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Eastern Front
Russian Prisoners of War, 1915
Russian artillery retreating, Vistula Front, 1915
Russian Maxim Machine Guns, 1915
Russian infantry resting in a village, 1915
Austrian POWs digging Russian defences, 1915
Russian troops advance in a Polish wood, 1915
Russian Reservists report at St. Petersburg, 1914
The Russian 'Steamroller', c.1914
Serbian Front
Shell damage at Belgrade, 1914 (1 of 2)
Shell damage at Belgrade, 1914 (2 of 2)
Schneider 75mm QF Field Gun in Serbian Service
Oxen towing Serbian Artillery
Serbian Sniper at Belgrade, 1914
Western Front - General
Suspected French Spy under arrest, Somme
British and French Infantry, 1915
Namur with the Citadel
Cafe at Moelingen looted by Germans, 1914
Ruins of Moelingen, 1914
Dinant and the Citadel
The Fortress at Huy
Dinant from Above
Shelled Buildings at Moelingen, 1914
Refugees flee Tirlemont, 1914
Military Rescue Dog, c.1914
Motorbike Scouts with a message dog
Dogs pulling a machine gun, c.1914
Belgian Sentry guarding a ruined house, 1914
Shell damage at Haelen, 1914
Au Bon Marche, Brussels, as a military hospital 1914
Damaged railway line in Belgium, 1914
The Royal Palace, Brussels, in use as Hospital 1914
Belgian Refugees in Brussels, 1914
Ruins at Moelingen, 1914
Belgian Refugees heading to Brussels
Ruins near Louvain Railway Station, 1914
Ruins of Louvain Cathedral, 1914
Ruins of Louvain, 1914
War damaged church, 1914
Damaged House at Mechelen, 1914
Damaged facade, Mechelen, 1914
Shell damage at Mechelen, 1914
Cavalry equipment captured at Haelen, 1914
German Equipment captured at Haelen, 1914
German POWs at Bruges, 1914
Destroyed Leopold Bridge, Liege, August 1914
Chateau Walzin near Dinant
Peaceful valley in Alsace, pre First World War
Neutral Dutch Soldiers, 1914
Swiss-German Border, c.1914
German attack on the Chemin de Dames
Ruins of Arras Cathedral
Colmar, Alsace, c. First World War
French light railway bringing ammo to 75mm gun
Night Scene on the Western Front
Forest on Alsace Front, First World War
First Battle of the Marne
German dead at Lizy, First battle of the Marne
Aftermath of fighting at Barcy, First battle of the Marne
Archbishop celebrating first anniversary of First battle of the Marne
Verdun
Veterans of Verdun in the United States
Aftermath of fighting at Barcy, First battle of the Marne
Archbishop celebrating first anniversary of First battle of the Marne
Vimy Ridge
Canadians attack at Vimy
Aftermath of fighting at Barcy, First battle of the Marne
Archbishop celebrating first anniversary of First battle of the Marne
British Army on Western Front
Honourable Artillery Company, London, c.1914
Men of the BEF in Rouen, 1914
Waiting for Zero Hour, Thiepval, 26 September 1916
Captured German Lines, Gommecourt, Somme
Signallers in Lochnagar Crater, Somme
Captured German Trench, Montauban Alley, Somme, 1916
Walking Wounded from Mametz Woodin Pommier Redoubt, Somme, 1916
18-pounder field gun emplacement, 120th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, Somme
Preparing Grovetown Casualty Clearing Station, Somme, 1916
Major Beauchamp Magrath, 8th East Lancashire Regiment, Fonquevillers, winter 1915
Officers of 9th Rifle Brigade, August 1916
Lt Max Plowman, 10th West Yorkshire Regiment, Somme
Raiding Party, 1st/8th (Irish) Battalion, King's Liverpool Regiment, 18 April 1916
Irish Guards treat wounded prisoner, Pilckem Ridge, 31 July 1917
Machine Gun Section, 11th Hussars, Zillebeke Winter 1914-15
Vermorel gas dispersal spray, May 1915
1st Scots Guard, Big Willie Trench, Loos, October 1915
QF, 18-pdr Gun (British)
Mk IV Tank 'Hyacinth' Ditched at Cambrai, 20 November 1917
2in Trench Mortar Ammo being moved to the front, 28 June 1916
Portable Water Filter, c.1914
British Field Telephone, c.1914
German Observation Ladders, c.1914
British Red Cross Nurses leaving for the front, 1914
British Territorials on the Strand, 1914
British Cavalry arrives in France, August 1914
BEF Landing Horses in France, 1914
British Troops landing in France, August 1914
British Troops being welcomed to France, 1914
British Artillery land at Boulogne, 1914
British and French Troops mingle, August 1914
British Infantry on the road to Mons, 1914
French soldier guards a British camp at Boulogne, 1914
Horses commandeered by London Scottish
London Scottish in Hyde Park
Royal Marines at Ostend, August 1914
Royal Marines enter Ostend, 1914
Royal Marines relax outside Ostend
Royal Marines defending road outside Ostend
Indian Troops at a Port, c.1914
Sikh Troops, c.1914
English Nurses at Le Havre, 1914
Royal Army Medical Corp resting, 1914
British troops on an open wagon, 1914
British Troops cooking on way to front, 1914
British and Belgian Cavalry in the Winter Trenches
BEF Arrives at Boulogne, 1914
British Nurses arrive at Dieppe
Wounded Soldiers Writing Home, 1914
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps parades, Hyde Park
Princess Mary's VAD Chauffeur
Princess Mary inspects VADs in France
VADs on parade, Buckingham Palace, 1918
VADs in Royal Mews, Buckingham Palace
VADs maintaining ambulances, France
Patient being lowered into Red Cross Barge
British Ambulance Train, France, c.1916-18
Ward on Red Cross Barge
Ward on British Base Hospital, France
Female Ambulance Drivers, France
QMAAC tending cemetery, France
QMAAC Company marching to billets, France
British Third Corps parades at Brussels, c.1918
55th Division on Review, Brussels, 1918
British Troops Ice Skating by Rhine at Cologne, c.1918-19
British Troops watching ice on Rhine, Cologne, c.1918-19
British Military Police, Cologne, c.1918-19
Australian Army on Western Front
Australian Trench Shelter, Fleurbaix, June 1916
Australian Engineers with Dummy Tank, September 1918
Belgian Army on Western Front
Belgian troops with Maxim Machine Guns, 1914
Wounded Belgian in Hospital, 1914
Belgian Soldiers resting after Siege of Liege, 1914
Belgian Soldiers in the heat, 1914
Belgian Infantry attack Uhlans from barricade, 1914
Belgian Infantry at Brussels, 1914
Tired Belgian Infantry approach the Front, 1914
Belgian Armoured Cars, 1914
Belgian Ambulance Convoy, 1914
Belgian Troops digging trench, 1914
Belgian Troops prepare to burn house, Antwerp
Burning down house near Antwerp, 1914
Brussels Civil Guard digging Trenches
Belgian Infantry during retreat from Louvain
Belgian Refugees on a country road, 1914
Exhausted Belgian Gunners at Namur, August 1914
Barricade in Brussels, August 1914
Belgian dead during the fighting of 1914
Barricade in Brussels Street, 1914
Belgian Infantry marching to Haelen, 1914
Sandbags in Brussels, 1914
Belgian War Ministry, 1914
Brussels Civil Guard Disarming, 1914
Belgian Defences outside Liege, August 1914
Belgian Troops in trenches outside Liege, 1914
Belgian Soldier with carrier pigeon case, 1914
Belgian artillery retreats through Louvain
Belgian troops on Willebroeck Canal, Antwerp
Belgian Lancers Antwerp
Belgian Artillery outside Antwerp, 1914
Belgian Sappers at Work, 1914
Belgian Lancer with Uhlan's Horse
Belgian Third Infantry of the Line marches into Liege, 1914
Belgian Priest in the Trenches
British and Belgian Cavalry in the Winter Trenches
Field Kitchens and Ammo Trucks on road to Roulers, October 1918
Underground Supply Tunnel, Nieuport, 1918
Belgian Sentries on Dusseldorf Bridge
Belgian Engineers build defences on the Rhine
Belgian Machine Gun post, Dusseldorf Bridge
French Army on Western Front
French Infantry cooking during retreat to the Marne, 1914
Senegalese Tiraulleurs, c.1914
French Zouaves, c.1914
