51st Highland Division in the Maginot Line.
A soldier from the Cameron Highlanders looks through a periscope in the Fort de Sainghain on the Maginot Line, 3 November 1939.


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BEF in France 1939/40

Specialist Medical Service: A patient's eyelids are held back using clips as an ophthalmic surgeon uses a powerful electro-magnet to remove shell fragments from his eye at the British Military Hospital in Brussels.


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Specialized medical treatment

Low-level oblique aerial taken during a dusk attack on the railway workshops at Namur, Belgium, by De Havilland Mosquito B Mark IVs of No. 105 Squadron RAF. DZ519 'GB-U', flown by Pilot Officer R Massie (pilot) and Sergeant G Lister (navigator), flys over the target with bomb doors open and bombs falling, just after successfully striking the roof of the carriage and wagon repair shops (top right). They are illuminated by the flash of bombs exploding on the railway sidings, dropped by the preceeding aircraft, DZ458 'GB-J', flown by Squadron Leader R W Reynolds (pilot) and Pilot Officer E B Sismore (navigator), from which this photograph was taken.
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