War Office official photographer

Winston Churchill with his Chiefs of Staff in the garden of 10 Downing Street, 7 May 1945.

Two men of the Royal Observer Corps on a cliff top near Dover, 1943.

A member of the Auxiliary Territorial Service, Miss Elizabeth Amery, computes the range at 428 Battery, Coastal Defence Artillery Headquarters, Dover, December 1942.

The Chief of the Imperial General Staff, General Sir Alan Brooke, at his desk at the War Office, 1942.

Soldiers of the 1st Battalion Cameron Highlanders receive instruction on a Bren gun fitted on an anti-aircraft mounting at Aldershot, 1939.

A working party of the 1st Battalion Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders at Aix in France, November 1939.

Winston Churchill with General de Gaulle during an inspection of French troops at Marrakesh in Morocco, January 1944.

Men of the 1st Battalion Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders digging trenches at Aix, France, November 1939.

An evacuated soldier, wearing a French overcoat, changes his socks and boots at Dover, 31 May 1940.

Auxiliary Territorial Service plotters at work at 428 Battery, Coastal Defence Artillery Headquarters, Dover, December 1942.

The Commander-in-Chief Home Forces, General Sir Bernard Paget, in the turret of a Crusader tank of 42nd Armoured Division during a large-scale exercise near Malton in Yorkshire, 29 September 1942.

The sandbagged structure used to protect the statue of Eros in Piccadilly Circus in London, 1939.