Tommy the tortoise, the pet of Mrs Dudley Beresford, was injured by shrapnel during the barrage of a German air raid on London on 29 September 1917.
Three French boys looking at a knocked-out German Panther tank in the Falaise pocket, Normandy, 25 August 1944.
Three cheers for Mr Churchill on board HMS RODNEY.
The Western Desert 1942: Head and shoulders portrait of a bearded member of the Long Range Desert Group wearing a woolly cap at the wheel of his jeep.
The two 'Women of Pervyse', Mairi Chisholm and the Baroness de T'Serclaes driving their motor ambulance through the ruins of Pervyse.
The Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS HERMES underway in the 1980s.
The Queen and Princess Elizabeth talk to paratroopers in front of a Halifax aircraft during a tour of airborne forces preparing for D-Day, 19 May 1944.
Winston Churchill, accompanied by Air Marshal the Hon. Sir Ralph Cochrane, Air Officer Commanding in Chief, Transport Command, walks from his Douglas Skymaster Mark I, EW999, at Northolt, Middlesex.
The Prime Minister, Winston Churchill in RAF uniform, accompanied by Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal, Chief of the Air Staff, leaving Consolidated Liberator "Commando" of No. 24 Squadron RAF at Lyneham, Wiltshire, on their return from the Casablanca
The pre-Dreadnought battleship HMS AGAMEMNON, which served in the Mediterranean during the First World War.
The mushroom cloud generated during Britain's first hydrogen bomb test over Malden Island in the Central Pacific, dropped by a Royal Air Force Valiant bomber, 15 May 1957.
The liner RMS ACQUITANIA dazzle-painted during her role as a troopship during the First World War.
The King with General Lewis, inspecting troops of the American 30th Division, 6 August 1918.
The interior of a RAF Short Stirling bomber, Britain, 1941
The Duchess of Sutherland sitting with patients at her hospital at Calais during July 1917.
The driver of a Bishop 25-pdr self-propelled gun of 142nd Field Regiment in Sicily, 27 July 1943.
The damage caused by a German V-2 rocket which exploded at the junction of Wanstead Park Road and Endsleigh Gardens in Cranbrook, Ilford, on 8 March 1945.
The Commander-in-Chief Home Forces, General Sir Bernard Paget, in the turret of a Crusader tank of 42nd Armoured Division during a large-scale exercise near Malton in Yorkshire, 29 September 1942.
The Commander-in-Chief Home Forces, General Sir Bernard Paget, in a Crusader tank of 42nd Armoured Division during a large-scale exercise near Malton in Yorkshire, 29 September 1942.
The cockpit interior of a Supermarine Spitfire Mk II, August 1940.
The Chinese Police Force; the Assistant Chief of Police and his staff grouped in a circular doorway at headquarters in Chengtu.
The Chief of the Imperial General Staff, General Sir Alan Brooke, at his desk at the War Office, 1942.
The Black Watch marching back along the Fricourt-Albert road headed by their pipers. Somme, August 1916.
The Battle of Passchendaele, July-November 1917 - The Battle of Pickham Ridge
