High quality color photographs. British side

[Brodie]

Many thanks to all of you. Outstanding pictures

[Brodie]

2 hours ago, CluelessTommy said:

Sailor wearing a steel helmet, carrying a Bren gun (No Date)

Taken by an official Royal Navy photographer

What a shot!

[CluelessTommy]

Yes it is, I looked through a fair few but that one really stood out

[CluelessTommy]

A German Tiger tank on its side in a ditch, North of Rome, and an american lorry in the background driving past (18 June 1944)

A.R. Tanner (captain) 

[Brodie]

21 minutes ago, CluelessTommy said:

A German Tiger tank on its side in a ditch, North of Rome, and an american lorry in the background driving past (18 June 1944)

A.R. Tanner (captain) 

Great photo, indeed.

Thanks!

[Fritz]

The webbing worn here looks very like the WW1 pattern, or is this a special pattern for the Navy?
(I mean the naval picture with the Bren Gun)

[CluelessTommy]

8 hours ago, Fritz said:

The webbing worn here looks very like the WW1 pattern, or is this a special pattern for the Navy?
(I mean the naval picture with the Bren Gun)

I cannot comment directly on the set being worn in the picture as I am no expert in webbing however I did find this bit of information on a site about First World War Navy kit:

'The 1908 rifle sets were produced in vast numbers during the Great War becoming the standard British Army infantry set but their only WW1 Naval use was by the land based khaki clad Royal Naval Division later in the conflict, the R.N.D. force sent to defend Antwerp in 1914 wore blues and Victorian/1901 webbing, post 1920 the 1908 set entered full Naval use with surplus Army stocks equipping the Royal Navy throughout the 1920s and 30s and well into WW2.'

'The 1908 pattern showed the way forward for webbing sets so at the conclusion of the great war a new pattern of canvas sets was contracted from Mills for both rifles and revolvers for the royal navy, due to severe financial constraints procurement was very slow leading to at least one re-issue of the 1901 revolver sets and due to the availability of surplus 1908 rifle sets the 1919 pattern production concentrated on revolver sets so the  intended 1919 rifle sets were never needed'

From this information and what you have said the set in the photo is probably a 1908 army pattern of webbing that was used by the navy after being surplussed by the army, the navy did try to create their own webbing but did not have enough money to do so.

 

[Fritz]

That's a fair amount of information, I only know the WW1 and WW2 standard webbing, I also know the Victorian whitened buff leather slightly, but that's it.

[Fritz]

Inside Montgomery's caravan, Holland, October 1944. To the right, King George VI.

[Fritz]

A crew from the 16th/5th Lancers, 6th Armoured Division, cleaning the gun barrel of their Crusader tank at El Aroussa in Tunisia, May 1943
Ted Dearberg /Imperial War Museum photo

Evacuation of children, East London, 1. September 1939

The British government introduced food rationing In January 1940, to ensure fair shares for all at a time of national shortage.

In January 1940, the British government introduced food rationing. This photo shows an adult's weekly ration of sugar, tea, margarine, 'national butter', lard, eggs, bacon and cheese in 1942. (photo and text IWM)

Formed in 1938, Women’s Auxilliary Service (ATS) initially enabled women to contribute to the war effort as cooks, clerks, orderlies, store women and drivers. As the war wore on, however, these roles were expanded to allow more men to be released for front line service. More than 250,000 women served in the ATS during the Second World War including recruits from the West Indies. This photo shows a group of new ATS recruits as they wait for transport to take them to their training camp in 1943

Biggin Hill was also attacked on 1 September and again on 5 September. In this photograph, teleprinter operators Sergeant Joan Mortimer, Corporal Elspeth Henderson and Sergeant Helen Turner of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force stand outside the station's damaged buildings. All three were awarded the Military Medal for gallantry for staying at their posts during the raid. (IWM photo)

