Three Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry stretcher bearers, pose in the garden of amateur photographer Alfred Dupire at 45, Rue d'Amiens, Warloy-Baillon, ca.1917.

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Women in the workforce during WW2. 🇬🇧 👏
#WomenInHistory #WW2History

Source: IWM

Pte Laurence Silas Broadhurst of the 10th Royal Welsh Fusiliers. He served in France from the 27th September 1915 and by the 7th August 1916 he had been discharged from the army as a result of wounds.

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A Territorial Army soldier attached to 1st Battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers, on patrol in Belfast, March 1995.

© Crown copyright. IWM (HU 98402)

The Dunkirk evacuation took place 26 May 1940 – 4 Jun 1940, evacuating more than 338,000 Allied soldiers during WW2 from the beaches of Dunkirk.

Lest we forget. 🌺

Source: History Hit

⚽📸A group photo of 'Aston Villa' football team, made of British POWs at the Stalag XXID, Poznań (Posen).

Football was a popular form of leisure for British POWs.

S️ource: © IWM (HU 9282)

Happy 100th birthday to Mary Sherwood! ❤️ 🎉

During WW2, Mary worked as a typist at The Empire Hotel, which was taken over for secret war work. She produced punch cards, likely sent to Bletchley Park.

Source: Warrington Guardian

🎖️🇬🇧The hero of the Battle of Danny Boy has opened up about the operation for which he was awarded a Military Cross, but which also put him in the centre of a national controversy.

Read Brian Wood MC's remarkable story here:

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During Mental Health Awareness Week we would like to highlight some of the charities we support, that provide amazing resources to veterans. 👏 ❤️

Rock2Recovery offers free, confidential change management coaching for stressed Armed Forces personnel and military families. 🫡

Pauline Gower, Commandant of the Air Transport Auxiliary Women's Section, waving from the cockpit of a de Havilland Tiger Moth at Hatfield, Hertfordshire, before a delivery flight, January 1940.✈️

Source: © IWM (C 380)
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John Harker MBE enjoyed a distinguished 33-year career in the British Army before taking up the role as general manager at Veterans into Logistics – a charity the Veterans’ Foundation is proud to support.
Please take a few minutes to learn how the players of the Veterans’ Lottery

The day they came home.🇬🇧⚓
HMS Hermes sails into port after the Falklands War campaign - thousands cheered her into Porstmouth.

👀📸Take a look at this beautiful photo of the Northern Lights captured behind the Commando Memorial in Scotland on Saturday night.😮

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The MV Norland was a North Sea ferry that took passengers and vehicles between Hull and Rotterdam – until April 1982 when it requisitioned by the Royal Navy and sent to serve in the Falklands Conflict.
Much of its time was spent in ‘Bomb Alley’ – the stretch of water at San

📢 We are incredibly grateful to the team at @splash_projects for filming and sponsoring the first episode of #2GetherWithMarkOrmrod .

Please take a minute to watch this video about the essence of Splash Projects:
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The Falklands War. Marines of 40 Royal Marine Commando raised the British flag on West Falkland after the Argentine surrender, 1982.

Source: IWM (FKD 435)

✈️ Mary Thomas served with No. 12 Group RAF Fighter Command during WW2, at RAF Watnall.

Thank you for your service! 🇬🇧

📸 Photo: IWM HU 91757
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Two allied Marines carrying a young Vietnamese refugee in a basket during the evacuation of a village near Da Nang, July 1970.

Source: War History Online
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A machine gunner on an escort vessel keeps constant watch as the Royal Navy guards a British convoy across the Atlantic. The weapon is a Hotchkiss M1909 Benét-Mercié machine gun.⚓

S️ource: SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity

Buckingham Palace has announced that Prince William will succeed King Charles as head of the Army Air Corps.

Join us in wishing Prince William the best of luck in his new role. ❤️ 🇬🇧

Source: The Independent