A female member of Air Raid Precautions staff applies her lipstick between emergency calls.
Spitfire Mk1A N3200 coming in to land after its display
Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX serial number PT879 aircraft at the Battle of Britain Airshow
Supermarine Spitfire Mk.V 249 Sqn RAF based at Ta Qali airfield, Malta 1943 from below
Supermarine Spitfire T.IX PV202
Wounded men being tended in a trench near Beaumont Hamel on the morning of the initial assault, Battle of the Somme, 1st July 1916.
Wounded British soldier showing shrapnel damage to his steel helmet caused near Hamel on the Somme Front in December 1916.
Winston Churchill waves to crowds in Whitehall in London as they celebrate VE Day, 8 May 1945.
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.
Wing Commander Guy Gibson VC, Commanding Officer of No. 617 Squadron (The Dambusters) at Scampton, 22 July 1943.
View of the blasted tree stumps in Delville Wood, Somme, 1916
Universal carriers and lorries crossing the bridge at Nijmegen in Holland during Operation 'Market Garden', 21 September 1944.
Troops come ashore on one of the Normandy invasion beaches, past the White Ensign of a naval beach party, 7 June 1944.
Three Curtiss Kittyhawk Mark IIIs of No 112 Squadron, Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force: The rear gunner in his position in a Wellington bomber.
Squadron Leader Robert Stanford Tuck, commanding No. 257 Squadron, in the cockpit of his Hawker Hurricane at Martelsham Heath, November 1940.
Soldiers of 'A' Company, 11th Battalion, the Cheshire Regiment, occupy a captured German trench at Ovillers-la-Boisselle on the Somme.
Sherman tanks of 9th Queen's Royal Lancers during the Battle of El Alamein, 5 November 1942.
Roll Call of the 2nd Battalion, The Seaforth Highlanders, on the afternoon of the first day of the Battle of the Somme near Beaumont Hamel. The insignia on their sleeves indicates that they were part of the attacking force.
Officers of 1/7th Battalion, King's Liverpool Regiment checking a map in trenches of the La Bassee Canal sector, 28 February 1918.
Munition workers in a shell warehouse at National Shell Filling Factory No.6, Chilwell, Nottinghamshire in 1917.
Men of the East Yorkshire Regiment crossing newly won ground at Frezenburg in 1917 during the Third Battle of Ypres.
Irish Guards wearing gasmasks advance through smoke with 'tommy guns' at the ready, at Nooks Head near Woking in Surrey, 8 July 1940.
HMS HERMES about to berth at Portsmouth Harbour on her return from the Falkland Islands, 21 July 1982.
