3-023-491 - British Pathe Ltd/Heritage Images

A British Soldier Guarding a Gun Emplacement, 1940. Second World War. 'An island at bay - ready, yet hardly prepared. But an island in the midst of war, knowing a kind of peace. Peace that comes with knowing that one is doing the right thing, come what may. And so they waited patiently for the worst...'. From "Time To Remember - Standing Alone", 1940 (Reel 2); documentary film about events of later months of 1940.