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WRNS (Women's Royal Naval Service) on parade. Accommodation huts can be seen in the background. The reverse has a hand written annotation "Broderick E3".

Women's Royal Naval Service personnel working on some engines. The reverse has a hand written annotation "Broderick E3".

#1, 2, 4, 5 and 6 are seascapes.
#3 is a seaman, captioned 'Chief W/Op Geoffrey Lewis RFA Conus. Lost 29/3/41 Mediterranean after repeated air attacks.

Winston Churchill wearing RAF uniform and smoking cigar walks with an officer wearing khaki desert uniform. behind them on the right is a naval officer. To the left a group of five officers and one civilian wearing a hat. On the right the front of an…

William Barfoot in dress uniform and side cap with white flash is standing outside a house, arm-in-arm with his wife who wears Women’s Auxiliary Air Force uniform. A sailor is on the right hand side; his cap ribbon reads 'HM Patrol Vessels'.

The…

Side view of an airborne Grumman Wildcat.

View from below of airborne Grumman Wildcat.

View from front of an airborne Grumman Wildcat.

Side view of an airborne Vickers Wellington.

View from below of an airborne Vickers Wellington.

Two leaflets produced by Durban to introduce service men to the city. They include details of organisations, greetings in Zulu and Afrikaans, canteens and clubs, transport, maps, sport, places of interest, entertainments, taxi fares, places to visit…

On the left main article with 7 photographs showing groups of soldiers after disembarkation from Dunkirk, lines of civilians at recruiting stations, soldiers with a dog and a group of sailors. On the right an article - what to do if this country is…

Three photographs: top showing two navy ships off a coastline. Middle shows a number of small boats a sea with smoke on left side. Captioned 'Two pictures illustrating part of work done by Royal Navy in the successful Combined Operations raid on…

Programme is for Pwllhi and Lleyn, 21 -28 March 1942, image of Winston Churchill on the reverse.

Issued on board HMCS Aurora, to Walter, Frank's father, who was a Petty Officer Cook.

Brown card wallet/photo holder with folded document IS9 inside, outside of wallet with impressed wording and close up of wording '[...] Promenade, Blackpool'.

Nine photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is a boy standing in a garden, captioned 'Peter now S/Lt RNVR'.
Photo 2 is a boy standing in a garden, captioned 'Noel'.
Photo 3 is a woman standing in a garden, captioned 'Mrs'.
Photo 4 is a head and…

View looking down on a large crowd of people. Visible are men and women, civilians and military many holding up hands showing 'V' signs.

The two airmen and two WRNs are sitting in a shelter. It is annotated 'Jan 1944' but is Daphne's 21st birthday.

Four photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is Victor in uniform with a trainee flash in his cap. He is standing in front of a tree.
Photo 2 is a woman in a WREN's uniform standing in front of the same tree. The caption has been deleted.
Photo 3 and 4…

Four photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is a man sitting cross legged in a garden, captioned '1943 dressed for tea'.
Photo 2 is ahead a shoulders image of Victor.
Photo 3 is a woman in naval uniform, captioned 'Me'.
Photo 4 is two women in…

White disc with army/navy/air force symbols superimposed. Crown above and Veteran below.

Top left - view from aircraft of harbour with surrounding city. Captioned 'Grand Harbour, Valetta, Malta'.
Top right - view of naval warship in harbour with city either side. Captioned 'HMS Gambia, Grand Harbour, Valetta'.
Bottom left - view…

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…

Front view of an airborne Hawker Typhoon.