Photos WW2 British & Commonwealth Forces

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Rear view of the interior of a Bishop 25-pdr self-propelled gun in North Africa - September 1942
The Bishop consisted of a QF 25-pounder gun-howitzer mounted in a box structure on a Valentine II tank chassis.
Due to its slow speed and numerous problems, only 149 were produced. Bishop’s were replaced in active service by the Priest & Sexton with surviving vehicles relegated for training.

 

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Tank crewmen of the 2nd Armoured Brigade, reading books they have just received from the library truck in North Africa - October 18, 1942

 

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SAS jeep in the Gabes-Tozeur area of Tunisia, January 5th, 1943.

 

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RAF Spitfires in formation in 1942.

 

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Churchill tanks of the 4th Grenadier Guards advance on Venray / Venraij Netherlands - October 17, 1944

 

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Dover area. A Matilda tank from 49 Royal Tank Regiment advancing through a smoke screen during an exercise. 23 Oct 1941

 

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Operation Alan, the liberation of Hertogenbosch. Netherlands. 23 Oct 1944

 

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M7 Priest 105mm self-propelled guns of the 78th Division in Italy - October 25, 1944

 

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M3 half-track of the 11th Armoured Division stuck in the mud in the Netherlands - October 19, 1944

 

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Soldiers with the 1st Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (known as the Ox and Bucks) part of the 71st Brigade of 53rd (Welsh) Division, take cover in a ditch after coming under small arms fire on the road to Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands - October 23, 1944

 

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A soldier examines a German 88mm gun believed to have been knocked out by the RAF in the Western Desert, 10 September 1942.

 

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Sniper Francis Miller of the 5th, East Yorks, with his Enfield No. 4 Mk. I (T) sniper rifle - October 21, 1944. Miller hails from Leeds, volunteered as a sniper in his Battalion, and has 17 confirmed, in civilian life he was a scaffolder.

 

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April 1941. A group of Australian soldiers take their meal as they await the order to evacuate Nafplion, Greece.

 

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Kangaroo armoured personnel carriers carrying soldiers of the 7th Seaforth Highlanders in Moergestel Netherlands - October 26, 1944

 

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Challenger tank crosses a Bailey Bridge in Esch, Netherlands - October 27, 1944

 

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Able Seaman W Connor loads a 12 pounder 12 hundredweight anti-aircraft gun on board British V-class destroyer HMS Vanoc while at action stations during a convoy escort mission in July, 1941.

 

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A Guardsman of 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards, 7th Guards Brigade, 3rd Division rides a Norton Model 18 motorcycle fitted with a special mount to accommodate a Thompson sub machine gun, allowing the rider to fire while in motion. Swanage, Dorset, UK. 9 April 1941

 

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Convoy of vehicles of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division on the Beveland Causeway, Walcheren Island, Netherlands

 

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A Tallboy being loaded into a Lancaster. Lancasters were capable of carrying them, but their bomb-bays had to be modified for them to fit.

 

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Sherman V (M4A4) and M3A3 Stuart reconnaissance vehicle of the 2nd Lothian and Border Horse, British 6th Armoured Division, near Rufina Italy - September 12, 1944