Filter results

Category

Media

Creators

Subject period

Places

Events

Associated person/organisation

Materials

Themes

Keywords

• Anti-aircraft Fire meeting Flying-bombs as they cross the Coast Defences, Dymchurch, July 1944

  (art) Made by: Cole, Leslie 1944

  image: View along the defended beach at Dymchurch with puffs of anti-aircraft fire in the sky and the fleeting shape of a flying-bomb in upper right corner

• 14th Army : men of the Royal Berkshire Regiment form the spearhead of a patrol, cutting through the jungle on the Toungoo-Manchi Road

  (art) Made by: Cole, Leslie 1945

  image: British infantrymen in jungle equipment work their way through the dense undergrowth of the Burmese rainforest. One man cuts through vegetation with a large knife, another consults a map and compass, whilst a man in the foreground squats on the...

• The Greek Civil War : Relatives mourn their dead at Peristere

  (art) Made by: Cole, Leslie 1945

  image: three swollen corpses lie on the ground in a barren landscape. A fourth is being lifted by a group of men using a white sheet as a stretcher. The group is surrounded by two children holding flowers and several mourning women, dressed in black. A...

• Burmese Guerillas in Action

  (art) Made by: Cole, Leslie 1945

  image: Five Burmese guerillas crouch sheltering amongst the water reeds at the edge of a river. They aim their rifels into the distance.

• 'Scorched Earth' - Devastated Rubber Plantations

  (art) Made by: Cole, Leslie 1946

  image: View of the remains of a rubber plantation after deliberate firing

• Bechuanaland Boys cleaning AA Guns in the Twilight after Action, Syracuse, Sicily

  (art) Made by: Cole, Leslie 1944

  image: soldiers from Bechuanaland stand on the edge of a gun emplacement, cleaning the barrel of a gun. Behind them are several anti-aircraft guns with rows of tents nearby and mountains in the distance.

• Battle of London: Royal Marine AA Gunners bring down a Flying-bomb

  (art) Made by: Cole, Leslie 1944

  image: Four marines take cover in a ditch as a flying-bomb, trailing smoke, plummets to earth

• Malta : early morning. Looking towards Sicily from a balcony of the 45th General Hospital during an alert

  (art) Made by: Cole, Leslie 1943

  image: a view of the grounds of a military hospital on the Maltese coast looking out to sea. There is a large red cross symbol painted on a white circle on the ground, evidently to discourage enemy bombing of the hospital. A row of huts are dotted along...

• Burma - 14th Army: The Battle of the Sittang Bend. Men of the Queen's Own (Royal West Kent) Regiment Making an Armed Patrol

  (art) Made by: Cole, Leslie 1945

  image: Five soldiers wading through a flooded paddy field

• British Snipers on the Island of Ubbea near Khakio : 10th Infantry Brigade

  (art) Made by: Cole, Leslie 1945

  image: In the foreground three carefully camouflaged British snipers wearing camouflaged smocks have positioned themselves amongst the rocks and vegetation of a hill side. They appear to be overlooking a road that winds through hilly coastal country. The...