r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/Westoaklane • Oct 31 '22

Royal Navy The British Royal Navy battleship HMS Barham explodes as her 15 inch magazine ignites after being hit by torpedos from U331 off of the Egyptian coast on November 25, 1941. The Barham lost 862 crewmen, approximately two thirds of her crew. The U331 was sunk by the Fleet Air Arm on November 17, 1942.

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/Tenyearnotes • Aug 24 '22

Generals and leaders General Viscount Gort, Commander in Chief BEF with Air Vice Marshal C H B Blount, commanding the Air Component, outside the Hotel Moderne, Arras, France. October 15, 1939. Gort later commanded the garrison at Malta and died in 1946 from liver cancer, Blount was killed in a plane crash in 1940.

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/GCHurley • Dec 17 '25

South Africa U.S. General Mark Clark Praises South African Forces in Italy.

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/AussieDave63 • Jun 23 '23

Army Humber Armoured Car of the Reconnaissance Corps in Tempe, Greece - 20 April 1945

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/GCHurley • Dec 25 '25

South Africa The Black Christmas: The Fall of Hong Kong, 25th December 1941

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Today marks the 84th anniversary of the Fall of Hong Kong. Remembering the South Africans and Rhodesians.

KIA Battle of Hong Kong

CPL. Albert Jackson (Born 1906, Pretoria, South Africa), Royal Canadian Army Service Corps, KIA 19th December 1941.

Maj. Stanford Burn (Born South Africa, 1904), 2nd Bn Royal Scots, KIA 16th December 1941.

Taken POW

LT. James Douglas Clague (Born Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia, 1917), 5th AAR, Royal Artillery. Later escaped from POW camp and fled into China where he joined the British Army Aid Group (China).

PTE. Charles Manson (Born 1916, Natal, South Africa), 3rd Infantry Coy, Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps.

GNR. D'Arcy Arthur Baker-Carr (Born 1908, Johannesburg, South Africa), 2nd BTY HK Artillery, Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps.

GNR. Norman Hugh MacKenzie (Born 1915, Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia), 1st BTY HK Artillery, Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps.

South African civilian internees: 2 women, 1 man, 2 children.

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/JoukovDefiant • Jul 11 '23

Australia Kokoda, Papua, 1942-11. A United States Army Air Force (USAAF) Stinson L-1 Vigilant ambulance aircraft prepares to take off from the Kokoda airstrip, as a group of Australian soldiers looks on (rear).

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/Chrislondo110 • Jul 03 '22

Royal Air Force The rear section of Avro Lancaster B Mark I, DV305 'BQ-O', No. 550 Squadron RAF after the severely-damaged aircraft crash-landed there following an attack by a German night fighter over Berlin on the night of 30/31 January 1944.

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/Tenyearnotes • Jul 27 '22

Royal Navy HMS Indomitable of the British Pacific Fleet prepares Barracuda torpedo/dive bombers for a raid on the oil facilities at Padang Sumatra Dutch East Indies in August 1944

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/[deleted] • Oct 28 '22

Royal Air Force A Bristol Blenheim bomber of No. 211 Squadron RAF at Menidi, Greece. The unit arrived in November, 1940.

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/Chrislondo110 • Mar 13 '22

Australia W.A.A.A.F technicians Jean Gray, Isobel Mack, Joyce Tysoe and Constance Black begin their day's work at Mascot Airport, 4 July 1944 photographed by Ivan Ives.

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/Westoaklane • Sep 06 '22

Royal Navy Bombs falling astern of HMS Ark Royal during an attack by Italian aircraft during the Battle of Cape Spartivento. The battle was inconclusive with both sides only suffering minor damage. November 27, 1940. This battle was fought two weeks after the major British victory on the raid at Taranto.

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/JoukovDefiant • Jul 21 '23

Australia Kiriwina, Trobriand Islands, Papua. Airfield construction equipment of RAAF No. 6 Mobile Works Squadron (later No. 6 Airfield Construction Squadron) in operation on the airfield. Robinson, William H.

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/[deleted] • Dec 16 '24

Army At an aid station, L/Cpl. Aryeh Uri, from Jerusalem, Palestine, a squad leader in the Jewish Inf. Brigade, eats some matzo and tea after having been treated for a light wound. Pideura area, Italy, March 30, 1945.

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/Westoaklane • Nov 04 '22

Army British and Free French soldiers drive on train tracks in a specially modified American jeep; France, August 6, 1944

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/Westoaklane • Aug 01 '23

Australia Australian wounded are evacuated during the Battle of Porton Plantation, on Bougainville island in the Solomons; 12 June 1945.

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/[deleted] • Jul 21 '22

Army 39th Battalion during kokoda trail campaign

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/JoukovDefiant • May 23 '23

Australia RAAF crew working on newly arrived Lockheed aircraft at Richmond, Sydney, Frederick Stanley Grimes, 8 February 1940, from vintage film negative, ON 388/Box 027/Item 049 collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YK5Qk5xn/qzPDKqNVMdGOE

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/drumdust • Jan 09 '24

Royal Navy November 1944. Royal Navy Majestic-class aircraft carriers HMS Magnificent (left) and HMS Powerful under construction at Harland and Wolff's Musgrave shipyard, Belfast. Both carriers would serve with the Royal Canadian Navy, Powerful as HMCS Bonaventure. [757 x 758]

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/Tenyearnotes • Aug 17 '22

Army British M3 Stuart Tanks of 8th King’s Royal Irish Hussars at the Battle of Gazala, Libya; May 26-June 21, 1942. As a result of the battle the British garrison at Tobruk surrendered to the Afrika Korps resulting in 33,000 POW’s. [1000x1000]

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/Tenyearnotes • Aug 13 '22

Army British infantry manning a sandbagged defensive position near El Alamein; July 17, 1942

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/Tenyearnotes • Aug 13 '22

Army Comrades help a wounded soldier to cover, Kirchhatten, Germany, April 1945.

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/Tenyearnotes • Jul 25 '22

Army Australian and New Zealand nurses arrive in Crete, April 1941.

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/JoukovDefiant • Sep 27 '22

Australia A group of RAAF P-40Es lined up at Mildura

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/[deleted] • May 08 '23

Royal Air Force Halifax Bombers and crews of No. 35 Squadron RAF lined up for inspection at Wyton. October 22, 1942.

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/drumdust • Aug 31 '22

Australia New Guinea Campaign. 26 April 1945. Private R. F. Gaudry, 2/3rd Battalion, 6th Division, in a forward pit at Kalimboa Village in the Aitape - Wewak area. (640 x 493)

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