War Pictorial News №119 (1943)

News from England.

Ceremonial events in London to mark National Unity Day.

Carrying out the colours into the square, foreign military attachés watch the colour bearers.

A ceremonial parade of auxiliary civil defence units, columns of nurses and firefighters march past.

The general in charge of the parade salutes the units as they pass.

A column of women from the Auxiliary Corps marches through the square, followed by the Scottish military band.

Colonial and women's units march past.

Flags of the countries participating in the anti-Hitler coalition hang over the entrance to the building.

Units of various branches of the armed forces march through the square, the general in charge of the parade.

Columns of female servicemen march past.

A unit of the British infantry on parade.

Queen Elizabeth, wife of King George VI, arrives at one of the women's air defence units.

The Queen talks to the women in the military.

The Queen, accompanied by female officers, walks through the territory of the military unit.

The Queen talks to the women in the military.

An all-female anti-aircraft gun crew demonstrates their combat training to the Queen.

The Queen talks to the anti-aircraft gunners.

The Queen inspects an artillery rangefinder.

The Queen leaves the military unit.

General Montgomery gets out of his car.

Montgomery walks through the streets of London, people greet him, give him flowers.

Views of a London street during a meeting with Montgomery after his victories in North Africa in 1943, the intersection is filled with people, Montgomery walks surrounded by Londoners.

Montgomery returns greetings, gets into the car, drives away.

Montgomery speaks to the military, returns greetings.

Sicily.

The movement of British troop units during the operation in Sicily in July 1943. British soldiers disembark from a ship, the soldiers walk to the shore up to their necks in water, holding on to the edge.

British infantry, supported by armored personnel carriers, advance to the forward positions.

Landing of British troops in Sicily, armored vehicles moving toward the shore.

A tank with troops on its armor drives onto a sandy beach.

The wheels of a vehicle getting stuck in the sand.

The faces of captured Italian soldiers walking in a column.

Captured Italians, knee-deep in water, are about to board a ship moored near the shore.

British motorized infantry and military equipment on the roads of Sicily.

British soldiers during a landing on the coast of Sicily.

Soldiers go ashore.

The faces of soldiers walking along the shore.

British tanks on the roads of Sicily.

British infantry marches through one of the villages.

A tank drives through the village square.

Troop movement in one of the settlements, a view of a monument to those killed during the First World War, the names on the monument.

A column of captured Italians moves along the road.

The faces of prisoners of war passing by.

A British escort rides next to a column of Italian prisoners of war.