Commonwealth Gallery

Jamaica - Panorama of Mandeville

Slide showing a photograph over looking the city of Mandeville. Mandeville is the capital and largest town in the parish of Manchester in the county of Middlesex, Jamaica.. Part of Box 108. Boswell Collection. Slide number 42. Jamaica, officially the Commonwealth of Jamaica, is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, situated in the Caribbean Sea. Jamaica is south of Cuba and west of Hispaniola, the island containing the nation-states of Haiti and the Dominican Republic in the West Indies. Date: circa 1932

© The Boswell Collection, Bexley Heritage Trust / Mary Evans

Coloured shoulder patches of the Australian Corps

Souvenir of the Greatest War showing coloured shoulder patches of the Australian Corps. The design is laid out in the shape of the Australian Commonwealth Military Forces badge and includes the five Divisions, the Australian Light Horse and details of the ancilliary units. Also includes four small vignettes by Sergeant F. G. Gross, AIF. Published by J. Graham & Co., London, EC. English School

© David Cohen Fine Art/Mary Evans Picture Library

Dancing at an open air dance

An open-air dance at Brockwell Park in London in the summer of 1941; with the majority of young men in the forces the young women partner each other, 2 July 1941

Blitz, Britain, Commonwealth, England, Home Front, United Kingdom, Victory, War, World War 2, World War Ii, Ww2, Wwii