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  • While visiting London's tourist sites, a young boy of about 5 years-old spends time at Horse Guards where a soldier from the Household Cavalry, also dressed in a deep red coat, stands motionless and at-ease. It is a bright day and the gray stonework amplifies the scarlett uniform tunics as the boy has his picture taken by family. The British Household Cavalry is classed as a corps in its own right, and consists of two regiments: Life Guards (British Army) and the Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons). They are the senior regular regiments in the British Army, with traditions dating from 1660.
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  • The rare Victoria Cross is worn on the chest of the celebrated Nepali war veteran Bhanu Bhagta Gurung (also written Bhanubhakta), an ex-soldier of the British Gurkha regiment who in the second world war, earned his medals from repeated bravery against Japanese positions in Burma. He sits here on the terrace of his home, above the misty valley of Gorkha, Central Nepal. He is one of the last survivors of the remarkably brave men  who helped defeat the enemy in the jungles of south-east Asia. Gurung is the name of his Nepalese tribe (like the Sherpas who also come from the high Himalayan Kingdom). His company commander described him as "a smiling, hard-swearing and indomitable soldier who in a battalion of brave men was one of the bravest". Born September 1921 - died March 1 2008.
    medals_gurkha01-16-1997.jpg
  • Detail of a construction hoarding mural depicting the cariacature of a Roman soldier in Londinium during the occupation of ancient Britain by the Roman empire, on 2nd November 2021, in London, England.
    roman_mural-02-02-11-2021.jpg
  • WW1 memorial soldier statue, commemorating the Royal Fusiliers in the City of London. In the 100th year after WW1 started, a detail of a war memorial soldier's head and shoulders, a hero in the City of London remembering those killed in the First World War, lost in the trenches and the fields of Flanders from 1914-19. Dedicated by the City of London, the UK capital's financial and historic heart, the statue represents a lost generation when the nation's youth sacrificed their lives in the 20th century's first great conflict. The inscription says that their names will live for evermore.
    war_memorial01-13-08-2014.jpg
  • A detail of a second world war Canadian veteran's chest, festooned with gleaming military campaign medals that symbolise an era of conflict, warfare and especially of survival. Seen as a close-up of polished silver, gold and zinc-alloy, we see only the upper body minus the face of this old soldier whose campaigns include the D-Day landings at Normandy in 1944 because at the bottom of his rack of fine insignia is a badge denoting the Normandy Veterans Association. Elsewhere, a medal is worn for service in Palestine. The unseen gentleman wears a Canadian pin at the top and the contribution of his fellow-countrymen as members of the British Commonwealth is recognised in battlefield cemeteries around the world. But on this day, the 11th November, old soldiers like him march past London's Cenotaph to remember friends who did not return from war.
    medals_veteran11-11-1989.jpg
  • A soldier sits with his weapon on a truck on a float passing  the newly-elected Lord Mayor of London during the Lord Mayor's Show. The new Mayor's procession consists of a 3-mile, 150-float parade of commercial and military organisations going back to medieval times. This is the oldest and longest civic procession in the world that has survived the Plague and the Blitz, today one of the best-loved pageants. Henry Fitz-Ailwyn was the first Lord Mayor (1189-1212) and ever since, eminent city fathers (and one woman) have taken the role of the sovereign's representative in the City - London's ancient, self-governing financial district. The role ensured the King had an ally within the prosperous enclave.
    lord_mayors_show19-10-11-2012.jpg
  • Re-enactment soldier at Housesteads Fort on Roman Hadrian's Wall, once the northern frontier of Rome's empire.
    hadrians_wall29-08-08-2010-1.jpg
  • A soldier image on a rug, an exhibit in 'Haus 1' the ministerial headquarters of the Stasi secret police in Communist East Germany, the GDR. Built in 1960, the complex now known as the Stasi Museum. Before the fall of the Wall, it was a 22-hectare complex of espionage whose centrepiece is the office and working quarters of the former Minister of State Security, Erich Mielke who considered their role as the 'shield and sword of the party', conducting one of the world's most efficient spying operations against its political dissenters during its 40-year old socialist history. During Hitler's Third Reich, the Gestapo had one agent for every 2,000 citizens whereas the Stasi had approximately an spy for every 6.5. Here at the Stasi HQ alone 15,000 were employed plus the many regional stations. German media called East Germany 'the most perfected surveillance state of all time' - administered from this complex of offices.
