Defence Collection (#96)

Anti-Aircraft Gun Team - World War Two. Date: circa 1942

Thames Barrier on the River Thames, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Picture No. 11051772
Crested Porcupine Eastern Mediterranean and Africa Date:

Picture No. 11051771
Crested Porcupine Eastern Mediterranean and Africa Date:

Picture No. 11051770
Crested Porcupine Eastern Mediterranean and Africa Date:

Picture No. 11051714
Porcupinefish tropical seas Date:

Luneburg Germany Prince Philip, the Colonel in Chief of the VIII Kings Royal Irish Hussars visited the regimental station in North Germany 11 March 1958

Luneburg Germay Prince Philip, the Colonel in Chief of the VIII Kings Royal Irish Hussars visited the regimental station in North Germany 11 March 1958

Princess Elizabeth inspects the Guard of Honour formed by members of the 4th Regiment Royal Horse Artillery at Hyde Park Corner 30 May 1949

Battle of Hastings

The Castle gate, Lewes, West Sussex. 1923

Home front 1940. The destruction caused by a German air raid

Home front 1940. Servicemen on leave. Find their homes damaged and surrounded by debris, and still find the happy side

Home front 1940. A boy holds the world in his hand, he has just discovered the globe in his bomb damage school, at Northfleet

Home front 1940 A bus driver cleans debris from an air raid up before reporting for work at Bexleyheath

Home front 1940. The aftermath of a German air raid in which landmines (dropped by parachute) were dropped in Sidcup, destroying a complete Street in the process

A house showing considerable damage, surrounded by debris after a near miss from German bombs

A house in the Bexley area, showing considerable damage, surrounded by debris after a near miss from German bombs

Home front 1940. A residential area showing signs of being heavily damaged after a night raid from German bombers in the Bexleyheath area. (Lower left can be seen an Anderson shelter)

Home front 1940. Destroyed home in Sidcup, after a German air raid

Home front 1940. Air raid damage, Crayford

Damage caused to Sidcups main road during the German aerial onslaught

Home front 1940. Children in amongst the debris and rubble of Northfleet houses have been hit by German aerial bombs

Home front 1940. Destroyed house lies dormant after German bombers had finished their bombing in Crayford

Home front 1940. A house in the Bexley area, showing considerable damage, surrounded by debris after a near miss from German bombs

House destroyed by an air raid from German bombers

Mr. Donald Cook, Secretary of the St. Pancras United Tenants Association, takes some food from one of his children, through the barbed wire that form part of the defences to his flat

Home front 1940. clearing up after a raid at Sidcup

Home front 1940. An end of terrace house destroyed after a raid on Eltham by German bombers

Damage caused to Sidcups main road repaired after having been heavily damaged by the German bombing during the war. 1946

Home front 1940. House in the residential area of Bexley badly hit during the German air onslaught

Salvaged belongings, after robot plane crash. Furniture, and other household belongings salvaged from wrecked homes are piled in the street after a robot plane had crashed in southern England

The Chateau d Usse in Loire, the castle that inspired the story about The Sleeping Beauty, Maine et Loire, France

One of the defence tower of Chateau d Amboise. Amboise. Loire Valley. France

RSR 2 / 6th Battalion, A Picket Post at Jandola"
Royal Sussex Regiment Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref No: RSR Acc 4545 2/6th Batt/491 1916-19 Photograph. " Protected from sun by a covering of matting and mud"

RSR 2 / 6th Battalion, Our necessary escort"
Royal Sussex Regiment Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref No: RSR Acc 4545 2/6th Batt/488 1916-19 Photograph

Picture No. 11014682
Arctic Tern - calling in flight defending territory Iceland (Sterna paradisaea) Date:

Glenveagh castle in the Glenveagh National Park, County Donegal, Ulster, Republic of Ireland, Europe

Matsumoto-jo (Wooden Castle), Matsumoto, Central Honshu, Japan, Asia

The Galilee Patrol RAF policing force in Palestine move around in armoured cars 8 September 1923

finished high explosive shells as they leave the turning shop, ready for fitting the brass fuse cap. The Lord Georges munitions act

The 14th Century fortress at Naples, now used partly as a barracks February 1925

RSR 2 / 6th Battalion, Watchtower at Ispana Raghza
Royal Sussex Regiment Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref No: RSR Acc 4545 2/6th Batt/460 1916-19 Photograph

Smoke billowing from bomb damage fire A TopFoto
Smoke billowing from bomb damage fire eTopFoto

The Duchess of Kent inspecting the guard of honour. 1938

Vapour trails over Sidcup suggest a dogfight - aerial combat between fighter aircraft.1940 eTopFoto

Gas demonstration, in Chislehurst. 1935

A Hawker Demon on a training flight over the Medway at Rochester, Kent, 1938

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