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• THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939 - 1945: NORTH AFRICA 1940 - 1943

  part of "IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM DOCUMENTS COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Lieutenant-General Montgomery's message to the Eighth Army before the Second Battle of El Alamein, 23 October 1942. A significant factor in Montgomery's leadership was his ability to communicate with and inspire his troops.

• THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939 - 1945: GREAT BRITAIN: PERSONALITIES

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  Lieutenant General (later Field Marshal) Bernard Montgomery in field dress, at Eighth Army Headquarters in Italy. In 1944-45 he was Commander-in-Chief of 21st Army Group in North-West Europe.

• GENERAL BERNARD MONTGOMERY, COMMANDER OF THE EIGHTH ARMY, ITALY, 30 SEPTEMBER 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  Corporal W English, batman to General Montgomery, cleaning the badge on the General's beret, in camp at Eighth Army Headquarters in Italy.

• GENERAL BERNARD MONTGOMERY, COMMANDER OF THE EIGHTH ARMY, ITALY, 30 SEPTEMBER 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  General Montgomery is handed a scarf by his batman, Corporal W English, in camp at Eighth Army Headquarters in Italy. Corporal English, from Erith, has been the General's batman since Alamein.

• GENERAL BERNARD MONTGOMERY, COMMANDER OF THE EIGHTH ARMY, ITALY, 30 SEPTEMBER 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  General Montgomery standing in a jeep with one of his aides, Captain J W Poston, in camp at Eighth Army Headquarters in Italy.

• GENERAL BERNARD MONTGOMERY, COMMANDER OF THE EIGHTH ARMY, ITALY, 30 SEPTEMBER 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  General Montgomery looking at a map spread over the bonnet of his jeep at Eighth Army Headquarters in Italy.

• WINSTON CHURCHILL IN GERMANY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR CENSORSHIP BUREAU LIBRARY OF PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Warhurst, H

  Winston Churchill with Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, Chief of the Imperial General Staff Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke and General William Simpson of the 9th American Army at the Siegfried Line, just outside Aachen, Germany, on 6 March 1945.

• Broomfield, Dennis (IWM interview)

  (sound) Made by: IWM (Production company) 2002-11

  British driver served with 4th Div Petrol Coy, Royal Army Service Corps in GB and North West Europe, 1939-1940; served as NCO with 168 General Coy, RASC in North Africa, 1941-1942; served with 519 General Headquarters Car Coy, RASC in Egypt, 1942-1945

• BERLIN: THE CAPTURE AND AFTERMATH OF WAR 1945-1947

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit

  The burnt-out Reichstag building forming a backdrop for a presentation of medals by Field Marshal Montgomery to Soviet officers.

• WINSTON CHURCHILL AS PRIME MINISTER 1940-1945

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit

  North West Europe 1944 - 1945: Churchill lunching on the east bank of the Rhine with Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery and Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke.