Historical Period

Churchill inspects Polish troops at St Andrews in Scotland, accompanied by his wife Clementine and General Wladyslaw Sikorski, Premier of the Polish Government-in-Exile and commander of Polish forces, 23 October 1940.

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Children of British Internees at a Children's Party given by the Crew of HMS Belfast at Shanghai, 28th September 1945

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Cheering civilians ride on Cromwell tanks as British troops enter Brussels, 4 September 1944.

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Cecil Beaton portrait photograph of a Royal Air Force officer in the Western Desert, 1942.

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Cecil Beaton portrait of an Indian naval rating operating a signal lamp on the sloop SUTLEJ at the Royal Indian Naval Station at Calcutta, 1944.

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Cecil Beaton portrait of a British tank driver peering out of his Grant tank in North Africa, 1942.

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Cecil Beaton photograph of an RAF bomber crew being debriefed by the squadron intelligence officer on their return from a night raid over Germany, 1941.

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Carrying wounded across the battlefield under shell fire, Battle of Ginchy, Somme, 1916.

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Captured German U-boats outside their pen at Trondheim in Norway, 19 May 1945.

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Captain H Hickling, commanding naval forces at Arromanches, shows a plan of the Mulberry artificial harbour to Winston Churchill, July 1944.

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Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King, with President Franklin D Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill during the Quebec Conference, 18 August 1943.

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Camp Life at Etaples

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Buildings burning in Manchester after a German air raid on the night of 3 December 1940.

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Britons! Your Country Needs You

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British troops unloading flour from ships and loading into railway trucks. Calais, March 1917.

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British troops unloading flour from a ship on to steam wagons. Calais, March 1917.

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British soldiers smile at a 'Viva Il Duce' slogan on a wall in Reggio, Italy, September 1943.

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British infantrymen give a helping hand to wounded German prisoners near La Boisselle during the Battle of the Somme, 3 July 1916.

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British infantry retiring from Verneuil driving a flock of sheep before them, 29 May 1918.

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Boulton Paul Defiant Mk I night-fighter of No. 264 Squadron RAF, silhouetted against the clouds during a low-level pass over its base at Biggin Hill, Kent, April 1941.

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