Historical Military Units

World War era soldiers, naval units, and training exercises depicted in classic black-and-white photographs showcasing military life.

Anefo photo collection. Roosendaal Bennet is getting green beret. December 23, 1952

Boy Paratroops For Cyprus -- Smart and smiling four are boy soldiers of the 3rd Battalion, the 16th Independent Parachute Brigade Group. To-morrow (Monday), ***** the Brigade Group they leave by sea for Cyprus. They are (left to right): Tony Bridger, aged 17, of Eastbourne; Arthur Tidswall, 17, of Dublin; Norman Dunbavin, 17, of Newmaret, and 16-year-old Alistair Hunter of Birmingham.Field Marshal Lord Montgomery, as Colonel Command of the Parachute Regiment, to-day addressed the Brigade Group's three Battalions, being sent to Cyprus to protect British interests in the Middle East. June 3, 1951.

"The Sleepless Port" - (Magazine Unit). Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

British Medical Services in the Second World War Medical Transport: Lightly wounded soldiers playing cards in a hospital train in Belgium. Trains were manned by both military and civilian crews, whose job it was to ensure safe and speedy travel to the casualties, including enemy wounded. Although disorganised and damaged by war, trains played an important part in transporting casualties from hospitals and dressing stations to bases and evacuation areas. Casualties who were able to walk were given comfortable saloon coaches for the journey.

Wartime Social Survey- Information Gathering in Wartime Britain, UK, 1944 At a gunsite, somewhere in Britain, Wartime Social Survey interviewer Mrs Goalem, questions ATS Private Mary Newton (from Blythe, Northumberland) as part of a survey being conducted on ATS recruiting. As part of the survey interviewers visited servicewomen and their friends and relatives to collect information on conditions of service. According to the original caption, Mrs Goalem has a degree in psychology, social service and economics from Liverpool University.

Valencia, 12/01/1933. Anarcho-syndicalist movement. Artillery forces guarding the tram depot.

Pupils of St. Brigidine's Convent, Randwick, line up for the safety patrol under the watchful eyes of policeman milgate during the Waverley oval road safety demonstration for 6000 eastern suburbs schoolchildren. February 1, 1952.

Second World War. Holland. Raildown scene with soldiers and civilians (before departure to the front). In the background of Erdal advertising

Anefo photo collection. Firefighter. Voluntary fire brigade of Enkhuizen celebrates 150th anniversary. April 17, 1946. Enkhuizen

A squad of Danish troops on the morning of the German invasion, 9 April 1940, photographed near Bredevad in Southern Jutland. Two of these men were killed later that day.

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1939-1941 Non-commissioned aircrew of No. 102 Squadron RAF Detachment walk from their Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mark V at Villeneuve/Vertus France, after completing a nine-hour leaflet-dropping ('Nickelling') sortie over Prague.

Fly-Past Pointer For Alexander -- Air Chief Marshal Sir John W. Baker, Deputy Chief of the Air staff, guiding the attention of Lord Alexander (left), the Defence Minister, as they watched the Battle of Britain fly-past from the roof of the new public offices in king Charles Street, London, S.W. today (Monday).Peeping over Air Chief Marshal Baker's Shoulder is Field-Marshal Sir William Slim, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, while on right (behind) is Admiral Sir Rhoderick R. McGrigor. First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff. September 15, 1952. (Photo by Reuterphoto).

Anefo photo collection. Shooting party on Dam Square 7 May 1945. Including the domestic armed forces in the fair gate during the shooting at the Dam, where German soldiers opened the fire on a partying crowd. May 7, 1945. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Dutch soldiers from the group of arms from the Royal Air Force back from New Mexico (USA) after training. April 2, 1962. Schiphol

Royal Air Force Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1943. Four WAAF officers, the first members of the WAAF to posted to the Middle East, seen shortly after their arrival in Egypt.

G.I. Brides Arrive At Reception Camp -- First arrivals at Pernam Downs reception camp with Captain Frank Barbour, Officer Commanding Perham Downs.The first G.I. brides and their children arrived to-day, Tuesday, at Perham Downs, Tidworth, Hants. they are to make a short stay at a reception camp before sailing from Southampton to their new homes in the United States. January 22, 1946.

