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• SPORT & LEISURE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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

  The Royal Air Force against the Army in a football match at the St Eugene Sports Stadium in Algiers on Boxing Day 1943: Aircraftman McGuiggan of the RAF league, who played centre forward, pushes the ball past the Army league goalkeeper to score the RAF's...

• THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE (BEF) IN FRANCE 1939-1940

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  A game of football at Chanzy barracks, Le Mans. Ordnance sergeants in trousers against men in shorts on the BEF assembly ground. (Note the gun mounted on a tripod as a precaution against air attack).

• THE MESOPOTAMIA CAMPAIGN 1914 - 1918

  part of "FARRANT J H (MR)" (photographs) 1917

  Rugby match played between officers representing the camps on the right and left banks of the River Tigris, 17 February 1917.

• SCENES AT THE ARMY PHYSICAL TRAINING SCHOOL

  part of "WAR OFFICE INTERWAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: British Army photographer

  A boxing contest underway in a gymnasium at the Army Physical Training School, Aldershot.

• GERMANY UNDER ALLIED OCCUPATION

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

  Gunner J Hamilton of Aberdeen and Lance Bombardier S Canfield of Leeds astride one of the great stone horses in the main Olympic Stadium in Berlin.

• GERMANY UNDER ALLIED OCCUPATION

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Hewitt (Sergeant)

  A group of British soldiers walk towards the main entrance to the Olympic Stadium in Berlin.

• GERMANY UNDER ALLIED OCCUPATION

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

  Signaller R W Chater from North Shields and Signaller Syddall of Horwich look at the scorboard in the Olympic Stadium, Berlin, set up by some unknown British humorist.

• THE NARVIK CAMPAIGN, 1940

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer 1940-04-20

  Troops of the 1/6th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding), 147 Brigade, 61st Division enjoy a game of deck quoits on board the Polish Navy liner MS Sobieski. She is lying off Gourock at the mouth of the River Clyde and has been used as a...

• BRITISH VS POLISH ARMY FOOTBALL GAME, ROME

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Menzies (Sgt) 1944-11-14

  Duckhouse, British Army centre-forward about to head the first goal. In spite of a change in the weather a huge crowd turned up. The final score was British Army 10, 2nd Polish Corps - 2.

• BRITISH VS POLISH ARMY FOOTBALL GAME, ROME

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Menzies (Sgt) 1944-11-14

  Football team of the 2nd Polish Corps running onto a pitch in Rome. In spite of a change in the weather a huge crowd turned up. The final score was British Army 10, 2nd Polish Corps - 2.