Avro Lancaster B Mk I (Special) of No. 617 Squadron, loaded with a 'Grand Slam' 22,000-lb deep-penetration bomb, running up its engines at Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, 1944.
Avro Lancaster aircraft under construction at the A V Roe & Co Ltd factory at Woodford in Cheshire, 1943.
Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) women at a 3.7-inch anti-aircraft gun site at Wormwood Scrubs in London, 22 October 1941.
Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) girls at the Royal Artillery Experimental Unit at Shoeburyness in Essex, recovering shells from the mud flats at low tide, 1943.
Auxiliary Fireman Norman Hepple switches on the water to the hose from a trailer pump, somewhere in London during 1940.
Armourers wheel trolleys of 500-lb GP bombs toward the open bomb bay of an Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mark V.
Armourers 'bombing up' a Sea Harrier on board HMS INVINCIBLE during the Falklands War, 1982.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife descend the steps of the City Hall, Sarajevo to their motor car, a few moments before their assassination.
An RAF Tornado GR.1 in flight during the Gulf War, 1991.
An RAF sergeant shares an alfresco lunch with two Dutch women at Nieuland, near Middelburg, soon after the town had been liberated by Allied forces, November 1944.
An officer of the 444th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA), smokes a pipe as he supervises a kitten balancing on a 12 inch gun shell near Arras, 19 July 1918.
An Inspector and Sergeant of the Women's Police Service during the First World War.
An Indian infantry section of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Rajput Regiment about to go on patrol on the Arakan front in Burma, 1944.
An Avro Vulcan B.2 aircraft of No. 9 Squadron based at RAF Cottesmore, 1965.
An Avro Lancaster Mk III of No. 49 Squadron RAF is guided to its dispersal point at Fiskerton, Lincolnshire, after returning from a raid on Berlin, 22 November 1943.
An Australian infantryman gives a drink to a wounded Turkish soldier during the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915.
An ATS artillery observer uses a theodolite to measure air shell bursts at the Royal Artillery Experimental Unit, Shoeburyness, Essex , 1942
An ambulance driver of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) assists with the maintenance of her vehicle at St Omer, 28 February 1917.
An airman stands guard in the snow at Betheniville, framed by the camouflage netting on the wing of a Bristol Blenheim Mark IV of No. 139 Squadron RAF.
An airman poses in front of a sandbagged aircraft revetment, RAF Shallufa, Egypt, 1942
An Airco DH2 taking off from Vert Galand airfield in ealy 1916.
An advanced water supply point on the Mametz Road near Fricourt, Somme, July 1916.
Ammunition limbers of 35th Field Battery, Royal Field Artillery, passing a corner of the shattered Delville Wood, Somme, 17th September 1916.
American volunteer pilots of No.121 (Eagle) Squadron run to their aircraft at RAF Rochford in Essex, August 1942.
