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Eastern Front : General : Serbian Front
Western Front : General : British Army : Australian Army : Belgian Army : French Army : German Army : US Army
Austro-Hungarian Army
Other Fronts: Pacific Theatre : Middle East
Individual Battles: First battle of the Marne : Somme : Verdun : Vimy Ridge : Cantigny
Aircraft
War at Sea : Royal Navy : Imperial German Navy
Home Front : Germany : France : Great Britain : Belgium
Other Galleries: Leaders : Maps

Eastern Front

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  Russian Prisoners of War, 1915
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  Russian artillery retreating, Vistula Front, 1915
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  Russian Maxim Machine Guns, 1915
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  Russian infantry resting in a village, 1915
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  Austrian POWs digging Russian defences, 1915
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  Russian troops advance in a Polish wood, 1915
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  Russian Reservists report at St. Petersburg, 1914
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  The Russian 'Steamroller', c.1914

Serbian Front

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  Shell damage at Belgrade, 1914 (1 of 2)
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  Shell damage at Belgrade, 1914 (2 of 2)
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  Schneider 75mm QF Field Gun in Serbian Service
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  Oxen towing Serbian Artillery
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  Serbian Sniper at Belgrade, 1914

Western Front - General

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  Canadian Hospital at Etaples bombed, May 1918
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  Canadian Hospital Ward bombed, 1918
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  Suspected French Spy under arrest, Somme
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  British and French Infantry, 1915
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  Namur with the Citadel
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  Cafe at Moelingen looted by Germans, 1914
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  Ruins of Moelingen, 1914
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  Dinant and the Citadel
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  The Fortress at Huy
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  Dinant from Above
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  Shelled Buildings at Moelingen, 1914
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  Refugees flee Tirlemont, 1914
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  Military Rescue Dog, c.1914
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  Motorbike Scouts with a message dog
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  Dogs pulling a machine gun, c.1914
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  Belgian Sentry guarding a ruined house, 1914
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  Shell damage at Haelen, 1914
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  Au Bon Marche, Brussels, as a military hospital 1914
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  Damaged railway line in Belgium, 1914
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  The Royal Palace, Brussels, in use as Hospital 1914
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  Belgian Refugees in Brussels, 1914
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  Ruins at Moelingen, 1914
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  Belgian Refugees heading to Brussels
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  Ruins near Louvain Railway Station, 1914
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  Ruins of Louvain Cathedral, 1914
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  Ruins of Louvain, 1914
• War damaged church, 1914
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  Damaged House at Mechelen, 1914
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  Damaged facade, Mechelen, 1914
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  Shell damage at Mechelen, 1914
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  Cavalry equipment captured at Haelen, 1914
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  German Equipment captured at Haelen, 1914
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  German POWs at Bruges, 1914
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  Destroyed Leopold Bridge, Liege, August 1914
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  Chateau Walzin near Dinant
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  Peaceful valley in Alsace, pre First World War
• Neutral Dutch Soldiers, 1914
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  Swiss-German Border, c.1914
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  German attack on the Chemin de Dames
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  Ruins of Arras Cathedral
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  Colmar, Alsace, c. First World War
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  French light railway bringing ammo to 75mm gun
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  Night Scene on the Western Front
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  Forest on Alsace Front, First World War

First Battle of the Marne

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  German dead at Lizy, First battle of the Marne
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  Aftermath of fighting at Barcy, First battle of the Marne
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  Archbishop celebrating first anniversary of First battle of the Marne

Verdun

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  Veterans of Verdun in the United States

Vimy Ridge

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  Canadians attack at Vimy

Second Battle of the Marne

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  US Infantry on Moselle Front, 1918

St Mihiel

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  US Troops in Fismes, August 1918

Cantigny

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  US Troops at Battle of Cantigny, 28 May 1918
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  Americans attack at Cantigny, May 1918

