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  • Marching grenadier bandsmen pass the war memorial in Horseguards Parade on the Queen's official Trooping the Colour ceremony
    grenadier_guards01-01-06-1996.jpg
  • A row or Royal Artillery horsemen during the annual Trooping of the Colour parade in the Mall. With swords drawn, the row of fine horse mounted soldiers parade along the Mall towards the parade ground at Horseguards. The Royal Regiment of Artillery, commonly referred to as the Royal Artillery (RA), is the artillery arm of the British Army. Despite its name, it comprises a number of regiments. The introduction of artillery into the English Army came as early as the Battle of Crécy in 1346
    royal_artillery-20-06-1991.jpg
  • Members of the British Royal Family appear on the balcony of Buckingham Palace after the Queen's annual Trooping the Colour ceremony, on 15th June 1991, in London, England. Present are the Queen and the Queen Mother; the Duke of Edinburgh; Princess Margaret; Prince Charles and Diana Princess of Wales and Prince Andrew.
    royal_family-15-06-1991.jpg
  • Members of the royal household's carriage troop process through Ascot during the annual Royal Ascot horseracing festival in Berkshire, England. Royal Ascot is one of Europe's most famous race meetings, and dates back to 1711. Queen Elizabeth and various members of the British Royal Family attend. Held every June, it's one of the main dates on the English sporting calendar and summer social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe's best-attended race meeting with over £3m prize money to be won.
    royal_ascot61-19-06-2013.jpg
  • German troops are ready to embark into a stationary Chinook helicopter during battle exercises in east Anglia, England. Waiting for the signal to climb aboard, they wear full battle-dress and camouflage for the English forest. Joining a joint force of British and foreign regiments, these Germans are distinctive by their helmets, still shaped much like their WW2 counterparts.
    german_troops-30-07-1996.jpg
  • Members of the royal household's carriage troop process through Ascot during the annual Royal Ascot horseracing festival in Berkshire, England. Royal Ascot is one of Europe's most famous race meetings, and dates back to 1711. Queen Elizabeth and various members of the British Royal Family attend. Held every June, it's one of the main dates on the English sporting calendar and summer social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe's best-attended race meeting with over £3m prize money to be won.
    royal_ascot63-19-06-2013.jpg
  • British Army soldiers gather outside the hospitality chalet of aerospace manufacturer Thales. Standing in mid-day sun, the troops are dressed in ISAF desert uniform, alongside a company-built Watchkkeper an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Watchkeeper WK450 is a £800 million contract awarded in July 2005 to Thales to provide the British Army with  or all weather, Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance (ISTAR) use. It has a weight of 450 kg and a payload capacity of 150 kg, and will have a typical endurance of 17 hours. The MoD's newest and most sophisticated surveillance and targeting drone, the Watchkeeper, is undergoing trials at Aberporth in west Wales. While the arguments over America's policy of "assassination by drone" rage across Pakistan and Afghanistan, fuelling public concern over the cold-eyed automation of warfare, the future of UAVs is quietly taking shape here on the Welsh coast, where there is daily proof that UAVs and manned aircraft can co-exist in British airspace.
    farnborough_airshow34-21-07-2010.jpg
  • Members of the royal household's carriage troop process through Ascot during the annual Royal Ascot horseracing festival in Berkshire, England. Royal Ascot is one of Europe's most famous race meetings, and dates back to 1711. Queen Elizabeth and various members of the British Royal Family attend. Held every June, it's one of the main dates on the English sporting calendar and summer social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe's best-attended race meeting with over £3m prize money to be won.
    royal_ascot60-19-06-2013.jpg
  • British Army Gurkha soldier instructs his men during an exercise on Salisbury Plain, the army's infantry training ground.
    army_instructor01-05-08-1996.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
  • Looking down a firing range towards numbered targets, 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_rifle10-06-03-2008 .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...
