Dan Steele Colour (2024)

27/10/2023

November 1917. The Third Battle of Gaza: The ruined interior of the Great Mosque of Gaza. The Mosque was partially demolished by British gunfire after it had been established that it was being used by the Ottomans as a dump for munitions. The Mosque was restored in 1927 by the Supreme Muslim Council of British Mandatory Palestine.

Dan Steele Colour / Cadogan, Edward / © IWM Q 12854

23/10/2023

"A Mrs Redmond, a member of the Women's Voluntary Service, and wearing both an Air Raid Precautions lapel badge and the medals of her late husband, stands at her front door (crisscrossed with blast tape) at home in Orford, Suffolk, 1941."

Dan Seele Colour / © IWM D 4862

11/10/2023

Cpt Arnold Fraser-Campbell MC, 8th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. One of three brothers from a wealthy Scots-American family from New York who served in the British Army during the FWW. Arnold was wounded three times and lost his arm in action.

As Children, Arnold and his brothers were the subject of a Herbert Adams relief called "Singing Boys" found at The Met in New York.

Dan Steele / © IWM HU 122376

28/09/2023

Sgt. R. S. Baker, AFPU of Hendon, Middlesex, England. Baker claimed to be the first British Soldier to enter Hitler's Reich Chancellery, Berlin. Seen here standing on a N**i Eagle and Sw****ka amongst the ruins, 1945.

Dan Steele Colour / Hewitt C. H. (Sergeant) / © IWM BU 8560

14/09/2023

New Zealander, Sqn Ldr Evan Dall "Rosie" Mackie, Commanding Officer of No. 92 Sqn RAF. Canne Airfield, Adriatic Coast of Italy, Around November 1943.

Dan Steele Colour / Bridge B (Fg Off) / © IWM CNA 2314

06/09/2023

1,000 up. Sqn Ldr Edward "Jack" Charles of No. 611 sqn, chalks up Biggin Hill sector's 1,000th enemy aircraft. Charles had shot down two FW190s over Normandy, 15th May 1943.

Dan Steele Colour / Miller (F/O) / © IWM CH 9990

18/08/2023

During Operation Slapstick, 9th September 1943; Members of the British 1st Airborne Division are aboard a landing craft hastily headed towards the port of Taranto, Italy to attempt to secure it. Unbeknown to the German 1st Parachute Division defending the port, the Italian Government had already secretly surrendered Taranto to the Allies.

Dan Steele Colour / Priest L C (Lt) / © IWM A 19320

01/08/2023

Troop Ship SS Duchess of Bedford passing through the Suez Canal, Egypt, 5th October 1940.

Dan Steele Colour / Keating, Geoffrey John / © IWM E 697

06/05/2023

A young woman at work as a Rivet "Catcher" in a British Shipyard in 1943. The job of the "Catcher" is to take a pre-heated Rivet and place it in the correct hole, ready for the "Holder" and the "Basher" to secure it in place.

Dan Steele Colour / Cecil Beaton / © IWM DB 167

05/05/2023

Lieutenant Colonel Johannes Albertus Rademan DFC, a 26-year-old South African, Douglas A-20 "Boston" pilot of No. 24 Sqn South African Air Force (SAAF), pauses with a cigarette. Western Desert, Spring 1942.

Dan Steele Colour / Cecil Beaton / © IWM CBM 1977

04/04/2023

A Greek fighter pilot of No. 335 (Hellenic) Squadron Royal Air Force by his Hawker Hurricane at Landing Ground 20, Quotafiya I, Egypt, 1942.

Dan Steele Colour / Cecil Beaton / © IWM CBM 1717

25/02/2023

Eric (OBE) and Peggy Alley (née Marsh) on their wedding day in 1946. Eric, a veteran of and campaigner for the Arctic Convoys, served on HMS Inglefield and later HMS Mauritius after the former was sunk off Anzio. Peggy of WRNS was a Bombe operator at Bletchley Park.

Eric was a campaigner for the recognition of those who served on the Arctic Convoys of the Second World War. His contribution would eventually help lead to the establishment of the Arctic Star medal in 2012.

05/02/2023

An RAF Flight Lieutenant takes a cigarette break at dusk, somewhere in the Middle East during the Spring of 1942.

