The Royal Tank Regiment memorial, Whitehall Court, London, depicts the five-man crew of a Comet tank (my pic).

Details from the Battle of Britain monument on the Victoria Embankment, London (pics my own).

A German aircraft hits the water between HMS Bleasdale (right) and HMS Berkeley (left). Berkeley lists after having been damaged by bombs, later to be scuttled by torpedoes from HMS Albrighton. Operation Jubilee, 19 August 1942.

IWM (A 11237), Lt Pelman
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War-time traffic on the river Thames: Up-river Repairs after the Dieppe Raid, 1942, by John Edgar Platt (1886-1967), 1942.

© IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 2639)
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Friday.

IWM (ABS 288), RN Official Photographer
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An ATS Squad on Predictor Drill, by Anthony Gross (1905-84), 1941.

© IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 1432)
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A Military Show for Factory Workers: the Crowd Arriving, by Edward Ardizzone (1900-79), 1941.

© IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 1608)
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Finally managed to make it along to the new Blavatnik Art, Film and Photography Galleries at the Imperial War Museums. Well worth a visit.

Lt-Gen John Crocker, Commander of I Corps, talking to civilians in Caen, Normandy, 10 July 1944. To Crocker's right is (I think) his ADC, Captain John Cross; to his left (with camera) is Major Hugh Stewart, o/c of 5 AFPS.

IWM B 6779, Capt. Malindine, AFPU
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Monday. Then you remember it's a Bank Holiday.

Selection from IWM A70 183-7, Sgt Watkins
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Eeeek! It's happening!! Please do RT and subscribe (we're only fortnightly so we won't add to your podcast pile of shame). You can also listen directly from the pod website nevermindthedambusters.buzzsprout.com

Robert Doisneau.
Les chats, la nuit
1954. Paris miaou

'Portrait of Thomas, a favourite cat in the character of Puss in Boots - Puss carrying a Present of Rabbits to the King', by Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932), 1869.

Godalming Museum Collection B999.60 (my photo).

Friday.

IWM A 19402, Lt J E Russell.
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Inspired by a photograph by Francis Mortimer and painted in 1927, 'Troops Going to the Front, 1917,' is one of the very few works by Winston Churchill which has as its subject, soldiers in WW1 - it's amongst his most technically proficient paintings.

Interior of a Direction-Finder 2, by Walter Thomas Monnington (1902-76).

© IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 5519)
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General de Gaulle receives the crowd's acclaim in Chartres, 23 August 1944. Photographer Bert Hardy swerves out of shot on the left. The AFPU went with the French and were among the first British soldiers into Paris.

Selection from A70 135-2, Sgt Collins
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Portrait of Private Elizabeth Gourlay of Dundee at the ATS signals school in Scotland, February 1943.

IWM H 28513, Lt Lockeyear
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Hello old friends!
Nearly a year since I left & to be honest I'm not sure if leaving here was the right course. The grass hasn't been greener on the other platforms.
So I'm just here simply to gauge if there is still #HistoryBookChat interest out there, albeit on a smaller scale?

Photographers Canadian Film & Photo Unit
Wissel Germany 27th March 1945
Sgt. C.M.G. Mike Lattion

Sgt. A. H. Calder

Lt. Charles H. Richer.

#1stCanadianParachuteBn #OpVarsity