The photographic archive
Photo memories
A photograph is the quickest way back. We are building a permanent, captioned archive of service photographs — kept with their stories, not loose in a drawer or lost with a phone.
Collections
Sequences of photographs kept together as they were taken — a posting, a ship, a tour, a generation of one family's service.
No collections have been published yet. Members can create one when adding a photograph — a set of images that belong together, with a title and the context that makes them useful.
Contributed by members
Photographs in the archive
Recent pic.
Recent pic · Steve Smith
Myself with the Binos. My brother Greg watching the back-blast area.
Summer 1983 · Newton Abbot
Me David Smith aged 19 about a month out of depot and with my unit support company, anti tanks. I arrived in early september and was stationed in Flax Street mills. My section was sent to Tennent street police station just of the Shankill until we went home in December. I was there with Dave Longstaff RIP and Pete or Steve Scaife, a lad called Muhaffey and some others but memory not good these days.
September 1972 · David Smith
Rob Celliers, 1970s
Rob
Before you send a photograph
- Only upload photographs you own or have the family's permission to share.
- Tell us who is in the picture, where and roughly when — a photograph without its story is only half the record.
- We never publish the names of serving personnel, or anyone else, without their consent.
- Originals stay yours. We hold a copy for the archive and never sell or license it.
Adding photographs as a member
Each photograph is recorded with its title, description, approximate date, country, service, unit and location. You can attach it to one of your stories, or keep a whole sequence together as a collection.
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