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RMTWWDCB–Vintage UK British WW2 World War Two propaganda poster: “She's in the Ranks Too!” – Caring For Evacuees Is A National Service. Black and white illustration featuring a middle-aged lady wearing an apron and stepping forward from a row of national service workers in uniform with her arms outstretched towards a younger mother smartly dressed in a hat and holding her sleeping baby with a young girl next to her holding their travel bags and packages, Issued by the Ministry of Health. The evacuation during WWII known as Operation Pied Piper started in 1939, organised by the Ministry of Health
RMG5JFFW–British Service Chiefs who received awards from the French Ambassador on behalf of his government, at the Institut Francais in London. From right to left: Air Chief Marshall Sir S Barratt, Admiral Sir Martin Dunber Nasmith VC, Admiral Sir William James, Admiral Sir Max Kennedy Horton, Admiral Lord Fraser of North Cape and Lt General Sir John Crocker.
RMH4HYF9–Vintage world war two portrait of a woman in ATS uniform circa 1940. The Auxiliary Territorial Service was the womens branch of the British Army during the Second World War.
RMR86900–The Bristol F.2 Fighter, a British two-seat biplane fighter and reconnaissance aircraft of the First World War developed by Frank Barnwell at the Bristol Aeroplane Company. It is often simply called the Bristol Scout or the 'Biff'. Although the type was intended initially as a replacement for the pre-war Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2c reconnaissance aircraft, the newly-available Rolls-Royce Falcon V12 engine gave it the performance of a two-seat fighter.
RM2AJ2YXR–Original WW1 era portrait postcard of two cheerful men in the British Army Service Corps (ASC) at the Front in France. The friends are wearing fatigues and caps wearing the ASC badge, and carry a mess tin which may indicate they are soldier regimental cooks working in a field kitchen. Both men are smoking a pipe. U.K. date on reverse is 27 November 1917 and was sent from the Front in France.
RMPD6HWH–The Arctic Star - Second World War medal instituted December 2012 for subjects of the British Commonwealth for service in the Second World War,.....
RMWBDGRG–The Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2. British single-engine tractor two-seat biplane, in service with the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) from 1912 until the end of World War I. From The Pageant of the Century, published 1934.
RMM9F92G–Southern Rhodesia Medal for War Service 1939-1945. It is a British Campaign Medal awarded to members of the Southern Rhodesia Defence Forces.
RMEBW9MY–The Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2. British single-engine tractor two-seat biplane, in service with the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) from 1912 until the end of World War I.
RMWTD83X–General Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey (1896 – 1969) was a senior British Army officer, commander of the British 2nd Army.
RMR20TNR–Photograph of On duty with seamen of the Royal Indian Navy on active service in Eastern waters. Captured Italian equipment on board often proves these ships have engaged in successful action World War II. Dated 1942
RMB3MERD–ENSA Mobile recording vehicle of the British Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) - See Description below
RM2RWCRM1–Vintage WW2 UK British propaganda poster: Munition Concerts, Ministry of Labour, organised by the newly formed Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) at the beginning of World War Two. Image shape of a shield featuring barrel of a large cannon with smoke coming out. Fighter planes flying overhead, .1939, Great Britain UK
RMG5CX02–Private Betty Wood, a former Leeds factory worker, 'striking up the arc'. The training of ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) on the maintenance and working of searchlights is being speeded up so that more girls are able to take the place of men in this work.
RM2R04T32–Two First World War soldiers, a driver in the Army Service Corps and a private in the Machine Gun Corps c.1915.
RM2J3WK4A–Portrait of members of the Salvation Army with soldiers, including two men of the British West Indies Regiment (BWIR), photographed during the First World War. The photo was taken by Caudevelle, photographer, Boulogne sur Mer, France. The BWIR was formed in 1915 from Caribbean volunteers in Britain.
RM2F8BHCY–British, WW2, female war work recruitment poster, Women!: You are needed in the National Fire Service, 1942-1945
RM2JT9HG6–A Bristol F.2B Fighter, a British First World War two-seat biplane fighter and reconnaissance aircraft often simply called the Bristol Fighter, or 'Biff'. The F.2B version proved to be a manoeuvrable aircraft that was able to hold its own against single-seat fighters while its robust design ensured that it remained in military service into the early 1930s.