French Sentry in Adrian Helmet, 1915
French infantry sheltering behind hedge, 1915
French First World War Flamethrower
French soldiers at a Paris station, 1914
French Sappers at Belfort, 1914
Algerian Tirailleurs in France, 1914
British and French Troops mingle, August 1914
French Mounted Infantry with folded bikes
French Infantry column on the Allied Right, 1914
French Dragoon greets Belgian guard, 1914
French Dragoons in Belgium, 1914
French soldier guards a British camp at Boulogne, 1914
French cavalry advance towards Namur
French Soup Rations, 1914
French Lancers near Namur
French Cavalry Rearguard Action, 1914
American Volunteer enlists, Paris 1914
French Staff Officers in the field, 1914
French cavalry Belgian
French Dragoons forage for supplies, 1914
General Lienard presents Croix de Guerre, c.1915
French Dog clearing a house, First World War
French Troops enter Brussels, 1918
French enter Audenarde, November 1918
German Army on Western Front
German Parade in Brussels, 1914
German Cavalry in Brussels, 1914
German Hussar Officers, Brussels, 1914
German Machine Gun, Tsingtao, c.1914
German Officers of 180th Infantry Regiment, Thiepval, Somme
German Position on Thiepval Spur, Somme, 1916
Maxim MG08 Machine Gun, probably somewhere on the Somme
German burials around shell hole, Thiepval
German infantry on the march, c.1914
German Weapons Captured on the Somme, 1916
28cm L/12 Towed Howitzer (Germany)
German Reservists arrested in Britain, 1914
German Observation Ladders, c.1914
German Officers in Liege Town, August 1914
German Cavalry enters Moelingen, 1914
German Troops on Trench Exercises, c.1914
German Trench Digging Machine, c.1914
German Infantry unload supplies from wagon, 1914
German Troops marching with covered Helmets
German Cavalry in Brussels, 1914
German Infantry in Brussels, 1914
German Ammo Wagons in Brussels, 1914
Wounded Uhlan in Belgian hands, 1914
Aerial Photo from Maul Camera Rocket
German Infantry eating Lunch, 1914
German troops rest after capturing Vise, 3 August 1914
German Cavalry Camp, 1914
German Prisoners arrive at Roanne, 1914
German troops in the ruins of Liege, 1914
German troops in ruined Cafe, Liege, 1914
German Cavalry cross the Meuse, 1914
German Infantry resting, Belgium 1914
German Forage Wagons in Belgium, 1914
Maschinengewehr 08 Company in Belgian Woods
German Looters, Belgium, 1914
German Supply Wagons, Belgium 1914
German Troops in the Grand Place, Brussels, 1914
German supplies, Place d'Anvers Brussels, 1914
Tirpitz Battery Ostend, 1918
German Guns near Ostend
Abandoned German Guns, Etterbeek, 1918
Pacific Theatre
Tsingtao, c.1914
Chinese Police at Tsingtao, c.1914
Austro-Hungarian Army
Austrian Reservists in 1914
Aircraft
R.A.F. F.E.2 in 1912
Gas Tubes for filling Airships, c.1914
Pre-war Zeppelin over German City
Zeppelin Lz-18 (L-2)
Short S.81 'Gun Carrier' Seaplane
War at Sea - Royal Navy
Spink & Son Jutland Memorial Medal - Front
Spink & Son Jutland Memorial Medal - Reverse
HMS
Banshee
in heavy seas
HMS
Monarch
firing broadside
Stern of British Minelayer, c.1914
Cleaning funnel on pre-dreadnought battleship
Super-dreadnought HMS
Orion
HMS
Neptune
leads line of Dreadnoughts
Side guns on Edward VII Class pre-dreadnought battleship
Royal Navy in Mount Bay, Cornwall, c.1914
St. Vincent Class Battleship being Launched
HMS
Edinburgh
after use as target, 1908
HMS Hero turret ram
Watching the mouth of the Tyne, 1914
9.2in guns of HMS
Lord Nelson
15 ton block of armour plate for battleship
Steam Yacht Liberty, c.1914
British sailors wiring a mine, 1914
Prince Albert on HMS
Collingwood
, 1914
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Bow of HMS
Highflyer
Side view of HMS
Highflyer
British Mediterranean Fleet at Malta before First World War.