    berlin_stasi_museum11-07-04-2013.jpg
  • A soldier of the British army stand guarding the entrance to the volleyball venue in central London next to the IOC rings logo on day 4 of the London 2012 Olsecure.  A total of 18,000 defence personel were called upon to make the Games secure following the failure by security contractor G4S to provide enough private guards. The extra personnel have been drafted in amid continuing fears that the private security contractor's handling of the £284m contract remains a risk to the Games.
    olympics_westminster24-31-07-2012.jpg
  • A soldier of the Royal Artillery regiment in the British army helps tourists while standing guard the entrance to  the volleyball venue in central London next to the IOC rings logo on day 4 of the London 2012 Olympic Games. A total of 18,000 defence personel were called upon to make the Games secure following the failure by security contractor G4S to provide enough private guards. The extra personnel have been drafted in amid continuing fears that the private security contractor's handling of the £284m contract remains a risk to the Games.
    olympics_westminster07-31-07-2012.jpg
  • A soldier of the Royal Artillery regiment in the British army stand guarding the entrance to  the volleyball venue in central London next to the IOC rings logo on day 4 of the London 2012 Olympic Games. A total of 18,000 defence personel were called upon to make the Games secure following the failure by security contractor G4S to provide enough private guards. The extra personnel have been drafted in amid continuing fears that the private security contractor's handling of the £284m contract remains a risk to the Games.
    olympics_westminster05-31-07-2012.jpg
  • A soldier from the British Royal Artillery demonstrates details of Fire Shadow missile on MBDA's trade stand at Farnborough airshow. The so-called lurker bomb is designed to loiter above a battlefield for up to 6 hours before attacking stationary or mobile targets and also able to shadow British troops for up to ten hours or 100 miles, ready to take out enemy targets with surgical precision at a minute's notice..
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  • A soldier from the British Royal Artillery guards a 12ft Fire Shadow missile on manufacturer MBDA's trade stand at the Farnborough airshow. The so-called lurker bomb is designed to loiter above a battlefield for up to 6 hours before attacking stationary or mobile targets and also able to shadow British troops for up to ten hours or 100 miles, ready to take out enemy targets with surgical precision at a minute's notice..
    mbda_fireshadow04-09-07-2012.jpg
  • A flirting Scots regiment soldier chats to two young women during 50th anniversary celebrations of wartime VE Day.
    VE_celebrations07-06-05-1995.jpg
  • Re-enactment soldier at Housesteads Fort on Roman Hadrian's Wall, once the northern frontier of Rome's empire.
    hadrians_wall15-08-08-2010-1.jpg
  • Re-enactment soldier at Housesteads Fort on Roman Hadrian's Wall, once the northern frontier of Rome's empire.
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  • Re-enactment soldier at Housesteads Fort on Roman Hadrian's Wall, once the northern frontier of Rome's empire.
    hadrians_wall25-08-08-2010-1.jpg
  • Re-enactment soldier at Housesteads Fort on Roman Hadrian's Wall, once the northern frontier of Rome's empire.
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  • Re-enactment soldier at Housesteads Fort on Roman Hadrian's Wall, once the northern frontier of Rome's empire.
    hadrians_wall20-08-08-2010-1.jpg
  • Visitors and re-enactment soldier at Housesteads Fort on Roman Hadrian's Wall, once the northern frontier of Rome's empire.
    hadrians_wall14-08-08-2010-1.jpg
  • Exhibitors prepare mannequin soldier on their stand at the Farnborough Airshow.
    farnborough_airshow27-19-07-2010.jpg
  • The rare Victoria Cross is worn on the chest of the celebrated Nepali war veteran Bhanu Bhagta Gurung (also written Bhanubhakta), an ex-soldier of the British Gurkha regiment who in the second world war, earned his medals from repeated bravery against Japanese positions in Burma. He sits here on the terrace of his home, above the misty valley of Gorkha, Central Nepal. He is one of the last survivors of the remarkably brave men  who helped defeat the enemy in the jungles of south-east Asia. Gurung is the name of his Nepalese tribe (like the Sherpas who also come from the high Himalayan Kingdom). His company commander described him as "a smiling, hard-swearing and indomitable soldier who in a battalion of brave men was one of the bravest". Born September 1921 - died March 1 2008.
