Military Gatherings and Activities

Images capturing military inspections, gatherings, and performances, revealing camaraderie among soldiers during and post-war.

Freed Polish prisoner (center) of Dachau confronts a Nazi SS trooper for mistreatment of inmates. Still wearing his the striped trousers of his prison uniform, he has a rifle slung over his shoulder. A soldier of the Seventh US Army stands by. April 29, 1945, World War 2 (BSLOC_2015_13_14)

Anefo photo collection. Capitulation: Harskamp camp where SS people and countrykeepers are convenient. A "Bühne" was built in Kamp Harskamp, where a few performances per day are given and for the comrades. Singers and musicians bring their number for a large audience (addiction Anefo). June 1945. Gelderland, Harskamp

Anefo photo collection. Army Army Anefo London series. Army 626 General Paget Inspecting Men Of The Royal Netherlands Brigade "Princess Irene" During One Of His Visits Of This Unit. The Dutch army camp in Wolverhampton. British authorities visit the Dutch camp. General Bernard Paget inspects men from the Royal Dutch Brigade "Princess Irene" during one of his visits to the unit .. 1941. Great Britain

Anefo photo collection. Destruction: Roermond. The population of Roermond returns home to American army trucks .. March 1945. Limburg, Roermond

Royal Air Force- Italy, the Balkans and South East Europe, 1942-1945. Air gunners of No. 223 Squadron RAF being briefed by their gunnery leader at Celone, Italy, before taking off on a raid on enemy targets in the Popoli area.

Anefo photo collection. Netherlands Brigade maneuvers. 8. A. H.M.G. position, Watched Inspecting Princess Irene Brigade exercises. heavy machine gun position,. viewing eye inspecting general. July 1943. Britain

Poll photo collection. Prince Bernhard visits Dutch troops on their army base in Great Britain during the Second World War. The troops arise for the inspection. 1940. Great Britain

Poll photo collection. Prince Bernhard visits Dutch troops on their army base in Great Britain during the Second World War. Prince Bernhard in conversation with officers. 1940. Great Britain

Anefo photo collection. Military Training Camp in Bloemendaal (Visit General Curls). February 25, 1946. Bloemendaal, Noord-Holland

Freed Polish prisoner (center) of Dachau confronts a Nazi SS trooper for mistreatment of inmates. Still wearing his the striped trousers of his prison uniform, he has a rifle slung over his shoulder. A soldier of the Seventh US Army stands by. April 29, 1945, World War 2 (BSLOC_2015_13_14)

Left to Right: 2nd Lt. Maurice, Elston, Ross, Ohio 2nd Lt. Thaddeus I. Hawkins, Griffing, Ga. 2nd Lt. Joseph S. Huberty-San Andreas, Calif. 2nd Lt. Robert H. Hudspeth, Verdi, Nev. 2nd Lt. Edmund F. Janic, Miwaukee, Wisc. 2nd Lt. Robert L. Lent, Mt.

They're On A Permanent Route March - Army Tests Equipment For Arctic And Tropics -- One inspections where ruined boots ***** don't bring a 'charge'. An ordnance Crops officer inspects boots after most of the test course of 350 miles has been covered at the Boot track at Hoath Lane, Gillingham, near Chatham, Kent. Most of the boots have come through the test virtually *****. Thirty men with the Army's least enviable job are on a 'permanent' route march at the British Army's ***** test Center near this Kentish naval base. April 7, 1948.

Anefo photo collection. Colonel Schafroth at Maneuvres in Oldebroek. April 8, 1948. Oldebroek

Anefo photo collection. Army Army Anefo London series. RMY 618 GEN. Paget Watching Drill With A / T Rifle During An Inspection of Dutch Forces. The Dutch army camp in Wolverhampton. British authorities visit the Dutch camp. General Bernard Paget looks at the training with an anti-tank weapon during the inspection of the Dutch troops .. 1941

Anefo photo collection. Shooting exercises Oldebroek. April 12, 1946. Oldebroek

Anefo photo collection. Princess Juliana returns with her three daughters from Canada in liberated the Netherlands .. Prince Bernhard films the arrival of his family .. August 2, 1945. Gelderland, Teuge

Anefo photo collection. Front Noord-Oost Nederland: Tour of Prince Bernhard. Attention to equipment of a German soldier. April 1945

Visit of the Duke of Kent To RAF Gosport HRH the Duke of Kent being shown around RAF Gosport.

Royal Air Force- 2nd Tactical Air Force, 1943-1945. The Commanding Officer of No. 107 Beach flight Squadron Leader L A Taylor, and his Adjutant Flight Lieutenant A Wilson, observe the unloading of petrol on the Normandy shore.

