These pictures show the Winter Landscape of Italy in 1944/45, as the 5th Battalion moved from Gottammare (where they had celebrated Christmas) to Taranto. ❄️
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These Victorian Christmas cards were discovered in one of our photograph albums when we were digitising it. The naughty children are playing some quite nasty pranks on unsuspecting people! We're not sure you'd see a Christmas card with these designs on today! ✉️
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With origins tracing back to the 1840s Christmas crackers have long been a festive tradition. This photo shows men of the 1st Battalion celebrating Christmas in Malaya in 1955, with a Christmas cracker for every man!
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This picture shows two men of B Company, 1st Battalion, enjoying some much-deserved R&R and cooking a meal over a fire at Errol Flynn’s estate in Jamaica in 1961. 🔥
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This picture shows Serle's House in its ‘Christmas Colours’ after heavy snowfall in the 1990s! ❄️
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No Christmas would be complete without a paper crown! Men of the 1st Battalion can be seen wearing theirs at their 1955 Christmas dinner in Malaya. 👑
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On the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, @usatoday.com's Davis Winkie shows the Smithsonian in hiding -- and not for the first time -- over America's conficted nuclear legacy. #history #histsci #museumarchive #booksky #japan
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