    RB_142-16-01-1997.jpg
  • A soldier with the Hungarian army on ceremonial duties in central Budapest, on 18th June 1990, in Budapest, Hungary.
    hungary_people13-18-06-1990.jpg
  • A soldier in uniform, an exhibit in 'Haus 1' the ministerial headquarters of the Stasi secret police in Communist East Germany, the GDR. Built in 1960, the complex now known as the Stasi Museum. Before the fall of the Wall, it was a 22-hectare complex of espionage whose centrepiece is the office and working quarters of the former Minister of State Security, Erich Mielke who considered their role as the 'shield and sword of the party', conducting one of the world's most efficient spying operations against its political dissenters during its 40-year old socialist history. Between 1950 and 1989, the Stasi employed a total of 274,000 people in an effort to root out the class enemy. During Hitler's Third Reich, the Gestapo had one agent for every 2,000 citizens whereas the Stasi had approximately an spy for every 6.5. Here at the Stasi HQ alone 15,000 were employed plus the many regional stations. German media called East Germany 'the most perfected surveillance state of all time' - administered from this complex of offices.
    berlin_stasi_museum10-07-04-2013.jpg
  • The portrait of a Soviet soldier sits high above modern Friedrishstrasse in modern Berlin at the location of  the former Checkpoint Charlie, the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
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  • A veteran and former soldier from world war 2 stands  in a side street of Westminster during the annual Armistice Day.
    war_veterans01-11-11-1993.jpg
  • Off-duty soldier returning from active service in Afghanistan wheels baggage through departures at Heathrow's terminal 5.
    heathrow_airport695-17-07-2009.jpg
  • Lying in undergrowth, a camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen looking down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted 'suppressor' minimises the signature normally compromising snipers' position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF. The British say this is the best sniper rifle in the world.
    sniper_rifle16-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • Lying in undergrowth, a camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen looking down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted 'suppressor' minimises the signature normally compromising snipers' position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF. The British say this is the best sniper rifle in the world.
    sniper_rifle12-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • A camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted 'suppressor' minimises the signature normally compromising snipers' position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF. The British say this is the best sniper rifle in the world.
    sniper_rifle11-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • Lying on his stomach, a camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen looking down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted 'suppressor' minimises the signature normally compromising snipers' position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF. The British say this is the best sniper rifle in the world.
    sniper_rifle08-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • Lying in undergrowth with a photographer shooting pictures, a camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen looking down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted 'suppressor' minimises the signature normally compromising snipers' position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF.
    sniper_rifle03-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • Lying in undergrowth, a camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen looking down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted 'suppressor' minimises the signature normally compromising snipers' position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF. The British say this is the best sniper rifle in the world.
    sniper_rifle02-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • Bronze statue of soldier commemorating First World War battles on the side of the Royal Artillery war memorial at Hyde Park.
    war_memorial12-02-12-2009 copy.jpg
  • Bronze statue of soldier commemorating First World War battles on the side of the Royal Artillery war memorial at Hyde Park.
    war_memorial06-02-12-2009 copy.jpg
  • Detail of a construction hoarding mural depicting the cariacature of a Roman soldier in Londinium during the occupation of ancient Britain by the Roman empire, on 2nd November 2021, in London, England.
    roman_mural-01-02-11-2021.jpg
  • In the 100th year after WW1 started, a detail of a war memorial soldier's head and shoulders, a hero in Cornhill, City of London remembering those killed in the First World War, lost in the trenches and the fields of Flanders from 1914-19. Dedicated by the City of London, the UK capital's financial and historic heart. Two soldiers face away from each other with rifles between their boots, they represent a lost generation when the nation's youth sacrificed their lives in the 20th century's first great conflict. The inscription says that their names will live for evermore.
    war_memorial01-08-09-2014.jpg
  • A soldier of the British army stand guarding the entrance to the volleyball venue in central London next to the IOC rings logo on day 4 of the London 2012 Olympic Games. A total of 18,000 defence personel were called upon to make the Games secure following the failure by security contractor G4S to provide enough private guards. The extra personnel have been drafted in amid continuing fears that the private security contractor's handling of the £284m contract remains a risk to the Games.
    olympics_westminster02-31-07-2012.jpg
  • Kneeling in undergrowth, a camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen looking down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted 'suppressor' minimises the signature normally compromising snipers' position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF. The British say this is the best sniper rifle in the world.
