Photos - Second World War

This page features photos from the Second World War. For photos from other periods please see the main photos page.

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  1 ASSU vehicles being loaded for Normandy

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  1 CSRU Monument UK 1945 (1)

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  1 CSRU Monument UK 1945 (2)

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  1 CSRU Officers HRH Mary Feb 1944

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  1 CSRU Officers May 1945

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  1 CSRU Officers Mess, England 1942

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  1 CSRU Officers WO Sgts May 1945

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  1 CSRU WO Sgt May 1945

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  1 CSWG in Australia (1)

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  1 CSWG in Australia (2)

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  1 Corps Signals Officers Sicily Dec 1943

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  12th Manitoba Dragoons RCCS

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  2nd Division Signals Trumpet Band, Barriefield Camp 27 Jul 1940

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  2nd Divisional Signals E Section members November 24 1940

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  2nd Divisional Signals E Section members WW2

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  2nd Divisional Signals No 2 Company Barracks Barriefield Feb 1940

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  2nd Divisional Signals members 19 April 1941

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  3 Special Wireless Section V2 sighting

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  3 Special Wireless Section deployed

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  3 Special Wireless Section group photo

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  3 Special Wireless Section soldiers

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  4 Canadian (Armoured) Divisional Siganls RHQ, 1942

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  4 Canadian (Armoured) Divisional Signals, England, 1943

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  4 Squadron, 4th Canadian Armoured Divisional Signals, undated (1)

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  5 Canadian Armoured Division Advanced Headquarters near Coriano (1)

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  5 Canadian Armoured Division Advanced Headquarters near Coriano (2)

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  5 Canadian Armoured Division Advanced Headquarters near Coriano (3)

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  5 Canadian Armoured Division Advanced Headquarters near Coriano (4)

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  5th Canadian (Armoured) Divisional Signals - Past and Current Commanding Officers, 11 Jan 1945

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  A visit by HRH The Princess Royal 1941

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  B Corps Signals, C Company, Camp Farnham, 1940 (detail 1)

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  B Corps Signals, C Company, Camp Farnham, 1940 (detail 2)

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  B Corps Signals, C Company, Camp Farnham, 1940 (detail 3)

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  B Corps Signals, C Company, Camp Farnham, 1940

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  Band practice at Vimy Barracks c1940

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  Barrack Blocks B1 and B2 c1940

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  Barriefield Concentration Camp c1940 (1) - Bruce Cameron photos

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  Barriefield Concentration Camp c1940 (2) - Bruce Cameron photos

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  Barriefield Concentration Camp entrance sign c1940

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  Bruce Cameron on motorcycle

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  Bruce Cameron

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  Bunk House 11 at Barriefield Concentration Camp c1940 (1)

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  Bunk House 11 at Barriefiled Concentration Camp c1940 (2)

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  Burgomaster of Antwerp Jimmy presentation 3 Nov 1945

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  CMHQ Signals unit photo June 1945

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  CMP Truck 8-cwt Wireless (1)

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  CMP Truck 8-cwt Wireless - Bruce Cameron photos (1)

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  CMP Truck 8-cwt Wireless - Bruce Cameron photos (2)

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  CMP Truck 8-cwt Wireless - Bruce Cameron photos (3)

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  CMP Truck 8-cwt Wireless - Bruce Cameron photos (4)

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  CMP Truck 8-cwt Wireless - Bruce Cameron photos (5)

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  CMP Truck 8-cwt Wireless - Bruce Cameron photos (6)

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  CSTC Band 1941

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  Cable repair in the Netherlands c1945

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  Cameron Highlanders 7th Victory Loan - 7 Oct 1944

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  Car 5-cwt 4x4 Cable-layer Normandy 1944 (detail)

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  Car 5-cwt 4x4 Cable-layer Normandy 1944

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  Car 5-cwt 4x4 Cable-layer UK April 1944

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  Car 5cwt 4x4 - Bruce Cameron photos (1)

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  Car Wireless Ford Phaeton 1936 1

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  Collecting logs for dugout, 3 Div Sigs Mar 1945

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  Communicating with aircraft Zeddam Netherlands 4 April 1945

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  Corps line crew UK 1941

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  Cpl Akkerman, Prince Rupert BC, 1940

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  Cpl Bruce Cameron on his motorcycle

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  DR roll past, London, 1940

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  Despatch Riders discussing a route 1944

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  Despatch Riders of No 1 Company 1st Canadian Division Signals

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  Despatch rider and bikes Exercise Spartan 1943

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  Despatch rider pigeon message

