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• SOLDIERS WORKING ON THE LAND: HELPING WITH THE HARVEST, UK, JULY 1945

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer

  Soldiers of various regiments of the British Army work to help bring in the harvest, somewhere in Britain. Here a group of men can be seen weeding in a large field in the sunshine. Behind them can be seen the rolling fields of the surrounding...

• AN EIGHTH ARMY MAN ON LEAVE, WIRRAL, CHESHIRE, 14 APRIL 1944

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

  Lance Bombardier Jack Grundy, of 441 Battery, 128 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, 50 Division, during his seven days privilege leave with his family. Jack Grundy and his wife Dorothy in the front room of their home in Irby, Cheshire.

• AN EIGHTH ARMY MAN ON LEAVE, WIRRAL, CHESHIRE, 14 APRIL 1944

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

  Lance Bombardier Jack Grundy, of 441 Battery, 128 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, 50 Division, during his seven days privilege leave with his family. Jack Grundy and his wife Dorothy while on a picnic in the Cheshire countryside.

• Arm Him

  (posters) Made by: Stafford and Co, Netherfield, Nottingham (printer)

  whole: the image is positioned lower right, with text, in black, placed in the top left. A large black arrow below the text and to the left points down towards the image. All is set against a plain white background. image: a British soldier, standing...

• Sniper's Make-up

  (art) Made by: Pitchforth, Roland Vivian (RA)

  image: A head and shoulder portrait of a young soldier wearing a tin hat, his face camouflaged with dark criss-crossed lines.

• Thames Estuary (Army type) Sea Fort (single tower only)

  (vehicles, aircraft and ships)

  model

• Constructing a Gun Emplacement

  (art) Made by: Gross, Anthony (CBE) (RA) 1941

  image: Military personnel construct a circular gun emplacement. The main section is surrounded by fencing, which is heavily supported. In the distance is the sea and the outline of the neighbouring clifftops.

• WAAF's at Salisbury

  (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1940

  image: A view along the pavement of a street in Salisbury. A middle-aged officer in uniform and holding a swagger-stick stops to look at two passing WAAF's in uniform. As the women walk on, they too turn their heads to glance back at him.

• Garnishing Camouflage Nets

  (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1941

  image: Three women wearing headscarves are standing with their back to the viewer tying pieces of cloth onto nets hung up in front of them. Behind them, a soldier stands next to a woman with a clipboard.

• Girls Garnishing Camouflage Nets in an Ordnance Factory

  (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1941

  image: In a dark room with a single window women are standing next to racks arranged in rows hung with camouflage nets. They are garnishing the nets while others in the foreground and background are cutting up larger pieces of cloth for the others to...