    sniper_rifle22-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • Lying in undergrowth, a camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen squinting down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted 'suppressor' minimises the signature normally compromising snipers' position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF. The British say this is the best sniper rifle in the world.
    sniper_rifle14-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • A newly-recruited Nepali boy stares through the window of a Nepal Airlines airliner during his flight from his Himalayan homeland to the UK where his 2-year training for the British Army will begin, on 16th January 1997, in Kathmandu, Nepal. He is leaving behind his family for England where the British army is to make him a fully-trained soldier in the Gurkha Regiment. Some 60,000 young Nepalese boys aged between 17 - 22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000 - 12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the flight to the UK. The Gurkhas training wing in Nepal has been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    gurkha_selection05-16-01-1997.jpg
  • Tacky Christmas tourist trinkets with santa hat and grenadier soldier thems on sale outside a discount shop in New Oxford Street in central London.
    tacky_christmas05-21-12-2015.jpg
  • Tacky Christmas tourist trinkets with santa hat and grenadier soldier thems on sale outside a discount shop in New Oxford Street in central London.
    tacky_christmas04-21-12-2015.jpg
  • A giant billboard ad for the use of iPhones seen on the side of a central London building, juxtaposed with bus advertising and a WW1 memorial soldier of the Royal Fusiliers.
    iphone_ad04-09-04-2015.jpg
  • A giant billboard ad for the use of iPhones seen on the side of a central London building, juxtaposed with bus advertising and a WW1 memorial soldier of the Royal Fusiliers.
    iphone_ad03-09-04-2015.jpg
  • A giant billboard ad for the use of iPhones seen on the side of a central London building, juxtaposed with a WW1 memorial soldier of the Royal Fusiliers.
    iphone_ad01-09-04-2015.jpg
  • While crowds wave Union Jack flags a re-enactment soldier shows a youngster wearing a WW2 costume how to use a Thompson sub-machine gun - remembering the 50th anniversary of VE (Victory in Europe) Day on 6th May 1995. In the week near the anniversary date of May 8, 1945, when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Germany and peace was announced to tumultuous crowds across European cities, the British still go out of their way to honour those sacrificed and the realisation that peace was once again achieved. Street parties now - as they did in 1945 - played a large part in the country's patriotic well-being...
    VE_day_anniversary07-06-05-1995.jpg
  • A ceremonial soldier stands guard outside the Palacio de Sao Bento, the Portuguese parliament building while in session, Estrela district, Lisbon. Walking beneath a giant stone statue, the guard has a rifle with fixed bayonet shouldered. São Bento Palace (Palace of Saint Benedict) is the home of the Assembly of the Republic, the Portuguese parliament. Its main façade has been altered numerous times since its 16th-century original.
    portuguese_parliament-21-03-1994.jpg
  • The Olympic rings on a banner outside Horse Guards where a soldier from the Household Cavalry sits motionless on his horse during the London 2012 Olympics. Wrought iron railings are seen behind the banner at the sports venue hosting the volleyball in the centre of Westminster where governmental offices are located. The British Household Cavalry is classed as a corps in its own right, and consists of two regiments: Life Guards (British Army) and the Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons). They are the senior regular regiments in the British Army, with traditions dating from 1660.
    olympics_westminster16-31-07-2012.jpg
  • First World War memorial soldier beneath the Bank of England (L) and the columns of Royal Exchange. The tall and solid Corinthian pillars of the 3rd Royal Exchange built in 1842 by Sir William Tite. Looking upwards towards a memorial that commemorates the dead from the First World War of 1914-18 between the converging pillars of the Cornhill Exchange building and beyond, to the famous Bank of England in the City Of London, the financial district, otherwise known as the Square Mile. The Bank of England (formally the Governor and Company of the Bank of England) is the central bank of the United Kingdom and the model on which most modern central banks have been based. It is wholly owned by the Treasury Solicitor on behalf of the Government, with independence in setting monetary policy.
