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• PAULA GREEN ENTERTAINING AT HMS RAJALIYA, IN THE FAR EAST, JUNE 1945.

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Miss Paula Green, the Blackpool born radio singer gives a song during 'stand easy' to maintenance ratings at HMS RAJALIYA, a jungle Royal Naval Air Station, part of the British East Indies Fleet. The Seafire they are servicing forms the background.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EAST, 1941-1945

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

  Patricia Burke, stage, screen and radio star, accompanied by a flight lieutenant playing a ukelele, entertains pilots of an RAF Squadron while sitting on the wing of a Republic Thunderbolt Mark II at an airfield in Central Burma. Patricia and her mother...

• NOEL COWARD ENTERTAINS THE MEN OF THE EASTERN FLEET, HMS VICTORIOUS, TRINCOMALEE, CEYLON, 1 AUGUST 1944

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Noel Coward standing at the microphone on a flag-bedecked stage on the aircraft lift aboard HMS VICTORIOUS with Norman Hackworth at the piano.

• LEISURE AND ENTERTAINMENT DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Neill (Sgt)

  Wartime Entertainers: Noel Coward, British playwright and entertainer, with a British army officer arriving at an airfield for a visit to the British troops stationed in Persia and Iraq. Noel Coward was one of the few star entertainers who braved the...

• THE BRITISH ARMY IN THE WESTERN DESERT, APRIL 1941

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

  Entertaining the troops: Film shows for wounded soldiers: a hospital audience waits for the start of a programme offered by a Red Cross Mobile Film Unit, April 1941.

• THE BRITISH ARMY IN EGYPT, 1943

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Mott (Sgt)

  Entertaining the troops: Cinema was a popular form of recreation for men and women in uniform. A crowd of British men in uniform entering the Femina Cinema in Cairo, Egypt where, as a placard announces, programmes are free to “all ranks of all services”...

• VERA LYNN VISITS A MUNITIONS FACTORY, UK, 1941

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

  Vera Lynn sings to workers during a lunchtime concert at a munitions factory, somewhere in Britain.

• WAR INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN 1939-1945

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information official photographer

  Factory Entertainments and Visits: Gracie Fields helping two women workers stamp a shell case at an ordnance factory. She was visiting in order to give a Ministry of Labour 'Munitions Concert' which was organised by ENSA [Entertainments National Service...

• LEISURE AND ENTERTAINMENT DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information official photographer

  Wartime Entertainers: The singer Vera Lynn, who became so popular with British servicemen that she was known as the 'Forces Sweetheart' sings to workers during their lunch break at a factory in the south of England.

• GRACIE FIELDS SINGS AT A MUNITIONS FACTORY, UK, 1941

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information official photographer

  Singer Gracie Fields stands at the microphone on a stage at an ordnance factory, somewhere in Britain. In her arms, she holds the daughter of a war worker and a large bouquet of flowers which have just been presented to her by the little girl following...