    remembrance21-07-11-2009.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
  • Members of the The Queen's Life Guard (red tunics) and the Blues and Royals (blue tunics) change the guard during the daily ceremonial in Horse Guards Parade, on 11th June 2019, in London, England. Life Guards have stood guard at Horse Guards, the official entrance to St James and Buckingham Palace, since the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660.
    guard_mount-04-11-06-2019.jpg
  • Members of the Blues and Royals (blue tunics) change guard with the Queen's Life Guard (red tunics) during the daily ceremonial in Horse Guards Parade, on 11th June 2019, in London, England. Life Guards have stood guard at Horse Guards, the official entrance to St James and Buckingham Palace, since the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660.
    guard_mount-02-11-06-2019.jpg
  • Formally-dressed gentlemen donate coins to soldiers from the Coldstream Guards (from nearby Windsor barracks and deploying to Afghanistan later this year) <br />
during the annual Royal Ascot horseracing festival in Berkshire, England. Royal Ascot is one of Europe's most famous race meetings, and dates back to 1711. Queen Elizabeth and various members of the British Royal Family attend. Held every June, it's one of the main dates on the English sporting calendar and summer social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe's best-attended race meeting with over £3m prize money to be won.
    royal_ascot75-19-06-2013.jpg
  • Carvings of battle and heroism outside the Palacio de Carlos V at Alhambra, Granada, Spain.
    alhambra_architecture-9-13-April-201...jpg
  • A boy soldier has collapsed on the ground suffering from fatigue and dehydration on a rigorous march conducted as a squad of soldier recruits, over undulating terrain with each candidate carrying a bergen (back pack) weighing 35 pounds (plus water) and a weapon. Two senior trainers haul the buy up who fell under the weight of his backpack and weapon carried on a hot day and without drinking enough fluids. The 10-mile march must be completed in 1 hour and 50 minutes and it forms part of the 14-week long Pegasus (P) Company selection programme that recruits wanting to join the British Army's elite Parachute Regiment, held regularly at Catterick army barracks in Yorkshire, need to pass (with other tests) before earning the right to wear the esteemed maroon beret.
    p_company02-30-07-1996 copy.jpg
  • On the 100th anniversary of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and before a march andflypast of 100 aircraft formations representing Britain's air defence history which flew over central London, service personnel prepare by A RAF recruiting hoarding, on 10th July 2018, in London, England.
    RAF_100-02-10-07-2018.jpg
  • Crosses and poppies mark fallen soldiers killed during recent conflicts, seen during Remembrance weekend at Westminster Abbey, London.
    remembrance10-10-11-2009.jpg
  • Members of the The Queen's Life Guard (red tunics) and the Blues and Royals (blue tunics) change the guard during the daily ceremonial in Horse Guards Parade, on 11th June 2019, in London, England. Life Guards have stood guard at Horse Guards, the official entrance to St James and Buckingham Palace, since the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660.
    guard_mount-13-11-06-2019.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
  • From 1,100m away, a shooting target at a firing range belonging to the Land Warfare Centre, has been punctured by bullet holes from a 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 1km. 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 army say it's their best ever sniper rifle.
    sniper_rifle09-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • Crosses and poppies mark fallen soldiers killed during recent conflicts, seen during Remembrance weekend at Westminster Abbey, London.
    remembrance02-10-11-2009.jpg
  • Members of the The Queen's Life Guard (red tunics) and the Blues and Royals (blue tunics) change the guard during the daily ceremonial in Horse Guards Parade, on 11th June 2019, in London, England. Life Guards have stood guard at Horse Guards, the official entrance to St James and Buckingham Palace, since the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660.
    guard_mount-11-11-06-2019.jpg
  • Members of the The Queen's Life Guard (red tunics) and the Blues and Royals (blue tunics) change the guard during the daily ceremonial in Horse Guards Parade, on 11th June 2019, in London, England. Life Guards have stood guard at Horse Guards, the official entrance to St James and Buckingham Palace, since the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660.