British Army on Western Front

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  Honourable Artillery Company, London, c.1914
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  Men of the BEF in Rouen, 1914
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  Waiting for Zero Hour, Thiepval, 26 September 1916
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  Captured German Lines, Gommecourt, Somme
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  Signallers in Lochnagar Crater, Somme
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  Captured German Trench, Montauban Alley, Somme, 1916
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  Walking Wounded from Mametz Woodin Pommier Redoubt, Somme, 1916
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  18-pounder field gun emplacement, 120th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, Somme
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  Preparing Grovetown Casualty Clearing Station, Somme, 1916
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  Major Beauchamp Magrath, 8th East Lancashire Regiment, Fonquevillers, winter 1915
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  Officers of 9th Rifle Brigade, August 1916
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  Lt Max Plowman, 10th West Yorkshire Regiment, Somme
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  Raiding Party, 1st/8th (Irish) Battalion, King's Liverpool Regiment, 18 April 1916
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  Irish Guards treat wounded prisoner, Pilckem Ridge, 31 July 1917
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  Machine Gun Section, 11th Hussars, Zillebeke Winter 1914-15
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  Vermorel gas dispersal spray, May 1915
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  1st Scots Guard, Big Willie Trench, Loos, October 1915
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  QF, 18-pdr Gun (British)
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  Mk IV Tank 'Hyacinth' Ditched at Cambrai, 20 November 1917
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  2in Trench Mortar Ammo being moved to the front, 28 June 1916
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  Portable Water Filter, c.1914
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  British Field Telephone, c.1914
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  German Observation Ladders, c.1914
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  British Red Cross Nurses leaving for the front, 1914
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  British Territorials on the Strand, 1914
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  British Cavalry arrives in France, August 1914
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  BEF Landing Horses in France, 1914
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  British Troops landing in France, August 1914
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  British Troops being welcomed to France, 1914
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  British Artillery land at Boulogne, 1914
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  British and French Troops mingle, August 1914
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  British Infantry on the road to Mons, 1914
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  French soldier guards a British camp at Boulogne, 1914
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  Horses commandeered by London Scottish
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  London Scottish in Hyde Park
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  Royal Marines at Ostend, August 1914
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  Royal Marines enter Ostend, 1914
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  Royal Marines relax outside Ostend
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  Royal Marines defending road outside Ostend
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  Indian Troops at a Port, c.1914
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  Sikh Troops, c.1914
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  English Nurses at Le Havre, 1914
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  Royal Army Medical Corp resting, 1914
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  British troops on an open wagon, 1914
• British Troops cooking on way to front, 1914
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  British and Belgian Cavalry in the Winter Trenches
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  BEF Arrives at Boulogne, 1914
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  British Nurses arrive at Dieppe
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  Wounded Soldiers Writing Home, 1914
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  Women's Army Auxiliary Corps parades, Hyde Park
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  Princess Mary's VAD Chauffeur
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  Princess Mary inspects VADs in France
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  VADs on parade, Buckingham Palace, 1918
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  VADs in Royal Mews, Buckingham Palace
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  VADs maintaining ambulances, France
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  Patient being lowered into Red Cross Barge
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  British Ambulance Train, France, c.1916-18
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  Ward on Red Cross Barge
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  Ward on British Base Hospital, France
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  Female Ambulance Drivers, France
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  QMAAC tending cemetery, France
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  QMAAC Company marching to billets, France
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  British Third Corps parades at Brussels, c.1918
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  55th Division on Review, Brussels, 1918
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  British Troops Ice Skating by Rhine at Cologne, c.1918-19
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  British Troops watching ice on Rhine, Cologne, c.1918-19
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  British Military Police, Cologne, c.1918-19

Australian Army on Western Front

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  Australian Trench Shelter, Fleurbaix, June 1916
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  Australian Engineers with Dummy Tank, September 1918

Belgian Army on Western Front

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  Belgian troops with Maxim Machine Guns, 1914
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  Wounded Belgian in Hospital, 1914
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  Belgian Soldiers resting after Siege of Liege, 1914
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  Belgian Soldiers in the heat, 1914
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  Belgian Infantry attack Uhlans from barricade, 1914
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  Belgian Infantry at Brussels, 1914
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  Tired Belgian Infantry approach the Front, 1914
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  Belgian Armoured Cars, 1914
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  Belgian Ambulance Convoy, 1914
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  Belgian Troops digging trench, 1914
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  Belgian Troops prepare to burn house, Antwerp
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  Burning down house near Antwerp, 1914
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  Brussels Civil Guard digging Trenches
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  Belgian Infantry during retreat from Louvain
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  Belgian Refugees on a country road, 1914
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  Exhausted Belgian Gunners at Namur, August 1914
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  Barricade in Brussels, August 1914
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  Belgian dead during the fighting of 1914
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  Barricade in Brussels Street, 1914
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  Belgian Infantry marching to Haelen, 1914
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  Sandbags in Brussels, 1914
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  Belgian War Ministry, 1914
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  Brussels Civil Guard Disarming, 1914
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  Belgian Defences outside Liege, August 1914
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  Belgian Troops in trenches outside Liege, 1914
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  Belgian Soldier with carrier pigeon case, 1914
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  Belgian artillery retreats through Louvain
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  Belgian troops on Willebroeck Canal, Antwerp
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  Belgian Lancers Antwerp
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  Belgian Artillery outside Antwerp, 1914
• Belgian Sappers at Work, 1914
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  Belgian Lancer with Uhlan's Horse
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  Belgian Third Infantry of the Line marches into Liege, 1914
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  Belgian Priest in the Trenches
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  British and Belgian Cavalry in the Winter Trenches
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  Field Kitchens and Ammo Trucks on road to Roulers, October 1918
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  Underground Supply Tunnel, Nieuport, 1918
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  Belgian Sentries on Dusseldorf Bridge
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  Belgian Engineers build defences on the Rhine
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  Belgian Machine Gun post, Dusseldorf Bridge

