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• 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'

  (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

  (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.

• Chungkai Camp 1943-44: Regimental Christmas Card

  (art) Made by: Gimson, George Stanley 1943

  image: A view of Father Christmas wearing a red loin cloth and traditional hat. He is climbing through a bamboo fence, carrying a sack on his shoulder.

• 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

  (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!

  (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

  (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

  (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.

• 'Old Bill' in Camouflage

  (art) Made by: Bairnsfather, Bruce

  image: A cartoon of the 'Old Bill' character dressed in full uniform and ready to light his pipe. He is painted from head to toe in red striped camouflage.