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  • 24 hours before the royal marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton, a guardsman stands by his sentry box in front of Clarence House in St James Palace where the royal bride is staying. A lady royalist stands admiring the soldier in a bright Union Jack-coloured hat as the guardsman approaches in tandem with an unseen colleague. Taking place on Friday 30th April in front of millions of Britons and foreign tourists (many American), the crowds are already gathering to claim their ideal locations in the front rows along the procession route.
    royal_wedding_preview39-28-April-201...jpg
  • 24 hours before the royal marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton, a guardsman stands by his sentry box in front of Clarence House in St James Palace where the royal bride is staying. A lady royalist stands admiring the soldier in a bright Union Jack-coloured hat as the guardsman approaches in tandem with an unseen colleague. Taking place on Friday 30th April in front of millions of Britons and foreign tourists (many American), the crowds are already gathering to claim their ideal locations in the front rows along the procession route.
    royal_wedding_preview38-28-April-201...jpg
  • 24 hours before the royal marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton, a guardsman stands by his sentry box in front of Clarence House in St James Palace where the royal bride is staying. A lady royalist stands admiring the soldier in a bright Union Jack-coloured hat as the guardsman stands at attentionin tandem with an unseen colleague. Taking place on Friday 30th April in front of millions of Britons and foreign tourists (many American), the crowds are already gathering to claim their ideal locations in the front rows along the procession route.
    royal_wedding_preview37-28-April-201...jpg
  • 24 hours before the royal marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton, a guardsman stands by his sentry box in front of Clarence House in St James Palace where the royal bride is staying. Two tourists stand admiring the soldier as he raises his leg to change his position. Taking place on Friday 30th April in front of millions of Britons and foreign tourists (many American), the crowds are already gathering to claim their ideal locations in the front rows along the procession route.
    royal_wedding_preview36-28-April-201...jpg
  • On the edge of an old Soviet parade ground, peeling murals show an instruction mural for guarding prison camps seen in this army boot camp in the former East German peninsular called Halbinsel Wustrow near Rostock. For the benefit of recruits or as reminders of Soviet discipline, the picture shows a soldier standing at the barbed wire of a generic Gulag holding his AK-47 weapon and dressed in fur hat and uniform from that era. Perhaps those training here were eventually to guard political prisoners though it is a reminder of a fallen ideology. Wustrow was once a WW2 German anti-aircraft artillery position then housed civilian refugees before the eventual Soviet occupation of the former DDR during the Cold War, up until 1990 and the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. The camp was ransacked and all its assets stripped before its desertion that summer.
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  • On the edge of an old Soviet parade ground, peeling murals show the physical style of Russian marching techniques seen in this army boot camp in the former East German peninsular called Halbinsel Wustrow near Rostock. For the benefit of recruits or as reminders of Soviet discipline, the picture shows a soldier marching in that unmistakable goose-stepping style reminiscent of the Nazi era, with high forward kicks and a strenuous arm movement to the chest as seen in iconic May Day celebrations in Red Square. Wustrow was once a WW2 German anti-aircraft artillery position then housed civilian refugees before the eventual Soviet occupation of the former DDR during the Cold War, up until 1990 and the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. The camp was ransacked and all its assets stripped before its desertion that summer and is a reminder of a fallen ideology
    russian_wustrow02-16-06_1990.jpg
  • A newly-recruited Nepali boy is about to leave his homeland for the UK, where the British army is to make him a fully-trained soldier in the Gurkha Regiment. Daubed with saffron and paint, the sign of good luck on a journey to come, he stands with absolute pride with garlands of fresh flowers draped around his neck by well-wishing relatives before they wave good bye to their son or brother for his two years absence away from home. Some 60,000 young Nepalese boys aged between 17 - 22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000 - 12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the flight to the UK. The Gurkhas training wing in Nepal has been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
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  • 24 hours before the royal marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton, a guardsman stands by his sentry box in front of Clarence House in St James Palace where the royal bride is staying. Two young brothers stand admiring the soldier in his bright red uniform. Taking place on Friday 30th April in front of millions of Britons and foreign tourists (many American), the crowds are already gathering to claim their ideal locations in the front rows along the procession route.
    royal_wedding_preview35-28-April-201...jpg
  • Two serving soldiers in civilian suits but wearing the insignia and badges of the Royal Military Police (RMP), talk quietly together while poignantly paying their respects to the hundreds of markers that symbolise war dead. Crosses and poppies mark anonymous fallen British soldiers and other servicemen and women, all killed during recent conflicts. Dedications from loved-ones or simply well-wishers are written on the wooden crosses on the weekend that Britain commemorates those killed on active service in trouble spots and war locations around the world, the markers a laid on the grass of Westminster Abbey's lawns on Parliament Square, opposite the Houses of Parliament. Armistice weekend is largely held on the closest Sunday to the 11th hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month, when hostilities famously ended in on 11th November 1918...