RM2M86DMT–Original WW2 era postcard of pretty woman serving in the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) wearing her service dress, dated May 1945, Port St Mary, Isle of Man. Possibly she is from the Special Operators Training Battalion based here from 1943 to train ATS women as intercept wireless operators for Bletchley Park amongst others. Young lady's of the ATS did: three weeks' basic training at Queens Camp, Guilford. then posted to Douglas, Isle of Man, for four months to train as a Special Wireless Operator, Royal Corps of Signals.
RMPD6HYK–The Atlantic Star - Second World War medal instituted by May 1945 for subjects of the British Commonwealth for service in the Second World War,....
RMPERKJ4–Grumman Wildcat single engine American second world war naval fighter. The Martlet in British service.
RMBG70HX–A World War 2 Medal awarded to British and Commonwealth Troops 1939-45 on a white background
RM2F78BMN–1940s NOVEMBER 30 1945 JAPANESE FIELD MARSHALL TERAUCHI SURRENDERS SWORD AND BOWS TO BRITISH ADMIRAL LORD MOUNTBATTEN SAIGON - q74722 CPC001 HARS VICTORY LEADERSHIP POWERFUL WORLD WARS FALL SEASON WORLD WAR WORLD WAR TWO REAR VIEW WORLD WAR II AUTHORITY SOUTHEAST ASIA MARSHALL BOWS STYLISH WORLD WAR 2 ROYAL NAVY 30 1945 BACK VIEW CONFLICTING MID-ADULT MID-ADULT MAN NOVEMBER SAIGON SEASON SURRENDER ADMIRAL BATTLING BLACK AND WHITE LORD OLD FASHIONED SURRENDERS
RMPRPR5W–* Vintage 1916 Photograph Showing a Group of Wounded WW1 British Army Soldiers and Two Nurses.
RM2ACC2M8–Vintage photograph of a Broadside firing by HMS Duke of York Royal Navy Battleship. HMS Duke of York was a King George V class battleship of the Royal Navy. Commissioned into the Royal Navy on 4 November 1941, subsequently seeing combat service during the Second World War.
RMTWWDA3–Vintage UK British WW2 Propaganda Poster for The ATS “You are Wanted Too!” “ Join the ATS” a three-quarter length photograph of a young woman marching forward in an Auxiliary Territorial Service uniform. In the background, two lines of infantrymen march behind her with shouldered rifles. Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by A.C. Ltd. Date 1939 Second World War World War II
RMTD6A5X–Soldiers of the Princess of Wales Royal Regiment carry one of the coffins of two young privates and an unknown soldier, who fought during World War One, during a burial service at Hermies Hill British Cemetery near Albert, France.
RM2K4DJD8–A First World War era picture of two British soldiers, a Corporal in the Army Service Corps (left) and a Lance Corporal in the Middlesex Regiment (right) Who has a long service & good conduct stripe and a wounded strip.
RM2E3J696–WWII - A printed photograph of British Wrens ( Women's Royal Naval Service), at work in a Naval operations room as plotters tracking the positions of various warships.First formed in 1917 for WWI, thendisbanded in 1919, only to be revived in 1939 at the beginning of the Second World War. Integrated into the Royal Navy in 1993. In 1939, Vera Laughton Mathews was appointed as the director of the re-formed WRNS with Ethel (Angela) Goodenough as her deputy
RM2M99H8B–This is directly opposite to the British War Cemetery. It was designed by Philip Hepworth and bears the names of !,805 Commonwealth service men and women who fell in the Battle of Normandy. The Inscriptionsays 'We who were Conquered by William have Liberated his Fatherland.'
RM2F4TRKK–British, WW2 Public Information Poster: The Telephone Service is Busy, Very Busy!, 1942-1945
RM2JT9HH7–A Major Syd Addison and Lieutenant Hudson Fysh in a Bristol F.2B Fighter, a British First World War two-seat biplane fighter and reconnaissance aircraft often simply called the Bristol Fighter, or 'Biff'. The F.2B version proved to be a manoeuvrable aircraft that was able to hold its own against single-seat fighters while its robust design ensured that it remained in military service into the early 1930s.
