Historical Period

A team of stretcher bearers struggle through deep mud to carry a wounded man to safety near Boesinghe on 1 August 1917 during the Third Battle of Ypres.

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A soldier battling his way through a sandstorm in the Western Desert during 1942.

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A Sergeant of a Royal Engineers signals section puts a message into the cylinder attached to the collar of a messenger dog, Etaples, 28 August 1918.

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A de Havilland Mosquito FB Mk VI of No. 143 Squadron attacking merchant vessels with rocket and cannon fire in Sandefjord, Norway, 2 April 1945.

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HRH Princess Elizabeth - Women at War 1939-1945

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Hitler Will Send No Warning

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A Second Front in Europe

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The Life-line is Firm - Thanks to the Merchant Navy

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Victory is close at hand! More help to the front!

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Serve in the WAAF with the Men Who Fly

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Nuremberg, the Trial : A general view of the crowded court when the Nazi conspirators faced the International Military Tribunal. The Rt Hon Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, KC is seen conducting the prosecution.

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A Rescue-ship in the Atlantic, March 1943

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Your Britain Fight for it Now [Alfriston Fair]

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Your Britain - Fight for it Now (Health Centre)

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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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Winston Churchill uses a telescope to watch an assault against enemy positions north of Florence, from the observation post of a battery of the 66th (Lowland) Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery, 20 August 1944.

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Winston Churchill stands on a Covenanter tank of 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards, to take the salute at an inspection of 9th Armoured Division near Newmarket, Suffolk, 16 May 1942.

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