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• SCENES AT A DEMOBILISATION CENTRE IN BRITAIN, 1944

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

  A demobbed soldier, selecting a tie to go with his shirt, is helped by a Royal Army Ordnance Corps member serving at the centre.

• Private Papers of E A Dorking

  (private papers) Made by: Dorking, E A

  Well-written memoir (50pp ts), written circa 1996, covering his childhood in Battersea, London, during the 1930s, evacuation to the Sussex coast after the outbreak of war in 1939 and return to the capital in February 1940, experiences during the Blitz,...

• Army Training in England and Scotland: Soldier and Civilian and Refugees

  (art) Made by: Houghton, Stanley 1942

  image: soldier talking to a woman wearing a headscarf and a group of refugees walking through a bomb site, carrying their possessions

• Army Training in England and Scotland: 'Atheist' and 'Dog Fight'

  (art) Made by: Houghton, Stanley 1942

  image: soldier peeling potatoes and sitting on a bench; a family watching an aerial 'dog-fight' from outside an Anderson shelter

• Army Training in England and Scotland: Street Scene and 'Fatigue Party' [attrib.]

  (art) Made by: Houghton, Stanley 1942

  image: view of buildings and civilians walking up a street; two soldiers on fatigues putting up barbed wire around a camp

• Army Training in England and Scotland: Interior of a Hut and A Civilian Casualty [attrib.]

  (art) Made by: Houghton, Stanley 1942

  image: interior of a hut with soldiers talking ; a civilian casualty, a woman or a child, lying in a road and covered with a blanket

• Army Training in England and Scotland: Woman and Soldier Talking and Two Factory Girls [attrib.]

  (art) Made by: Houghton, Stanley 1942

  image: woman standing in the doorway of a mess hut, talking to a soldier; two factory girls laughing

• Army Training in England and Scotland: ARP Warden and Three Heads [attrib.]

  (art) Made by: Houghton, Stanley 1942

  image: ARP warden standing in front of a cinema; three studies of heads of soldiers

• Army Training in England and Scotland: Civilians in an Underground Shelter and Bomb-damaged Buildings [attrib.]

  (art) Made by: Houghton, Stanley 1941

  image: interior of an Underground Station shelter with civilians; sketch of a street scene showing bombed buildings

• Army Training in England and Scotland: A Soldier and a Refugee Family [attrib.]

  (art) Made by: Houghton, Stanley 1941

  image: head and shoulders portrait of a soldier in full kit; a family walking along a street, the man holding a kit bag over his shoulder accompanied by a woman holding a baby with a young child walking in front of them.