A Hollywood film poster attracts the attention of local Egyptians, Cairo, Egypt, 1942
A Hawker Hurricane Mk IIB of No. 134 Squadron RAF taxies out past Russian sentries at Vaenga, near Murmansk, October 1941.
A Hawker Hurricane Mk I of No. 85 Squadron taxiing by the light of a flare at Debden, before taking off to intercept night raiders, 14 March 1941.
A Handley Page O/400 bomber of No. 207 Squadron being moved by a Clayton tractor at Ligescourt, 29 August 1918.
A Gurkha soldier guards Japanese prisoners on their way to POW camps outside Bangkok, September 1945.
A group of evacuees from Bristol arrive at Brent railway station near Kingsbridge in Devon during 1940.
A group of dog handlers stand with their dogs at the British Army kennels near Etaples, 20 April 1918.
A group of boys evacuated from London and the Thames Estuary at Totnes in South Devon, 1941.
A ground crewman helps a pilot of No. 601 Squadron RAF into the cockpit of his Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX at Venafro, Italy, 12 May 1944.
A general view of a warehouse containing 12" shells at the National Filling Factory, Chilwell.
A gas sentry ringing an alarm at Fleurbaix, June 1916.
A Fordson Armoured Car of No. 2 Armoured Car Company RAF waits outside Baghdad, while negotiations for an armistice take place between British officials and the rebel government during the Iraqi Revolt, May 1941.
A Flight Lieutenant bomb-aimer of No 223 Squadron, Royal Air Force checks over his bomb sight
A few words from a fellow pilot before the engine-start of Supermarine Spitfire Mark IX,
A female worker operates a winch at a shipbuilding yard on the River Clyde in Scotland during the First World War.
A female munitions worker is lifted into the barrel of a 15-inch naval gun manufactured at the Ordnance Works, Coventry, during the First World War, in order to clean the rifling.
A De Havilland Mosquito IIF DD739/RX-X of No 456 Squadron
A crewman on board an RAF Coastal Command Lockheed Hudson of No. 269 Squadron, using an F.24 camera during an ice patrol from Kaldadarnes in Iceland, 5 May 1942.
A company of WAAFs marches past a barrage balloon maintenance hangar, RAF Cardington, Bedfordshire, 1941
A CMP truck and motorcycle of 11th Royal Horse Artillery (Honourable Artillery Company), 1st Armoured Division, Tunisia, 22 April 1943.
A child using a hammer and chisel to remove a piece of the Berlin Wall after its opening by the East German Government on 9 November 1989.
A Chance-Vought Corsair landing aboard HMS ILLUSTRIOUS, December 1943.
A Cecil Beaton portrait of a cook in the Women's Royal Naval Service.
A busy howitzer shop at Coventry Ordnance Works. Men and women work together as several gun barrels are transported overhead by pulleys.
