| STEN | Submachine gun used by British forces during World War II (4) |
| BREN | - - - gun, a light machine gun used by British forces in World War II (4) |
| HAIG | Douglas -, commander of British forces during the Battle of the Somme (4) |
| AMATOL | High explosive composed of TNT and ammonium nitrate, extensively used by British forces in WWI and WWII (6) |
| ENSA | Organisation that provided entertainment for the Forces during the Second World War (4) |
| CHANNELISLANDS | Only British territory occupied by German forces during World War II (7,7) |
| INDO | ___-Saracenic, a revivalist architectural style used by British Raj |
| COLT | Popular gun used by Dillinger and others |
| ROALDDAHL | British author, 1916-1990, who served in the Royal Air Force during World War II (5,4) |
| STUN | Type of gun used by a group of children on Alan and Phil in "The Hangover" |
| GALLIPOLI | Peninsula of NW Turkey between the Dardanelles and the Aegean Sea, scene of an attempted invasion of the Ottoman Empire by Allied forces during World War I 1915 (9) |
| CLARKGABLE | Gone With the Wind star who flew combat missions for the US Army Air Forces during World War II: 2 wds. |
| PATTON | Flamboyant US general best known for his leadership of armoured forces during World War II (6) |
| ARMY | Daft to discount British forces (4) |
| BADAJOZ | City in Extremadura, captured by British forces in the Peninsular War |
| BELGRANO | General ____ , Argentine navy ship sunk by British forces in the Falklands War of 1982 (8) |
| STENGUN | It became the standard light weapon used by British and Commonwealth armed forces in World War Two (4,3) |
| MONTCALM | Louis-Joseph de -, French general killed by British forces under James Wolfe in 1759 (8) |
| JERUSALEM | It was captured by British forces in 1917 |
| CRETE | Mediterranean island liberated from German occupation by British forces in 1945 |