Dan Steele Colour / Cecil Beaton / © IWM CBM 1370

30/01/2023

A Sergeant of the Royal Tank Regiment stands in front of what appears to be an M3 (Stuart I) light tank "Epigr(a?)m", acting as "A" Squadron's HQ vehicle. North Africa, Spring 1942.

Dan Steele Colour / Cecil Beaton / © IWM CBM 1345

29/01/2023

A young unknown pilot of no.213 Squadron RAF, stands in front of a Hawker Hurricane, its roundel embossed with a wasp motif. Likely taken in North Africa with a backdrop of the first Battle of El-Alamein in, Spring 1942.

Dan Steele Colour / Cecil Beaton / © IWM CBM 1254

23/01/2023

Major Louis T. Houck of 365th Fighter Group (Hell Hawks) / 387 Fighter Squadron, sits on the wing of his P-47D-15-RE "The Screamin' Weamie", adorning his trademark horned flight cap. Houck is likely joined by his ground crew, and two other unidentified pilots, on the ground at RAF Gosfield (Station AAF-154) in early 1944.

Aircraft colour profile by Don Barnes

Dan Steele Colour / Charlie Johnson Collection

10/01/2023

1944, at the Viceroy's House, New Delhi (Now the Presidential Palace). Captain the Hon. Simon Astley Aide-de-Camp in charge of Transport at Viceroy's House, being inoculated against fever by the House Surgeon. Captain Astley married the Viceroy's Daughter Lady Joan Wavell in 1943, but sadly he died just three years later.

Dan Steele Colour / Cecil Beaton / © IWM IB 606

08/01/2023

The Reverend Robert Frazer Powles, Vicar of Beaulieu, Hampshire between 1886-1939. Photographed in the garden of the Vicarage around 1920.

Dan Steele Colour / Edward W. Mudge / New Forest Heritage Centre

08/01/2023

A 1940s Cecil Beaton exhibition photograph showing an example of a Coverall worn by Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) Maintenance ratings during the Second World War.

Dan Steele Colour / Cecil Beaton / © IWM A 12606_2

30/12/2022

Happy New Year Everyone, here's to a great 2023!

Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, C-in-C Mediterranean Fleet, saluting as the colours are hoisted aboard HMS Queen Elizabeth (1913). Likely to have been taken in Alexandria, Egypt whilst being repaired, 1st January 1942.

Dan Steele Colour / Zimmerman, E A (Lt) / © IWM A 7521

14/12/2022

1942, somewhere in the Western Desert theatre, an RAF serviceman stands against the sandbags of an aircraft revetment.

Dan Steele Colour / Beaton, Cecil / © IWM CBM 1342

12/12/2022

Fus. David Riddell MiD of 80 Blythe Street, Belfast. A sniper with 2nd Bn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, one of two snipers on patrol in the Anzio area, Italy. 20th March 1944.

Dan Steele Colour / Sgt. Loughlin (No.2 AFPU) / © IWM NA 13229

12/12/2022

A soldier of the Free French Foreign Legion sits with the battalion mascot "Fritz" at Bir Hakeim, Libya, June 1942. Fritz the puppy was "captured" by the battalion at Narvik, Norway in 1940.

Dan Steele Colour / MacLaren (Lieutenant) / © IWM E 13279

07/12/2022

A pair of Edwardian Sergeants of the Royal Horse Artillery and one assumes, their young families. Sometime after 1905, perhaps in South Africa.

Colourised by Dan Steele Colour

Original Photograph courtesy of the Mike Stockbridge Collection.

19/11/2022

British Artillerymen (Possibly 1st Infantry Division Royal Artillery) are guided by an Italian Carabinieri whilst on a visit to Rome 🇮🇹, 1944.

Dan Steele Colour / Menzies (Sergeant) / © IWM NA 16310

09/11/2022

Telegraphist B. Townsend of Ilford, Essex aboard HMS MMS 88 (J 588), an MMS-class minesweeper, searching for acoustic and magnetic mines off the coast of Anzio, Italy, May 1944.

Colour by Dan Steele Colour / Unknown Photographer / © IWM A 23543

20/10/2022

Lieutenant Colonel Donald Bennink DFC of Chautauqua County, New York, climbs into his P-47D at an unknown airfield (possibly RAF Woodchurch, Kent or A-13 Tour-en-Bessin, Normandy).

