops from a static balloon during training, 2 October 1942.

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A pack horse loaded with rubber trench boots (waiders) is led through the mud near Beaumont Hamel on the Somme battlefield, November 1916.

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