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• truncheon, Home Guard

  (weapons and ammunition)

  This lead-weighted wooden truncheon was issued to 55th County of Lancaster Battalion Home Guard. It was evidently used while mounting guard at Manchester Collieries Ltd of Walkden. A shortage of firearms meant that many improvised weapons were employed...

• BELGIANS TRAIN IN ENGLAND: PARACHUTE TRAINING AT RINGWAY, NEAR MANCHESTER, 1942

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

  Belgian paratroopers in training at Ringway, near Manchester. The photograph shows them dropping through a wooden frame with a central chute through which each man must jump on command. This apparatus helps them to learn to fall in an erect position:...

• BELGIANS TRAIN IN ENGLAND: PARACHUTE TRAINING AT RINGWAY, NEAR MANCHESTER, 1942

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

  A Belgian sentry on duty, probably near Ringway, Manchester.

• BELGIANS TRAIN IN ENGLAND: PARACHUTE TRAINING AT RINGWAY, NEAR MANCHESTER, 1942

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

  Belgian paratroops exercise as part of their parachute training at Ringway. Here, trainees act as a substitute vaulting horse for their colleague as he does 'flying angel' jumps over them.

• BELGIANS TRAIN IN ENGLAND: PARACHUTE TRAINING AT RINGWAY, NEAR MANCHESTER, 1942

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

  A Belgian paratrooper practices landing as part of his training at Ringway, near Manchester.

• BELGIANS TRAIN IN ENGLAND: PARACHUTE TRAINING AT RINGWAY, CHESHIRE, 1942

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

  Belgian paratroops exercise as part of their parachute training at Ringway. Here, trainees act as a substitute vaulting horse for their colleague as he performs 'flying angel' jumps over them.

• BELGIANS TRAIN IN ENGLAND: PARACHUTE TRAINING AT RINGWAY, NEAR MANCHESTER, 1942

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

  Belgian paratroopers in training at Ringway, near Manchester. The photograph shows them dropping through a wooden frame with a central chute through which each man must jump on command. This apparatus helps them to learn to fall in an erect position:...

• BELGIANS TRAIN IN ENGLAND: PARACHUTE TRAINING AT RINGWAY, NEAR MANCHESTER, 1942

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

  A Belgian paratrooper does 'flying angel' jumps over a wooden horse as part of his 'limbering up exercises during parachute training at Ringway. Two other soldiers lie next to the horse to increase the distance jumped.

• THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT: THE WORK OF THE LONG-DISTANCE LORRY DRIVER IN WARTIME, ENGLAND, UK, 1944

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

  Whilst lorry driver Fred Horrod is asleep at his lodgings, workers at the Manchester depot of H & G Dutfield load up his lorry for the return trip to London. The load includes boxes of Calverts tooth powder.

• THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT: THE WORK OF THE LONG-DISTANCE LORRY DRIVER IN WARTIME, ENGLAND, UK, 1944

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

  At 9:30am, lorry driver Fred Horrod (left) receives his final instructions from Mr T Wolstenholme, the manager of the Manchester depot of H & G Dutfield, before climbing into his cab for the return trip to London. Fred has had a day of rest in...