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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs)
INDEPENDENCE IN INDIA, AUGUST 1947Watched by Lady Mountbatten, Jawaharlal Nehru is sworn in as India's first Prime Minister by the outgoing Viceroy, Lord Mountbatten.
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Australian official photographer
THE KOREAN WAR 1950 - 1953Australian soldiers in training for deployment to Korea, Sydney, Australia, 1950.
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Australian official photographer
AUSTRALIAN ARMY RECRUITING TO JOIN UNITED NATIONS FORCES IN KOREA, c 1950A recruit for Korea leaves the quartermaster's store at the Army Reception Centre at Royal Park, Melbourne, carrying full kit.
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer
THE ROYAL AIR FORCE DURING THE COLD WAR, 1945-1980An Avro Vulcan from RAF Scampton in flight.
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Australian official photographer
THE BRITISH ARMY 1945 - 1975Four pipers of the Black Watch Band of the Royal Highland Regiment, photographed during the Band's ceremonial visit to Australia where they participated in the celebrations to mark the Golden Jubilee of the Commonwealth of Australia. The Band gave a...
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: British official photographer 1950-08
EXERCISE NORDIC, INVOLVING TROOPS FROM BRITAIN, NORWAY AND DENMARK IN NORTH GERMANY, AUGUST 1950For the purpose of the exercise, the British zone of Germany was called Redland and its troops came from the Norwegian Army with the British Royal Tank Regiment. The aggressing Blueland troops from the south were formed by the Danish Army and a British...
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: British official photographer 1950-08
EXERCISE NORDIC, INVOLVING TROOPS FROM BRITAIN, NORWAY AND DENMARK IN NORTH GERMANY, AUGUST 1950For the purpose of the exercise, the British zone of Germany was called Redland and its troops came from the Norwegian Army with the British Royal Tank Regiment. The aggressing Blueland troops from the south were formed by the Danish Army and a British...
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Balman V (Staff Sgt) 1950-08
EXERCISE NORDIC, INVOLVING TROOPS FROM BRITAIN, NORWAY AND DENMARK IN NORTH GERMANY, AUGUST 1950For the purpose of the exercise, the British zone of Germany was called Redland and its troops came from the Norwegian Army with the British Royal Tank Regiment. The aggressing Blueland troops from the south were formed by the Danish Army and a British...
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Balman V (Staff Sgt) 1950-08
EXERCISE NORDIC, INVOLVING TROOPS FROM BRITAIN, NORWAY AND DENMARK IN NORTH GERMANY, AUGUST 1950For the purpose of the exercise, the British zone of Germany was called Redland and its troops came from the Norwegian Army with the British Royal Tank Regiment. The aggressing Blueland troops from the south were formed by the Danish Army and a British...
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Balman V (Staff Sgt) 1950-08
EXERCISE NORDIC, INVOLVING TROOPS FROM BRITAIN, NORWAY AND DENMARK IN NORTH GERMANY, AUGUST 1950For the purpose of the exercise, the British zone of Germany was called Redland and its troops came from the Norwegian Army with the British Royal Tank Regiment. The aggressing Blueland troops from the south were formed by the Danish Army and a British...
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Balman V (Staff Sgt) 1950-08
EXERCISE NORDIC, INVOLVING TROOPS FROM BRITAIN, NORWAY AND DENMARK IN NORTH GERMANY, AUGUST 1950For the purpose of the exercise, the British zone of Germany was called Redland and its troops came from the Norwegian Army with the British Royal Tank Regiment. The aggressing Blueland troops from the south were formed by the Danish Army and a British...
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: British official photographer 1950-08
EXERCISE NORDIC, INVOLVING TROOPS FROM BRITAIN, NORWAY AND DENMARK IN NORTH GERMANY, AUGUST 1950For the purpose of the exercise, the British zone of Germany was called Redland and its troops came from the Norwegian Army with the British Royal Tank Regiment. The aggressing Blueland troops from the south were formed by the Danish Army and a British...
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: NATO official photographer
THE NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANISATIONThe new NATO badge, comprising a white emblem on a navy blue background, henceforward the official colours of the Atlantic Alliance. Lord Ismay, Secretary General of NATO, announced that the North Atlantic Council had adopted this design for the...
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs)
THE KOREAN WAR 1950 - 1953Australian troops at rest, possibly just after the ceasefire was announced.
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs)
MALAYA PALM OIL UNDER THE EMERGENCY, C. 1950.Each year since the war the production figures of palm oil and kernels have been slowly but surely creeping towards pre-war totals, and care is taken to protect the industry and its workers during the emergency. When the manager of a palm oil estate goes...
