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  • A Sunday Morning with the Home Guard: Enemy HQ Taken at the Point of the Bayonet A Sunday Morning with the Home Guard: Enemy HQ Taken at the Point of the Bayonet

    (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1941

    image: A group of home guards are seen rushing down a country lane and turning to the right through a gate next to a house. There is one soldier lagging behind further down the lane.

  • The War in Maida Vale : 'There Is Life in the Old Dogs Yet' The War in Maida Vale : 'There Is Life in the Old Dogs Yet'

    (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1941

    image: A group of elderly home guards stand outside a pub watching a blonde girl weraing a black suit walk by.

  • The Captain of the ATS The Captain of the ATS

    (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1940

    image: A woman captain is seated in a window, smoking a cigarette and reading a letter. Another officer looks over her shoulder. A padre listens from an armchair.

  • The Guard in a Block House (two soldiers) The Guard in a Block House (two soldiers)

    (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1940

    image: One soldier stands to attention, the other lies on a palette against the embrasure, through which can be seen the countryside. In front of the embrasure there is a theodolite on a tripod. There are rifles stacked against the wall.

  • Pulling off the Padre's Boots Pulling off the Padre's Boots

    (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1940

    image: The Padre, foreground left is in his bedroom, he lies exhausted in a chair. His batman kneeling foreground right, is pulling off his boots.

  • GHQ has a Nice Taste in Forage Caps! GHQ has a Nice Taste in Forage Caps!

    (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1940

    image: A carictaure of five officers looking at each other at close proximity. They are all wearing different caps. There are some other soldiers in the background.

  • Life with the BEF, 1940: Laughter Life with the BEF, 1940: Laughter

    (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1940

    image: A head and shoulder portrait of two soldiers, one with his arm around the other, laughing.

  • WAAF's at Salisbury WAAF's at Salisbury

    (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1940

    image: A view along the pavement of a street in Salisbury. A middle-aged officer in uniform and holding a swagger-stick stops to look at two passing WAAF's in uniform. As the women walk on, they too turn their heads to glance back at him.

  • A Day with the Home Guard: the battle rages for the Bank of England A Day with the Home Guard: the battle rages for the Bank of England

    (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1941

    image: seen from the junction of Cornhill and Lothbury Street, a close engagement is in progress, with smoke in the background. Amid fierce action, confused civilians are still emerging from the Tube. To the right another remonstrates with a soldier who...

  • The War in Maida Vale: 'If they only knew what they looked like' The War in Maida Vale: 'If they only knew what they looked like'

    (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1941

    image: Two women standing in a street, smoking and wearing trousers, their hair done up in scarves. There is a park in background.