An operation being carried out by a Field Surgery Unit, Royal Army Medical Corps, 1944 (c)

Photograph, World War Two, Italy (1943-1945), 1944 (c).

A Royal Army Medical Corps surgeon operates on a soldier with a gunshot wound to the abdomen. The procedure took place inside an Italian prison that was still under enemy fire.

From a collection of 650 photographs compiled by the Commando Association.