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  Dieppe Cemetery 1 Sep 1944 (1)

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  Dieppe Cemetery 1 Sep 1944 (2)

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  Dieppe Cemetery 1 Sep 1944 (3)

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  Dieppe Cemetery Memorial Service 3 Sep 1944 (1)

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  Dieppe Cemetery Memorial Service 3 Sep 1944 (2)

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  Dieppe Cemetery Memorial Service 3 Sep 1944 (3)

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  Dieppe baby carriage (1)

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  Dieppe baby carriage (2)

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  Digging slit trench Normandy Beachhead

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  Equipment check Zeddam Netherlands 4 April 1945

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  First Canadian Army Signal Officers 2 Aug 1942

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  First Canadian Army Signals Mess Dinner Apeldoorn Jul 1945 (1)

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  First Canadian Army Signals Mess Dinner Apeldoorn Jul 1945 (2)

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  First Canadian Army Signals Mess Dinner Apeldoorn Jul 1945 (3)

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  First Canadian Army Signals with a Dutch civilian, Zeddam Netherlands April 1945

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  HRH The Princess Royal at Signals Sports Day 12 July 1942 (1)

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  HRH The Princess Royal at Signals Sports Day 12 July 1942 (2)

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  I Canadian Corps Signals Senior Officers 1941

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  Inspection at Camp Aldershot during the Second World War (1)

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  Inspection at Camp Aldershot during the Second World War (2)

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  Inspection of 4 Div Sigs during the Second World War (1)

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  Inspection of 4 Div Sigs during the Second World War (2)

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  Instructional Building c1940

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  LAC PA130257

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  LAC PA130914

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  LAC PA130918

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  LAC PA131254

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  LAC PA137427

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  LAC PA142071

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  LAC PA142263

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  LAC PA143891

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  LAC PA143893

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  LAC PA143895

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  LAC PA143896

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  LAC PA166940

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  LAC PA174411

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  LAC PA177032

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  LAC PA177103

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  LAC PA177757

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  LAC PA188808

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  LAC PA188814

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  LAC PA190219

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  LAC PA190498

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  LST 159 offloading Signals M14 Half-tracks, Juno Beach, June 1944

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  Lieut McDonald sending a message c1944

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  Line crew 2nd Divisional Signals WW2

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  Line doll carriage 2nd Canadian Divisional Signals

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  Line splicing circa 1945

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  Loading mules in Sicily 1943

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  Lt-Col C.P. Stacey portrait c1941-44 (1)

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  Lt-Col C.P. Stacey portrait c1941-44 (2)

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  Lucas lamp training during Second World War

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  Maj Gen Phillips visit to 1 Canadian Divisional Signals 18 July 1941

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  Mary, Princess Royal in uniform WW2

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  Mary, Princess Royal presents sports trophy WW2

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  Meal abord ship prior to D-Day landings

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  Message for despatch

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  Morse code training, Vimy Barracks, Second World War

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  No 1 Company 1st Canadian Divisional Signals 1939 photo detail 1

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  No 1 Company 1st Canadian Divisional Signals 1939 photo detail 2

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  No 1 Company 1st Canadian Divisional Signals 1939 photo detail 3

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  No 1 Company 1st Canadian Divisional Signals 1939 photo

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  Officers 1 CSRU 21 July 1942

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  Officers 1 CSRU HRH Mary visit 1 Feb 1944

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  Operating a Type 9 receiver set Zeddam Netherlands 4 April 1945

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  Parade at Camp Aldershot during the Second World War (1)

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  Parade at Camp Aldershot during the Second World War (2)

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  Parade at Camp Aldershot during the Second World War (3)

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  Parade at Camp Aldershot during the Second World War (4)

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  Peter Conroy Photos - Barriefield Training (1)

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  Peter Conroy Photos - Barriefield Training (2)

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  Peter Conroy Photos - Barriefield Training (3)

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  Peter Conroy Photos - Barriefield Training (4)

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  Peter Conroy Photos - Barriefield Training (5)

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  Peter Conroy Photos - Barriefield Training (6)

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  Peter Conroy Photos - Barriefield Training (7)

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  Peter Conroy Photos - Barriefield Training (8)

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  Peter Conroy Photos - Barriefield Training (9)

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  Peter Conroy Photos - England (1)

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  Peter Conroy Photos - England (2)

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  Peter Conroy Photos - England (3)

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  Peter Conroy Photos - England (4)

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  Peter Conroy Photos - England (5)

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  Peter Conroy Photos - England (6)

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  Peter Conroy Photos - England (7)

