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• COMMONWEALTH JOINT AIR TRAINING PLAN, NO 20 SERVICE FLYING TRAINING SCHOOL, CRANBORNE, NEAR SALISBURY, RHODESIA, JANUARY 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Instructors (in white) and pupils parade with North American Harvard aircraft. The Harvard was the standard equipment for advanced pilot instruction which took place at Service Flying Training Schools.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE CADETS IN SOUTH AFRICA, SEPTEMBER 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  RAF Cadets watching a Zulu war dance at Rose Deep Mine, Johannesburg.

• THE BRITISH ARMY IN SICILY, AUGUST 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  A badly bombed street in Sicily.

• THE BRITISH ARMY IN SICILY, AUGUST 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  A badly bombed street in Sicily.

• THE BRITISH ARMY IN SICILY, AUGUST 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  Children playing in a badly bombed street in Sicily.

• THE SECOND WORLD WAR : PERSONALITIES

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  General Sir Thomas S Riddell-Webster KCB DSO, Quartermaster General to the Forces, sitting at his desk.

• THE BRITISH ARMY IN SICILY, AUGUST 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  An Eighth Army soldier being fed grapes by a pretty Sicilian girl while they ride on the front of a jeep.

• THE BRITISH ARMY IN SICILY, AUGUST 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  An Eighth Army soldier being fed grapes by a pretty Sicilian girl while they ride on the front of a jeep.

• THE BRITISH ARMY IN SICILY, AUGUST 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  Two wounded Highlanders walking into a church being used as a field hospital.

• THE BRITISH ARMY IN SICILY, AUGUST 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  At Milo in the north of Sicily, County of London Yeomanry tank men are accorded a great reception by the civilians of the town. Here they are seen with Sicilian children riding on their tanks as they rumble down the main street.

• THE BRITISH ARMY IN SICILY, AUGUST 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  A jeep driving along a street in Catania, Sicily.

• SHORT STIRLING BOMBERS READY FOR A RAID ON BERLIN, WRATTING COMMON, CAMBRIDGESHIRE, 31 MAY 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  Short Stirling bombers of No 90 Squadron, Royal Air Force, lined up on the perimeter track at Wratting Common, Cambridgeshire. The crew are awaiting take off time. This was only one of two times that Stirlings were sent to bomb Berlin as they proved too...

• AMPHIBIOUS EXERCISES IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL, 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Amphibious exercises in the English Channel.

• A SUMMER CAMP FOR YOUNG PEOPLE ON MR ROWLAND'S FARM NEAR AYLESBURY, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information official photographer

  Farm workers, land girls and boys from the summer camp help with the haymaking. A tractor pulls the hay wagon.

• A SUMMER CAMP FOR YOUNG PEOPLE ON MR ROWLAND'S FARM NEAR AYLESBURY, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information official photographer

  Farm workers, land girls and boys from the summer camp help with the haymaking.

• A SUMMER CAMP FOR YOUNG PEOPLE ON MR ROWLAND'S FARM NEAR AYLESBURY, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information official photographer

  Boys drawing pocket money from Warden Booth (a former RAF warrant officer who was invalided out). The boys receive 6 shillings a week.

• A SUMMER CAMP FOR YOUNG PEOPLE ON MR ROWLAND'S FARM NEAR AYLESBURY, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information official photographer

  Alan Mayo (left) and Ivor Bounds on the summer camp. Alan Mayo was studying for the Merchant Navy.

• A SUMMER CAMP FOR YOUNG PEOPLE ON MR ROWLAND'S FARM NEAR AYLESBURY, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information official photographer

  Cows in a field at the farm.

• A SUMMER CAMP FOR YOUNG PEOPLE ON MR ROWLAND'S FARM NEAR AYLESBURY, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information official photographer

  Boys returning to camp to wash after helping with the farm work.

• A SUMMER CAMP FOR YOUNG PEOPLE ON MR ROWLAND'S FARM NEAR AYLESBURY, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information official photographer

  The wife of the camp warden, Mrs Dodd, and Mrs Booth peeling potatoes in the camp.

• A SUMMER CAMP FOR YOUNG PEOPLE ON MR ROWLAND'S FARM NEAR AYLESBURY, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information official photographer

  Boys drawing pocket money from Warden Booth (a former RAF warrant officer who was invalided out). The boys receive 6 shillings a week.

• COMMONWEALTH JOINT AIR TRAINING PROGRAMME, RHODESIA, JANUARY 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs)

  A flight of North American Harvard IIAs from No 20 Service Flying Training School being flown in formation by RAF trainee pilots participating in the Commonwealth Joint Air Training Programme at Cranborne, near Salisbury, Rhodesia.

• COMMONWEALTH JOINT AIR TRAINING PLAN, NO 20 SERVICE FLYING TRAINING SCHOOL, CRANBORNE, NEAR SALISBURY, RHODESIA, JANUARY 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs)

  North American Harvard EX180 taxis out at Cranborne as another comes in to land.

• COMMONWEALTH JOINT AIR TRAINING PLAN, NO 20 SERVICE FLYING TRAINING SCHOOL, CRANBORNE, NEAR SALISBURY, RHODESIA, JANUARY 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Pupil Sergeant D H Marshall climbing in to North American Harvard `49' at Cranborne. He served as a ground crewman for 2 1/2 years before being accepted for flight training.

• THE QUEBEC CONFERENCE: WRENS OFF DUTY TOUR THE CITY, 23 AUGUST 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Wren Officers who were present at the first Quebec Conference, standing on the Dufferin Terrace, overlooking the Saint Lawrence River, Quebec, Canada.