Anefo photo collection. Groups Kamp Zeeburg soldiers. January 25, 1951

Armourers install .303 Browning machine guns into the rear turret an Armstrong Whitley Mk V of No. 58 Squadron RAF at Linton-on-Ouse, Yorkshire, June 1940. Armourers install .303 Browning machine guns in the rear turret an Armstrong Whitley Mark V of No. 58 Squadron RAF after routine maintenance at Linton-on-Ouse, Yorkshire.

Anefo photo collection. Exercise "Grand Repulse" West Germany. September 27, 1953. Germany

Anefo photo collection. Pontonniers demonstration with Colonel Schafroth, see 2674. April 9, 1948

Dutch soldiers travel for exercises from Oirschot to La Courtine. Pay attention! The above description is a generic series description based on the information stated by the army film and photo service. In the long term, this global description will be specified.

Z.K.H. Prince Bernhard visits the Leeuwarden airbase as an inspector general of the Royal Netherlands Air Force. Here in conversation with Major Kite S.K. Aertsen.links the commander of the airbase, Colonel-Vlieger Hofstede.

Anefo photo collection. Military funeral England (General Noothoven van Goor). front H.J. Curls. {1940-1945}

GDR, Berlin, 22, 04. 1990, border strip between the walls near Frohnau, Trabant with border guards

Anefo photo collection. Military exercise "Cross Country". Major General B. King CDt. Fourth division. June 24, 1958

Anefo photo collection. Presentation of the prices of the shooting week in the Carskam by General Major B. Koning, General Major King extends the silver gun to the best. June 12, 1959

Anefo photo collection. Five Swiss soldiers on the way from Amsterdam CS to Nijmegen. July 22, 1963. Amsterdam, Nijmegen

the funeral

Captured American G.I.'s in the Battle of the Bulge American prisoners of war are marched along the road on the western front. Captured German film.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Return from Padang. After the occupation of Makoe-Makoe, located on the north shore of Lake Sikarang (Sumatra), the striker went to Fort van der Capellen. However, the column experienced any delay when a car was stuck by constituent on the edge of a abyss just before a bridge. Lieutenant W. de Lange from Utrecht uses this delay to shave .. December 23, 1948. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Sumatra

During the evacuation of Finnish refugees, autumn 1944.

The Royal Navy during the Second World War Eight divers of the Royal Navy wearing various suits and apparatus employed in underwater warfare seen at the Admiralty Experimental Diving Unit, Tolworth, Surrey. Left to right: Port Clearance; Human Torpedo; Davis Submarine Escape Apparatus; Experimental Suit; Mine Recovery Suit; Soft Helmet Air Diver; Frog Man; Air Diver.

The British Army on the Western Front, 1914-1918

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Inspectorate General H.J. Curls by Indonesia. Padang. U-brigade General curls in a waiting or observation post. May 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Anefo photo collection. Military Training Camp in Bloemendaal (Visit General Curls). February 25, 1946. Bloemendaal, Noord-Holland

Girl Gunners- the work of the Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Experimental Station, Shoeburyness, Essex, England, 1943 17 year old Private Edith Jackson loads a 25 pounder shell into an anti-aircraft gun at the Royal Artillery experimental station at Shoeburyness, Essex. The shells were fired into the sea at high tide. According to the original caption, Edith worked in a dairy before the war, filling milk bottles. Comment: this appears to show a QF 25-pounder field gun, not an anti-aircraft gun.

Anefo photo collection. Norwegian Leave Center. 19 May 1947

Anefo photo collection. Front Noord-Oost Nederland: Enschede - Hengelo Battle and Liberation Achterhoek (1 April 1945), Enschede (April 1, 1945), Hengelo (3 April 1945). Crews of a British tank unit (Guards Armored Division) posing for a group photo. April 1945. Enschede, Hengelo, Overijssel, Twente

Anefo photo collection. Mr. Pieter van Vollenhoven in military service at the Air Force in Breda, Mr. Pieter during exercise. April 27, 1966. Breda

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC School training directors and motorcyclists (S.O.B.M.) in Bandoeng. Motorcycling exercises. April 1947. Bandung, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Anefo photo collection. Army exercises Germany, Dutch troops pass the border at Denekamp. September 9, 1954. Denekamp, Germany

Second World War. Netherlands under German crew. Portrait of a Wehrmachor with steel helmet and rifle (probably at The Hague)

Anefo photo collection. Series Border Correction Germany. Chimney sweep. 19 April 1948. Germany

Anefo photo collection. Princess Irene Brigade training camp midlands. Major De Broekert "Warrant Officer" van Rhijn issues prizes sporting event held Dutch camp Midlands. July 1943. Britain

Anefo photo collection. Escadrons Tanks depart from Amersfoort station for El Exercise Big Ferro in West Germany. September 10, 1973. Amersfoort

