The 7th Parachute Battalion, April 1944 "C" Company, 9th Parachute Battalion, prior to D-Day Officers of the 13th Parachute Battalion in September 1944 No.2 Platoon, "A" Company, 13th Parachute Battalion No.3 Platoon, "A" Company, 13th Parachute Battalion, October 1943

Warrant Officer's and Sergeant's Mess, 13th Parachute Battalion, February 1945 "A" Company, 12th Devonshires Men of the 8th Battalion shortly before take-off on the 24th march 1945 "B" Company, 8th Parachute Battalion "B" Company, 8th Parachute Battalion, in Palestine, July 1946

Believed to be the 249th Field Company RE in 1943 The 4th Airlanding Anti-Tank Battery The Airborne Forces Tactical Development Unit 512 Squadron, possibly taken in September 1944 Believed to be men of the 22nd Independent Parachute Company

22nd Independent Parachute Company Sidney Petts Leonard Webb 6th Airborne Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment 6th Airborne Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment

6th Airborne Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment Commanders of the 6th Airborne Division with Field Marshal Montgomery in April 1945

Unit Photographs

 

A Tetrarch light tank leaving its Hamilcar glider British infantry and tanks during a training exercise in Britain

Pre-invasion Training

 

The Princess Irene Brigade, landing in France The Princess Irene Brigade at Courseulles-sur-Mer

Princess Irene Brigade

 

Captain John Max before the invasion, urging soldiers not to talk about their training Divisional HQ's Intelligence Officers "Asparagus", wooden stakes to combat glider landings Field Marshal Montgomery addressing 6th Airborne Division paratroopers in March 1944 Glider Pilots being briefed shortly before the Invasion

Glider Pilots being brief shortly before the Invasion Airborne troops receiving Invasion Currency Airborne troops receiving Invasion Currency Airborne troops receiving Invasion Currency Paratroopers packing PIAT bombs into supply containers before D-Day

Captured Airborne troops on the 6th June Captured Airborne troops A group of paratroopers taken prisoner shortly after landing Field graves of the men killed by an Allied bombing raid Horsas on an unidentified Landing Zone on the 7th June

An airborne soldier and an officer standing beside the discarded tail section of a Horsa glider Horsa gliders on a Landing Zone Horsa gliders on a Landing Zone A wrecked Horsa which landed away from the landing zones is examined by a German soldier A Horsa with a smashed screen on one of the landing zones

An abandoned Sherman on one of the landing zones A wrecked Tetrarch light tank of the 6th Airborne Armoured Reconnaissance Squadron Major Cramphorn of the 13th Battalion with three of his men who were separated from their unit for over month A German mobile 20mm Anti-Aircraft gun, captured by the Reconnaissance Regiment and used against German fighters Provosts dug in at a crossroads

The 9th Parachute Battalion escorting German prisoners Freed Italian POW's under escort An Airborne soldier in a village to the east of the River Orne Captain Priday and men of No.4 Platoon rejoin D Company, 2nd Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry

General

 

Field Marshal Rokossovsky inspecting the Guard of Honour at Wismar, 7th May 1945 Field Marshal Montgomery inspecting the Guard of Honour at Wismar, 7th May 1945

The Rhine Crossing

 

Dennis Chatham in Palestine Dennis Chatham with a football team in Palestine A football match in Palestine A football match in Palestine Dennis Chatham in Palestine

Dennis Chatham in Palestine Dennis Chatham with members of a football team in Palestine Two unknown men in Palestine Three unknown men in Palestine General Sir Bernard Paget meeting officers and NCOs of the 2nd Battalion The Ox and Bucks Light Infantry

Palestine

 

A pantomime performance in Palestine Men of the 195th Airlanding Field Ambulance Men of the 195th Airlanding Field Ambulance Men of the 195th Airlanding Field Ambulance Men of the 195th Airlanding Field Ambulance

Men of the 195th Airlanding Field Ambulance Men of the 195th Airlanding Field Ambulance Men of the 195th Airlanding Field Ambulance Men of the 195th Airlanding Field Ambulance Men of the 195th Airlanding Field Ambulance

195th Airlanding Field Ambulance

 

Veterans of the 2nd Ox & Bucks Light Infantry at a reunion in 2005

Post-War