British Army Pvt. Watkins of the 9th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, aims his Bren gun from a dugout in the garden of a house in the town of Gangelt, on the Dutch-German border. The foliage surrounding him is mostly taken from indoor potted plants; 17 December 1944.

On guard with a Bren gun

British soldiers with a 57-mm QF (Quick Firing) 6-pounder gun fighting in Italy while an enemy shell bursts nearby; spring 1945.
The Ordnance Quick-Firing 6-pounder 7 cwt, or just 6 pounder, was the primary anti-tank gun of the British Army during WWII.

Artillery fire exchange

During the approach to the city of Mandalay (Upper Burma), British troops closed in on the Japanese who were strongly entrenched near the area of the River Mu (Burma). These soldiers keep watch on Japanese positions only 400 yards away; January, 1945.
