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• Southern Railway passenger suburban services time tables

  (books) Made by: SOUTHERN RAILWAY PASSENGER SUBURBAN SERVICES (author) 1943-1944

  Annual

• THE HOME GUARD 1939-1945

  part of "THE HOME GUARD 1940 - 1944: 32ND SURREY BATTALION" (photographs) Made by: Porter J A

  The Home Guard: Photograph contrasting a 1940 Local Defence volunteer with a 1944 Home Guard. Both were members of 32 Surrey Battalion.

• War Weapons Week in a Country Town

  (art) Made by: Ford, Michael 1941

  image: A street scene in a small town. A brass band, Girl Guides, Police and Home Guard participate in War Weapons Week outside a community hall and are watched by a crowd of civilians. Union flags are on display and a speech is being made from a...

• Home Guards brewing Tea just before Dawn

  (art) Made by: Ford, Michael 1941

  image: Two Home Guards inside a small wooden hut, brewing tea by candlelight.

• 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.

• A Sunday Morning with the Home Guard: Storming an Enemy Post

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

  image: A country lane with a group of home guards rushing along. They are turning a corner, through a gate next to a small low building. There is one man, further down the lane, lagging behind.

• A Sunday Morning with the Home Guard: Advance on the First Objective

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

  image: A group of Home Guards moving through parkland towards a large house. The men at the front, near the house, are lying on the ground while the others appear to be running.

• A Sunday Morning with the Home Guard: The Commandant Lets Off One Of His Crackers

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

  image: In the foreground we see the side of a shed and four uniformed men hiding behind it. To the left of this is an open area in the centre of which is a smoking cracker on the floor. Men run away from it in all directions.

• A Day with the Home Guard : Home Guards advancing under a bridge on the river Front

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

  image: A group of home guards sneaking around a corner at the bottom of a flight of steps, holding their rifles with caution. Their leader is kneeling, holding a smoking canister in the air.

• A Day with the Home Guard : a landing party

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

  image: Uniformed men are seen jumping from a boat and climbing up a harbour wall. In the background some civilians lean over the top of the wall to watch.

• 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.

• Snap into it - Men 18-19 1/2 - Home Defence

  (posters) Made by: Scott, Frederick George Alfred (artist)

  whole: the image occupies the upper three-quarters, set against a blue background. The title is integrated and positioned in the upper quarter, in red cursive script. The subtitle is separate and placed in the lower quarter, in white, set against a green...

• 'Let 'em All Come' - Home Defence Battalions

  (posters) Made by: Scott, Frederick George Alfred (artist) 1939

  whole: the image occupies the upper three-quarters, set against a green background. The title is integrated and positioned in the upper quarter, in white outlined red cursive script. The subtitle and text are separate and placed in the lower quarter, in...

• Let 'em All Come - Home Defence Battalions

  (posters) Made by: Scott, Frederick George Alfred (artist) 1940

  whole: the image occupies the upper three-quarters, set against a green background. The title is integrated and positioned in the upper quarter, in white outlined red cursive script. The subtitle and text are separate and placed in the lower quarter, in...

• Put Litter in the Basket

  (posters) Made by: A M (artist)

  whole: the image is positioned in the upper third, with the title and text separate and placed in the lower two-thirds, in black and orange. All set against a white background. image: a full-length depiction of a well-dressed man dropping an empty...

• PAULA GREEN ENTERTAINING AT HMS RAJALIYA, IN THE FAR EAST, JUNE 1945.

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Miss Paula Green, the Blackpool born radio singer gives a song during 'stand easy' to maintenance ratings at HMS RAJALIYA, a jungle Royal Naval Air Station, part of the British East Indies Fleet. The Seafire they are servicing forms the background.

• JAPANESE SURRENDER AT SINGAPORE, 4 SEPTEMBER 1945

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  General Itagaki signing the terms for the reoccupation of Japan on board HMS SUSSEX.

