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• SECOND WORLD WAR: VICTORIA CROSS HOLDERS' PORTRAITS (GENERAL)

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Davies L B (Lt)

  Upham, Charles Hazlitt, New Zealand Expeditionary Force: Places and date of deeds, Crete, 22 - 30 May 1941 and Bar to VC, Western Desert, 14 - 15 July 1942.

• COMMONWEALTH FORCES IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 1 Army Film & Photographic Unit

  Major General Bernard Freyberg VC, 15 August 1940.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE: EAST AFRICA COMMAND, 1940-1945.

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Clements (Lt), No 1 Army Film & Photographic Section Army Film & Photographic Unit

  Captain J E "Jack" Frost climbs into a Hawker Hurricane of No. 3 Squadron SAAF at Addis Ababa, after rejoining his unit as 'A' Flight commander following an attack of appendicitis. Jack Frost was the most successful fighter pilot in the SAAF. He joined...

• ROYAL AIR FORCE: EAST AFRICA COMMAND, 1940-1945.

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Clements (Lt), No 1 Army Film & Photographic Section Army Film & Photographic Unit

  Three notable pilots of No. 3 Squadron SAAF at Addis Ababa. On the left is Captain J E "Jack" Frost, the most successful fighter pilot of the SAAF during the war (see E 3410). In the middle is Lieutenant R H C Kershaw, who earned a DSO for rescuing...

• NATIONAL SERVICE 1945-1963

  part of "MCGUIRE JOHN" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  National Servicemen in the Royal Air Force: Air Vice Marshal A D Selway decorates LAC John McGuire, a national serviceman with the ground crew of No 8 Squadron, Royal Air Force in Oman, with the British Empire Medal for his services during the Muscat and...

• ROYAL AIR FORCE COASTAL COMMAND: NO. 247 GROUP OPERATIONS IN THE AZORES, 1943-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  Group Captain W E Oulton, the Station Commander of Lagens. Previously, while commanding No. 58 Squadron RAF, Oulton was awarded the DSO for sinking three U-boats in May 1943. He remained in charge of Lagens until March 1945.

• THE KOREAN WAR 1950 - 1953

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION KOREAN WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Stout Paul F (Private 1st Class)

  Captain Charoon Charlermtiarana, Thai Navy, congratulates Lance Corporal Saueong Homkaxorn, Thai Army, after awarding him a UN medal and wound clasp at Tokyo Army Hospital.

• KING'S OWN SCOTTISH BORDERERS IN KOREA 1951 - 1952

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION KOREAN WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Godfray Martin (Sergeant, British Army PR photographer, Rifle Brigade)

  With the 1st Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers in Korea: Watched by their guide, Lance Corporal Bob Gilmore, Korean porters carry vital supplies up the precipitous slopes of company positions. The Korean porter nearest the camera, Hang Chong Sun...

• ROYAL AIR FORCE BOMBER COMMAND, 1942-1945.

  part of "RIDEAL E C (SQUADRON LEADER)" (photographs)

  Personnel of No. 487 Squadron RNZAF grouped in front of a Lockheed Ventura Mark II at Methwold, Norfolk. Standing eighth from the left is the Commanding Officer, Wing Commander G J "Chopper" Grindell On his right is the 'A' Flight commander, Squadron...

• ROYAL AIR FORCE BOMBER COMMAND, 1942-1945.

  part of "RIDEAL E C (SQUADRON LEADER)" (photographs)

  Wing Commander G J "Chopper" Grindell (centre), Commanding Officer of No. 487 Squadron RNZAF, standing with his two flight commanders in front of a Lockheed Ventura at Methwold, Norfolk. On his left is the 'A' Flight commander, Squadron Leader T...