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• 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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  (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)

  (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)

  (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

  (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

  (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

  (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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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)

  (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)

  (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

• Private Papers of Lieutenant Colonel T A Rotherham DSO MC TD

  (private papers) Made by: Rotherham, T A

  Photocopy of an undated ts memoir (21pp) by a Territorial Army officer in the 4th Battalion Hampshire Regiment covering his service as signal officer at the Infantry Training Centre established by the Regimental Depot on the Isle of Wight (September 1939...

• 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 sit on a tractor-drawn trailer with the large sacks of grain they have just collected from a sunny field in Hampshire. A third worker drives the tractor which will take the grain to be weighed, dried and then ground into flour.

• 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

  Cows are milked by machine on a farm in Hampshire. The cattle herd consists of 40 pedigree Ayrshires and Dairy Shorthorns, tended by the Neill family. The milk is drawn through tubes from the cow using a vacuum pump, and it then passes into a sealed...

• recording

  (sound) Made by: BBC (Production company) 1992-01-14

  British civilian horticultural expert worked on Wartime Horticultural Committee in Hampshire, 1939-1945

• ASSAULT UNITS PREPARE FOR THE INVASION OF EUROPE (PART 6) [Allocated Title]

  (film) Made by: Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company) 1944-06-01

  Troops serving with No 3 Commando's No 5 Troop are tossed into the air in a blanket held by their comrades and grab at a rope strung between two nearby trees some twenty feet above the ground. Several US Army storesmen posted to the commandos' transit...

• LORD MOUNTBATTEN AS COLONEL OF THE LIFE GUARDS AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE, AND BROADLANDS GARDEN PARTY [Allocated Title]

  (film) 1964

  The film covers two different subjects a. Lord Mountbatten as Colonel of the Life Guards mounts a horse at Buckingham Palace b. A large garden party at Broadlands, Lord Mountbatten's home.