“MILITARY COURTESIES” — Do you know how to salute? Can you avoid making a “pup tent” with your hand? Have a bad habit of turning your palm up and outward like some fancy-pants fusilier? Can you even manage to salute without gouging your own eye?
(Full video at the Prelinger Archives)
Soldier training with Bren Gun. Vancouver, Canada, 1940s.
Bernard Hoo, John MacCouville & J R Kostick of the Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada, 8th Brigade, 3rd Canadian Infantry Division, near Caen. Normandy, 9 July 1944.
Royal Canadian Navy officer questioning Japanese-Canadian fishermen. December 2, 1941.
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December 20, 1943: The Battle of Ortona begins. — It was Canadians versus Germans in a “Little Stalingrad” of brutal house-to-house combat in the seaside town of Ortona, Italy. The painting is Canadian Armour Passing Through Ortona by Dr. Charles Fraser Comfort, courtesy of Canadian Museum of Civilization.
Soldiers of the Royal Australian Regiment with war dogs. South Vietnam, 1967. Photo by Bryan Campbell.
British charity UK4U brings some holiday cheer to overseas troops, 2007.
j-wolf-harding: British Army Rifle Training.
Trench Food: “Food in the trenches of the First World War was scarce. Rations were measly, meals repetitive, and hunger often the companion of fear and fatigue. With energy-sapping battles to be fought, what exactly was the staple fare of Tommies in the trenches?” (Military History Monthly)
Members of the First Special Service Force preparing a meal. Anzio beachhead, Italy, late April, 1944.
Members of the First Special Service Force being briefed before setting out on a patrol. Anzio beachhead, Italy, 20 April 1944.
The Devil’s Brigade (1968)
Company Sergeant-Major W.H. Galloway and Captain H.J. “Bummer” Stirling of the 19th Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery (R.C.A.), Normandy, France, 22 June 1944.