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  Peter Conroy Photos - England (8)

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  Peter Conroy Photos - England (9)

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  Peter Conroy Photos - On the Continent (1)

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  Peter Conroy Photos - On the Continent (2)

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  Peter Conroy Photos - On the Continent (3)

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  Peter Conroy Photos - On the Continent (4)

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  Peter Conroy Photos - On the Continent (5)

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  Peter Conroy Photos - On the Continent (6)

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  Peter Conroy Photos - Returning home (1)

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  Photo onship rccs

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  Photo trg centre calgary 1940 sigs

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  Physical Training in Drill Hall A c1940

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  Princess Royal Inspection, Camp Aldershot, 1940 (1)

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  Princess Royal Inspection, Camp Aldershot, 1940 (2)

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  Princess Royal inspecting 4 Div Sigs WW2 1943 (1)

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  Princess Royal inspecting 4 Div Sigs WW2 1943 (2)

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  Princess Royal inspecting 4 Div Sigs WW2 1943 (3)

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  Princess Royal inspecting First Canadian Army Signals December 1942

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  RC Sigs Guard of Honour for HRH The Princess Royal 12 July 1942

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  RC Sigs Sports Day 18 May 1941 (1)

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  RC Sigs Sports Day 18 May 1941 (2)

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  RC Sigs Sports Day 18 May 1941 (3)

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  RCCS Despatch Rider 1943

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  RCCS members with a C15TA

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  Running lines near Caen, 9 Jul 1944

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  Senior Signals Officers soon after VE Day WW2

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  Signal Office, Cobham Surrey England 24 October 1940

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  Signal Officers group photo Second World War UK

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  Signal post Italy 1944

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  Signaller with No 18 set 1945

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  Signallers 1944

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  Signals Line LVT in Scheldt

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  Signals Special Wireless Station Sept 1941

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  Signals Sports Day Ball Game 12 July 1942

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  Signals during Spitzbergen Raid 1941

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  Soldier on a Norton motorcycle

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  Sports Day May 1941 - Bruce Cameron photos (1)

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  Sports Day May 1941 - Bruce Cameron photos (2)

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  Sports Day May 1941 - Bruce Cameron photos (3)

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  Stringing line, Caen, 9 July 1944

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  Surrender of the Twenty-fifth German Army, Wageningen, 5 May 1945

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  Telephone linkup - Germans and Canadians in no-mans land, Wageningen Netherlands, 5 May 1945

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  Telephone linkup - Germans laying cable, Wageningen Netherlands, 5 May 1945

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  Telephone linkup - Germans laying line, Wageningen Netherlands, 5 May 1945

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  Telephone linkup - Wageningen Netherlands, 5 May 1945 (1)

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  Telephone linkup - Wageningen Netherlands, 5 May 1945 (10)

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  Telephone linkup - Wageningen Netherlands, 5 May 1945 (11)

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  Telephone linkup - Wageningen Netherlands, 5 May 1945 (12)

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  Telephone linkup - Wageningen Netherlands, 5 May 1945 (13)

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  Telephone linkup - Wageningen Netherlands, 5 May 1945 (14)

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  Telephone linkup - Wageningen Netherlands, 5 May 1945 (15)

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  Telephone linkup - Wageningen Netherlands, 5 May 1945 (16)

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  Telephone linkup - Wageningen Netherlands, 5 May 1945 (17)

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  Telephone linkup - Wageningen Netherlands, 5 May 1945 (2)

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  Telephone linkup - Wageningen Netherlands, 5 May 1945 (3)

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  Telephone linkup - Wageningen Netherlands, 5 May 1945 (4)

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  Telephone linkup - Wageningen Netherlands, 5 May 1945 (5)

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  Telephone linkup - Wageningen Netherlands, 5 May 1945 (6)

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  Telephone linkup - Wageningen Netherlands, 5 May 1945 (7)

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  Telephone linkup - Wageningen Netherlands, 5 May 1945 (8)

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  Telephone linkup - Wageningen Netherlands, 5 May 1945 (9)

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  Vehicle repair Belgium 6 January 1945

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  Vimy Barracks North side

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  Vimy Barracks aerial view date unknown

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  Vimy Barracks and Barriefield Concentration Camp c1940

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  Vimy Barracks entrance sign c1940

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  Vimy Barracks reading room c1940

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  Vimy Barracks sleeping quarters c1940 (2)

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  Vimy Barracks sleeping quarters c1940

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  Vimy Barracks water tower c1940

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  WW2 Cairn dedication MGen Weeks

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  Wireless Training Cameron and WS No. 11