• AIRCRAFT OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE 1939-1945: SHORT S.25 SUNDERLAND.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Lea T (Flying Officer)

  Sunderland Mark III, EJ143 ‘S’, of No. 230 Squadron RAF Detachment, piloted by Flight Lieutenant A W Deller, taking off at Addu Atoll, Maldive Islands.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EAST, 1941-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  The Air Commander, Strategic Air Force, Eastern Air Command, Air Commodore F J W Mellersh, outside his Headquarters at Calcutta, India.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EAST, 1941-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No. 27 Squadron RAF

  A camouflaged oil storage tank at Sadaing tank farm, south of Yenangyaung, Burma, erupts in flames while under attack by cannon fire from Bristol Beaufighter Mark VIFs of No. 27 Squadron RAF.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EAST, 1941-1945

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  Squadron Leader T Sweeney of Cork, Eire the Roman Catholic chaplain of an RAF Wing operating in Central Burma, conducting Mass in a wooden pagoda which has been made into a chapel.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EAST, 1941-1945

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  Patricia Burke, stage, screen and radio star, accompanied by a flight lieutenant playing a ukelele, entertains pilots of an RAF Squadron while sitting on the wing of a Republic Thunderbolt Mark II at an airfield in Central Burma. Patricia and her mother...

• ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EAST, 1941-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Bridge (F/O)

  The new Allied Air Commander-in-Chief, South East Asia, Air Marshal Sir Keith Park, talks to Air Vice-Marshal S F Vincent, Air Officer Commanding No. 221 Group RAF, and Group Captain H Goddard, while vising RAF units on the Mandalay Front in Central...

• ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EAST, 1941-1945

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  De Havilland Mosquito FB Mark VIs of No. 110 Squadron RAF running up their engines at Joari, India, before setting out on a sortie against Japanese forces in the Arakan.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EAST, 1941-1945

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  A De Havilland Mosquito FB Mark VI of No. 110 Squadron RAF taxies out for a sortie, past another aircraft of the squadron at Joari, India.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EAST, 1941-1945

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  Ground crew of No. 110 Squadron RAF service the starboard engine of a de Havilland Mosquito FB Mark VI at Joari, India: (left to right), Leading Aircraftman E Crandon of Nechells, Birmingham, Corporal A G Jackson of Mickleover, Derbyshire, Leading...

• ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EAST, 1941-1945

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Lea T (Fg Off)

  A tender conveys aircrew to Short Sunderland Mark III, EJ143 ‘S’, of No. 230 Squadron RAF Detachment, moored in the lagoon at Addu Atoll, Maldive Islands.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EAST, 1941-1945

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Lea T (Fg Off)

  Airman keep fit by playing deck tennis under the palms at the RAF station at Addu Atoll, Maldive Islands

• ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EAST, 1941-1945

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Lea T (Fg Off)

  A wind break constructed from ration boxes protects the small RAF camp at Kelai, Maldive Islands, which serves as a refuelling base for flying boats operating in the Indian Ocean.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EAST, 1941-1945

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Lea T (Fg Off)

  Airmen construct an open-air cinema at the RAF base at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EAST, 1941-1945

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Lea T (Fg Off)

  An aerial view of the RAF camp on the coral reef at Addu Atoll, Maldive Islands, which was established in 1944 as a base for flying boats operating in the Indian Ocean. Note the one mile-long pipeline jetty, built to take oil to the marine tender which...

• ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EAST, 1941-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  The crew of "Battlin' Bitch", a Consolidated Liberator B Mark VI of No. 159 Squadron RAF study maps by the nose of their aircraft before setting out on a sortie from Digri, India. They are, (front row, left to right): Sergeant J F Barnett of Aldershot,...

• ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EAST, 1941-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  Vickers Wellington Mark Xs of No. 99 Squadron RAF based at Jessore, India, en route to their target in Burma.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EAST, 1941-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  A Vickers Wellington Mark X of No. 99 Squadron RAF, lands at Jessore, India, on returning from a bombing sortie over Burma.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EAST, 1941-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  Having cleared their equipment from a dispersal at Digri, India, ground crew watch as aircrew board a Consolidated Liberator B Mark VI of No. 159 Squadron RAF for a bombing raid on the Bangkok-Moulmein railway line in Burma. This particular aircraft...

• ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EAST, 1941-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  A Consolidated Liberator of No. 159 Squadron RAF, takes off from Digri, India, for a bombing raid on the Bangkok-Moulmein railway line in Burma.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EAST, 1941-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  RAF and American groundcrew shelter from the sun under the nose of a Vickers Wellington Mark X of No. 99 Squadron RAF at Jessore, India, after preparing it for a sortie to Burma.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EAST, 1941-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  Leading Aircraftman W T Messenger of Barry, South Wales and Aircraftman R J Frost of Brynmill, Swansea, check over the a load of 1,000-lb HE and Small Bomb Containers (SBC) filled with 4lb incendiaries in the bomb bay of a Vickers Wellington Mark X of No...

• ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EAST, 1941-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  Bristol Beaufighter Mark VIF, X8092 'R', of No. 27 Squadron RAF, on trestles at the firing butts at Agartala, India, for cannon and machine gun alignment.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EAST, 1941-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  Ground crew pull the chocks away from a Bristol Beaufighter Mark VIF of No. 27 Squadron RAF, piloted by Flying Officer D J Innes as he prepares to take off at Agartala, India.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EAST, 1941-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  Bristol Beaufighter Mark VIF 'X' of No. 27 Squadron RAF, landing at Agartala, India, after an operational sortie.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EAST, 1941-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  A Consolidated Liberator Mark II of No. 159 Squadron RAF is refuelled at Salbani, India, before undertaking a raid on the docks at Rangoon, Burma.

• THE WAR IN THE FAR EAST: THE BURMA CAMPAIGN 1941-1945

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  The Arakan Campaign January 1943 - May 1945: Men of the Royal Air Force advance assault party pass a bomb damaged building after the landings on Ramree Island.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EAST, 1941-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Lea T F/O)

  The crew of Vickers Wellington Mark X, HZ950, of No. 99 Squadron RAF, gather by the tail turret of their aircraft at Chaklala, India, after returning from the squadron's 1,000th sortie over Burma, a bombing raid on ammunition dumps at Taungup, Burma....

• ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EAST, 1941-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  Mechanics servicing the Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp radial engines of a Consolidated Liberator Mark II of No. 159 Squadron RAF at Salbani, India.

• THE BRITISH ARMY IN BURMA 1944

  part of "WAR OFFICE, CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION AND AMERICAN SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 9 Army Film & Photographic Unit

  During the approach to Mandalay British troops closed in on the Japanese who were strongly entrenched around the weir sluices on the River Mu. These soldiers keep watch on Japanese positions only 400 yds away.

• NOEL COWARD ENTERTAINS THE MEN OF THE EASTERN FLEET, HMS VICTORIOUS, TRINCOMALEE, CEYLON, 1 AUGUST 1944

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Noel Coward standing at the microphone on a flag-bedecked stage on the aircraft lift aboard HMS VICTORIOUS with Norman Hackworth at the piano.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EAST, 1941-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  Air Marshal W A Coryton, Air Officer Commanding the RAF in Bengal and Burma, talks to Wing Commander Hagger of Worthing, Sussex, a patient in the RAF Hospital in Calcutta, India, during a visit by Lady Edwina Mountbatten.

• Flower, Thomas Henry (IWM interview)

  (sound) Made by: IWM (Production company) 1985-09-05

  British boy soldier served with 1st Bn South Wales Borderers in Ireland, 1920-1921; NCO served with 2nd Bn South Wales Borderers in GB and Norway, 1939-1940

• Parry, Hugh Lawrence (IWM interview)

  (sound) Made by: IWM (Production company) 1985-09-04

  British officer served as pilot with 601 Sqdn, RAF in Malta, 1942; served with 41 Sqdn, RAF in GB, 1943; evaded capture in France, 1943-1944; POW in France and Germany, 1944