June Beale pours tea for her friends in the dining hall at Marchant's Hill camp school for evacuees, Hindhead, Surrey, UK 1944. June is the table monitor of the group. According to the original caption, her father is a Chief Petty Officer in the Royal Navy. The children are about to tuck in to bread and jam and an apple. IWM (D 21623)
Dolly Bennett (bottom left), and Winnie Bennett (top left), with Florence Simpson and a colleague at work on the production of Hurricane fighter aircraft at a factory somewhere in Britain. IWM (D 11126)
Winnie Bennett (left) and Dolly Bennett (right) at work on the production of a Hurricane fighter aircraft at a factory somewhere in Britain WW2. IWM (D 11129)
Mrs A Bowker (left) and Mrs Booth-Jones pack sticky bombs, already in their protective casings, into small cases at a factory somewhere in Britain. The handles are packed around the sides of these cases, which are then sent off to a filling factory for the explosives to be added.
STICKY BOMB: THE PRODUCTION OF THE No 74 GRENADE IN BRITAIN, 1943. IWM (D 14775A)
Sally Brusse installs a hatch on a B-17 Flying Fortress on August 17th 1944 at the Boeing Company plant in Seattle, Washington. Boeing Historical Archives
Original war time caption: 21-year-old Dorothy Crouch has a sailor boy-friend. She assembles nose and tail parts of the mortar bombs at J & F Pool’s No.1 Works Mortar Bomb Production & Testing at Hayle, Cornwall, England 1943. Image: IWM (D 12421)
They drive by night: The work of the long-distance lorry driver in wartime England 1944.
Lorry driver Fred Horrod walks back towards his vehicle after a spot of lunch at a roadside cafe somewhere between Manchester and London. A removal van can be seen parked behind him: 'Clifford Hunt Removal Specialist' is based in Market Street, Crewe. This clearly a popular spot for lorry drivers, as several other vehicles can also be seen on the parking ground. IWM (D 19040)
Edward Mifsud, typical member of the Malta A.R.P which did such splendid work during the heavy blitzes. He is twenty and was formerly a cook IWM (GM 2091)
Ralph Reynolds of Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.A. is seen here at work jacking up and servicing an R.A.F. van somewhere in England, Ralph is a member of the Civilian Technical Corps. IWM (CH 4491)
W J ('Samson') Salter was a member of The Royal Observer Corps (ROC) which was a civil defence organisation intended for the visual detection, identification, tracking and reporting of aircraft over Great Britain. It operated in the United Kingdom between 29 October 1925 and 31 December 1995
Norma Tulee, a young Walthamstow actress touring SEAC with the ENSA show 'Variety Express' made a great hit with the ship's company on a Royal Naval Air Station in Ceylon. Here she is at the unofficial christening ceremony when they named a Seafire aircraft after her. IWM (A 29083) THE BRITISH NAVY IN THE EAST. MARCH TO MAY 1945, ROYAL NAVAL AIR STATION COLOMBO, THE ESCORT CARRIER HMS EMPRESS.
Elsie Warren was a member of the Women’s Auxiliary Fire Service (WAFS) during the Second World War, IWM HU 102284
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