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• BRITISH GENERALS 1939-1945

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

  Major General O C Wingate (1903 - 1944): Wingate, 'Gideon Force' Commander, talking with the Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia.

• H.R.H THE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER TOURS THE SUDAN, ADEN AND SOMALILAND

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Neill R (Sgt)

  H.R.H is here seen chatting with the Head Man of Hargeisa.

• H.R.H THE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER TOURS THE SUDAN, ADEN AND SOMALILAND

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Neill R (Sgt)

  H.R.H inspects a guard of Honour of the Somaliland Camel Corps at Hargeisa.

• 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

  A section of three Hawker Hurricane Mark Is of No. 3 Squadron SAAF in flight shortly after taking off from Addis Ababa for a sortie, during the closing stages of the campaign in Abyssinia.

• 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...

• 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

  Hawker Hurricane Mark Is of No. 3 Squadron SAAF are pushed out of their hangars at Addis Ababa for a sortie during the final stages of the campaign in Abyssinia. Note the unit's badge on the side of the nose. In the background can be seen a burnt-out...

• THE ABYSSINIAN CAMPAIGN 1941

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

  Ethiopian camel troops transporting supplies through the bush, 22 January 1941.

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

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

  Wellesley Mark I, L2673 ‘KU-C’, of No. 47 Squadron RAF based at Agordat, Eritrea, in flight over the rugged landscape of Eritrea.

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

  part of "CABINET OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No. 47 Squadron RAF

  Bombs explode on the technical site of Italian-held Asmara airfield in Eritrea, during a raid by ten Vickers Wellesleys of No. 47 Squadron RAF. The escorting Hawker Hurricanes of No. 1 Squadron SAAF also attacked Italian aircraft on the ground which had...