RM2MEHK23–Original and clear WW2 portrait postcard of happy group of soldiers, possibly Australians allies wearing desert slouch or bush hats, allows rifle slung over shoulder, posing for a photo with African children, dated 1943. Bert is one of the men named. Possibly North Africa, towards the end of the military campaign there (ended in May 1943), so maybe a leaving souvenir photo.
RMPD6HTN–The 1939-1945 Star - Second World War medal instituted July 1943 for subjects of the British Commonwealth for service in the Second World War.
RMBG70HC–The 1393-1945 Star a World War 2 Medal awarded to British and Commonwealth Troops on a white background
RM2F788DW–1950s DC-3 TWIN ENGINE PROPELLOR DRIVEN METAL MONOPLANE AIRLINER AND WW2 ERA TRANSPORT PLANE FROM DOUGLAS AIRCRAFT - ka5528 PHT001 HARS PROGRESS EFFECT WORLD WARS WORLD WAR WORLD WAR TWO WORLD WAR II AVIATION MOTION BLUR UTILITY WORLD WAR 2 ENGINES LANDING GEAR MONOPLANE POWERED RADIAL AIRLINER CIVILIAN ERA OLD FASHIONED
RMPRPR59–* Vintage Photograph of Two Laughing WW1 British Army Soldiers. One of The Soldiers is Having a Cigarette.
RM2BJ072J–British restaurants , opened by the Londoners' Meals Service to provide good food at minimum prices , have appeared almost everywhere in London . The strangest is at the Bethnal Green Museum , in the East End , where 1,000 hot lunches can be served every day .. Customers pay tenpence or a shilling in the hall , at a booth beside a bust of Garibaldi and get their meal at a service counter , carrying it past a bus of Oliver Cromwell to the central hall , where Venus , Goddess of Love , look down on the communal scene of Londoners lunching in classic surroundings. - 16th June 1945
RM2M7G3TE–THE ATS WW2 Vintage UK British WW2 Propaganda Poster for The ATS “You are Wanted Too!” “ Join the ATS” a three-quarter length photograph of a young woman marching forward in an Auxiliary Territorial Service uniform. In the background, two lines of infantrymen march behind her with shouldered rifles. Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by A.C. Ltd. Date 1939 Second World War World War II
RMKJ1GCH–Lord Ismay and Sir Eric Mieville 1946. Sir Eric Charles Mieville, was a senior British civil servant who served as Assistant Private Secretary to George VI from 1937 to 1945, and who also served as Private Secretary to several Governors-General of India and Canada. General Hastings Lionel Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay, was a British Indian Army officer and diplomat, remembered primarily for his role as Winston Churchill's chief military assistant during the Second World War and his service as the first Secretary General of NATO from 1952 to 1957.
RMG545AX–The actual Wren (a member of the Women's Royal Naval Service) who was chosen as a suitable model for this recruitment poster.
RFR4KN25–New Spitfire fighter plane poster from British Information Service 1940s production e by Central Office of Information for Packard war workers constructing the planes
RMWTD3K2–General sir Alan Cunningham. His crushing victory over the Italians in Abyssinia will free all of East Africa.
RM2F4TRGY–British, WW2 productivity poster: Action Stations - The ATS go to War, War Savings bonds campaign, 1942-1945
RMR8690R–The R33 class of British rigid airships were built for the Royal Naval Air Service during the First World War, but were not completed until after the end of hostilities, by which time the RNAS had become part of the Royal Air Force. The lead ship, R33, went on to serve successfully for ten years. the later R34, became the first aircraft to make an east to west transatlantic flight in July 1919 and by the return flight, completed successfully the first two-way crossing, and was decommissioned two years later after being damaged during a storm.
RM2B7PGMM–WW2 era photo of happy attractive British Red Cross military nurse officer VAD in service uniform wearing a British Red Cross Society cap badge, on a cap - marrying an RAF airman, Bristol, England, U.K. dated January 1944
RF2M7MA7K–Vintage photo circa 1918 of a British Airco DeHavilland DH4 two seat bomber aircraft used by the Royal Flying Corps during World War One. It entered service in January 1917
RMPD6HYB–Air Crew Europe Star - Second World War medal instituted by the United Kingdom in May 1945 for subjects of the British Commonwealth for service in .....