    guard_mount-08-11-06-2019.jpg
  • As crowds of supporters and protesters line the Mall in central London, Chinese leader Xi Jinping starts off his state visit to Britain. There is much attached to Anglo-Sino relations and this series of trade and diplomatic events is of great importance to the UK government in terms of new business and investment. Protesters however, voiced their distaste at human rights issues for dissenters and of the occupation of Tibet.
    xi_jinping_visit27-20-10-2015.jpg
  • Guardsmen march up Ludgate Hill before the funeral of Margaret Thatcher. Draped in the union flag and mounted on a gun carriage, the coffin of ex-British Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher's coffin travels along Fleet Street towards St Paul's Cathedral in London, England. Afforded a ceremonial funeral with military honours, not seen since the death of Winston Churchill in 1965, family and 2,000 VIP guests (incl Queen Elizabeth) await her cortege.
    thatcher_funeral14-17-04-2013.jpg
  • London 17/4/13 - Royal Navy sailors march before the funeral of Margaret Thatcher. Draped in the union flag and mounted on a gun carriage, the coffin of ex-British Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher's coffin travels along Fleet Street towards St Paul's Cathedral in London, England. Afforded a ceremonial funeral with military honours, not seen since the death of Winston Churchill in 1965, family and 2,000 VIP guests (incl Queen Elizabeth) await her cortege.
    thatcher_funeral05-17-04-2013.jpg
  • Young Paratroop Regiment squad run with 35lb loads during rigorous 10-mile march near sheep through Yorkskhire countryside
    paras_march01-23-06-1996.jpg
  • Armistice wreaths and traffic cones at the Royal Artillery war memorial at Hyde Park Corner.
    war_memorial16-02-12-2009 copy.jpg
  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
    sniper_rifle23-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • On US President Donald Trump's first day of a controversial three-day state visit to the UK by the 45th American President, Life Guards on their horses trot down the Mall, on 3rd June 2019, in London England.
    trump_visit-27-03-06-2019.jpg
  • On US President Donald Trump's first day of a controversial three-day state visit to the UK by the 45th American President, Life Guards on their horses trot down the Mall, on 3rd June 2019, in London England.
    trump_visit-25-03-06-2019.jpg
  • Members of the The Queen's Life Guard (red tunics) and the Blues and Royals (blue tunics) change the guard during the daily ceremonial in Horse Guards Parade, on 11th June 2019, in London, England. Life Guards have stood guard at Horse Guards, the official entrance to St James and Buckingham Palace, since the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660.
    guard_mount-07-11-06-2019.jpg
  • As crowds of supporters and protesters line the Mall in central London, Chinese leader Xi Jinping starts off his state visit to Britain. There is much attached to Anglo-Sino relations and this series of trade and diplomatic events is of great importance to the UK government in terms of new business and investment. Protesters however, voiced their distaste at human rights issues for dissenters and of the occupation of Tibet.
    xi_jinping_visit39-20-10-2015.jpg
  • As crowds of supporters and protesters line the Mall in central London, Chinese leader Xi Jinping starts off his state visit to Britain. There is much attached to Anglo-Sino relations and this series of trade and diplomatic events is of great importance to the UK government in terms of new business and investment. Protesters however, voiced their distaste at human rights issues for dissenters and of the occupation of Tibet.
    xi_jinping_visit13-20-10-2015.jpg
  • London 17/4/13 - Draped in the union flag and mounted on a gun carriage, the coffin of ex-British Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher's coffin travels along Fleet Street towards St Paul's Cathedral in London, England. Afforded a ceremonial funeral with military honours, not seen since the death of Winston Churchill in 1965, family and 2,000 VIP guests (incl Queen Elizabeth) await her cortege.
