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• PPA crews with their armed jeeps, Italy, with Bill O’Leary and Harry Rose — Courtesy of The Estate of Sgt Bill O’Leary MM. Used with permission.
• PPA men in Italy, with Ali Stewart, Bill O’Leary, George Sonley and Hector Simpson — Courtesy of The Estate of Sgt Bill O’Leary MM. Used with permission.
• The PPA football team, 1945 — Courtesy of The Estate of Sgt Bill O’Leary MM. Used with permission.
• PPA veterans at a reunion, 1995 — Courtesy of The Estate of Sgt Bill O’Leary MM. Used with permission.

Who Were They?

• PPA men in Italy — Courtesy of The Estate of Sgt Bill O’Leary MM. Used with permission.
• The PPA football team, 1945 — Courtesy of The Estate of Sgt Bill O’Leary MM. Used with permission.
• Organisation chart of PPA in Italy — original illustration, © PopskisPrivateArmy.com.

Vladimir Peniakoff

• Maj Vladimir Peniakoff DSO MC — frontispiece of Private Army (1950); photographer not recorded. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (File:Popski.jpg).
• Popski’s staff car, Austria, 1945, with Bill O’Leary and Michele Cahill — Courtesy of The Estate of Sgt Bill O’Leary MM. Used with permission.

North Africa and Tunisia

• An LRDG patrol leaving Siwa oasis, 25 May 1942 — Lt Graham, No. 1 Army Film & Photographic Unit (IWM E 12375). Public domain – UK Crown copyright expired, via Wikimedia Commons.
• PPA in North Africa, 1942–43 — Original map, © PopskisPrivateArmy.com. Coastlines and borders from Natural Earth (public domain).

Italy and Ravenna

• PPA’s route through Italy, 1943–45 — Original map, © PopskisPrivateArmy.com. Coastlines and borders from Natural Earth (public domain).
• A PPA gun jeep in action — Courtesy of The Estate of Sgt Bill O’Leary MM. Used with permission.
• ‘S’ Patrol at Piedimonte d’Alife — Courtesy of The Estate of Sgt Bill O’Leary MM. Used with permission.
• A. D. Cahill and Bill O’Leary in their jeep — Courtesy of The Estate of Sgt Bill O’Leary MM. Used with permission.
• A PPA jeep crew with Browning machine guns — Courtesy of The Estate of Sgt Bill O’Leary MM. Used with permission.
• PPA men with an armoured car — Courtesy of The Estate of Sgt Bill O’Leary MM. Used with permission.
• Popski’s staff car, Austria, 1945 — Courtesy of The Estate of Sgt Bill O’Leary MM. Used with permission.

Why “Popski”?

• Vladimir Peniakoff — frontispiece of Private Army (1950); photographer not recorded. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (File:Popski.jpg).

Members

• PPA veterans at the Imperial War Museum, 23 November 1995 — Courtesy of The Estate of Sgt Bill O’Leary MM. Used with permission.

The Astrolabe Badge

• Illustration of an armillary sphere in the style of the PPA badge — original illustration, © PopskisPrivateArmy.com.

Documents

Award recommendations are transcribed from records held by The National Archives, and London Gazette notices are reproduced from The Gazette. Both are used under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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