AFS - London Needs Auxiliary Firemen Now
A veteran sergeant in the Dorking Home Guard cleans his Tommy gun at the dining room table, before going on parade, 1 December 1940.
A Harrier GR.3 of No. 3 Squadron camouflaged at RAF Gutersloh in Germany during the 1980s.
A group of women enjoy a drink and share a joke at the Wynnstay Arms, Ruabon, Benbighshire, Wales, 1944.
A Dazzled Oiler, With Escort
A Cecil Beaton portrait of a member of the Women's Royal Naval Service equipped for gardening duties.
A Camouflaged Runway
WVS Clothing Exchange
Women of Britain Say 'Go!'
Winston Churchill watches a female riveter at work on a Supermarine Spitfire at the Castle Bromwich factory in Birmingham, 28 September 1941.
Two Wren cooks carve ham for the lunchtime meal in the galley of a Fleet Air Arm base in Scotland, 1943.
Two women munitions workers with a truck load of shell cases in the New Case Shop at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich during the First World War.
Two women munition workers operate a shell case forming machine during the First World War at the New Gun Factory of the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, London.
Two members of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) check the accuracy of anti-aircraft fire from a gun battery during the Second World War.
The two 'Women of Pervyse', Mairi Chisholm and the Baroness de T'Serclaes driving their motor ambulance through the ruins of Pervyse.
The liner RMS ACQUITANIA dazzle-painted during her role as a troopship during the First World War.
Recruits waiting in a Reception Room
A voluntary domestic science course for service women based in the London area, organised by the London District of the Army Education Scheme.
Political Personalities: Three quarter length portrait of Princess Durri Shehvar Berar, only daughter of the former Sultan of Turkey, photographed wearing a jewelled sari in India.
Please Get There ... and Back! - Be Careful What You Say or Write
Pauline Gower, Commandant of the Air Transport Auxiliary Women's Section, waving from the cockpit of a de Havilland Tiger Moth at Hatfield, Hertfordshire, prior to a delivery flight, 10 January 1940.
Nurses on a British ambulance train near Doullens with their pet canaries, 27 April 1918.
National Service - Women's Land Army - God Speed the Plough and the Woman Who Drives It
Mrs Redmond of Orford in Suffolk wearing her late husband's medals. She was also a member of various Civil Defence organisations, as can be seen from the badges she is wearing.