Sandbagged guard post near Pantheon Theatre, at the corner of Range Road and North Kiangse Road, Shanghai, 1937

Fire fighters hosing down fires near Shanghai North Railway Administration Building, Boundary Road, Shanghai, 1937

Shanghai Fire Brigade fighting fires, Alabaster Road, Shanghai, 12 September 1937

Shanghai Fire Brigade fighting fires, Alabaster Road, Shanghai, 12 September 1937

Shanghai Fire Brigade fighting fires, Alabaster Road, Shanghai, 12 September 1937

Shanghai Volunteer Corps, American, British and Chinese soldiers watching fire fighters, Shanghai, 12 September 1937

Shanghai Fire Brigade fighting fires, Alabaster Road, Shanghai, 12 September 1937

Chinese soldiers watching fire fighters, Shanghai, 12 September 1937

British soldiers at a sandbagged guard post watching fire fighters, Shanghai, 12 September 1937

British soldiers in an alley barricaded with sandbags, Shanghai, 1937

British soldiers at a sandbagged guard post, Shanghai, 1937

Fighting fires, Shanghai, 1937

Fighting fires, Shanghai, 1937

British soldiers building sandbagged defences, Shanghai, 1937

British soldiers building sandbagged defences, Shanghai, 1937

Two boys sitting on sandbags as British soldiers build defences, Shanghai, 1937

Chinese Nationalist soldier looking out from a window, Shanghai, 1937

Nationalist soldiers between a gate and barricade, Shanghai, 1937

International Red Cross volunteers, Shanghai, 1937

A casualty on a stretcher being placed in a Shanghai Fire Brigade ambulance, Shanghai, 1937