Object description: Irish Guards wearing gasmasks advance through smoke with 'tommy guns' at the ready, Nooks Head near Woking in Surrey, 8 July...
Object description: image: a square parade ground with groups of recruits taking part in various drilling exercises. Senior officers inspect the...
Object description: A Cromwell Mk IV of No. 2 Squadron, 2nd (Armoured Reconnaissance) Battalion, Welsh Guards, at Pickering in Yorkshire, 31 March...
Object description: Winston Churchill inspects a Cromwell Mk IV tank of No. 2 Squadron, 2nd (Armoured Reconnaissance) Battalion, Welsh Guards, at...
Object description: soldiers of the Coldstream, Irish and Welsh Guards dressed in gym kit are engaged in organised physical exercise within a...
For some years I have been researching the history of the 148 Training Brigade [aka Wrotham Camp] which was on the site of what is now Vigo...
TNA Catalogue Ref: WO 166/8577 War Office: Home Forces: War Diaries, Second World War INFANTRY REGIMENTS Scope and content: 3 Irish Guards...
WW2: O.S.S. Mission to Giessen (1944) - YouTube WW2: CAYUGA MISSION (1944) - YouTube WW2: O.S.S. Project Gold Dust (1944) - YouTube WW2:...
[IMG] The caption reads: "Lt. John Lee Warner, British Rifle Instructor at a Commando Depot, somewhere in Britain, giving instructions to...
Are there any or many pictures of the place when it was being used by the Airborne Community in WW2. I pass it quite a lot on the M1 and its not...
Here's some OSS training footage on how to wreck a train. dumpert.nl - Uit het archief.
Ian Fenwick, the famous cartoonist killed in 1944 with 1 SAS, was by the first day of 1943 the commandant of No.4 Special Training School at...
HS ME 102 located at Ampugnano No 1 Wing (Parachute School) located at Cecina No 2 Wing (Battle School) Palazzo Al Piano No 3 Wing (British W/T...
See images of tanks & crews later in thread at Account: 3rd Tank Bn Scots Guards, Jul 1944 - May 1945 TNA Ref: CAB 106/1029Scope and content:...
I've decided to start a separate thread for the Armoured battalion, rather than continue on from this thread. I think there's a substantial enough...
From The Times, 22 Aug 1939, a month before this War Diary started; 7th Guards Brigade on Brigade Training at Tidworth, also one photo of...
After the 78th Division was withdrawn at Cortano my father was posted from 237 Field Coy RE to the RE Training Depot at Moascar. He served there...
British paratroopers and secret agent made their first jump from a balloon from 1500 ft at Ringway. How did they manage to get a ballon to that...
[IMG] Above is a photo of the staff of the recce Battle School at Reeth, Swaledale, Yorkshire (c1943/4) outside their HQ. The photo was loaned to...
April 1943 Death Of Royal Engineer:- Sapper William Jones 14363412 Agivey Bridging Training Hi, I've been tracing my late grandmother's...
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