1944 Collection (page 27)

Churchill AVRE Tank entering Geilenkirchen; Second World War
Photograph showing a Churchill AVRE (Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers) tank entering the town of Geilenkirchen in late 1944

British and American troops singing beside a Sherman Flail T
Photograph showing British and American troops having a sing-song in front of a Sherman Flail tank, near Geilenkirchen, late 1944

British and American troops stacking dynamite on the Nijmege
Photograph showing British and American troops stacking dynamite charges against the railing of Nijmegen Bridge, September 1944

Mcpherson / Aimee / Kapp 28
AIMEE SEMPLE MCPHERSON nee AIMEE ELIZABETH KENNEDY American Pentecostal evangelist

Life on the Stars 5
Life on a planet of the giant star Betelgeuse : people live in movable homes in which they can migrate from place to place, in tall legged homes

Ship of Callisto
On Callisto, one of Jupiter;s moons, they have trees which grow beneath the water, and from the bark of these they construct their vessels which are rowed like Earth galleys

Troops of the Royal Canadian Engineers, Italy; Second World
Photograph showing men of the Royal Canadian Engineers, carrying mine-detectors, moving west of Ortona, Italy, during December 1943

The Above has Arrived
Young lady with short skirt and stockings on display parachuting down to an ENSA (Entertainment) marquee

Sister of Mercy by William Barribal
Glamorous Red Cross nurse posing in front of a cross and Spitfire

Cricketer, Stogdon
John Stogdon Cricketer - Middlesex

Cricketer, Newham
W. Newham Cricketer - Sussex

Cricketer, Weigall
G.J.V. Weigall Cricketer - Kent

Cricketer, Maclaren
A.C. Maclaren Cricketer - Lancashire

Cricketer, Wrathall
Harry Wrathall Cricketer - Gloucestershire

Cricketer, Luard
A.J.H. Luard Cricketer - Gloucestershire

Cricketer, Turner
C.T.B. Turner Australian Cricketer

Yvette Guilbert / Trottins
YVETTE GUILBERT French singer and diseuse with her famous song Les Trottins

William Heath Robinson
WILLIAM HEATH ROBINSON The well-known illustrator and cartoonist pictured wearing a trilby and working on his sketch book. Best known as the " gadget king"

Heath Robinson & Double
WILLIAM HEATH ROBINSON A photograph of William Heath Robinson (right) pictured with Mr Rene Koval, who played him in a revue at the Alhambra theatre in 1912

Burnt out German tank, Normandy; Second World War, 1944
Wrecked German tanks and trucks on a Normandy road, shortly after D-Day, 6th June 1944. This road was taken by advancing American troops on their way inland from the invasion beaches

Romain Rolland / Nobel 15
ROMAIN ROLLAND French man of letters

Abbas Ii / Egypt / Van Bosch
ABBAS II called ABBAS HILMI PASHA Last Khedive of Egypt, attempted to rule independently of British influence

Female Type / Knitted Hat
A stylish knitted hat and gauntlet set to wow them all with next time you re on leave

Female Type / Auburn Hair
Smiling auburn haired woman sports a black beret worn at a rather rakish angle

Stephan Ossowiecki
STEPHAN OSSOWIECKI Polish engineer and clairvoyant, photographed with his wife at the 1923 International Congress for Psychical Research at Warsaw

De Gaulle Back in France
De Gaulle sets foot on French soil again, liberated by the Free French (with a little help from the Americans, British and other Allies...)

Victory, Belgrade
Crowds line the streets to welcome victorious soldiers returning to Belgrade

Borley Ruins 1944
The ruins of Borley Rectory, seen from the front, after five years of neglect following the fire

Return to Ruined Home
A Soviet family returns to what remains of their home

Russians in Ukraine
Soviet commando unit fight to recapture a village in Ukraine

Liberated Lady
LIBERATION SCENES This woman was one of the few inhabitants who wasn t evacuated - she was found after liberation

Horsedrawn Artillery
Horse-drawn Soviet artillery pulled through the mud of a Russian thaw

Russians Eat US Meat
Soviet soldiers eat American tinned meat supplied under the lend-lease agreement

Supplies for Soviets
Russia : Supplies being distributed by river to Soviet troops

Truck Stuck in Mud
Soviet troops try to move their truck trapped in the mud in the Ukraine

Female Type 1944
A pretty young woman of the mid-1940s

Ww2 Maquis Book Cover
Cover design of a book for children praising the Maquis (French Resistance)

Charles Glover Barkla
CHARLES GLOVER BARKLA English physicist and nobel prizewinner in 1917

Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, architect
Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens Architect

Germans in Vineyard
German troops helping themselves to grapes in a vineyard in Italy

LAST RUN ON VENUS (James McKimmey) Earthpeople on Venus are caught up in the fighting

German Anti-Tank Gun
German anti-tank gun in action against the Russians

Romain Rolland / Century
ROMAIN ROLLAND French man of letters

Jean Giraudoux / Postcard
JEAN GIRAUDOUX French writer of plays, novels, essays and scripts

Chaminade / Cig Card
CECILE LOUISE STEPHANIE CHAMINADE French musician and composer

Alexis Carrel / Maitres
ALEXIS CARREL French surgeon and biologist, 1912 Nobel prizewinner

Martin Harvey / Carton
MARTIN HARVEY (Sir John Martin-Harvey) English actor-manager as Sydney Carton in The Only Way, based on Dickens novel, A Tale of Two Cities

Mulberry Harbour
The prefabricated MULBERRY HARBOUR enables Allied troops to pour into France as in a regular port

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