Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia, at New Delhi, India, 1944
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.
A well concealed and revetted trench, between two-lines of trees. Gommecourt, given up by the Germans in March 1917.
A Vickers machine gun team wearing PH Type anti-gas helmets in action near Ovillers during the Battle of the Somme, 1916.
A veteran sergeant in the Dorking Home Guard cleans his Tommy gun at the dining room table, before going on parade, 1 December 1940.
A soldier of the Long Range Desert Group uses a Libyan keffiyeh scarf to protect his head from the sun, Siwa, Libya, 1942
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.
A shell bursting amongst the barbed wire entanglements on the battlefield at Beaumont Hamel, December 1916.
A sergeant of the Lancashire Fusiliers in a flooded dugout opposite Messines near Ploegsteert Wood, January 1917.
A raiding party from the 9th Battalion, Scottish Rifles (Cameronians), leaving a sap and making for the German lines, 11 April 1917.
A paratrooper drops from a static balloon during training, 2 October 1942.
A pack horse loaded with rubber trench boots (waiders) is led through the mud near Beaumont Hamel on the Somme battlefield, November 1916.
A Norwegian child being carried to an ambulance from HMS ONSLAUGHT at Gourock, 1 March 1945. She was one of over 500 civilians recued by the Royal Navy after hiding from the Germans on Soroy island.
A lorry disembarks from a landing ship on the Normandy beaches, 7 June 1944.
A line of British troops blinded by tear gas at an Advanced Dressing Station near Bethune, 10 April 1918.
A Hawker Typhoon Mk IB of No. 486 Squadron RAF, 27 October 1943.
A Harrier GR.3 of No. 3 Squadron camouflaged at RAF Gutersloh in Germany during the 1980s.
A group of women enjoy a drink and share a joke at the Wynnstay Arms, Ruabon, Benbighshire, Wales, 1944.
A graphic line-up of all the personnel required to keep one Avro Lancaster of RAF Bomber Command flying on operations, taken at Scampton, Lincolnshire, 11 June 1942.
A Cecil Beaton portrait of a member of the Women's Royal Naval Service equipped for gardening duties.
A Cecil Beaton photograph of the navigator working at his chart table in an RAF Stirling bomber, 1941.
A captured German pillbox nicknamed 'Gibraltar' in the ruins of Pozieres, Somme, 20th September.
A Canadian soldier keeping cool in a home made tub in the shelling area.
A battery of 18-pounder field guns of the Royal Field Artillery in action near the town of Albert on the Somme, 28 March 1918.