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  • Wreaths with Five soldiers standing at ease on the memorial to both first and second world wars in Westminster.
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  • Serving Royal Military Policeman pays respects to fallen soldiers, killed during recent conflicts, seen during Remembrance weekend at Westminster Abbey, London.The Royal Military Police (RMP) are the Army's specialists in Investigations and Policing and are responsible for policing the military community worldwide.
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  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
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  • One of the 18,000 British soldiers of the Royal Marines sits in a Games Maker's high chair to oversee an entrance to the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics. A total of 18,000 defence personel were called upon to make the Games secure following the failure by security contractor G4S to provide enough private guards. This land wastransformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village. After the Olympics, the park is to be known as Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
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  • Bronze statue of soldiers commemorating First World War battles on the side of the Royal Artillery war memorial at Hyde Park.
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  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
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  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
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  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
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  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
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  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
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  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
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  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
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  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
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  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
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  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
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  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
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  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
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  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
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  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
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  • Tribute to a lost generation and the clock at Cornhill. In the 100th year after WW1 started, the war memorial heroes in Cornhill, City of London remembering those killed in the First World War, lost in the trenches and the fields of Flanders from 1914-19. Dedicated by the City of London, the UK capital's financial and historic heart. Two soldiers face away from each other with rifles between their boots, they represent a lost generation when the nation's youth sacrificed their lives in the 20th century's first great conflict. The inscription says that their names will live for evermore.
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  • Young men of today and a lost generation of youth. In the 100th year after WW1 started, the war memorial heroes in Cornhill, City of London remembering those killed in the First World War, lost in the trenches and the fields of Flanders from 1914-19. Dedicated by the City of London, the UK capital's financial and historic heart. Two soldiers face away from each other with rifles between their boots, they represent a lost generation when the nation's youth sacrificed their lives in the 20th century's first great conflict. The inscription says that their names will live for evermore.
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  • Young smoking man of today and a lost generation of youth. In the 100th year after WW1 started, the war memorial heroes in Cornhill, City of London remembering those killed in the First World War, lost in the trenches and the fields of Flanders from 1914-19. Dedicated by the City of London, the UK capital's financial and historic heart. Two soldiers face away from each other with rifles between their boots, they represent a lost generation when the nation's youth sacrificed their lives in the 20th century's first great conflict. The inscription says that their names will live for evermore.
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  • Tribute to a lost generation and pillars of the Lord Mayor's Mansion House. In the 100th year after WW1 started, the war memorial heroes in Cornhill, City of London remembering those killed in the First World War, lost in the trenches and the fields of Flanders from 1914-19. Dedicated by the City of London, the UK capital's financial and historic heart. Two soldiers face away from each other with rifles between their boots, they represent a lost generation when the nation's youth sacrificed their lives in the 20th century's first great conflict. The inscription says that their names will live for evermore.
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  • Modern man and a lost generation of youth. In the 100th year after WW1 started, the war memorial heroes in Cornhill, City of London remembering those killed in the First World War, lost in the trenches and the fields of Flanders from 1914-19. Dedicated by the City of London, the UK capital's financial and historic heart. Two soldiers face away from each other with rifles between their boots, they represent a lost generation when the nation's youth sacrificed their lives in the 20th century's first great conflict. The inscription says that their names will live for evermore.
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  • On the edge of an old Soviet parade ground, peeling murals show the physical style of Russian marching techniques seen in this army boot camp in the former East German peninsular called Halbinsel Wustrow near Rostock. For the benefit of recruits or as a reminder of Soviet discipline, the picture shows soldiers marching in that unmistakable goose-stepping style reminiscent of the Nazi era, with high forward kicks and a strenuous arm movement to the chest as seen in iconic May Day celebrations in Red Square. Wustrow was once a WW2 German anti-aircraft artillery position then housed civilian refugees before the eventual Soviet occupation of the former DDR during the Cold War, up until 1990 and the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. The camp was ransacked and all its assets stripped before its desertion that summer and is a reminder of a fallen ideology
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  • In neat diagonal rows, young Nepali boys are crouching on the ground at the British Army's Gurkha base in Pokhara, Nepal where the Britain's Ministry of Defence recruits the best choices to become fully-trained soldiers in the UK's Gurkha Regiment. Some 60,000 young Nepalese boys aged between 17 - 22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000 - 12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the flight to the UK. The Gurkhas training wing in Nepal has been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
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  • War memorial for soldiers killed in WW1, Praca Carlos Alberto, Porto, Portugal.
