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GALLERY: Defence 2008: A Year in Pictures

Joe Barnard JPG (39.3 KB)

Joe Barnard of Team Barnard holds up his helicopter-based Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in the MOD Grand Challenge M[Picture: Allan House]

King penguin Nils Olav JPG (112.8 KB)

King penguin Nils Olav inspects Norwegian guardsmen at Edinburgh Zoo before receiving his knighthood [Picture: Mark Owens, MOD]

Lieutenant Peter Reed RN JPG (105.7 KB)

Lieutenant Peter Reed RN with his Olympic gold medal [Picture: via MOD]

A civilian on security training JPG (347.9 KB)

A MOD civilian on security training in Iraq is manhandled across open ground [Picture: Allan House]

Kelly Gallacher JPG (155.3 KB)

Kelly Gallacher wore her Territorial Army uniform at her job in Superdrug [Picture: Marks Owens]

A hydrotherapy session JPG (90.6 KB)

A hydrotherapy session at the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre at Headley Court [Picture: Allan House]

Long walk home JPG (507.7 KB)

A lady carrying her shopping bags through Windsor Great Park on 5 June 2008 appears to be oblivious to men of the Coldstream Guards, carrying out rehearsals for the Queen's Birthday parade [Picture: Sergeant Mick Howard RLC]

Flight Lieutenant Michelle Goodman JPG (82.0 KB)

Flight Lieutenant Michelle Goodman (centre) became the first woman to be awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross [Picture: SAC Smith]

Dick Gale JPG (345.3 KB)

Royal Engineer Dick Gale poses for a shot above Camp Two during the expedition to traverse Makalu in the Himalayas [Picture: MOD]

Iraqi service personnel demonstrate their skills JPG (161.1 KB)

Iraqi service personnel demonstrate their skills at the opening of the new British-funded headquarters for the Department of Border Enforcement [Picture: LA (Phot) Jannine B Hartmann]

The new Type 45 destroyer Dragon JPG (123.3 KB)

The new Type 45 destroyer "Dragon" is launched into the Clyde from BVT's shipyard at Govan [Picture: LA (Phot) Simon Ethell]

L-R: Henry Allingham, Harry Patch, and Bill Stone JPG (229.1 KB)

World War One veterans (L-R) Henry Allingham, aged 112, Harry Patch, 110, and Bill Stone, 108 photographed for the 90th Annniversary of the Armistice [Picture: Don McCullin]

Lance Corporal Matthew Croucher, Royal Marine Reserves JPG (227.3 KB)

Lance Corporal Matthew Croucher, Royal Marine Reserves, displays the rucksack that absorbed most of the explosion when he dived on a live grenade to save his comrades in Afghanistan [Picture: PO (Phot) Terry Seward]

General Sir Richard Dannatt (in green)

Chief of the General Staff, General Sir Richard Dannatt (in green), undertakes his first ever parachute jump, with Red Devils team leader Sergeant Jay Webster [Picture: LCpl Steve Candlish PARA]

His Royal Highness Prince Harry (right) receives his medal from Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal JPG (37.9 KB)

His Royal Highness Prince Harry (right) receives his medal for Operation Herrick from Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal [Picture: E Lane Fox, MOD]

Marine Will Charters JPG (106.1 KB)

Marine Will Charters of 40 Commando's Bravo Company Group, rushes one of the wounded girls to the First Aid Post [Picture: LA (Phot) AJ MacLeod, MOD]

A Lancaster bomber flies over the Derwent Dam JPG (477.2 KB)

The Lancaster bomber flying over the Derwent Dam [Picture: Sgt Graham Spark]

A Royal Marine rests during a rare reflective moment on the front line JPG (60.3 KB)

A Royal Marine rests during a rare reflective moment on the front line [Picture: PO (Phot) Sean Clee]

The convoy en route to Kajaki dam JPG (122.8 KB)

The convoy delivered a hydro-electric turbine 180 kilometres by road from Kandahar airfield to Kajaki dam [Picture: Sgt Anthony Boocock, RLC]

Jackal vehicles in Afghanistan JPG (261.1 KB)

Jackal vehicles being put through their paces at Camp Bastion in Helmand province [Picture: Cpl Ian Houlding]

Archie Amos JPG (143.7 KB)

Archie Amos, aged six, salutes the parade of service personnel at the Cenotaph [Picture: Cpl Gabriel Moreno]

Relatives and friends at RAF Wittering await the return of 3 Squadron Royal Air Force Regiment JPG (43.5 KB)

Relatives and friends at RAF Wittering await the return of 3 Squadron Royal Air Force Regiment from a six month tour in Afghanistan [Picture: Cpl Graham Taylor (RAF)]

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Defence 2008: A Year in Pictures

The MOD website news team have once again picked out the images they think best represent our defence news coverage over the past year. A different image will be posted here each day until 24 December 2008.
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