The Queen Visit Hospital and Voluntary Aid Detachment Posts - H.M.The Queen chats with the staff when leaving a London Hospital after a visit. Note the sand-bagged walls. September 08, 1939. (Photo by Sports & General Press Agency, Limited).

Approx. 1939,1941, training Wehrmacht, original caption: Offenburg, Gottstein, Germany, Europe

Anefo photo collection. Blue-white against vsv, honoring. March 19, 1950

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection A Parsee Flag Seller decorating a British wounded soldier on India Day in London. 1918.

RUSSIAN NURSE AIDS U.S. SOLDIERS: T/Sgt. Richard M. Brown, 3109 Live Oak St., Huntington Park, Calif., gets a hand injury treated by a Red Army nurse at a U.S. Strategic Air Forces base in Russia--end of the West-End "shuttle" bombing route across

New York, New York, March 19, 1919The first large detachment of Ohio troops return to the United States. The whole and two halves here are 58 inches, 75 inches and 59 inches tall.

Lewis I RAF goat Mascot at Retirement Ceremony. November 23, 1943.

Anefo photo collection. Norwegian Leave Center. 19 May 1947

Women's Factory War work at Slough Training Centre, England, UK, 1941 Betty Pridie receives her clocking on card from the Sergeant, as her sister Rose (far right) and two other new recruits wait to receive theirs.

Anefo photo collection. Anefo war photographer Captain Willem van de Poll at his jeep with three liberated young people. May 1945. The Hague

The work of the General Post Office, London, October 1941 A GPO boy messenger adjusts his leather pouch on the way to deliver a message, somewhere in London. Note the damage caused by an air raid just visible behind him.

Activities at the Royal Air Force Resettlement Centre, Scarborough Three of the repatriated prisoners of war at No 1 Resettlement Centre visit Scarborough Castle. Afternoons were free and those men not wanting to take part in sports were able to visit the town, harbour and local places of interest.

Flute - Instrument Music. August 24, 1955.

Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Fighter Command Flight Lieutenants Brendan 'Paddy' Finucane (left) and Keith 'Bluey' Truscott of No. 452 Squadron congratulate each other at Kenley on 13 October 1941. The two flight commanders had just returned from a very successful Circus operation during which each had shot down two Me109s.

Operation in Stockholm in 1960.

Anefo photo collection. Mayor of Hall Heit new pole for Dutch bank. November 6, 1961. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Firemen in Paris Headquarters. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection British soldier home on leave.

Girl Guides Rally in Hyde Park - Princess Elizabeth inspecting the guard of honour of Sea Rangers in Hyde Park, London, this afternoon (Sunday). More than 7,000 Girl Guides from London and the provinces marched to Hyde Park London, this afternoon (Sunday) to take part in a drum-head service and march-past. Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret were there to take the salute at the march past. The Drumhead service was conducted by the Bishop of Willesden, the Rt. Rev. E.M.G. Jones. May 19, 1946.

Group image of officers on basic aircraft training on group image of officers on basic aircraft training on F 2 Roslagens flying fleet, summer 1945

The Royal Navy during the Second World War- Operation Overlord (the Normandy Landings), June 1944 Commodore Douglas-Pennant, RN, and his staff interested in one of the mine obstacles found on the invasion beach.

Historic photograph: local fire brigade, ca. 1897

Luffwaffe officers on the 'Fliegerhorst' Deelen at the ceremonial plants of an oak tree.

Two military women department (Milva) for a kiosk near Scheveningen Pier.

Anefo photo collection. Television broadcast of "gulls above sorrento" v.l.n.r. Bas ten Batenburg, Jan Blaaser and Mathieu van Eysden. April 7, 1959

Poll photo collection. Moselle: Traffic and wine festival. French soldiers at the entrance to a wine company. July 4, 1959. Germany, Kröv, Rhineland-Palatinate, West Germany

Field Marshal Bernand Montgomery, British general, Zonhoven, Belgium, World War II, 1945. Artist: Unknown

Poll photo collection. Travel to Poland. Warsaw. Young police officers playing billiards outside service. A radio speaker in the corner against the wall. 1934. Poland, Warsaw

"In September 1939, we have once more learnt what it is like to see uniform in the streets, the buses, the restaurants, to see chaps like this going to their depots with their girls, smiling like the chaps did in 1914". 1939

'Some of the survivors of the Arandora Star landing at a Scottish port', 1940, (1940). Artist: Unknown.

