Photos WW2 British & Commonwealth Forces

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Royal Marines from aircraft carrier HMS Indefatigable carrying out landing craft exercises possibly in the Queen Charlotte Sound - dated December 1945

 

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Fleet Air Arm Hawker Sea Hurricane Mk1B's flying in formation operating from Yeoviton UK. 9 December 1941

 

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Australian Private Rosslyn Frederick Gaudry of 2/3rd Infantry Battalion, 6th Division watches his sector with his submachine gun in a forward observation pit at Kalimboa Village in Aitape, Wewak, New Guinea. April 26th, 1945

 

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On July 11, 1944, soldiers of Australian 2/10 Commando Squadron are shown hitching rides aboard American-built amphibious DUKW craft as they deploy to Babiang, New Guinea.

 

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No. 617 Squadron Avro Lancaster B.I EE146 at RAF Woodhall Spa with her crew the day after the successful raid on the German battleship Tirpitz in Tromso Fjord, Norway, on November 13, 1944.

L-R:
Flg Off Arthur J Ward (wireless operator),
Flt Lt Jim Chapman (mid-upper gunner),
Flg Off W A (“Danny”) Daniel (bomb aimer),
Wrt Off Mike Vaughan (rear gunner),
Wg Cdr J B (“Willie”) Tait (pilot),
Flt Sgt A E (“Bill”) Gallagher (flight engineer),
Flg Off Bruce Bayne (navigator)
Flg Off Harold Ellis (navigator).

 

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Crusader Mk III of the 17th/21st Lancers (26th Armoured Brigade, 6th Armoured Division) on the Bou Arada road during the attack on the "Two Tree" Hill in Tunisia - January 12, 1943

 

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17 year-old Cecil Appleby from Queen Mary's School in Walsall learns to handle a Thompson SMG during a visit to a Junior Leaders school in the UK - January 8, 1942

 

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F/Sgt Lawrence ‘Pinkie’ Stark DFC* AFC (left) and F/Sgt Thomas Leslie. January 1943. F/Sgt Lawrence 'Pinkie Stark DFC* AFC became S/Ldr and CO. F/Sgt Thomas Leslie was killed (as a P/O) in combat with Focke-Wulf Fw190's over Sissonne airfield - which he was attacking - on 11 September 1943.

 

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Three of the seven linked forts in the Thames Estuary which guarded British shipping lanes against mines and mine laying aeroplanes, 29th September 1945.
Primarily erected as first line invasion defences, each tower was armed with a 3.5" gun.
The forts were constructed ashore, towed out to sea, sunk on sandbanks and then joined together with cat walks.

 

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Soldiers of 2/7th Queen's Regiment armed with Thompson SMGs in a dugout constructed beneath a farm wagon near the River Senio in Italy - January 25, 1945

 

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Aitape-Wewak Campaign of November 1944-September 1945 on the north coast of New Guinea. Private Fred Westland of Melbourne, Victoria rests. March 1945

 

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Flight Sergeant Collins Alwyn Joseph of Trinidad in the cockpit of a 132 Squadron RAF Spitfire

 

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A banjo player provided the music for this singsong in which members of 426 Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, joined during a moment of relaxation in the desert during the Siege of Tobruk on 27 August 1941.

 

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A group of Australian and New Zealand personnel examine a CAC Boomerang from 5 (Tactical Reconnaissance) Squadron RAAF, based at Piva Airfield at Torokina, Bougainville, Solomon Islands, probably in January 1945.

 

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Rear turret of an Avro Lancaster bomber. 1944