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• THE BATTLES OF MONTE CASSINO, JANUARY - MAY 1944

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 2 Army Film & Photographic Unit 1944-05-24

  Commander of the Polish 2nd Corps, Lieutenant General Władysław Anders and the Commander of the Allied Armies in Italy, General the Hon Sir Harold Alexander salute, after General Alexander had invested General Anders with the Order of the Bath in...

• THE BATTLE OF CASSINO, JANUARY-MAY 1944

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 2 Army Film & Photographic Unit 1944-05-19

  Ruined shell of the Monte Cassino Monastery a day after it was captured by the 2nd Polish Corps troops. Photograph shows the only surviving wall of the Abbey after the bombardment in February 1944.

• THE POLISH ARMY IN THE ITALIAN CAMPAIGN, 1943-1945

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 2 Army Film & Photographic Unit 1944-02-14

  Snow camouflage coated AFPU cameraman, Sergeant Eric Deeming, filming troops of the 2nd Coy., 1st Battalion, 1st Carpathian Rifles Brigade, 3rd Carpathian Rifles Division, returning from a patrol. Height 1210, north of Rionero in Vulture.

• SERVICE OF LT COL J R ARCHER-BURTON WITH THE CORPS OF ROYAL MILITARY POLICE, EIGHTH ARMY IN NORTH AFRICA, SICILY AND ITALY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "ARCHER-BURTON J R (LT COL)" (photographs) 1944-05

  Polish troops outside the ruins of the monastery at Monte Cassino. Lt Col Archer-Burton was responsible for maintaining the supply routes in this area.

• THE POLISH ARMY IN THE ITALIAN CAMPAIGN, 1943-1945

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 2 Army Film & Photographic Unit 1944-05-19

  Medics of the 2nd Brigade, the 3rd Carpathian Rifles Brigade (2nd Polish Corps) checking a picture of Jesus with a 'Heil Hitler' caption written across it. According to Polish writer, Melchior Wańkowicz, a witness of the battle, it was written by one of...

• THE POLISH ARMY IN THE MIDDLE EAST, 1941-1943

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 1 Army Film & Photographic Unit 1942-05-18

  General Józef Zając, the CO of the Polish Army in the Middle East, presenting General Claude Auchinleck, the C-in-C of the Middle East Command, with the Virtuti Militari medal. General Neil Methuen Ritchie, the CO of the 8th Army, is awaiting his turn to...

• THE POLISH ARMY IN THE MIDDLE EAST, 1941-1943

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 1 Army Film & Photographic Unit 1942-05-18

  General Józef Zając, the CO of the Polish Army in the Middle East, saluting General Claude Auchinleck, the C-in-C of the Middle East Command, after presentig him with the Virtuti Militari medal. General Neil Methuen Ritchie, the CO of the 8th Army, is...

• THE POLISH ARMY IN THE MIDDLE EAST, 1941-1943

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 1 Army Film & Photographic Unit 1942-05-18

  Troops of the Polish Army in the Middle East marching past the saluting base after decoration ceremony. General Neil Methuen Ritchie, the CO of the 8th Army, and General Claude Auchinleck, the C-in-C of the Middle East Command, were both decorated with...

• THE POLISH ARMY IN THE MIDDLE EAST, 1941-1943

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 1 Army Film & Photographic Unit 1942-05-18

  General Neil Methuen Ritchie, the CO of the 8th Army, General Józef Zając, the CO of the Polish Army in the Middle East, and General Claude Auchinleck, the C-in-C of the Middle East Command, after decoration ceremony. Both British Generals are wearing...

• THE POLISH ARMY IN THE MIDDLE EAST, 1941-1943

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 1 Army Film & Photographic Unit 1942-05-18

  General Claude Auchinleck, the C-in-C of the Middle East Command, General Neil Methuen Ritchie, the CO of the 8th Army, and General Józef Zając, the CO of the Polish Army in the Middle East, proceeding to a saluting base for the march past of the Polish...