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer
THE SUEZ CRISIS (OPERATION MUSKETEER) 1956Aerial view of damage in Port Said, 17 November 1956.
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer
THE SUEZ CRISIS (OPERATION MUSKETEER) 1956Aerial view of damage in Port Said, 17 November 1956.
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Supply official photographer
THE ROYAL AIR FORCE 1945 - 1975V bombers of the Royal Air Force in flight. An Avro Vulcan, Vickers Valiant and Handley-Page Victor from the Ministry of Supply Research and Development establishment at Boscombe Down in formation over the sea during development trials. These aircraft...
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer
THE SUEZ CRISIS (OPERATION MUSKETEER) 1956Aerial view of damage in Port Said, 17 November 1956.
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Supply official photographer
BRITAIN'S NUCLEAR TEST PROGRAMME: OPERATION HURRICANEA scene from the British Ministry of Supply film "Operation Hurricane", made during the Monte Bello atomic experiment. Sir William Penney, the scientific director in charge of the explosion, watches through binoculars the effect which developed after the...
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Fleet Air Arm official photographer
THE ROYAL NAVY 1945 -1975The Battle class destroyer HMS DUNKIRK at sea in the 1950s.
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: British official photographer
BRITISH ARMED FORCES IN GERMANY, 1945 - 1975Women's Royal Army Corps telephone operators at work on a major telephone switchboard at the British Army of the Rhine headquarters in Germany.
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Supply official photographer
THE ROYAL AIRCRAFT ESTABLISHMENT, FARNBOROUGH, APRIL 1949A 10cm radar ground station unit, intended primarily for use in operations in the Far East. The equipment was built in a form which could be subdivided for transportation by air.
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer
TESTING CENTRIFUGAL FORCE AT FARNBOROUGH, 20 JANUARY 1950What happens to the body of a pilot when he suddenly turns his machine and the centrifugal forces come into action. One of the effects being a dimming of vision and the forcing down of the body and the soft tissues. This stress is known by a factor "g",...
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: British Army official photographer
TERRITORIAL ARMY UNITS ON SALISBURY PLAIN, AUGUST 1949General Sir Evelyn Barker, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Command, discusses Territorial Army Training with Mr Michael Stewart MP, Under Secretary for War and a group of Territorial Army officers during a visit to Territorial Army units on...
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer
TESTING CENTRIFUGAL FORCE AT FARNBOROUGH, 20 JANUARY 1950What happens to the body of a pilot when he suddenly turns his machine and the centrifugal forces come into action. One of the effects being a dimming of vision and the forcing down of the body and the soft tissues. This stress is known by a factor "g",...
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer
TESTING CENTRIFUGAL FORCE AT FARNBOROUGH, 20 JANUARY 1950What happens to the body of a pilot when he suddenly turns his machine and the centrifugal forces come into action. One of the effects being a dimming of vision and the forcing down of the body and the soft tissues. This stress is known by a factor "g",...
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Australian Army official photographer
THE KOREAN WAR 1950 - 1953End of hostilities in Korea, 27 July 1953. As the armistice agreement is signed at Panmunjom, Cpl Laurie Ewington, C Coy, 2 Bn Royal Australian Regiment, smiles at the camera. The front line trench in which he is standing was bombarded by some 4000...
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer
THE ROYAL AIR FORCE 1945 - 1975Lieutenant Abdullah Jofri (left) and Lieutenant J H I Ramli (right), trainee helicopter pilots of the Royal Brunei Malay Regiment Air Wing, display the Overseas Student Prize trophy, awarded to them jointly on their graduation from the Royal Air Force...
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer
THE ROYAL NAVY 1945 - 1975A Royal Navy hovercraft coming ashore.
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: SHAPE official photographer
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED FORCES EUROPE 1945 - 1975General Alfred M Gruenther, newly appointed Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACUEUR), confers with his senior offices on issues relating to the plans and preparations for the defence of Europe at SHAPE Headquarters, Rocquencourt, France, 17 July 1953....
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: McConkey, Joe W (Cpl, US Army)
THE KOREAN WAR 1950-1953Brigadier Thomas Brodie, Commanding General of the 29th British Brigade in Korea.
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Supply official photographer
THE ENGLISH ELECTRIC CANBERRA, BRITAIN'S FIRST JET BOMBER, MAY 1949The A1 jet bomber, later renamed the English Electric Canberra, powered by two Rolls Royce Avon jet engines, during early testing at Warton in Lancashire.
