A soldier of 1st Battalion, The Royal Welch...

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.

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.

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

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 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.