    thatcher_funeral29-17-04-2013.jpg
  • A guardsman stands to attention before the funeral of Margaret Thatcher. Draped in the union flag and mounted on a gun carriage, the coffin of ex-British Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher's coffin travels along Fleet Street towards St Paul's Cathedral in London, England. Afforded a ceremonial funeral with military honours, not seen since the death of Winston Churchill in 1965, family and 2,000 VIP guests (incl Queen Elizabeth) await her cortege. Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (1925 - 2013) was a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and the Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990, the longest-serving British Prime Minister of the 20th century and the only woman to have held the office to date.
    thatcher_funeral17-17-04-2013.jpg
  • A guardsman stands to attention before the funeral of Margaret Thatcher. Draped in the union flag and mounted on a gun carriage, the coffin of ex-British Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher's coffin travels along Fleet Street towards St Paul's Cathedral in London, England. Afforded a ceremonial funeral with military honours, not seen since the death of Winston Churchill in 1965, family and 2,000 VIP guests (incl Queen Elizabeth) await her cortege. Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (1925 - 2013) was a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and the Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990, the longest-serving British Prime Minister of the 20th century and the only woman to have held the office to date.
    thatcher_funeral08-17-04-2013.jpg
  • The graffiti left on walls inside the Reichstag building by Soviet soldiers after their battles in the German capital at the end of the second world war. The building, having never been fully repaired since the fire, was damaged by air raids. During the Battle of Berlin in 1945, it became one of the central targets for the Red Army to capture due to its perceived symbolic significance. Today, visitors to the building can still see Soviet graffiti on smoky walls inside as well as on part of the roof, which was preserved during the reconstructions after reunification.
    reichstag_soviet_graffiti01-04-04-20...jpg
  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
    sniper_rifle24-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
    sniper_rifle18-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • Members of the The Queen's Life Guard (red tunics) and the Blues and Royals (blue tunics) change the guard during the daily ceremonial in Horse Guards Parade, on 11th June 2019, in London, England. Life Guards have stood guard at Horse Guards, the official entrance to St James and Buckingham Palace, since the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660.
    guard_mount-03-11-06-2019.jpg
  • London 17/4/13 - Draped in the union flag and mounted on a gun carriage, the coffin of ex-British Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher's coffin travels along Fleet Street towards St Paul's Cathedral in London, England. Afforded a ceremonial funeral with military honours, not seen since the death of Winston Churchill in 1965, family and 2,000 VIP guests (incl Queen Elizabeth) await her cortege.
    thatcher_funeral27-17-04-2013.jpg
  • 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.
    remembrance20-10-11-2009.jpg
  • Members of the Blues and Royals (blue tunics) change guard with the Queen's Life Guard (red tunics) during the daily ceremonial in Horse Guards Parade, on 11th June 2019, in London, England. Life Guards have stood guard at Horse Guards, the official entrance to St James and Buckingham Palace, since the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660.
    guard_mount-01-11-06-2019.jpg
  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
    sniper_rifle15-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
    sniper_rifle01-06-03-2008 .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
  • British Army Parachute Regiment soldiers prepare for another bout of Milling, a test of aggression for new recruits. In this event, each candidate is paired with another of similar weight and build, and is given 60 seconds to demonstrate 'controlled physical aggression' in a milling contest - similar to boxing, except neither winning, losing, nor skill are pre-requisites of passing. Candidates are instead scored on their determination, while blocking and dodging result in points deducted. Candidates now wear head protection as well as boxing gloves.
    paras_milling01-30-07-1996.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
  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
    sniper_rifle17-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • On the 100th anniversary of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and before a march andflypast of 100 aircraft formations representing Britain's air defence history which flew over central London, service personnel prepare by A RAF recruiting hoarding, on 10th July 2018, in London, England.
    RAF_100-01-10-07-2018.jpg
  • Carvings of battle and heroism outside the Palacio de Carlos V at Alhambra, Granada, Spain.
    alhambra_architecture-13-13-April-20...jpg
  • On the 100th anniversary of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and after a march andflypast of 100 aircraft formations representing Britain's air defence history which flew over central London, foreign service oficers walk past an RAF recruiting hoarding, on 10th July 2018, in London, England.