HMS Laertes (1913)
HMS Lion
WRENs parade, Crystal Palace
WRENs signalling with semaphore
War at Sea - Imperial German Navy
Officer's Mess, German Navy, c.1914
Pre First World War German Sailors
SMS
Blucher
capsizing at Dogger Bank, 24 January 1915
SMS
Derfflinger
sinking, 21 June 1919
Damage suffered by SMS
Derfflinger
at Jutland
Damage suffered by SMS
Derfflinger
at Jutland
SMS
Dresden
showing the white flag, Chile, 14 March 1915
SMS
Dresden
at New York, pre First World War
SMS
Goeben
with steam up
Close view of SMS
Goeben
SMS
Goeben
flying the German Naval Jack
Yavuz Sultan Selim
at Istanbul, 1946
Yavuz Sultan Selim
, 1918-1919
Yavuz Sultan Selim
in sea of Marmora, 1919-20
Kaiser Wilhelm II meets Enver Pasha on
Yavuz Sultan Selim
SS
Hohenzollern
(ii)
SS
Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse
SMS
Moltke
, c.1914-1917
The main 8.2in guns of SMS
Scharnhorst
SMS
Seydlitz
steaming to be interned, 21 November 1918
SMS
Seydlitz
before First World War
SMS
Von der Tann
soon after completion
SMS
Von der Tann
mid war
Home Front - Germany
German crowds cheer Kaiser Wilhelm II, 1914
Spandau Citadel
Home Front - Post-War Germany
Durham Light Infantry changing the guard, Cologne
Guards outside house of British Commander, Cologne
Battery of Royal Field Artillery east of Rhine, 1919
British Guards on Hohenzollern Bridge
Guards outside British Army Bank, Cologne
American Military Police, Rolandscek
British Mounted Police, Cologne
French Troops guarding bridge over Rhine, c.1919
German Officer crossing Rhine Bridge, c .1919
General Lecomte meets German Officials, Wiesbaden
Sir Douglas Haig meets Canadian officers, east of Rhine
Sherwood Forester on Guard Duty, Cologne
Canadians Guarding Palais Schaumburg, Bonn
Grenadier Guards marching onto Hohenzollern Bridge
British Blockade of the Rhine, c. 1919
British Motor Launch Patrol moored, Cologne
Grenadier Guards returning from route march, Cologne
Motor Launch ML542 on the Rhine at Cologne
Changing the Guard at Bonn University
21st Canadians crossing the Rhine at Bonn
Generals Mangin and Marchand meet on the Rhine, late 1918
French Pontoon Bridge over the Rhine at St. Goar
General Plumer watching British Troops crossing Rhine, 1918
BL 6-inch 26 cwt howitzer at Cologne during riots, c.1918
Austin Armoured Car passing Tram, Cologne, late 1918
British Sentry guarding German munition factory, Cologne
British Vickers Machine Gun Post, Cologne, late 1918
British Sentry watching Rhine at Cologne
British Sentry on Suspension Bridge at Cologne
President Poincare promotes Petain to Marshal
Border Regiment changing guard, Bonn University
13th Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment, Clothing Parade, Bonn
Lancashire Fusiliers changing the guard, Bonn
Crews of British Rhine Patrol drilling, Cologne
British Nurses visit Rhine Naval Patrol
18th Hussars at Cologne, December 1918
French Guards at Limburg, c.1918-19
Allied Military Attaches at British Second Army HQ, Cologne, February 1919
General Hirschauer reads proclamation at Kehl
Home Front - France
Bordeaux Prefecture, President Poincare's Residence 1914
French War Council HQ, Bordeaux, 1914
Bordeaux, c.1914
Austrian Jewellers Shop wrecked, Paris 1914
French troops guard German-owned shops, Paris, 1914
French Parade at Molsheim, late 1918
French Parade outside Strasbourg Cathedral, November 1918
French Troops dipping Colours in the Rhine, November 1918
General Castelnau in Colmar, December 1918
French Troops parade at Colmar, December 1918
Home Front - Great Britain