15 August 1940 saw the heaviest fighting of the Battle of Britain, as all three of the Luftwaffe's air fleets were deployed in a coordinated onslaught for the first time. The Luftwaffe made a similarly massive effort the following day, with three assaults over Kent and the Thames Estuary, Sussex and Hampshire, and at four different points between Harwich and the Isle of Wight.
On 16 August 1940, Flight Lieutenant James Nicolson (pictured) was wounded during an action near Southampton, when his Hurricane was attacked by a Messerschmitt Bf 110. Despite his cockpit being on fire, he attacked and shot down another German fighter, suffering serious burns before bailing out. He became Fighter Command’s only recipient of the Victoria Cross during the Second World War. (IWM photo and text)

1940, fires around St. Paul's Cathedral

Anekdote: Churchill zechte schon zum Frühstück
Das Schickern hat schließlich eine lange Tradition. Winston Churchill verköstigte bereits morgens größere Mengen Wein zum Frühstück. Er hielt den Pegel tagsüber stabil und süffelte ihn gegen Abend noch mal in die Höhe. Er wurde dennoch 90 Jahre, gilt bis heute als einer der größten Staatsmänner des 20. Jahrhunderts und hinterließ der Nachwelt herrliche Bonmots, von denen viele im Brausekopf entstanden. Eines der berühmtesten im Gespräch mit der Labour-Politikerin Bessie Braddock, die ihn zu vorgerückter Stunde anraunzte. “Winston, Sie sind betrunken und sogar furchtbar betrunken.“ Was er, wie es heißt, angesichts erdrückender Beweislage keineswegs abstritt, sondern knarzte: “My Dear, und Sie sind hässlich und sogar furchtbar hässlich. Aber morgen bin ich wieder nüchtern und Sie sind immer noch hässlich.“ (quotation from "Stern" magazine article)

November 1940, Churchill visits the ruins of Coventry Cathedral

Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) plotters at work at Coastal Artillery Headquarters in Dover, December 1942
Photograph: Ted Dearberg/IWM/PA

 

A 5.5-inch gun crew from 75th (Shropshire Yeomanry) Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery, in action in Italy, September 1943
Photograph: IWM/PA

 

Women producing bullets and cannon shells in an underground munitions factory on the Wirral, Merseyside, 1945
Photograph: Ted Dearberg/IWM/PA

 

 

Land Army members sawing larch poles for use as pit props at the Women’s Timber Corps training camp at Culford, Suffolk, 1943
Photograph: IWM/PA

 

Land Army instructor Peggy Barnett kicks off training at a Women's Timber Corps camp at Culford, Suffolk. © IWM

Girl guides and sea rangers selling savings stamps

An Auxiliary Territorial Service spotter with binoculars at an anti-aircraft command post, December 1942

A civil defence warden inspects bomb-damaged buildings in Holborn, London

'ATS girls’ operate a mobile power plant on an anti-aircraft gun site at night

A district messenger boy walking past a bombsite in London

A battery of 3.7in anti-aircraft guns firing at night.   All photographs: Ted Dearberg/Imperial War Museum

St Paul’s Cathedral, London, sits amid destroyed buildings

Celebrations at Waddington to mark Lancaster R5868 (S-Sugar) reaching 100 missions while serving with 467 squadron in May 1944

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Frederick Godwin comforts a now homeless man after a V1 flying bomb attack of 1944, which sadly killed his wife and destroyed his home. In the background, rescue workers search the rubble and debris for survivors.

Eindhoven, September 1944

Wellington GR Mk XIII of 221 squadron flies over the Aegean in March 1945

Kittyhawk IIIs of the 112 squadron preparing to take off at a desert airstrip in Tunisia in April 1943

Hurricane Mk IIDs, known as ‘flying tin openers’ preparing for takeoff from Gabes, Tunisia, in April 1943

 

Avro Lancasters of the 44 (Rhodesia) squadron in September 1942

 

Allied commanders from left, General Omar Bradley, Admiral Bertram Ramsey, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D Eisenhower, General Sir Bernard Montgomery, Air Chief Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory, and Lieutenant-General Walter Bedell Smith. These men were responsible for the success of Operation 'Overlord'

 

Left to right: Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal (Royal Air Force), Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke (British Army), Winston Churchill and Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham (Royal Navy) , Gardens, 10, Downing Street, May 1945

 

Probably a black and white photo later hand coloured, none the less, dramatic

 

 

Berlin, 12. July 1945. Marschall Schukow received the Order of the Bath from Montgomery.
On the right are NKWD officials.
(Schukow hatte das Gemüt eines Schlachterhundes)

 

Some of these photos may have already been posted in previous articles.