Poll photo collection. Prince Bernhard visits Dutch troops on their army base in Great Britain during the Second World War. Prince Bernhard in conversation with officers. 1940. Great Britain

Turkey, President Kemal Ataturk with his generals, officers and Turkish airwomen, 1936

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Visit General Curls to Medan and Padang. Visit to Padang. General curls followed by an adjutant. May 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Padang, Sumatra

Anefo photo collection. Capitulation: Wageningen. Preparations and negotiations to the capitulation in Wageningen. Prince Bernhard answers questions from war correspondents .. May 5, 1945. Gelderland, Wageningen

Anefo photo collection. Visit Princess Juliana 322 (Dutch) Squadron Raf Deanland. Princess Juliana conversation kites. September 26, 1944. Deanland, Britain

Anefo photo collection. Nieuwe IJsselbrug Deventer 1945. Opening of the railway bridge over the IJssel in Deventer. Speech General Major Macmullen, who has designed the bridge. November 1, 1945. Deventer

Elsevier photo collection. T.G.V. 50th anniversary Ede garrison plate Secretary War M. F. Kranenburg military historical exhibition. Brigade B.D. G.A. Yellow (right) tank "Goliath" clean mine fields. August 6, 1956. Ede

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Visit Prince Bernhard Chapel to Semarang. Members of the Prince Bernhard Chapel with a mobile canteen. February 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Semarang

Anefo photo collection. Capitulation: Harskamp camp where SS people and countrykeepers are convenient. A "Bühne" was built in Kamp Harskamp, where a few performances per day are given and for the comrades. Singers and musicians bring their number for a large audience (addiction Anefo). June 1945. Gelderland, Harskamp

Army Printing and Stationery Section First World War Collection R.A.M.C.

An infantryman with combat wrapping and a Lee Enfield rifle with stuffed bayonet.

Photo moment of participants from the Royal Netherlands Navy to the Four Days Marches of Nijmegen 1954. Minister Staff visits participants. Is part of the Objects series AVDKM 540537 up to 540559

7 Mercy..

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Report Semarang and surroundings. Main leganal mugs agent colonel a.j.j.m. Van Straelen (center) and two officers at an airport. March 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Semarang

Photographs depicting military activities in France, May - June 1940. Included photographs of Rommel, Guderian, Dreuz, Bottcher, Italian General Garaboldi, Lucie Rommel, shots of Rommel with Hitler. Photographs of equipment and troops arriving and in action, from the personal collection of Rommel.

"Canteen Commandos" For Singapore - Sgt. D. Watson of Manchester (Centre) and Sgt. W. Bristol of Reading (right) having their anti-mosquito gaiters adjusted when they were issued with tropical uniforms at a parade in London. A large party of N.A..A.F.I. girls will shortly be at work in Singapore for the first time in Naffi history in the Far East. They are members of the E.F.I. (Expenditionary Forces Institutes), who earned the nickname of "Canteen Commandos" on the various war fronts. February 12, 1946. (Photo by Reuterphoto).

Second World War. Netherlands under German crew. German Wehrmachliche (probably at The Hague)

Photographs depicting military activities in France, May - June 1940. Included photographs of Rommel, Guderian, Dreuz, Bottcher, Italian General Garaboldi, Lucie Rommel, shots of Rommel with Hitler. Photographs of equipment and troops arriving and in action, from the personal collection of Rommel.

Anefo photo collection. Army exercise "Walk through" NTS team. Prisoners of war are loaded. November 7, 1961

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Zegeis from the Y-Brigade with the Boissevain from Bali to Palembang (Sumatra) 2nd series. Y-brigade in Palembang. Parade. October 29, 1946. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Palembang, Sumatra

Poll photo collection. Travel to Lithuania. Soldiers are waiting at the border. 1934. Lithuania, Poland

Commander Of British 2nd. Army In France: Lt.-Gen. Dempsey -- A picture taken in Normandy of the first meeting on French soil of Gen. Montgomery, C.-in-C. 21st, Army group, with his Army Commanders, Lt.-Gen. O.N. Bradley (left) and Lt.-Gen. M.C.Dempsey (right) commander of the British 2nd. Army. Lt.-Gen. Dempsey's appointment was announced on June 28. June 30, 1944. (Photo by British Official Photo).

Anefo photo collection. Three-year anniversary shock troops. DEILER AT THE CASTLE OF BREDA (KMA). September 19, 1947

Anefo photo collection. Four-day in Nijmegen, third day, hikers on the way. July 29, 1965. Nijmegen

Poll photo collection. Repatriation service India. A member of the ship's crew of H et SS Boschfontein, helpful in bringing a small evacuee on board. March 29, 1946. Batavia, Indonesia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies, Tandjong Priok

Here Comes the Band (Dutch Marine). Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

The Dutch army is practicing in La Courtine. Pay attention! The above description is a generic series description based on the information stated by the army film and photo service. In the long term, this global description will be specified.

