Wing Commander Ian "Widge" Gleed, leader of No. 244 Wing, in his Supermarine Spitfire Mk VB at an airfield in Tunisia, April 1943. Days later he was shot down and killed by Messerschmitt Bf 109s over Cape Bon. First World War inscribed 'kitchen waste'

inscribed 'kitchen waste'

It was first held in 1912 to mark the 50thanniversary of Alexandra's arrival from Denmark and continues to this day

A pack horse loaded with rubber trench boots (waiders) is led through the mud near Beaumont Hamel on the Somme battlefield

with mountains in thebackground

Winston Churchill raises his hat on the end of his walking stick to acknowledge a cheering crowd while travelling along a Bristol road during a visit to the city on 12 April 1941

Wing Commander Ian "Widge" Gleed, leader of No. 244 Wing, in his Supermarine Spitfire Mk VB at an airfield in Tunisia, April 1943. Days later he was shot down and killed by Messerschmitt Bf 109s over Cape Bon. First World War inscribed 'kitchen waste'Wing Commander I R "Widge" Gleed, leader of No. 244 Wing RAF, sitting in his Supermarine Spitfire Mark VB, AB502 'IR G', at an airfield in Tunisia. Below the cockpit is the same "Figaro the Cat" cartoon which Gleed had painted on his aircraft in the Unit