New recruit Michael Suthers arrives at the Royal Air Force Depot at Uxbridge for his selection board, November 1940. New recruit Michael Suthers arrives at the Royal Air Force Depot at Uxbridge for his selection board.

Visit HM Queen Beatrix (umbrella, center) at the NBCD school (nuclear, bacteriological, chemical, damage control) in Den Helder in March 1989.

Scalers: At battle school padres find high wall is usually shortest distance between two points. Most "Scholars" are under 40, for training is too strenuous for all but the fittest clerics. December 16, 1944.

Anefo photo collection. Four-day Nijmegen third day. Wrapped in raincoats at Groesbeek. July 25, 1963. Groesbeek

The German Spring Offensive, March-july 1918

Original Film Title: ENEMY AT THE GATES. English Title: ENEMY AT THE GATES. Film Director: JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD. Year: 2001. Stars: JUDE LAW; JOSEPH FIENNES.

Anefo photo collection. First pole Marine Etablisement, vice-admiral a.h.J. Van der Schotte. June 27, 1962

Reunion. August 05, 1946.

Anefo photo collection. Alarm exercise Dutch Army in Veluwe. January 25, 1951. Gelderland, Veluwe

'Winston Churchill across the Rhine. Outwards into Germany! Onwards to Victory!', 1945. Artist: Unknown.

Anefo photo collection. Camp Slenaken Boys VCTC. August 6, 1948. Limburg, Slenaken

The Avenging WAAF's - ACW Eileen Hugo was crying when she sat down to tea in the RAF mess at Burton wood, Warrington, Lancs., RAF Corporal Derek Wood had insulted her she said. The three other waafs with her looked around saw the corporal , went out after tea, waited for him. And when he came out he was hit on the head with lengths of iron piping. He was his so hard his signet ring was broken when he raised one hand to protect himself. (Left to right) Eileen and the others - LACW Sylvia Reeves and ACWs Margaret Shennen and Philomena Harrop - were bound over at Warrington, Lances., for "infliciting certain grievous bodily harm, and ordered to pay costs. December 19, 1946. (Photo by Mirror Features).

Blue Lamp Family When P.C. 50, William Milner, is getting ready to go on duty, he has to be careful to put the right jacket on. Otherwise he might face his sergeant as P.C. 123 - or, worse still, as Policewoman 4. For three police jackets hang in P.C. Milner's hall in Ash-street, Blackpool - his son's and his daughter's as well as his own. Often the trio go on duty together - as in the picture. Son Alan, 25, joined the force when he left the RAF. His sister Eunice, 23, was a secretary in an estate agent's office. But the continual talk by her father and brother about the force decided her to make a change. So she became P.W. 4. She said; "More than once one of the other two has tried to put on my tunic before finding out his mistake. June 19, 1951.

Russian military in a freight wagon.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Instrumentation Tangerang. Ambulance. 28 May 1946. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Front and back view of a trooper in the British Army with annotations pointing out key features such as the helmet cover to prevent reflections when wet, the anti gas sheet, gas mask 'at alert', pouch carrying Bren Gun magazines, grenades or small ammunition, haversack containing mess tin, water bottle, emergency water ration, cutlery, cardigan & ground sheet and web anklets. The pack contains other comforts and a sand bag allows more capacity for further items. The officer depicted on the

Women's Royal Naval Service- Wrens work on Assault Landing Craft, UK, 1944.

Two luvas in uniform at a bridge.

***** Hall, Twickenham, Middlesex, where British Army ***** are trained, there is a Museum of ancient musical instruments. On the right of this picture is one of the ***** called the "Serpent". It is compared with the *****.Music goes round. An ancient musical instruments is compared with a modern axophone at Middlesex, where British Army musicians are trained. It is called the "Serpent." and is exhibited in a museum of ancient instruments. June 14, 1947.

Residents of the Royal home for former soldiers in Bronbeek visiting the Standard Fregat Hr.Ms. Bloys from Treslong.

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