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• Two WAAF Balloon Workers

  (art) Made by: Cole, Leslie 1941

  image: two women of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) at work on large balloons. One of the women kneels down tying a knot, surrounded by numerous threads of fine rope, the other woman lying on her side looking on. They appear to be working inside...

• Listening-post at Spyglass, Gibraltar

  (art) Made by: Cole, Leslie 1943

  image: British soldiers gathered at a listening post at Spyglass, Gibraltar, looking out over the Mediterranean. The machinery of the post dominates the centre of the composition, its four cone shaped receivers facing skywards. It is incorporated on the...

• 16th US Medical Regiment : Field Dental Service operating during an attack

  (art) Made by: Cole, Leslie 1942

  image: A dentist wearing US Army uniform tends to a patient sitting in a chair and covered with a white sheet. Another man in US Army uniform stands to the left of the composition with his right hand in a bowl of liquid. They appear to be in the room of...

• An American Soldier in Fatigue Dress

  (art) Made by: Cole, Leslie 1942

  image: a full-length portrait of an American soldier in fatigue dress, standing in a narrow, cobbled street.

• 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...

• Captain Beck, MN : of "SS Strathnaver"

  (art) Made by: Cole, Leslie

  image: A head and shoulder portrait of Captain Beck in uniform.

• Subedar-Major of the 3/8 Gurkhas

  (art) Made by: Cole, Leslie 1946

  image: Three-quarter portrait of a soldier

• 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: Gunners Resting between Alerts at a Heavy AA Post

  (art) Made by: Cole, Leslie 1943

  image: Eight British soldiers within the interior of a Heavy Anti-Aircraft post. The two men in the foreground are both lying on beds, the one on the left covered with a mosquito net. One man is walking down the steps that lead down into the room from...