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  • Highfield, Martyn (IWM interview) Highfield, Martyn (IWM interview)

    (sound) Made by: IWM (Production company) 2003-01

    British officer served with 74th Field Regt, Royal Artillery in GB, North West Europe, North Africa and Sicily, 1939-1944; served as staff officer to Commander Royal Artillery, Headquarters, 49 Div, 1945-1945; served as air liaison officer aboard HMS...

  • ON BOARD HMS RACEHORSE, DESTROYER OF THE EASTERN FLEET ON BOARD HMS RACEHORSE, DESTROYER OF THE EASTERN FLEET

    part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Rolfe, W E (Lt)

    One of a series of images depicting the ships company of HMS RACEHORSE after the action off Sabang. Each group of crew members all hail from a particular geographic location: The Hampshire group includes: Petty Officer W Allison, Portsmouth; Stoker A...

  • MODERN FARMING: AGRICULTURE IN BRITAIN, 1943 MODERN FARMING: AGRICULTURE IN BRITAIN, 1943

    part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer

    Two agricultural workers operate their combine harvester on a sunny wheat field in Hampshire. The self-propelled harvester covers three processes in one: it cuts the corn, separates the wheat and pours it into sacks, and discharges the straw on the...

  • MODERN FARMING: AGRICULTURE IN BRITAIN, 1943 MODERN FARMING: AGRICULTURE IN BRITAIN, 1943

    part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer

    A 'pick-up baler' at work in a Hampshire field. The job of this machine is to follow behind the combine harvester and gather up the straw. This straw is then passed up a conveyor to a baling machine, which presses the straw into bales. One...

  • MODERN FARMING: AGRICULTURE IN BRITAIN, 1943 MODERN FARMING: AGRICULTURE IN BRITAIN, 1943

    part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer

    A large hay rick stands in the sun on a Hampshire farm. According to the original caption, the bales of this rick were made by the 'pick-up baler', and are of a very good size for easy handling a stacking. The straw will later be used for cattle...

  • MODERN FARMING: AGRICULTURE IN BRITAIN, 1943 MODERN FARMING: AGRICULTURE IN BRITAIN, 1943

    part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer

    Edward Raines, poultryman on a Hampshire farm, moves a poultry fold into line with the others in the field. Each of these chicken 'sheds' contains 25 birds. They are moved their length every day, providing fresh ground for the hens to feed on and also...

  • MODERN FARMING: AGRICULTURE IN BRITAIN, 1943 MODERN FARMING: AGRICULTURE IN BRITAIN, 1943

    part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer

    Agricultural workers operate a tractor-drawn 'Cutlift' machine in a clover field in Hampshire. This machine can be used to cut any green crop. Once cut, the crop passes up the conveyor and is dropped into the trailer. It can then be taken to a silo...

  • IWM interview IWM interview

    (sound) Made by: IWM (Production company) 1992-08-10

    British private served with Royal Army Ordnance Corps in GB, 1940-1941; officer served with 19th (Super Heavy Battery), Royal Artillery in GB, 1941-1943; served with 13th Medium Regt, Royal Artillery in GB, 6/1943-12/1943

  • Bernard, Joan Constance Churchill (IWM interview) Bernard, Joan Constance Churchill (IWM interview)

    (sound) Made by: IWM (Production company) 1998-03-23

    British civilian student at Oxford University, GB, 1939-1940; private served as secretary with Auxiliary Territorial Service, 5th Anti-Aircraft Div in GB, 1940-1941; served as staff officer with Anti-Aircraft Command in GB, 1942-1944 and with Supreme...

  • Miller, Lettice (IWM interview) Miller, Lettice (IWM interview)

    (sound) Made by: IWM (Production company) 1994-08

    British schoolchild in Gloucestershire, GB, 1914-1918; civilian served with Women's Land Army and volunteer helper with POW's parcels in Hampshire, GB, 1939-1945

  • Invasion Preparations in an English Village Invasion Preparations in an English Village

    (art) Made by: Mozley, Charles 1944

    image: A view from an elevated postion looking onto a road in an English village. There are houses and a church in the background to the left, with a number of American military trucks and a jeep parked on the road in the foreground. To the right is a...

  • Italian Prisoners-of-war Working on the Land Italian Prisoners-of-war Working on the Land

    (art) Made by: Ford, Michael 1942

    image: View across an onion field in autumn with sixteen Italian prisoners-of-war gathering in the crop, supervised by a single British soldier at the near edge of the field. The PoWs are wearing clothing marked with a distinctive red spot on the jackets...

  • Land Work in War-time - Portfolio of four lithographs
The Land Army Growing Vegetables for the Navy Land Work in War-time - Portfolio of four lithographs The Land Army Growing Vegetables for the Navy

    (art) Made by: Hartrick, Archibald Standish (OBE) 1940

    image: Land girls harvesting cabbages. A group of women stand in a field close to the coast. In the background there is a ship out at sea, and the Isle of Wight lies in the distance.

  • THE BRITISH ARMY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM 1939-45 THE BRITISH ARMY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM 1939-45

    part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

    Troops from 47th (London) Division take cover on a riverbank during training at a battle school near Lymington in Hampshire, 8 January 1942.

  • WEST INDIANS IN BRITAIN DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR WEST INDIANS IN BRITAIN DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

    part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

    West Indian aid to Britain: The West Indies gave funds for the furnishing of recreation huts on Ack-Ack gun sites. Photograph shows: Mixed personnel of an anti-aircraft gun site in 'Jamaica Hut', Hampshire.

  • THE BRITISH ARMY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM THE BRITISH ARMY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

    part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

    A Bren gun carrier and Lewis gun team take up positions by a sign on the A33 trunk road, during exercises in Hampshire in 1938.

  • FILM AND PHOTOGRAPHY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR FILM AND PHOTOGRAPHY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

    part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

    A photographer and cameraman of the Army Film and Photographic Unit, Sergeant W A Greenhalgh, uses a daylight changing bag to load his camera during Exercise FABIUS, a training exercise for the D Day landings in Hampshire, England. The photograph...

  • ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1914 - 1918 ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1914 - 1918

    part of "COOMBS R E B" (photographs) 1915

    Lance-Bombardier Frederick Luke VC, 37th Battalion Royal Field Artillery (RFA). Locherley, Hampshire.

  • Carpenter, Cecil Edward (IWM interview) Carpenter, Cecil Edward (IWM interview)

    (sound) Made by: IWM (Production company) 1985-10-17

    British civilian in London, schoolchild and underground railway worker 1902-1923

  • Hartford, Pauline Overton (IWM interview) Hartford, Pauline Overton (IWM interview)

    (sound) Made by: IWM (Production company) 1987

    British civilian working in Bank of England offices in Hampshire from 1943, met American soldiers. Courtship, engagement to GI in 1944. Marriage and crossing to USA in 1945, settled in Georgia

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