Residents of the small Dutch town of Aalst pose with the Irish guardsmen in front of an M4 Sherman tank and a Universal  armored personnel carrier. 

Townfolks and visitors

Troops of the British Army and French Air Force sitting outside a dugout in November 1939 during the 'Phoney War'.Note the Lewis gun (.303)  in AA configuration.
taken from fb/History of WW2

The waiting game

Britain prepares for war:

4.5 inch howitzer of "D" troop, 346th Battery, 87th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, dug in and camouflaged "somewhere in England", 16th July 1940.
taken from fb/France and Flanders Campaign 1940