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• MIDDLE EAST VETERANS GOING HOME

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

  In a transit camp at Alexandria men in demobilisation groups one to three await to embark on troopships for home. Amongst these men was Sergeant J A Hutchins (Royal Army Service Corps) of Florence Villa, Denmead, Portsmouth, who first joined the army in...

• ANIMALS IN WAR 1939-1945

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ashwood Terry

  A camel train transports fuel through the desert between Damascus and Palmyra in the Middle East.

• BRITISH FORCES IN EGYPT, 1945

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

  British service personnel attending a thanksgiving service at the El Alamein Club in Cairo to commemorate the end of the war in Europe.

• THE BRITISH ARMY IN THE MIDDLE EAST 1940-43

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

  Valentine tanks being offloaded from ships onto 'Z' craft at Port Tewfik in the Port of Suez, 10 July 1942.

• 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...

• ANTHONY EDEN'S TOUR OF PALESTINE, OCTOBER 1940

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

  Secretary of State for War Anthony Eden with General Sir Archibald Wavell (GOC-in-C Middle East) and Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore (AOC-in-C), October 1940.

• WINSTON CHURCHILL IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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

  Churchill with members of the Middle East War Council in the gardens of the British Embassy in Cairo, 5 August 1942. Back row, left to right: Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, General Sir Alan Brooke, Admiral Sir H Harwood, General Sir Claude...

• BRITISH FORCES IN THE MIDDLE EAST, 1945-1947

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

  Gunners take a last look through their voting papers before entering a makeshift polling station at the Royal Artillery Base Depot near Cairo to cast their votes in the British general election of 1945.

• BRITISH FORCES IN THE MIDDLE EAST, 1945-1947

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

  Gunners about to enter a makeshift polling station at the Royal Artillery Base Depot near Cairo to cast their votes in the British general election of 1945

• ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA, 1939-1943

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Cash (Lt)

  The graves of three aircrew of No. 39 Squadron RAF, buried by the Germans, lie in front of the wreckage of their Martin Maryland Mark II south-west of Gazala.