Royal Air Force Coastal Command- No. 247 Group Operations in the Azores, 1943-1945. Royal Engineers and Portuguese labourers working on the construction of the new runways at Lagens, share a break together on a pile of Marston mats.

Anefo photo collection. Wieringermeerpolder. December 8, 1945. Noord-Holland, Wieringermeer

Anefo photo collection. Canadian soldier issues cigarettes to a group of men with ransels or backpacks (repatrants) ('T Gooi) .. May 1945. Het Gooi

Four sailors in a garden. Four sailors of the Kriegsmarine posing in a garden. Part of the Loose Photos group associated with the photo album over the Kriegsmarine 1940-1943.

The German Spring Offensive, March-july 1918

The British Army in Pre-1914 Period Troops of one of the Scottish mounted regiments resting during regimental manoeuvres. They are probably servicemen of the Lothians and Berwickshire Yeomanry.

Anefo photo collection. Prince Bernhard with General Major a.t.c. Opsomer at army exercise in the Veluwe Crescendo. March 15, 1951. Gelderland, Veluwe

King and Queen Inspect Balloon Barrage - The King and Queen chatting to an operator in charge of the winch in cage, at one of the station today.The King and Queen visited a number of units of the Royal Air Force Balloon barrage i various parts of London today. December 04, 1939. (Photo by London News Agency Limited).

Anefo photo collection. Repatriation Camp Rheine (Germany). Three soldiers came up on a large exercise area. A sergeant for them. 1945. Germany, Rheine

Anniversary celebration 50 years of the Royal Netherlands Air Force at the Navigation Station "G" in Appingedam on 28 June 1963.Hier a state of an observation post of the Air Guard Agency (KLD) corps.

Anefo photo collection. Visit of Veldmaarschalk Montgomery to Amsterdam (1945). Visit of Veldmaarschalk Montgomery to Amsterdam. Prince Bernhard and Prime Minister Schermerhorn at the Amstelhotel. September 1, 1945. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

RVD / Royal House photo collection. Queen Wilhelmina visits the "Princess Irene" brigade. 1942. Great Britain

Anefo photo collection. American ambassador Allied governments, Dreaxel Biddle, visits camp Princess Irene Brigade company Dutch Prime Minister, Minister War Dutch ministers. ambassador tea break. September 1941. America, Britain

Detachment 101, an enigmatic Allied intelligence and special operations unit during World War II, played a pivotal role in the Burmese theater. Operating deep in the jungles of Burma, their mission was multi-faceted, encompassing guerrilla warfare, espionage, and sabotage against Japanese forces. Comprising a diverse group of individuals, from OSS agents to indigenous fighters, they effectively disrupted Japanese supply lines, gathered critical intelligence, and supported resistance movements.

Anefo photo collection. 'Grocery store from Prince Bernhard' assistance to children's homes. World War II, food facilities. 1945

State Railways, SJ Operating Defense. Film team and a military at Långsele Station. SJ Operating Defense was formed in 1946 and had the task of protecting important facilities for emergency preparedness and war. The operational defense was closed in 2005.

Poll photo collection. Scotland - The Highlands. Procession of bagpipe players during the Highland Games, a nineteenth century continuation of traditional clan games from the highlands of Scotland. 1934. Great Britain, Scotland

Anefo photo collection. Army Army Anefo London series. Princess Irene Brigade: "Dutch Troops Marching Trough Birmingham Week Victory". Dutch soldiers march Birmingham week Victory. July 1943. Birmingham, Britain

Anefo photo collection. unknown . Johny Kraaykamp in Zandvoort. October 20, 1960. Noord-Holland, Zandvoort

Anefo photo collection. Permissions officers and issues of wings at the Gilze-Rijen airbase. Colonel Aler pinned wings at Marine officer. December 20, 1947. Gilze-Rijen airbase

Members Of The 8Th Bomber Command Take Advantage Of Their Off Duty Hours To Do A Little Sightseeing Of Some Of The Historical Spots In England.

The Royal Navy during the Second World War- the Campaign in Normandy, June 1944 Royal Marines ensure quick turn round for supply craft to Normandy at Southampton. A special party of Royal Marines stand ready to make quick repairs to the hards should any of the invasion ships damage these prepared loading-runways. Here a new slab of concrete is being wheeled down the runway to replace a damaged one.

Anefo photo collection. Landmines clear at Hoek van Holland. Series of land mines clear at Hoek van Holland. August 1945. Hoek van Holland

Anefo photo collection. Parent day Marinierskamp in Doorn. December 9, 1948. Doorn

40/60 air voices gun with operation in position during an exercise on the WaeshsDorplain.

U.S. Army Signal Corps ca. between 1909 and 1940.

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