Yorkshire Light Infantry guard railway junction, Dublin 1914
London Territorials Preparing for War, 1914
National Volunteers, Ireland, 1914
Ulster Volunteers, 1914
Volunteers drill in Hyde Park, 1914
British Troops on London Buses, c.1908
John Redmond MP presents colours to the Maryborough Corps of Nationalist Volunteers
Motorbike Volunteers, Wimbledon, 1914
Recruits Drill in Hyde Park, 1914
Crowds at the Central London Recruiting Depot, 1914
Service Wives register for Army Pay at Swansea, summer 1914
Germans arrested at Swansea Docks, 1914
London Artist's Rifles drilling, 1914
Recruits drill on a beach in South Wales, 1914
Army Transport convoy in Buckinghamshire
Recruiting at Horse Guards Parade, 1914
Grenadier Guard on Duty at Buckingham Palace, 1914
German 'spy' at Montreal
POW Camp at Camberley, 1914
2nd King Edward's Horse at White City
2nd King Edward's Horse on Parade
Edward, Prince of Wales, leads a parade
Land Army Ploughing Contest, Maidstone
Munition Girls twisting haybands
Land Army Ploughing Lesson, First World War
Milking Time, Welbeck Abbey
Thresher Lessons, Agricultural School, Nottinghamshire
Pigs at Women's Farm Colony, Heathfield
Women's Land Army Harrowing, Oxfordshire
Land Girls build Hay Rick
Painting An Aeroplane Wing
Women constructing wing ribs
Women testing balance of airship propeller
Women making lines for non-rigid airships
Women preparing wires for airships
Women building R-class airship
QMAAC Reviewed at Aldershot
Cooking Apple Pudding for Army
Army Camp Kitchen, Dartford
Carpenters extending workshop
Welding at Royal Naval Airship Station
Machinist at Royal Naval Airship Station
Women's Land Army spraying fruit trees, Maidstone
Women's Forestry Corps felling a tree
Women's Reserve Ambulance Corps heading for Russia
Home Front - Belgium
Belgian Civilians returning to Antwerp, 1918
Refreshments for Belgian Refugees, 1918
Dover Ferry arrives at Ostend, 1918
Packing cases for loot, Ecole Militaire at Brussels, 1918
Instruments left by Germans, Ecole Militaire at Brussels, 1918
Damaged Electric Cranes, Ostend Harbour, 1918
Damaged Swing Bridge, Ostend Harbour, 1918
Ville de Liege
arrives at Ostend, 1918
Crowded Train, Belgium 1918
Checking Refuge Papers, Ghent
Removing damage to Ghent Station
Repairing damaged railway, Ghent
Belgian Victory Parade, Bruges, 1918
Victory Parade, Liege, 1918
British Third Corps parades at Brussels, c.1918
Marble Hall, Palais de Academies, Brussels, late 1918
Hall of the Royal Historical Commission, Palais de Academies, Brussels, late 1918
Belgian Hall, Palais de Academies, Brussels, late 1918
Great Hall, Palais de Academies, Brussels, late 1918
Temporary New Station, Ghent, late 1918
Repairing Stykens Lock, Ostend, 1918
Grand Place, Termonde, after liberation 1918.
King Albert's Band outside Royal Albert Hall, c 1918
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Irish Guards treat wounded prisoner, Pilckem Ridge, 31 July 1917
French First World War Flamethrower
Belgian troops with Maxim Machine Guns, 1914
Australian Trench Shelter, Fleurbaix, June 1916
Machine Gun Section, 11th Hussars, Zillebeke Winter 1914-15
Vermorel gas dispersal spray, May 1915
1st Scots Guard, Big Willie Trench, Loos, October 1915
Mk IV Tank 'Hyacinth' Ditched at Cambrai, 20 November 1917
2in Trench Mortar Ammo being moved to the front, 28 June 1916
German Weapons Captured on the Somme, 1916
Raiding Party, 1st/8th (Irish) Battalion, King's Liverpool Regiment, 18 April 1916
Australian Engineers with Dummy Tank, September 1918
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