Photos WW2 British & Commonwealth Forces

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OTD in 1941, Derna, North Africa. A Vickers machine gun crew.

 

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OTD in 1941. A 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun and crew

 

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Brakes!!

Exercises done on how to quickly get in/out of a Universal Carrier. Practising the standard debussing drill

 

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New Guinea Campaign. Battle of Sattelberg. 16 November 1943. Australian troops moved in behind Matilda tanks for a dawn attack on the Japanese held village of Sattelberg. A wounded soldier is carried back from the forward area.

 

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British troops gathered around a captured German. A member of the Royal Military Police searches the enemy soldier. Italy, 1944

 

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“Overhead view of male and female workers working on the wings of a De Havilland Mosquito airplane on the production line” Downsview, Ontario September 1944

 

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5th February 1942, A patrol from 4th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment, advance warily alongside a hedge during training at Omagh in Northern Ireland.

 

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On the Canal in Coalisland, Tyrone. Northern Ireland. 1941

 

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Ammunition ship SS Mary Luckenbach exploding during a convoy to the USSR as seen from escort carrier HMS Avenger during PQ 18 in September 1942.

 

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The gun crew loading the single 4 inch Mark IX gun of Flower class corvette HMS VERVAIN whilst she is on active service, July 1942

 

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Canadian fighter pilot James Francis "Stocky" Edwards. With 19 confirmed aerial victories, Edwards is Canada's highest scoring ace in the Western Desert Campaign. Edwards (100) is still alive

 

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Australian Private H. J. Hunt of A Company, 2/4th Battalion, 6th Division, returns from a patrol along the Danmap River during the Aitape–Wewak Campaign in New Guinea on December 6, 1944.

 

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A troop of Vickers Light Tanks on patrol in Cyprus, consulting with an officer on a motorcycle. The Censor has deleted the Regimental Colour Patch on the pugaree of the Slouch hat. 1941

 

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Australian troops approach a German-held strong point under the protection of a heavy smoke screen somewhere in the Western Desert, in Northern Africa on November 27, 1942. Image by Len Chetwyn (English, 1909-1980)

 

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Spitfire Mark VB(T), BP844, the first of a further nine Spitfires to reinforce the RAF on Malta, taking off from the flight deck of HMS EAGLE with Squadron Leader E J "Jumbo" Gracie at the controls.

 

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Good Grief, that's a wind across the deck there..........he's already off the tail wheel and he's only gone 5 meters!!

 

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RN officer inspects the inflatable German dinghy from a German U-Boot. 1945

 

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Australia’s population during WW2, was around 7 million people and the country raised 1 million people to serve during WW2, with 500,000 serving overseas.

Australia’s mainland was attacked by Japan during WW2.

The photograph on this post was taken on the 21st of January 1945, in Bougainville, Solomon Islands.
Private Hector Gordon Alexander MacDonald, a 42nd Battalion medical orderly (left) giving a drink of water to Private Kenneth George Merritt, also 42nd Battalion, who was wounded during an attack on the camp by Japanese infiltrators.
I have read that Private Kenneth Merritt survived WW2 to return home to Australia.

 

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OTD in 1944, Monte Cassino area, Italy. Men from the Royal West Kent Regiment in a dugout on Monastery Hill

 

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OTD in 1945, Germany. Operation Plunder. Men from 45 Royal Marine Commando resting, after clearing the flattened city of Wesel