    RAF_100-34-10-07-2018.jpg
  • A guardsman stands to attention before the funeral of Margaret Thatcher. Draped in the union flag and mounted on a gun carriage, the coffin of ex-British Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher's coffin travels along Fleet Street towards St Paul's Cathedral in London, England. Afforded a ceremonial funeral with military honours, not seen since the death of Winston Churchill in 1965, family and 2,000 VIP guests (incl Queen Elizabeth) await her cortege. Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (1925 - 2013) was a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and the Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990, the longest-serving British Prime Minister of the 20th century and the only woman to have held the office to date.
    thatcher_funeral20-17-04-2013.jpg
  • A guardsman stands to attention before the funeral of Margaret Thatcher. Draped in the union flag and mounted on a gun carriage, the coffin of ex-British Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher's coffin travels along Fleet Street towards St Paul's Cathedral in London, England. Afforded a ceremonial funeral with military honours, not seen since the death of Winston Churchill in 1965, family and 2,000 VIP guests (incl Queen Elizabeth) await her cortege. Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (1925 - 2013) was a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and the Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990, the longest-serving British Prime Minister of the 20th century and the only woman to have held the office to date.
    thatcher_funeral09-17-04-2013.jpg
  • British army Parachute Regiment recruits are suffering from fatigue on a rigorous forced march conducted as a squad, over undulating terrain with each candidate carrying a Bergen (backpack) weighing 35 pounds (plus water) and a weapon. The lads are slowly buckling under the weight of backpack Bergens and weapons carried on a hot day and without drinking enough fluids. The 10-mile march must be completed in 1 hour and 50 minutes and it forms part of the 14-week long Pegasus (P) Company selection programme that recruits wanting to join the British Army's elite Parachute Regiment, held regularly at Catterick army barracks in Yorkshire, need to pass (with other tests) before earning the right to wear the esteemed maroon beret.
    paras_p_company-30-07-1996.jpg
  • A boy soldier collapses on the ground suffering fatigue and dehydration on the rigorous 10-mile march conducted as a squad, over undulatiing terrain with each candidate carrying a bergen (back pack) weighing 35 pounds.(plus water) and a weapon. Three senior trainers help revive the lad with smelling salts who fell under the weight of his backpack and weapon carried on a hot day and without drinking enough fluids. The march must be completed in 1 hour and 50 minutes. This forms part of the 14-week long Pegasus (P) Company selection programme. Recruits wanting to join the British Army's Parachute Regiment held regularly at Catterick army barracks, Yorkshire need to pass this and other tests before earning the right to wear the esteemed maroon beret.
    RB-0070.jpg
  • Crosses and poppies mark fallen soldiers killed in Afghanistan, seen during Remembrance weekend at Westminster Abbey, London.
    remembrance14-10-11-2009.jpg
  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
    sniper_rifle19-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
    sniper_rifle05-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • 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)
    gurkha_barracks-16-01-1996.jpg
  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
    sniper_rifle15-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
    sniper_rifle04-06-03-2008 .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
  • 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
  • Members of the The Queen's Life Guard (red tunics) and the Blues and Royals (blue tunics) change the guard in front of the public and with a mounted police as security, during the daily ceremonial in Horse Guards Parade, on 11th June 2019, in London, England. Life Guards have stood guard at Horse Guards, the official entrance to St James and Buckingham Palace, since the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660.
    guard_mount-15-11-06-2019.jpg
  • Members of the The Queen's Life Guard (red tunics) and the Blues and Royals (blue tunics) change the guard during the daily ceremonial in Horse Guards Parade, on 11th June 2019, in London, England. Life Guards have stood guard at Horse Guards, the official entrance to St James and Buckingham Palace, since the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660.
