NAM5923366: The Guard, Entebbe Company, Uganda Protectorate Police, 1911 (b/w photo), Unknown photographer, (20th century) / National Army Museum, London / Bridgeman Images

NAM5923369: Small iron-barrelled musketoon, 1751 circa (iron), English School, (18th century) / National Army Museum, London / Bridgeman Images

NAM5923176: Jimmy Sale. Dickie Dixon’, 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), in tropical dress on board HMT Orion en route to Egypt, 1941 (b/w photo) / National Army Museum, London / Bridgeman Images

NAM5923178: Eric Meddler. Ray Machin’, 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), in tropical dress on board HMT Orion en route to Egypt, 1941 (b/w photo) / National Army Museum, London / Bridgeman Images

NAM5923181: Eric Teaz. Ron Mutton’, 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), on board HMT Orion, en route to Egypt, 1941 (b/w photo) / National Army Museum, London / Bridgeman Images

NAM5923186: Regtl Dance band’, 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), on board HMT Orion, en route to Egypt, 1941 (b/w photo) / National Army Museum, London / Bridgeman Images

NAM5923192: Regimental parade on quayside’, 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), Cape Town, South Africa, en route to Egypt, 1941 (b/w photo) / National Army Museum, London / Bridgeman Images

NAM5923200: Don Keir’, tropical dress, 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), on board HMT Orion, en route to Egypt, 1941 (b/w photo) / National Army Museum, London / Bridgeman Images

NAM5923202: Sgt. Yates. (Bde HQ)’, 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), on board HMT Orion, en route to Egypt, 1941 (b/w photo) / National Army Museum, London / Bridgeman Images

NAM5923206: Joe Ward’, 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), en route to Egypt, 1941 (b/w photo) / National Army Museum, London / Bridgeman Images

NAM5923214: A' Squadron, 3rd County of London Yeomanry, visiting 283rd Battery, Royal Artillery, North Africa, 1942 circa (b/w photo) / National Army Museum, London / Bridgeman Images

NAM5923215: Swinburne-Henry .45 inch breechloading carbine, Natal Mounted Police, 1874, British School, (19th century) / National Army Museum, London / Bridgeman Images

NAM5923219: Cavalry Officer’s sword, 1879 circa (metal), British School, (19th century) / National Army Museum, London / Bridgeman Images

NAM5923231: Soldiers of the German colonial forces, 1914 (lantern slide), Unknown photographer, (20th century) / National Army Museum, London / Bridgeman Images

NAM5923236: Havildar Mohan Lal receiving the Indian Distinguished Service Medal from General Sir Claude Auchinleck, 1944 circa (b/w photo), Unknown photographer, (20th century) / National Army Museum, London / Bridgeman Images

NAM5923241: Lehmkuhlen, 1945 (b/w photo) / National Army Museum, London / Bridgeman Images

NAM5923242: Lehmkuhlen, 1945 (b/w photo) / National Army Museum, London / Bridgeman Images

NAM5923248: Members of No. 1 Commando returning from a raid on the French coast, 1941 (b/w photo), Unknown photographer, (20th century) / National Army Museum, London / Bridgeman Images

NAM5922981: ‘Off at the gallop to help stem the Hun onslaught at Ploegsteert during the dogged defence of Ypres’, 1915 (b/w photo), Unknown photographer, (20th century) / National Army Museum, London / Bridgeman Images

NAM5922990: ‘Where the flower of our Army hurled out the Prussian Guards, Beury Chateau, Festubert’, 1915 (b/w photo), Unknown photographer, (20th century) / National Army Museum, London / Bridgeman Images

NAM5922998: ‘Over the top, amid bursting gas and tear shells in a determined assault on the fortified Somme villages’, 1916 (b/w photo), Unknown photographer, (20th century) / National Army Museum, London / Bridgeman Images

NAM5923003: ‘The Flanders mud hampers our artillery moving a held gun from flooded and shell-pitted position’, 1915 circa (b/w photo), Unknown photographer, (20th century) / National Army Museum, London / Bridgeman Images

NAM5923008: ‘Daybreak on Vimy Ridge! after our dogged and impetuous assault on the height, April 9th 1917’ (b/w photo), Unknown photographer, (20th century) / National Army Museum, London / Bridgeman Images

NAM5923023: ‘Our reserves awaiting orders to move up to their new positions on the slopes of Cape Hellas’, 1915 (b/w photo), Unknown photographer, (20th century) / National Army Museum, London / Bridgeman Images

NAM5923027: ‘Turks who fell on scrub covered slopes of Chocolate Hill resisting our surprise attack from Suvla Bay’, 1915 (b/w photo), Unknown photographer, (20th century) / National Army Museum, London / Bridgeman Images

NAM5923028: ‘On the inhospitable Gallipoli hillsides where the burning bush drove us from many hard won positions’, 1915 (b/w photo), Unknown photographer, (20th century) / National Army Museum, London / Bridgeman Images

NAM5923029: ‘Entrenchments on the crest of Table Top scaled by the irresistible New Zealanders with great courage’, 1915 (b/w photo), Unknown photographer, (20th century) / National Army Museum, London / Bridgeman Images

NAM5923043: ‘The trail of smoke from the burning remnants of an enemy observation balloon’, 1916 (b/w photo), Unknown photographer, (20th century) / National Army Museum, London / Bridgeman Images

NAM5923049: ‘The battered sugar refinery at Le Transloy taken by the Australians at the point of the bayonet’, 1916 (b/w photo), Unknown photographer, (20th century) / National Army Museum, London / Bridgeman Images

NAM5923050: ‘With dogged courage we overcome stiff resistance and break the Hun lines from Epehy to Bellicourt’, 1918 circa (b/w photo), Unknown photographer, (20th century) / National Army Museum, London / Bridgeman Images

NAM5923052: ‘Thousands of German prisoners captured in the final rout of the German armies on the Sambre’, 1918 (b/w photo), Unknown photographer, (20th century) / National Army Museum, London / Bridgeman Images

NAM5923084: Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps personnel in camp, 1917 circa (b/w photo), Unknown photographer, (20th century) / National Army Museum, London / Bridgeman Images

NAM5923094: Female auxiliaries making beds, 1918 circa (b/w photo), Unknown photographer, (20th century) / National Army Museum, London / Bridgeman Images

NAM5923099: Regimental cane, 3rd West India Regiment, 1870 circa (wood and metal), Unknown photographer, (19th century) / National Army Museum, London / Bridgeman Images

NAM5923113: Offshore, Freetown’, Sierra Leone, HMT Orion, 1941 (b/w photo) / National Army Museum, London / Bridgeman Images

NAM5923117: Non-commissioned officers, 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), HMT Orion, 1941 (b/w photo) / National Army Museum, London / Bridgeman Images