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• FUNERAL SERVICE FOR LORD MOYNE AND LANCE CORPORAL A H FULLER IN CAIRO, EGYPT, NOVEMBER 1944

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Dallison G (Capt)

  Bishop Gwynne and other clergy receive the coffins of Lord Moyne (Walter Edward Guinness), British Resident Minister in the Middle East, and his driver, Lance Corporal A H Fuller, at the doors of All Saints Cathedral, Cairo, Egypt in November 1944.

• Study for 'Over The Top' (IWM ART 1656)

  (art) Made by: Nash, John (RA) 1918

  image: a squared up preparatory drawing for the oil painting 'Over the Top' (IWM ART 1656). On the left, a red earth trench lined with duckboards stretches away from the viewer. A group of soldiers clamber from the trench, going 'over the top'. Two lie...

• Rosieres Valley, 1918

  (art) Made by: Roberts, William (RA) 1918

  image: the figures of four stylised signallers laying a wire across a heavily battle-scarred landscape. Clouds of dark smoke billow from the ground not far away. There is a village on the horizon in the distance, and another in the valley beyond the...

• During a Battle

  (art) Made by: Roberts, William (RA) 1918

  image: three British soldiers in yellow stand on a mound while a field gun pulled by horses moves past. A stretcher party bearing a figure in yellow walks out of the composition to the right and an infantryman of the Royal Scots Fusiliers stands guard in...

• THE 2/20TH BATTALION, LONDON REGIMENT IN MACEDONIA 1916-1917

  part of "BENTLEY F C (MAJOR)" (photographs) Made by: Bentley F C (Major) 1917

  Lieutenants Dark and Lovell of the 2/20th Battalion, London Regiment, beside a memorial cross and pile of human bones on Mort Homme (Dead Man's Hill). The bones belonging to unburied casualties of the 2nd Balkan War.

• THE GERMAN CAMPAIGN IN HOLLAND, BELGIUM AND FRANCE, 1940

  part of "POOLE JAMES (MR)" (photographs)

  Three graves of members of the SS Verfugungstruppen (Signals Battalion) at Morbecque, near Hazebrouck, northern France.

• BURIALS AT SEA

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Scene on board the coastal minelayer HMS PLOVER as she departs for sea carrying the body of Captain J G Bickford DSO, who was killed on board HMS EXPRESS, in preparation for a traditional burial at sea.

• THE FALKLANDS CONFLICT, APRIL - JUNE 1982

  part of "MINISTRY OF DEFENCE (ROYAL MARINES) COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  A dead Argentine soldier, possibly of Regimento de Infanteria 4 (4th Infantry Regiment), on Mount Harriet, near Port Stanley. B and C Companies of this regiment defended Mount Harriet on the night of 11 - 12 June 1982 and suffered 23 casualties.

• NATIONAL SERVICE 1945-1963

  part of "IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM PHOTOGRAPH ARCHIVE COLLECTION" (photographs)

  National Servicemen in the Army: Two national servicemen are buried with full military honours in Singapore, 1953. 395 national servicemen were killed in action during 1945-1963.

• THE FAR EAST: SINGAPORE, MALAYA AND HONG KONG 1939-1945

  part of "BRITISH FORCES IN BURMA, MALAYA AND KONG KONG, 1941 - 1942" (photographs) Made by: Palmer Fred (Hon Lt)

  The Japanese Campaign and Victory 8 December 1941 - 15 February 1942: A civilian casualty who was killed by a bomb splinter during a Japanese air attack on Singapore.