    guard_mount-05-11-06-2019.jpg
  • On US President Donald Trump's first day of a controversial three-day state visit to the UK by the 45th American President, a Life Guard on his horse trots down the Mall, on 3rd June 2019, in London England.
    trump_visit-28-03-06-2019.jpg
  • Detail of a British Army infantry soldier's boot during a lull in an infantry exercise on Salisbury Plain, on 5th August 1996, in Warminster, UK. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • As crowds of supporters and protesters line the Mall in central London, Chinese leader Xi Jinping starts off his state visit to Britain. There is much attached to Anglo-Sino relations and this series of trade and diplomatic events is of great importance to the UK government in terms of new business and investment. Protesters however, voiced their distaste at human rights issues for dissenters and of the occupation of Tibet.
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  • Chic women (and a man) walk past serving Coldstream Guards soldiers collecting cash for charity during the annual Royal Ascot horseracing festival in Berkshire, England. Royal Ascot is one of Europe's most famous race meetings, and dates back to 1711. Queen Elizabeth and various members of the British Royal Family attend. Held every June, it's one of the main dates on the English sporting calendar and summer social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe's best-attended race meeting with over £3m prize money to be won.
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  • A formally-dressed gent walks past serving Coldstream Guards soldiers collecting cash for charity during the annual Royal Ascot horseracing festival in Berkshire, England. Royal Ascot is one of Europe's most famous race meetings, and dates back to 1711. Queen Elizabeth and various members of the British Royal Family attend. Held every June, it's one of the main dates on the English sporting calendar and summer social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe's best-attended race meeting with over £3m prize money to be won.
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  • Thames Valley Police officers walk past serving Coldstream Guards soldiers collecting cash for charity <br />
during the annual Royal Ascot horseracing festival in Berkshire, England. Royal Ascot is one of Europe's most famous race meetings, and dates back to 1711. Queen Elizabeth and various members of the British Royal Family attend. Held every June, it's one of the main dates on the English sporting calendar and summer social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe's best-attended race meeting with over £3m prize money to be won.
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  • London 17/4/13 - Royal Marines bandsmen with black drums march before the funeral of Margaret Thatcher. Draped in the union flag and mounted on a gun carriage, the coffin of ex-British Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher's coffin travels along Fleet Street towards St Paul's Cathedral in London, England. Afforded a ceremonial funeral with military honours, not seen since the death of Winston Churchill in 1965, family and 2,000 VIP guests (incl Queen Elizabeth) await her cortege.
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  • London 17/4/13 - Draped in the union flag and mounted on a gun carriage, the coffin of ex-British Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher's coffin travels along Fleet Street towards St Paul's Cathedral in London, England. Afforded a ceremonial funeral with military honours, not seen since the death of Winston Churchill in 1965, family and 2,000 VIP guests (incl Queen Elizabeth) await her cortege.
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  • Senior officer of the Household Cavalry rides before the funeral of Margaret Thatcher. Draped in the union flag and mounted on a gun carriage, the coffin of ex-British Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher's coffin travels along Fleet Street towards St Paul's Cathedral in London, England. Afforded a ceremonial funeral with military honours, not seen since the death of Winston Churchill in 1965, family and 2,000 VIP guests (incl Queen Elizabeth) await her cortege.
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  • London 17/4/13 - The coffin of Margaret Thatcher climbs Ludgate Hill before her funeral in St Paul's Cathedral. Draped in the union flag and mounted on a gun carriage, the coffin of ex-British Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher's coffin travels along Fleet Street the Cathedral in London, England. Afforded a ceremonial funeral with military honours, not seen since the death of Winston Churchill in 1965, family and 2,000 VIP guests (incl Queen Elizabeth) await her cortege.
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  • Detail of senior officers gloved hands before the funeral of Margaret Thatcher. Draped in the union flag and mounted on a gun carriage, the coffin of ex-British Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher's coffin travels along Fleet Street towards St Paul's Cathedral in London, England. Afforded a ceremonial funeral with military honours, not seen since the death of Winston Churchill in 1965, family and 2,000 VIP guests (incl Queen Elizabeth) await her cortege. Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (1925 - 2013) was a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and the Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990, the longest-serving British Prime Minister of the 20th century and the only woman to have held the office to date.
