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24 July 1918 Officers of the 2/4th and 5th Battalions, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, 62nd Division, conferring with French and Italian officers in the Bois de Reims during the Battle of Tardenois, 24 July 1918. © IWM Q 11113
Nursing staff and patients prepare sand bags to be placed in front of the windows of the 'Sussex Ear Nose and Throat Hospital' in Church Street, Brighton. 1939 (B&W image source - 'The Keep')
In July of 1944, troops of the III Amphibious Corps arrive for the assault on Guam. 🪖 @colour_history on the colorization 🎨
13 July 1944 'B' Sqn H.Q - 1st Kings Dragoon Guards, 6th Arm. Div., in their Staghound armoured car in Cortona, Tuscany, Italy. Tpr. A S Collins of Manchester, Tpr. V May of Leicester, Cpl. G Cotton of Fulham, London and L/Cpl R Pratt of Selly Oak, Birmingham. © IWM NA 16801)
10 July 1940. "B' Flight 85 Squadron at RAF Castle Camps. John Bickerdike (NZ) KIFA 22/7/40 Patrick Woods-Scawen DFC KIA 1/9/40 James Lockhart KIA 5/4/42 Richard Lee DFC DSO - KIA 18/8/40 Leonard Jowitt - KIA 12/7/40 Dave Bieber M/O Sgt Ernest Reginald Webster
1 July 1916. The first day of the Battle of the Somme Troops of the Royal Irish Rifles resting in a communication trench during the opening hours of the Battle of the Somme.
US soldiers making their way through the Normandy Bocage heading for Coutances, France. June/July
8 June 1944 A Horsa glider near the Caen Canal bridge at Benouville. This is glider No. 91 (PF800), which carried Major John Howard and Lieutenant Den Brotheridge with No.1 Platoon, 'D' Company, 2nd Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. © IWM B 5232
D-Day + 2 General Sir Bernard Montgomery passes German POWs while being driven in a jeep along a road in Normandy, shortly after arriving on June 8,1944. (Note, the British, HQ 21st Army Group badge on the left rear of the jeep) (Photo source - © IWM B 5179)
French soldiers (which included Senagalese) keep German prisoners of war in line, Hyères, southeastern France. 22 August 1944.
A Naval Petty Officer assists a wounded 'Tommy' up the gangplank, followed by French troops, from a British Naval destroyer at Dover, 31 May 1940. Image: IWM (H 1622)
L to R: P/O James H Hoare-Scott, unknown (non-flying officer), P/O Anthony J Rippon, F/O John Seddon (seated), F/O Humphrey T Gilbert, P/O Howard C Mayers. 601 Squadron at RAF Exeter, September-November 1940.
Hawker Typhoon Mark IBs of No.198 Squadron RAF, taxi through clouds of dust on the perimeter track at B10/Plumetot, Normandy. Mid July 1944. Image: IWM (CL 472)
Pilots of 453 Squadron RAAF relaxing outside of a cafe in Bayeax, France. July 1944. l-r: F/O J F Olver, F/O K E Lawrence, S/Ldr D H Smith, F/Lt Vern A Lancaster, F/O Michael West and F/Lt Pat V McDade (POW 26/7/44) (Image - Australian War Memorial)
Thomas Francis "Ginger" Neil (1920-2018) bbm.org.uk/airmen/Neil.htm
31 March 1944 Winston Churchill inspects a Cromwell Mk IV tank of No. 2 Squadron, 2nd (Armoured Reconnaissance) Battalion, Welsh Guards, at the Searchlight Field, Whitby Road, Pickering in Yorkshire.
RAF personnel dismantle Bf 109E-4 (W/nr. 5153), flown by Oblt. Egon Troha, Staffel Kapitan of 9./JG 3, and which crash-landed near Wootton Cross Roads, Shepherdswell, Kent on 29 October 1940. He was shot down by F/Lt John Mungo-Park (KIA 27/6/41) of 74 Squadron.
'Spitfire Girls' Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) Mary Wilkins, Marie Agazarian, Diana Barnato and Mary Guthrie. Marie Agazarian lost both of her brothers in WW2 active service Diana Barnatos fiancé died in a flying accident in 1942 and then her husband in a flying accident in 1945
