Edward Bate (Left), of Wishaw, Lanarkshire, Scotland, preparing for a large Airborne exercise on the 22nd April 1944 just a few weeks before D-Day. He is seen helping his friend “Heinrich”, an Austrian from Vienna to adjust his parachute prior to take-off. Photo taken by Sgt. Mapam 22-4-44 IWM H.37730

Corporal Bennett of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, armed with a Sten gun and about to go on a fighting patrol, near Elst, 2 March 1945. Photo I.W.M.

Pte. E. Lee of Wandsworth, London, gets down to work on the engine of his lorry with his new assistant - a youthful member of the German Army near Ahrensburg, Germany 1st June 1945. IWM (BU 7058)

Raymond Martin of Reading, member of the Signal Section of this Home Counties Regiment, The Queen’s Royal West Surreys, at work in the desert near Tobruk. Photograph was taken by Captain, Keating, 11th November 1941. W.O. Ass. No.323 IWM (E 6481)

The 'Intelligence Officer'. Corporal D A R Reynolds of the Intelligence Branch, working as a draughtsman at the main Eighth Army Headquarters in the San Angelo area. Corporal Reynolds, a former architectural assistant from East Horsley, Surrey, left England in December 1942 for the Middle East. He then went to Tripoli and Sicily and landed in Italy soon after the invasion. IWM (TR 1722)

Sergeant J.L. Rudkin of the R.A. He was a press photographer in civilian life and lived at 47 Roundways, Ruislip, Middlesex.  Photo IWM (H 41380)