Land War #1: British

Men of ‘A’ Company of the 5th Battalion, Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment advance along a road past an abandoned German 7.5 cm Pak 40 anti-tank gun in the Rapido bridgehead, Italy, 16 May 1944.

Men of the Royal West Kent Regiment in a dugout on Monastery Hill at Cassino, 26 March 1944.

Second Phase 15 February - 10 May 1944: Men of the 6th Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment man a 3-inch mortar on Monastery Hill.

Men of the 5th Royal West Kents in an olive grove, Italy, 16 December 1943.

Headquarters of the Royal West Kents at Pyimbongi, Burma, at a Burmese temple in driving monsoon rain. 1945.

A 3-inch mortar crew from the Queens's Own Royal West Kents in action, Tunisia, 31 January 1943.

Men of the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment making an armed patrol during the Battle of the Sittang Bend, Burma, 1945.

Men of the 1st Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment enjoy a tot of rum in a section of trench named 'Pudding Lane', 4th Division near Roubaix, France, 3 April 1940.

Men of the 1st Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment in a section of trench named 'Pudding Lane', 4th Division near Roubaix, France, 3 April 1940. Note the hand grenades ready for use.

Men of the Royal West Kents rest by the roadside in mountainous terrain, Italy, 1 August 1944.

Men of the 6th Royal West Kent Regiment on patrol with a dog, used to carry messages and for guard duties, Tunisia, December 1942.

The 6th Battalion, West Kent Regiment, patrolling a damaged area of Adrano, Sicily, 1943.

Kachin Scouts, composed of American and British officers and men, Chinese and jungle-wise Kachin natives, burrow in the jungle growth as they take up a position to ambush the enemy in Burma.

Some of the British, Australian, Indian and Chinese forces captured by Japanese forces during the fall of Singapore, 15 February 1942.

September 1943: A 5.5-inch gun crew from 75th (Shropshire Yeomanry) Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery, in action at Salerno, Italy.

Private Alfred Campin of the 6th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry during battle training in Britain, March 1944. Killed in Normandy.

British Army Corporal M. Smith poses at the main headquarters of the Eighth Army near Monte Sant'Angelo, Italy. Circa 1944.

An Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) spotter with binoculars at an anti-aircraft command post.

These Arab recruits line up in a barracks square in the British Mandate of Palestine, on December 28, 1940, for their first drill under a British soldier. Some 6,000 Palestinian Arabs signed up with the British Army during the course of World War II.

Artillery Signalers at dawn in an outpost in Palestine on December 16. 1940. The men dress warmly to keep out the chill of the desert.

Lieutenant J.A.R. Gregoire leading a patrol past a disabled German halftrack vehicle in the Normandy beachhead, France, 10 June 1944.