Army Section
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.
Sgt. Bert Hardy of the Army Film and Photographic Unit transported three German POWs on the hood of his jeep through Hamont-Achel, Belgium, in September 1944.
Original wartime caption: (Left) Driver Mary Hegarty of Preston, Lancs., was a waitress in peace time. She has been in the ATS twelve months. (Right) Driver Ethel Taylor of Prescott, Lancs, was in a printing and bookbinding business in peace time. She has been in the ATS seventeen months. IWM (H 32510)
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)
Sgt. J. Reynolds of Plumstead, London, S.E.18 who receives the M.M. for his bravery at Mozzagrogna, Italy. EIGHTH ARMY AWARDS IN THE FIELD IWM (NA 12038)
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)
L/Bdr. Dick Tyler, BEM (right) of 131 Oakington Manor Drive, Wembley, Middx has been in the Army for 4 1/2 years, and abroad for 3 3/4 years. Has served in Palestine, Egypt, North Africa, Sicily and Italy, where he landed with the initial assault force. 31 years of age, he is married with a son. He was a milkman in peacetime. Spotting for him is Gnr. Sid Hayward of 39 Grimstone Road, Wolverhampton. 39 years of age, he is married with a family of two girls and a boy. He has served in Egypt, Palestine, North Africa and Sicily. He landed on "D" Day. Photo taken by Sergeant Baynes on the 25th March 1945 at location S. Clemente – Ripiano area Italy. IWM (NA 23175)
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