Browse Items (552 total)

  • Coverage is exactly "British Army"

PHenningtonAJM1707.jpg
Eight photographs of a family.
#1, 2 and 3 women
#4 Two women with a dog
#5 a woman
#6 a woman and boy
#7 a boy carrying a younger child
#8 a soldier and bride, leaving church.

This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in…

PRossB1904.jpg
A piece of red cloth embroidered with 'Arnhem 1944' in red/white and blue thread.

MRossB1610215-190725-03.jpg
Leading caps for Market Garden Veterans Association.

PRossB19010011.jpg
A group of army and RAF servicemen, all wearing battledress, sitting and standing in two rows. Most have army or RAF brevet. In the background a single story hut with tree behind. On the reverse 'Before Arnhem, crew with airborne troops and glider…

Tags: ;

PRossB19010001.jpg
Five photographs. From top to bottom, left to right: #1: Three airmen in tunics, two with brevets, sitting on a couch. Captioned: 'FRIEND'. #2: A group of army and RAF servicemen, all wearing battledress, sitting and standing in two rows. Most have…

MRossB1610215-190725-020001.1.jpg
A folded card describing the association's membership types, committee and objectives. The association's secretary is identified on the back by an ink stamp.

ADaviesPO221106-AV.mp3
Peter volunteered in 1942 and was accepted early in 1943. He outlines the combat training they received. Talks of the rations he received early in the war and on the RAF station. He describes the autonomy of his anti-aircraft unit. Reflecting on…

ADaviesPO221105-AV.mp3
Peter was born in Coventry. Although in the army, Peter was stationed on RAF airfields and joined the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in October 1938, aged 16, transferring to the Royal Artillery. He then joined the Army Air Corps (AAC) and was part of…

NRoyallGL220420-01.pdf
Four page Western Italy edition of the newspaper containing articles from various operational theatres around the world and from Britain.
Page 1 headline is: 'I SAW GENERAL SHOOT AT PRISONERS'.
Page 2 is given over to the forthcoming General…

MAnkersonR[Ser#-DoB]-180129-09.pdf
A detailed description of the education system undertaken in over 50 prisoner of war camps. Originally 28 subjects were taught but this ended as 84.
There is an illuminated section listing the tutors and lecturers and the subjects that were taught.

PWardHVT18010008.jpg
Two soldiers, an army officer and an RAF airman standing in front of an Auster aircraft. The soldiers are dressed in fatigues and berets, the officer wears battledress, with a pilot's brevet, and a peaked cap, the airman is in battledress and beret.…

PWardHVT18010005.jpg
Three soldiers and an RAF airman in front of an Auster aircraft. The soldiers are dressed in fatigues and berets, the airman is in battledress and beret. The aircraft is parked on open ground in long grass. In the distance are some low buildings. The…

MDunnFT1319229-180214-01.pdf
School old boys' annual magazine. Contains articles about the school, photograph of school's cadet company, and role of service for old grammarians. Covers all services but included F Dunn - killed in operation to Berlin 22 November 1943.

EHarrisonFReidK410202.pdf
Thanks her for letter and postal order but asks her not to send any more money as he had a high rate of pay. Mentions military events of last year and describes Christmas in the desert which was a great success. Wonders when the war would end and…

EHarrisonFMyersW420325.jpg
Asks how she was doing after illness. Relates visiting Tel Aviv where he has an English lady friend. Mentions current weather.

MReidK473650-180123-110001.jpg
Printed form to Director of graves registration and enquiries. Includes a request for photograph of grave of Gunner J Pawson at Dantzig Alley British Cemetery. On the reverse 'your father & G, visited his grave, Katie'.

PWhittakerH1703.jpg
A group of soldiers arranged in five rows. On the reverse three men are named with their home town. Also 'Taken 22 June 1943 at Gloucester'.

PWainwrightJE22030019.jpg
Five men standing by a dugout. WM Gilmour is talking and two men are taking notes. One is wearing a Mae West. On the reverse 'W M Gilmour North Africa 1943 Far Left'.

Tags:

PWainwrightJE22020069.jpg
The three are standing in a garden.

PWainwrightJE22020015.jpg
A group of three. One woman has her arms round the soldier.

PWainwrightJE22010013.jpg
42 soldiers arranged in three rows. Behind is a stone wall. On the reverse '[indecipherable] 75368
[indecipherable]
5, Chapmans Walk
Leigh on Sea
Essex
[indecipherable] Fenchurch Street
to Leigh on Sea'.

MThornhillEB1426942-170515-03.jpg
A copy of Ted's birth certificate.

PDoughtyJC1809.jpg
Head and shoulders portrait of a woman wearing ATS uniform tunic and side cap.

This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.

EDoughtyJCDoughtyW440125.pdf
Mentions that he had not done any flying yet and that he had three weeks left to do on his course. At the end he would return to previous base or be promoted to sergeant. Writes that he had had a smashing time the previous week with excellent…

EDoughtyJCDoughtyW431014.pdf
Hopes that he would be home in three weeks and that he had only another three subjects to go. Mentions going to airfield to run up a Blenheim's engines.
Output Formats

atom, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2