• GROUND CREW WORKING ON FLEET AIR ARM AIRCRAFT AT RNAS YEOVILTON, SEPTEMBER 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Fleet Air Arm Supermarine Seafire X4652 being refuelled by petrol bowser at the Fleet Air Arm airfield at Yeovilton, Somerset.

• GROUND CREW WORKING ON FLEET AIR ARM AIRCRAFT AT RNAS YEOVILTON, SEPTEMBER 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Sub Lieutenant H H Salisbury, RNVR, of the Fleet Air Arm, a former station inspector at Bow Street Station, adjusts his helmet before a flight. He is standing in front of Supermarine Seafire NX942, with others in the background.

• COMMONWEALTH JOINT AIR TRAINING PLAN, KISMU, SOUTH AFRICA, JANUARY 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Native Rhodesians refuel North American Harvard `88' of No 20 Service Flying Training School at Kismu.

• WOMEN AT WAR 1939 - 1945

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Women's Royal Naval Service: Wren Air Mechanics feeding ammunition into the Browning gun of a Hawker Hurricane aircraft at the Fleet Air Arm airfield at Yeovilton, Somerset. Hangars are seen in the background.

• COMMONWEALTH JOINT AIR TRAINING PLAN, NO 20 SERVICE FLYING TRAINING SCHOOL, CRANBORNE, NEAR SALISBURY, RHODESIA, JANUARY 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs)

  North American Harvards of No 20 Service Flying Training School being flown in formation over Rhodesia. The leading aircraft have all-yellow paintwork, a scheme discontinued on later arrivals which kept their natural metal finishes.

• COMMONWEALTH JOINT AIR TRAINING PLAN, JUBA, SOUTH AFRICA, JANUARY 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs)

  A Lockheed Lodestar aircraft being refuelled at Juba in South Africa.

• THE BRITISH ARMY DURING THE CAMPAIGN IN ITALY, SEPTEMBER 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  A pack mule team, carrying stores and ammunition across hilly country, halts on the journey to adjust the harness on a pack mule.

• THE BRITISH ARMY DURING THE CAMPAIGN IN ITALY, SEPTEMBER 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  British soldiers with wounded on pack mules travelling over rough terrain.

• AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION IN BRITAIN DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information official photographer

  Avro Lancaster aircraft under construction at the A V Roe & Co Ltd factory at Woodford, Cheshire.

• THE BRITISH ARMY DURING THE CAMPAIGN IN ITALY, SEPTEMBER 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  A sergeant helps a wounded man down from the pack mule which had carried him.

• GENERAL BERNARD MONTGOMERY, COMMANDER OF THE EIGHTH ARMY, ITALY, 30 SEPTEMBER 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  Corporal W English, batman to General Montgomery, cleaning the badge on the General's beret, in camp at Eighth Army Headquarters in Italy.

• GENERAL BERNARD MONTGOMERY, COMMANDER OF THE EIGHTH ARMY, ITALY, 30 SEPTEMBER 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  General Montgomery is handed a scarf by his batman, Corporal W English, in camp at Eighth Army Headquarters in Italy. Corporal English, from Erith, has been the General's batman since Alamein.

• GENERAL BERNARD MONTGOMERY, COMMANDER OF THE EIGHTH ARMY, ITALY, 30 SEPTEMBER 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  General Montgomery standing in a jeep with one of his aides, Captain J W Poston, in camp at Eighth Army Headquarters in Italy.

• GENERAL BERNARD MONTGOMERY, COMMANDER OF THE EIGHTH ARMY, ITALY, 30 SEPTEMBER 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  General Montgomery looking at a map spread over the bonnet of his jeep at Eighth Army Headquarters in Italy.

• BRITISH ARMY NURSING SISTERS IN ITALY, SEPTEMBER 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  British Army nurses attached to the Eighth Army, who were among the first to arrive in Italy, buying cactus fruit in the market at Nicastro.

• BRITISH ARMY NURSING SISTERS IN ITALY, 22 SEPTEMBER 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  British Army nurses attached to the Eighth Army, who were among the first to arrive in Italy, buying cactus fruit in the market at Nicastro.

• SCENES IN STRATFORD-ON-AVON, ENGLAND, 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information official photographer

  The wardrobe mistress of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre of Stratford-on-Avon curling a wig.

• THE BRITISH ARMY DURING THE CAMPAIGN IN ITALY, SEPTEMBER 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  A British soldier and two Italian women doing washing at an open air trough.

• SCENES IN STRATFORD-ON-AVON, ENGLAND, 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information official photographer

  The theatre wardrobe department of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon. Mrs Sale (right) and Mrs Sellman.

• SCENES IN STRATFORD-ON-AVON, ENGLAND, 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information official photographer

  The theatre wardrobe department of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon.

• SCENES IN STRATFORD-ON-AVON, ENGLAND, 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information official photographer

  C Trieman, the gardener at Ann Hathaway's cottage in Stratford, sweeps up the autumn leaves.

• THE BRITISH ARMY DURING THE CAMPAIGN IN ITALY, SEPTEMBER 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  A little girl feeds a soldier with macaroni.

• THE BRITISH ARMY DURING THE CAMPAIGN IN ITALY, SEPTEMBER 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  A little girl feeds a British soldier with macaroni.

• THE BRITISH ARMY DURING THE CAMPAIGN IN ITALY, SEPTEMBER 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  Italians entertaining British troops with accordion music under the shade of a tree.

• THE BRITISH ARMY DURING THE CAMPAIGN IN ITALY, SEPTEMBER 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  A British soldier handing an Italian child her doll from an oxen cart laden with the family belongings.