 

[Gildwiller1918]

I found some as well, listing them below. Found them in a link to the IWM.

A 'spotter' at a 3.7-inch anti-aircraft gun site, in December 1942. 

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The image shows Private Alfred Campin of the 6th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry during battle training in Britain, March 1944.

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Lancaster bombers nearing completion in Avro's assembly plant at Woodford near Manchester, 1943. Some 125,000 British aircraft were built during the Second World War, and over half of the workforce were women.

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British paratroopers prepare for a practice jump from an RAF Dakota based at Down Ampney in Wiltshire, April 1944.

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The RAF's top-scoring fighter pilot, with 31 confirmed kills at this date, Wing Commander James "Johnnie" Johnson, with his Spitfire and pet Labrador 'Sally' in Normandy, July 1944.

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I found a few more British photos, not much information about them was listed. 

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Here is a British/Commonwealth Soldier, with a M1928 A1 Thompson submachine gun. 

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Another soldier with the Enfield rifle, leather jerkin and camo applied to the helmet. 

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Here is a Spitfire, Mk VI type I believe undergoing some serious maintenance.

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Bugler aboard HMS King George, which was a Battleship, involved in the hunt for the Bismark. She was to see action from the Atlantic, to the Mediterranean to the Pacific. Ended her career as a training ship, before being scrapped in 1957.

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British soldier with the Bren Light Machine Gun. 

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Interesting photo showing troops using the portable No. 2 Flamethrower, also known as the Ack Pack or Lifebouy. Strangely enough this model was almost identical to the German version from 1917. 

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Air Chief Marshal Sir James Milne Robb, GCB, KBE, DSO, DFC, AFC (26 January 1895 – 18 December 1968) was a senior Royal Air Force commander. After early service in the First World War with the Northumberland Fusiliers, Robb joined the Royal Flying Corps and became a flying ace credited with seven aerial victories. He was granted a permanent commission in the Royal Air Force in 1919 and commanded No. 30 Squadron RAF in the Iraqi revolt against the British. In 1939, Robb travelled to Canada to help establish the Empire Air Training Scheme, a massive training program that provided the Royal Air Force with trained aircrew from Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Southern Rhodesia. He commanded No. 2 Group RAF of RAF Bomber Command and No. 15 Group RAF of RAF Coastal Command. Robb became Deputy Chief of Combined Operations under Lord Louis Mountbatten in 1942. During Operation Torch he was air advisor to the Supreme Allied Commander, Lieutenant General Dwight Eisenhower and in February 1943, Eisenhower appointed him Deputy Commander of the Northwest African Air Forces. When Eisenhower became Supreme Allied Commander in Europe in January 1944, he brought Robb to his Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force as Deputy Chief of Staff (Air). Robb became Commander-in-Chief of Fighter Command in 1945 and learned to fly the Gloster Meteor, the RAF's first operational jet aircraft. He became Vice-Chief of the Air Staff in 1947, and then Commander in Chief of the Western Union's air forces in 1948. In 1951 he became Inspector General of the RAF.
 

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Christmas with the British Liberation Army in Holland, November 1944. A unit postman from 4th Armoured Brigade with a sack of Christmas parcels decorated with holly near Weert, Limburg, Netherlands. The picture was taken by Captain E.G. Malindine from No. 5 Army Film and Photographic Unit.
 

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Christmas with the British Liberation Army in Holland, November 1944: A tank crew of the 4th Battalion, the Royal Tank Regiment, 4th Armoured Division, unpack a Christmas parcel near Weert in Holland. The crew - who are shown with their camouflaged tank looking like a 'travelling Christmas tree' - had been together for three years. They had seen action in Libya and Italy before coming to Holland. Left to right: Trooper R Buckley; Trooper J Round; and Sergeant H Kirk. The picture was taken by Captain E.G. Malindine from No. 5 Army Film and Photographic Unit.