In Pictures

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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" is launched into the Clyde from BVT's shipyard at Govan [Picture: LA (Phot) Simon Ethell]

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, 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]

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 for Operation Herrick from Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal [Picture: E Lane Fox, MOD]

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]

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 [Picture: PO (Phot) Sean Clee]

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

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

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 from a six month tour in Afghanistan [Picture: Cpl Graham Taylor (RAF)]
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