File:Gunners with 4 inch rounds HMS Vivien 1940 IWM A 1770.jpg

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Description The gun crew of British V class destroyer HMS VIVIEN displaying shells for the QF 4 inch Mk XVI guns with which they shot down 1 enemy aircraft and severely damaged another during an attack on a British convoy on 11th November 1940.
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Image of the exterior main entrance to the Imperial War Museum in London. This photograph A 1770 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums
(collection no. 4700-01) 		Flag of the United Kingdom.
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Sidney James Beadell (1908–1974)  wikidata:Q87358880
 
Sidney James Beadell
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Sidney Beadell; S J Beadell; Lieutenant S J Beadell; Sydney James Beadell; James Sidney Beadell
Description photographer and military officer
Date of birth/death circa  Edit this at Wikidata 1974 Edit this at Wikidata
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