Bennink was a member of the 373rd Fighter Group Headquarters, and by the time this photograph was cleared for publication 4th September 1944, he was already KIA over Soissons, France.

Colour by Dan Steele Colour

📸 Brown, Charles E / © IWM FRE 9552

18/10/2022

Two soldiers pay their respects at a British First World War cemetery in France, just a few days before the 21st anniversary of the armistice, November 1939.

Colour by Dan Steele

📸 Keating, Geoffrey John / © IWM O 207

03/10/2022

An unknown airman stands in front of a roster plan blackboard outside a wooden hut.

Colourised by Dan Steele Colour

📸 Beaton, Cecil / © IWM MH 26349

27/09/2022

Wing Commander Thomas "Butch" Dalton-Morgan DSO, OBE, DFC & Bar, one of "The Few", flying Hurricanes with No. 43 squadron during the Battle of Britain. Later converting to Spitfires, he went on to become the squadron's longest-serving commander and also served as an advisor to the 4th Fighter Group, USAAF. By the end of the war, he had 22 confirmed victories.

Photographed at RAF Harrowbeer, Devon whilst in charge of the Iblsey Wing, early 1943.

Colour by Dan Steele Colour

📸 Rider-Rider (P/O) / © IWM CH 8977

25/09/2022

S/Ldr. Donald Osborne Finlay (Center) an Olympic Silver Medal winning Hurdler, alongside fellow pilots of No. 41 Sqn, RAF Hornchurch, late 1940.

L-R: F/O John Noble Mackenzie, F/Lt. Anthony Desmond Joseph Lovell, S/Ldr. Donald Osborne Finlay, F/Lt. Edgar Norman Ryder, and P/O Roy Clement Ford.

Colour by Dan Steele Colour

📸 Daventry, Bertrand John Henry (Flight Lieutenant) / © IWM CH 1871

16/09/2022

A South African Infantry Brigade on patrol in the Western Desert, Egypt, July 1941. Such patrols were vital in gaining information regarding enemy movements.

Colour by Dan Steele Colour

📸 Vanderson, William George (Lieutenant) / © IWM E 4350

13/09/2022

Canadian Flt Lt (later Wg Cdr) Mark Henry "Hilly" Brown, DFC & Bar and Devon born P/O Charles Arthur Copeland Chetham of No. 1 Sqn, standing by the nose of a Hurricane Mk I, RAF Wittering, late 1940.

Sadly neither man survived the war. Brown was killed in a "fighter sweep" over Sicily Nov 1941, and Chetham died in Greece Apr 1941 aged just 21.

Colour by Dan Steele Colour

📸 Devon S A (Mr) / © IWM CH 1566

11/09/2022

Wing Commander Michael Nicholson Crossley DSO, OBE, DFC standing in front of a Hawker Typhoon, RAF Gravesend, Kent. Crossley flew with No. 32 Squadron during the Battle of Britain, eventually taking over command after. Flying Hawker Hurricanes he was credited with shooting down 20 enemy aircraft during his career. He survived the war, eventually emigrating to South Africa to run a family lumber business.

Colour by Dan Steele Colour

📸 Miller (P/O) / © IWM CH 9170

10/09/2022

Heinkel He 111H-2 F6+EK of 2.(F)/Aufkl.Gr.122 Luftwaffe is transported through the town of Roye, France, November 1939. F6+EK was the first aircraft shot down by the RAF on French soil, credited to F/Lt Robert Voase Jeff, No. 87 sqn, 2nd November 1939.

Colour by Dan Steele

📸 Keating, Geoffrey John / © IWM O 286

03/09/2022

Dig For Victory: An amateur gardener, pipe in mouth, shakes the earth from a leek he has grown on this allotment in Acton, West London 1940.

Colourisation by Dan Steele

📸 © IWM D 485

02/09/2022

Winston Churchill and his wife, Clementine onboard a naval auxiliary patrol vessel on the Thames to inspect bomb damage to the docks, 25th September 1940. Unexploded bombs meant the risk of traveling by road was too great.

Colour by Dan Steele Colour

📸 Horton W. G. (Major) / © IWM H 4366

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