21 August 1944 Lieutenant General Brian Horrocks (looking at the camera), the newly appointed GOC of the British Army XXX Corps, in his Humber staff car chatting with American troops in Argentan, in the Orne department of northwestern France.

21 August 1918 The Attack on Moyenneville. A Scots Guardsman giving a wounded German prisoner a drink. Near Courcelle-le-Comte. 1st Btn Scots Guards, with the 2nd Guards Brigade were in the assault on Moyenneville. © IWM Q 6983

Diggers of the 29th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force, enroute to Vauvillers, France, 8 August 1918. Official AWM caption: awm.gov.au/collection/E02…

German soldiers sit on the terrace of the Café de Flore in the Boulevard Saint-Germain in Paris during August 1944 sometime before the battle for the Liberation of Paris. Paris was liberated on August 25, 1944. (note the 5 cm Granatwerfer 36 light mortar)

24 August 1918 NZ Medical Corps soldiers examine the papers of German POWs during the seizure of Bapaume in the Battle of Amiens. Prisoner standing in the foreground has a shoulder strap which shows his unit as the 418.(Saxon) Infanterie-Regt belonging to 183. Infanterie-Div.

August 26 1944 T/Sgt Johnny Yanak, ‘A’ Company, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, seen here carrying his Thompson M1928A1 SMG in the hedgerows of Brest in Brittany, France

On 26 August 1940, Sgt Cyril Frederick Babbage of RAF 602 Squadron makes land by Bognor Regis Pier in West Sussex, after bailing out of his Spitfire Mk I (X4188) LO-M. Picked up by local fishermen. He had downed a Bf 109 over Selsey Bill before being shot down.

28 August 1940 The Prime Minister Winston Churchill inspects bomb damage caused by Luftwaffe night raids in Ramsgate, Kent. © IWM H 3514

Liberation of Château-Thierry France - August 29, 1944 LIFE Magazine Archives - Ralph Morse Photographer

29 August 1918 Battle of the Scarpe. #1 Daylight patrol of the 6th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders working forward towards Hausa and Delbar Woods. North-east of Roeux, Troops leaving their trench. #2 Stretcher-bearers (SB) of the Seaforth Highlanders asleep. Near Roeux.

Heinkel He111 H-2 coded V4+HV of Kampfgeschwader 1 which was force landed at Haxted Farm, Lingfield, in Surrey at 11:35 am on 30 August 1940. It was attacking Farnborough and got shot up by a No. 253 Squadron Hurricane flown by P/O John Peter Greenwood (aged 19)

Royal Marine Artillery filling their water bottles at Ostend, August 1914. The Marines of the Royal Naval Division landed at Ostend in Belgium on 27 August 1914. Sent to safeguard the town, they also protected a British seaplane base before re-embarking on 31 August for Dunkirk.

Three German POWs were brought in on the bonnet of an Army Film and Photographic Unit jeep by Sergeant Bert Hardy, AFPU official photographer in Hamont-Achel, Belgium, 21 September 1944.

66 Squadron at Gravesend, September 1940. standing: F/Lt Robert Oxspring, P/O Crelin Bodie and F/Lt Kenneth Gillies. S/Ldr Rupert Leigh, P/O Arthur Watkinson, P/O Hugh Heron, P/O Hubert Allen, Air Observer Hewitt (Squad Adj), P/O J Hutton (Squad Int. Off.) P/O Hugh Reilley

3 September 1940 British soldiers retrieving part of the tail section belonging to Messerschmitt Bf 110C-4 (W/Nr. 3133) 3M+EL of 3/ZG2 shot down by Flying Officer Count M.B. Czernin, Flight Lieutenant A.W.A. Bayne and Pilot Officer D.H. Wissler of 17 Squadron RAF.

Private First Class Frank Pomroy, 'H' Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines, USMC., in the marshes of Peleliu Island, Western Pacific. September 1944

5 September 1940 Messerschmitt Bf 109E-4 (W.Nr 1480), piloted by Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the adjutant of II/JG3 "Udet", crash-landed at Winchet Hill, near Marden in Kent.

Flight Lieutenant William Henry Rhodes-Moorhouse DFC On 6th September 1940, 601 (Millionaires) squadron were heavily engaged above Tunbridge Wells with Me109s. William’s Hurricane, P8818, was shot down and dived vertically into the ground near High Brooms railway viaduct.

12 September 1940, Two German airmen, who force landed Heinkel He 111H-3 Code: 1H + CB of Stab I.KG26, are marched off by the Home Guard near Goodwood, Sussex.

September 1916 Cameron Highlanders having a meal in a dugout in a trench at Contalmaison, Somme. © IWM Q 4133