Description
Object description
Loose prints, British press / agency photographs depicting various scenes during the Second World War.
1 print: the burnt out wreckage of a Heinkel bomber, shot down over England during February 1941, guarded by soldiers.
3 prints: damage to Buckingham Palace, London after being bombed during a raid of March 1941, including damage to the North Lodge and forecourt
3 prints: Civil Defence operations, the rescue of an old lady and homeless survivors following a night raid in February 1941
4 prints: Australians training, marching and during a cricket match at a camp in Britain, 25 June 1940
2 prints: Grumman Martlett in Royal Navy colours, April 1941
4 prints: 'Big Job for the Little Ships' - scenes depicting the introduction of the Crovette, including at sea sheperding a convoy, sailors at their 0 .5" Lewis Gun on quad mounting, stokers on deck for a cigarette, March 1941
4 prints: 'British Shipbuilders Vs the U-Boats' - scenes depicting shipbuilding in Britain, ships at various stages of completion, as seen on deck of a 75% completed ship, welding, lifeboat construction, Febraury 1941
2 prints: ' A Yankee fights with the Royal Navy' - scenes at an unidentified Royal Navy Air Station where the Grumman Martlett is in operation, October 1941
1 print: 'The Navy's Flying Destroyer' - scene at an unidentified Royal Navy Air Station , armourers load a torpedo onto a Fairey Swordfish, February 1941
1 print: 'Girls Behind the Fighters' Guns', WAAF trainee armourers cleaning and assembling Browning guns of a Hurricane instructional airframe.
1 print: Flight Sergeant Bolton of Glasgow leaving Buckingham Palace after being awarded the DFM, possibly the oldest man to receive the award, March 1941
1 print: Seen washing clothes are girls of the Tom Hood School camp in Sussex, home to 500 children from Leyton and Camberwell, away from the Blitz, February 1941
1 print: One of the first Boeing Flying Fortrresses in RAF service
1 print: The King and Queen visiting Manchester to inspect air raid damage, 14 February 1941
1 print: A defused bomb at St Paul's Cathedral serving as a Spitfire Fund collection box, n.d.
1 print: The King with the Duke of Kent greets Mr Winantt, US Ambassador, at a London railway station, 2 March 1941
1 print: Members of the Women's Land Army on a haycart, March 1941
2 prints: investitures at Buckingham Palace, Sergeant Hannah VC and Miss Winifred Eustace OBE (AFS) n.d.
1 print: At a Bomber Command station, 'bombing-up' a Stirling, view of the interior of a bomb-bay October 1941
1 print: The hospital ship containing German prisoners of war remains in port after a prisoner exchange is halted, October 1941
1 print: Wellington Bombers damaged by enemy action are stripped, August 1941
1 print: view inside the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation factory at San Diego, California, March 1941
2 prints: The youngest class of men (19 years olds) so far to register for National Service, February 1941
1 print: Hitler and Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, c. 12 March 1941
2 prints: A rest room for the new female porters at a London railway station, 26 February 1941
1 print: Recruits of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (Fire Fighters), use a stirrup pump on a practise fire, 26 February 1941
1 print: Women cleaning an underground train of the London Passenger Transport Board, 17 February 1941
History note
Photographs collated by Mrs Paline Millett (or her husband) during service in he Second World War.