Defence Collection

British Army Captain Chris Goddard, left, and Cpl Gary Fisher check out the Second World War German bomb they had just made safe on a building site beside Tower Bridge, London

Belgian Navy. The stern view of the new giant ship, Belgenland, before her launch. She originally served as a freighter and World War I troopship for the White Star Line

Ex paratrooper Donald Cook, 38 year old aircraft inspector and secretary of the St. Pancras United Tenants Association, talks to his 36 year old wife Edith through a barricade of barbed wire

Kent authorities have speeded up the traffic marking signs on all secondary roads to aid drivers should there be a general black out enforced

London during the Blitz While services are being held in London, commemorating the second anniversary of The Battle of Britain

Home front 1940. Destroyed house in the Dartford area after a German air raid

Admiralty Amphibian Tested on Thames Aircraft alighting tests arranged by the Admiralty took place today on the Thames. The photographer shows the amphibian taking the water near Westminster Bridge

The Channel Isles : Rozel Bay on the north coast of Jersey Fish where the fish are!

Smoke and debris thrown skywards after a direct hit from a German bomb in the suburbs

Home front 1940. Showing the destruction caused by German bombing, Brits go about their normal daily business, even in the throes of war

Home front 1940. Bomb damage at Crayford

A destroyed home, after a German air raid

Home front 1940. Destroyed home in the Crayford area, after a German air raid

Battle Ensign of famous Warship for dockyard church An interesting ceremony will take place at Devonport when HMS Revenge will be transferred from the Imperial War museum to the Dockyard Church for

Luneburg Germany Prince Philip, the Colonel in Chief of the VIII Kings Royal Irish Hussars visited the regimental station in North Germany 11 March 1958

Luneburg Germay Prince Philip, the Colonel in Chief of the VIII Kings Royal Irish Hussars visited the regimental station in North Germany 11 March 1958

Princess Elizabeth inspects the Guard of Honour formed by members of the 4th Regiment Royal Horse Artillery at Hyde Park Corner 30 May 1949

Battle of Hastings

The Castle gate, Lewes, West Sussex. 1923

Home front 1940. The destruction caused by a German air raid

Home front 1940. Servicemen on leave. Find their homes damaged and surrounded by debris, and still find the happy side

Home front 1940. A boy holds the world in his hand, he has just discovered the globe in his bomb damage school, at Northfleet

Home front 1940 A bus driver cleans debris from an air raid up before reporting for work at Bexleyheath

Home front 1940. The aftermath of a German air raid in which landmines (dropped by parachute) were dropped in Sidcup, destroying a complete Street in the process

A house showing considerable damage, surrounded by debris after a near miss from German bombs

A house in the Bexley area, showing considerable damage, surrounded by debris after a near miss from German bombs

Home front 1940. A residential area showing signs of being heavily damaged after a night raid from German bombers in the Bexleyheath area. (Lower left can be seen an Anderson shelter)

Home front 1940. Destroyed home in Sidcup, after a German air raid

Home front 1940. Air raid damage, Crayford

Damage caused to Sidcups main road during the German aerial onslaught

Home front 1940. Children in amongst the debris and rubble of Northfleet houses have been hit by German aerial bombs

Home front 1940. Destroyed house lies dormant after German bombers had finished their bombing in Crayford

Home front 1940. A house in the Bexley area, showing considerable damage, surrounded by debris after a near miss from German bombs

House destroyed by an air raid from German bombers

Mr. Donald Cook, Secretary of the St. Pancras United Tenants Association, takes some food from one of his children, through the barbed wire that form part of the defences to his flat

Home front 1940. clearing up after a raid at Sidcup

Home front 1940. An end of terrace house destroyed after a raid on Eltham by German bombers

Damage caused to Sidcups main road repaired after having been heavily damaged by the German bombing during the war. 1946

Home front 1940. House in the residential area of Bexley badly hit during the German air onslaught

Salvaged belongings, after robot plane crash. Furniture, and other household belongings salvaged from wrecked homes are piled in the street after a robot plane had crashed in southern England

The Galilee Patrol RAF policing force in Palestine move around in armoured cars 8 September 1923

finished high explosive shells as they leave the turning shop, ready for fitting the brass fuse cap. The Lord Georges munitions act

?300000 To be saved at Aden in Yemen Aden is to pass from under the control of the Indian Goverment to that of the Colonial Office 22 July 1921

The 14th Century fortress at Naples, now used partly as a barracks February 1925

Smoke billowing from bomb damage fire A TopFoto
Smoke billowing from bomb damage fire eTopFoto

The Duchess of Kent inspecting the guard of honour. 1938

Vapour trails over Sidcup suggest a dogfight - aerial combat between fighter aircraft.1940 eTopFoto

Gas demonstration, in Chislehurst. 1935

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