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  • Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II at the age of 96, a young bandsman is helped by a Grenadier Guards officer after fainting during her funeral procession from Westminster Abbey to Wellington Arch at Hyde Park and beyond to St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle where she is to be interred, on 19th September 2022, in London, England. Queen Elizabeth came to the British throne in 1952 and was, after 70 years, the longest reigning monarch in British history. Now succeeded by her eldest son Charles, his new title of King Charles III, it heralds a new era for Britain's monarchy and its constitution.
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  • Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II at the age of 96, a young bandsman is helped by a Grenadier Guards officer after fainting during her funeral procession from Westminster Abbey to Wellington Arch at Hyde Park and beyond to St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle where she is to be interred, on 19th September 2022, in London, England. Queen Elizabeth came to the British throne in 1952 and was, after 70 years, the longest reigning monarch in British history. Now succeeded by her eldest son Charles, his new title of King Charles III, it heralds a new era for Britain's monarchy and its constitution.
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  • Two mannequins dressed in old British Army uniforms stand in the window of Aaron's Surplus Army & Navy Ltd., on 8th October 2019, in Rainham, Essex, England. Voters in this Havering borough voted 69% in favour of Brexit during the 2016 referendum.
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  • A British Army Gurkha recruit stands to attention during a barracks inspection at the Gurkha Regiment's training centre at Church Crookham, on 16th January 1996, in England UK. Some 60,000 young Nepalese boys aged between 17 - 22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in Nepal's Himalayan foothills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000 - 12,000 feet. Only 160 are recruited with training continuing at this barracks until joining various units within the army. The Gurkhas training wing in Nepal has been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • A young Nepali boy is undergoes a recruitment test for the Gurkha Regiment called the Doko race, part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training, on 16th January 1997, in Pokhara, Nepal. Carrying 30kg of river stones in a traditional Himalayan doko (basket) for 3km up foothills within 37 minutes to pass.  60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. Nepal has been supplying youths for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • A portrait of a Lance Corporal in the Rifles regiment of the British army next to the Olympic rings logo before the start of the canoe slalom heats at the Lee Valley White Water Centre, north east London, on day 3 of the London 2012 Olympic Games. A total of 18,000 defence personel were called upon to make the Games secure following the failure by security contractor G4S to provide enough private guards. The extra personnel have been drafted in amid continuing fears that the private security contractor's handling of the £284m contract remains a risk to the Games.
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  • Two mannequins dressed in old British Army uniforms stand in the window of Aaron's Surplus Army & Navy Ltd., on 8th October 2019, in Rainham, Essex, England. Voters in this Havering borough voted 69% in favour of Brexit during the 2016 referendum.
    rainham_journey-10-08-10-2019.jpg
  • Lunchtime City workers eat lunches beneath the pillars of Royal Exchange during an unusual autumn heatwave on 13th September 2016, in the City of London, England.
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  • Coldstream guardsman and Union Jack flag appear on a poster outside a tourit shop in central London.
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  • Coldstream guardsman appears on a poster outside a tourit shop in central London.
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  • Coldstream guardsman and Union Jack flag appear on a poster outside a tourit shop in central London.
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  • Met Police WPC keeps a presence in front of a Grenadier guardsman near St James' Palace in the Mall.
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  • A black mounted lifeguard trooper parades at Horseguards in Whitehall, Westminster, Central London. <br />
This regiment is classed as a corps in its own right, and consists of two regiments: Life Guards (British Army) and the Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons). They are the senior regular regiments in the British Army, with traditions dating from 1660. (Desaturated version). (Desaturated version).
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  • A black mounted lifeguard trooper parades at Horseguards in Whitehall, Westminster, Central London. <br />
This regiment is classed as a corps in its own right, and consists of two regiments: Life Guards (British Army) and the Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons). They are the senior regular regiments in the British Army, with traditions dating from 1660.
    black_horseguards07-03-10-2013.jpg
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