RM2BEF5D6–Ellesmere Remembrance Service. Wearing his medals with pride World War 2 veteran 86 year old Gordon Millhouse in November 2013
RMBG70H4–Close up of a World War 2 Medal awarded to British and Commonwealth Troops 1939-45 on a white background
RMEWR39T–Women of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS), the women's branch of the British army during the Second World War. 12th April 1941.
RMEA90E2–WORLD WAR TWO VETERAN HOLDING SERVICE MEDALS RE SOLDIERS PENSIONS SERVICEMEN WARS CONFLICT DISABILITY PENSIONERS OLD AGE UK
RMMAEX46–1940's Information Propaganda Poster UK photograph of a woman holding a baby and accompanied by two small children. They walk down a bombed street with buildings ablaze. Their torn and dirty clothing suggests that they have been caught in an air raid.' It might be YOU! CARING FOR EVACUEES IS A NATIONAL SERVICE' ISSUED BY THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH 1940's Second World War WW2 Propaganda Information Poster - part of a series urging Britons to take evacuation seriously and send their children out of the city to safety.
RMG533F6–Members of the Women's Transport Service (Northern Ireland Section) taking compass bearings from the terrace of Killyleagh Castle, County Down, Northern Ireland.
RM2M74PF4–ENGLAND, UK - April 1945 - HRH Princess Elizabeth in the Auxiliary Territorial Service somewhere in southern England in April 1945. Princess Elizabeth
RM2F2CHE4–WWI - THE IMPERIAL CAMEL CORP BRIGADE (ICCB) was a camel-mounted infantry brigade that the British Empire raised in December 1916 for service in the Middle East. Initially very small, it grew to a brigade of four battalions, (Great Britain, New Zealand and two from Australia. This image shows camels 'at anchor' after transportation.
RM2RGCBYJ–WW2 - British Home front, October 1941 - Mrs John Steel, daughter of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, British Pathologist, lends her hand to the war effort. A member of the London Auxiliary Ambulance Service (L.A.A.S.) as a Driver, she is seen here on the land of a Hospital Farm in Essex (where she is stationed), helping to dig potatoes.
RM2F4TRM2–British, WW2 Female Forces Recruitment poster: ATS jobs means career skills for women post-war, 1942-1945
RM2K182R1–A Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter biplane aircraft taking off, in 1918 from a platform built on top of the midships “Q” turret on HMAS 'Australia', an Indefatigable-class battlecruisers. The Sopwith 1+1⁄2 Strutter was a British single- or two-seat multi-role biplane aircraft of the First World War It was the first British two-seat tractor fighter and the first British aircraft to enter service with a synchronised machine gun.
RM2B8NAHD–Original World War 2 era, air raid warden door sign with faded lettering, made from Bakelite, Britain, U.K., circa 1940's.
RMPDF4GM–The Atlantic Star - Second World War medal instituted by May 1945 for subjects of the British Commonwealth for service in the Second World War, specif
RMBG70JW–World War 2 Medals awarded to British and Commonwealth Troops with the original box and an RAF notebook on a white background
RMCYPE6P–Cover of programme for Battle of Britain Commemoration Service at Cathays Park Cardiff 26th September 1943
RM2DC8N6Y–Vintage papers. Job application, with wartime service record entry under previous employment. Previous jobs including war role
RMEA90DF–WORLD WAR TWO VETERAN HOLDING SERVICE MEDALS RE SOLDIERS PENSIONS SERVICEMEN WARS CONFLICT DISABILITY PENSIONERS OLD AGE UK
RM2BFEWBK–AMMUNITION WORKS SHELLS BRITISH FACTORY WW1 c1916 Female munitions workers preparing & setting shells in an ammunition armaments factory, 1916 World War One, women females volunteered for essential work in order to release men for service in the armed forces. Between 1914-1918, around two million women volunteers replaced men in employment. 1916-1917. First World War World War One, 1916
RMG56TXR–A Warrant Officer of the 14/20th King's Hussars with a cooker and food supplies. Members of the Voluntary Aid Detachments and Auxiliary Territorial Service, as well as the Army, are training to become cooks at the Army Catering Corps Training Centre, formerly the Army School of Cookery. The centre not only thinks of today but will help men to get work in the catering industry after the war.
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