British official photographer

General Dwight D Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force (centre), flanked by his senior commanders, 1 February 1944. Left to right: Lieutenant General Omar Bradley; Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay; Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder;

A piper of the 1st Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders, meeting a Swazi warrior in full war dress, East Africa, August 1963.

Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, 'father of the jet engine', at his desk.

Nathaniel Pemberton, a pupil at Molineux School on St Kitts in the Leeward Islands, climbing a flagpole to tie the Union Flag, March 1955.

Paratrooper of the 16th Airborne Division (Territorial Army) takes up a firing position in a wood during Exercise King's Joker at the Stanford Parachute Training Area, September 1953.

Two Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer S.1 aircraft flying over HMS EAGLE, 1964.

Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, 1943.

Lifeboats carrying soldiers of 1st Battalion Welsh Guards from the blazing RFA SIR GALAHAD after the devastating Argentine air attack at Fitzroy in the Falkland Islands, 8 June 1982.

Marie David inspecting tobacco plants at the Hillsborough Tobacco Estate in Dominica in the Windward Islands, March 1955.

Lance Corporal Frances Crowley of the Women's Royal Army Corps (WRAC) repairs test equipment in the workshop of 48 Command, REME, at Dhekelia, Cyprus, March 1963.

A soldier of 1st Battalion, The Royal Welch Fusiliers crouched in the doorway of a deserted building during a patrol in the Ligoniel area of North Belfast, May 1977.