King George VI rides in a royal carriage to Westminster Abbey for his coronation on May 12, 1937. Large crowd gathers to see the ceremony. Royal guards accompany the coach. Coach arrives in Buckingham Palace. Indian Sikh men watching among the crowd gathered outside the Buckingham Palace. King George VI is seen with Queen Elizabeth and others from a balcony. King George VI is seen with Queen Elizabeth pose with Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret for a formal family portrait. The King and Queen of the United Kingdom seated on thrones.
Rations load for soldiers and antiaircraft guns prepared in England, prior to the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France during World War II. A military truck backs into a ration dump. Truck driver and other men load boxes of field ration in the trucks. A U.S. Army Sargent takes record of the material loaded in trucks. A unit of antiaircraft guns under camouflaged cover and a soldier walks near them. Trucks loaded with ration packets stand near road.
Queen Mary, of Great Britain, reviews elements of the Womens Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), including motorized ambulance unit. All WAAC members in uniform, in formation. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, visits coal mines in Fife (Fifeshire), Scotland. Mine workers give them a great ovation. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip wear overalls, gumboots or Wellingtons and miner’s helmets during their visit. Queen Elizabeth II goes down into the mine to inspect the network of tunnels. Prince Philip chatting with a miner. Miners cheer for Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip.
British troops boarding train in United Kingdom, during World War I. Other soldiers walk along the platform of a railroad station, where a railroad train sits with its doors open. The doors identify the coaches as third class. Two officers converse. One smokes a cigar. A sign reads: "Cross The Line By The Bridge". Officers and soldiers board the railway train.
Admiralty responsible for the command of the Royal Navy in United Kingdom demonstrates Floating Air Strips. The emergency landing field named 'Lily Pond' is constructed of hexagonal segments. The Floating Air Strip on water. A plane comes in for a landing. Men watch the landing. The plane taxis. The location is Lamlash Bay, Isle of Arran in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland
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