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  • Detail of senior officers gloved hand before the funeral of Margaret Thatcher. Draped in the union flag and mounted on a gun carriage, the coffin of ex-British Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher's coffin travels along Fleet Street towards St Paul's Cathedral in London, England. Afforded a ceremonial funeral with military honours, not seen since the death of Winston Churchill in 1965, family and 2,000 VIP guests (incl Queen Elizabeth) await her cortege. Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (1925 - 2013) was a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and the Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990, the longest-serving British Prime Minister of the 20th century and the only woman to have held the office to date.
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  • London 17/4/13 - A senior officer inspects a guardsman trooper before the funeral of Margaret Thatcher. Draped in the union flag and mounted on a gun carriage, the coffin of ex-British Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher's coffin travels along Fleet Street towards St Paul's Cathedral in London, England. Afforded a ceremonial funeral with military honours, not seen since the death of Winston Churchill in 1965, family and 2,000 VIP guests (incl Queen Elizabeth) await her cortege.
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  • London 17/4/13 - Marching guardsmen before the funeral of Margaret Thatcher. Draped in the union flag and mounted on a gun carriage, the coffin of ex-British Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher's coffin travels along Fleet Street towards St Paul's Cathedral in London, England. Afforded a ceremonial funeral with military honours, not seen since the death of Winston Churchill in 1965, family and 2,000 VIP guests (incl Queen Elizabeth) await her cortege.
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  • Guardsman, one black, march into position before the funeral of Margaret Thatcher. Draped in the union flag and mounted on a gun carriage, the coffin of ex-British Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher's coffin travels along Fleet Street towards St Paul's Cathedral in London, England. Afforded a ceremonial funeral with military honours, not seen since the death of Winston Churchill in 1965, family and 2,000 VIP guests (incl Queen Elizabeth) await her cortege.
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  • London 17/4/13 - Royal Marines march before the funeral of Margaret Thatcher. Draped in the union flag and mounted on a gun carriage, the coffin of ex-British Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher's coffin travels along Fleet Street towards St Paul's Cathedral in London, England. Afforded a ceremonial funeral with military honours, not seen since the death of Winston Churchill in 1965, family and 2,000 VIP guests (incl Queen Elizabeth) await her cortege.
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  • Troopers from the Household Cavalry struggle to fit a bridle on a heavy horse in a City of London courtyard before the annual Lord Mayor's parade through the London streets held every November. The tall horse bucks its head and fights the efforts of the two soldiers and one grimaces in the pressure to get ready for this ceremonial event, as other armed forces representatives march for the benefit of the new Lord Mayor. The British Household Cavalry is made up of two regiments of the British armed forces, the Life Guards and the Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons).
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  • Carvings of battle and heroism outside the Palacio de Carlos V at Alhambra, Granada, Spain.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • A British Army Parachute Regiment recruit punches an opponent during a bout of Milling, a test of aggression for new recruits. In this event, each candidate is paired with another of similar weight and build, and is given 60 seconds to demonstrate 'controlled physical aggression' in a milling contest - similar to boxing, except neither winning, losing, nor skill are pre-requisites of passing. Candidates are instead scored on their determination, while blocking and dodging result in points deducted. Candidates now wear head protection as well as boxing gloves.
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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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  • Crosses and poppies mark fallen Somerset regiments soldiers killed in action, seen during Remembrance weekend at Westminster Abbey, London.
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  • Crosses and poppies mark fallen Somerset regiments soldiers killed in action, seen during Remembrance weekend at Westminster Abbey, London.
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  • Crosses and poppies mark fallen soldiers killed in Iraq, seen during Remembrance weekend at Westminster Abbey, London.
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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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