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Supply official photographer
THE ROYAL AIR FORCE 1945 - 1975The English Electric Canberra B2 jet bomber, 1950. The Canberra was powered by two Rolls-Royce Avon engines. This is the version under production for the Royal Air Force.
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: British Army official photographer
THE WELSH GUARDS IN LONDON, 1950Three Welsh Guards, left to right, Sergeant Luckhurst, Sergeant Skee and Sergeant Daly, preparing to leave Wellington Barracks, London to travel to Brussels to take part in the anniversary celebrations of the liberation of the city in 1944 and to attend...
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Canadian Official photographer
THE NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANISATIONStudent pilots and navigators from Italy, Holland, Belgium, Norway and Canada in front of a Harvard training aircraft whilst attending the NATO air training scheme at the Royal Canadian Air Force Flying School at Centralia, Ontario, Canada. Left to...
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer
THE ROYAL AIR FORCE 1945 - 1975A Royal Air Force Canberra PR3 Photographic Reconnaissance aircraft at a British air base (possibly RAF Binbrook) in April 1951. This photograph is believed to show one of the first Canberras to enter operational service with 101 Squadron at RAF...
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer
THE SUEZ CRISIS (OPERATION MUSKETEER) 1956Aerial view of damage in Port Said, 17 November 1956.
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs)
THE KOREAN WAR 1950 - 1953Men of the 3rd Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment, who are fighting with the United Nations Land Forces in Korea together with the British 27th and 29th Brigades, crossing the Taedong River bridge, while Engineers of the United States force...
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Malayan Department of Information official photographer
THE MALAYAN EMERGENCY 1948 - 1960Squatter resettlement under the Briggs Plan, 1950. The inaugural meeting of a co-operative society formed by Chinese civilians who had been resettled on new land. With them are officials from the Federal Department of Co-operative Societies, welfare...
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Malayan official photographer
THE MALAYAN EMERGENCY 1948 - 1960Three captured communist bandits photographed with their weapons - a rifle, shotgun and two grenades in a village in Malaya.
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Malayan official photographer
THE MALAYAN EMERGENCY 1948 - 1960A woman of Simpang Tiga searches the burned earth where her home once stood for salvage after a communist attack on her village.
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Malayan official photographer
THE MALAYAN EMERGENCY 1948 - 1960A child with an injured leg lies in hospital after being wounded during an attack by Chinese communists on the village of Kepong, eight miles from Kuala Lumpur on 7 March 1950. The gang sprayed bullets into a canvas tent where a film was being shown....
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs)
BRITISH TROOPS LEAVE HONG KONG TO JOIN UNITED NATIONS FORCES IN SOUTH KOREA, SEPTEMBER 1950Dusk falls over Hong Kong harbour as the aircraft carrier HMS UNICORN, helped by tugs, swings round, heading northwards for Pusan, South Korea, carrying men of the Middlesex Regiment.
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs)
AUSTRALIAN VOLUNTEERS TRAINING FOR KOREA, 1950Australian soldiers being trained at a military camp near Sydney, New South Wales.
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs)
BRITISH TROOPS LEAVE HONG KONG TO JOIN UNITED NATIONS FORCES IN SOUTH KOREA, SEPTEMBER 1950From the deck of HMS CEYLON, Mr Malcolm MacDonald, the High Commissioner for South East Asia, addresses men of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders paraded on the dock below, before they board the cruiser for the journey to Pusan, South Korea.
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs)
BRITISH TROOPS LEAVE HONG KONG TO JOIN UNITED NATIONS FORCES IN SOUTH KOREA, SEPTEMBER 1950Corporal John MacDonald of the 1st Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders waiting to embark on the cruiser HMS CEYLON for the journey to Pusan, South Korea.
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs)
BRITISH TROOPS LEAVE HONG KONG TO JOIN UNITED NATIONS FORCES IN SOUTH KOREA, SEPTEMBER 1950From their camp near the Hong Kong - China border, the 1st Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders arrive at the embarkation point by train. The men detrain on waste ground near to the wharf from which they will sail to Pusan, South Korea on board...
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs)
BRITISH TROOPS LEAVE HONG KONG TO JOIN UNITED NATIONS FORCES IN SOUTH KOREA, SEPTEMBER 1950Men of the 1st Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders boarding the cruiser HMS CEYLON for the journey to Pusan, South Korea. In the background the band of the King's Own Scottish Borderers play on.
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part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer
HMS BELFAST IN KOREA, 1950-1952A South Korean naval craft coming alongside HMS BELFAST during blockade patrols off Inchon.