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  • REHABILITATION OF BRITISH SOLDIERS FROM NORMANDY: THE WORK OF THE ROBERT JONES AND DAME AGNES HUNT ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL, OSWESTRY, SHROPSHIRE, ENGLAND, UK, 1944 REHABILITATION OF BRITISH SOLDIERS FROM NORMANDY: THE WORK OF THE ROBERT JONES AND DAME AGNES HUNT ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL, OSWESTRY, SHROPSHIRE, ENGLAND, UK, 1944

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

    Writing a letter home is Seaman Gunner C J Purser (known to his intimates as "Popeye"). He was wounded off Cherbourg when minesweeping. His hometown is Cleethorpes, Lincs.

  • THE ANGLO-SOVIET TREATY, MAY 1942 THE ANGLO-SOVIET TREATY, MAY 1942

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

    Winston Churchill with British and Soviet representatives, including Anthony Eden and Vyacheslav Molotov, in London following the signing of the Anglo-Soviet Treaty on 26 May 1942.

  • THE CABINET WAR ROOMS DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR THE CABINET WAR ROOMS DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

    part of "MAHONEY L A (MR)" (photographs)

    The Prime Minister Winston Churchill sits at his desk in the Map Room at the Cabinet War Rooms in London during the Second World War. Beside him (right), Captain Pym of the RNVR takes a telephone call.

  • Underground station London Underground station London

    Made by: Candy, Barbara 1945

    Compositional studies of figures including an American soldier and civilians studying the tube map and at the ticket office and newsagents in the Strand underground station in London

  • Underground station London Underground station London

    Made by: Candy, Barbara 1945

    Compositional studies of figures including an American soldier and civilians studying the tube map and at the ticket office and newsagents in the Strand underground station in London