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• Liberation

  (art) Made by: Carr, Henry 1944

  image: A view of the remains of an Italian village with soldiers and civilians moving around the ruins of the bombed houses and church.

• Divisional Pigeon Loft, Italy 1944

  (art) Made by: Burn, Guy 1944

  image: A mobile pigeon loft stands with its doors open, the pigeons free to fly around. The interior of the loft can be seen with the birds perched on their compartments. In the left background is a ruined farmhouse; a village on a steep hillside lies in...

• 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.

• Arquata: Italy. Ambulance Convoy: Italy

  (art) Made by: Mudie-Cooke, Olive

  image: a view of a convoy of motor ambulances moving along a spectacular mountain road in northern Italy. The road progresses from the left along a stone viaduct, curving away into the distance before continuing along a mountain ridge on the right.

• BRITISH ARMY NURSING SISTERS IN ITALY, 22 SEPTEMBER 1943

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

  British Army nurses attached to the Eighth Army, who were among the first to arrive in Italy, buying cactus fruit in the market at Nicastro.

• THE BRITISH ARMY DURING THE CAMPAIGN IN ITALY, SEPTEMBER 1943

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

  A pack mule team, carrying stores and ammunition across hilly country, halts on the journey to adjust the harness on a pack mule.

• THE BRITISH ARMY DURING THE CAMPAIGN IN ITALY, SEPTEMBER 1943

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

  British soldiers with wounded on pack mules travelling over rough terrain.

• THE BRITISH ARMY DURING THE CAMPAIGN IN ITALY, SEPTEMBER 1943

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

  A sergeant helps a wounded man down from the pack mule which had carried him.

• 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.