French Army on Western Front

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  French Infantry cooking during retreat to the Marne, 1914
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  Senegalese Tiraulleurs, c.1914
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  French Zouaves, c.1914
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  French Sentry in Adrian Helmet, 1915
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  French infantry sheltering behind hedge, 1915
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  French First World War Flamethrower
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  French soldiers at a Paris station, 1914
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  French Sappers at Belfort, 1914
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  Algerian Tirailleurs in France, 1914
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  British and French Troops mingle, August 1914
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  French Mounted Infantry with folded bikes
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  French Infantry column on the Allied Right, 1914
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  French Dragoon greets Belgian guard, 1914
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  French Dragoons in Belgium, 1914
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  French soldier guards a British camp at Boulogne, 1914
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  French cavalry advance towards Namur
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  French Soup Rations, 1914
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  French Lancers near Namur
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  French Cavalry Rearguard Action, 1914
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  American Volunteer enlists, Paris 1914
• French Staff Officers in the field, 1914
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  French cavalry Belgian
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  French Dragoons forage for supplies, 1914
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  General Lienard presents Croix de Guerre, c.1915
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  French Dog clearing a house, First World War
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  French Troops enter Brussels, 1918
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  French enter Audenarde, November 1918

German Army on Western Front

• German Parade in Brussels, 1914
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  German Cavalry in Brussels, 1914
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  German Hussar Officers, Brussels, 1914
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  German Machine Gun, Tsingtao, c.1914
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  German Officers of 180th Infantry Regiment, Thiepval, Somme
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  German Position on Thiepval Spur, Somme, 1916
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  Maxim MG08 Machine Gun, probably somewhere on the Somme
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  German burials around shell hole, Thiepval
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  German infantry on the march, c.1914
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  German Weapons Captured on the Somme, 1916
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  28cm L/12 Towed Howitzer (Germany)
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  German Reservists arrested in Britain, 1914
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  German Observation Ladders, c.1914
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  German Officers in Liege Town, August 1914
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  German Cavalry enters Moelingen, 1914
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  German Troops on Trench Exercises, c.1914
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  German Trench Digging Machine, c.1914
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  German Infantry unload supplies from wagon, 1914
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  German Troops marching with covered Helmets
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  German Cavalry in Brussels, 1914
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  German Infantry in Brussels, 1914
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  German Ammo Wagons in Brussels, 1914
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  Wounded Uhlan in Belgian hands, 1914
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  Aerial Photo from Maul Camera Rocket
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  German Infantry eating Lunch, 1914
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  German troops rest after capturing Vise, 3 August 1914
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  German Cavalry Camp, 1914
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  German Prisoners arrive at Roanne, 1914
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  German troops in the ruins of Liege, 1914
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  German troops in ruined Cafe, Liege, 1914
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  German Cavalry cross the Meuse, 1914
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  German Infantry resting, Belgium 1914
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  German Forage Wagons in Belgium, 1914
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  Maschinengewehr 08 Company in Belgian Woods
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  German Looters, Belgium, 1914
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  German Supply Wagons, Belgium 1914
• German Troops in the Grand Place, Brussels, 1914
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  German supplies, Place d'Anvers Brussels, 1914
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  Tirpitz Battery Ostend, 1918
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  German Guns near Ostend
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  Abandoned German Guns, Etterbeek, 1918
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  Jagdgeschwader 1 (JG 1), 1918

US Army

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  US Graves at Vaux, 1918
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  US 8in Howitzer in Action, 1918
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  US Army of Occupation at Treves, late 1918
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  US Troops viewing the Fort of Coblenz
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  US Army of Occupation enters Coblenz, 1918
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  US Troops near Pfalzgrafenstein Castle
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  US 27th Division Victory Parade, New York, 1919
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  Four American Locomotives for Western Front
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  American Engineers completing Baldwin Locomotive
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  Americans building new dock at French Port
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  Renault FT towing wagon full of bikes, 1918
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  SS Lapland returned US troops to New York after the Armistice
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  German POWs captured at St. Mihiel
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  US and German Policemen guard bridge at Coblenz together
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  US Troops on the Ludendorff Bridge, c.1918
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  US Troops Enter Coblenz, 1918
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  Schiffbrucke at Coblenz open to allow ship to pass, c.1918
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  Schiffbrucke at Coblenz in use, c.1918
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  US Armed Motor Launch on Rhine, c.1918

Pacific Theatre

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  Tsingtao, c.1914
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  Chinese Police at Tsingtao, c.1914

Middle East

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  Pioneers and Sappers building road in Persia, 1918
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  Daraa Junction being bombed, late 1918
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  Inn of the good Samaritan from the air, c.1918
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  City Gate, Qazvin, 1918
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  Tehran Gate, Qazvin, 1918
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  Ruined Temple at Babylon, 1918
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  Bridge near Kangavar, Persian, 1918
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  Gurkha Post near Emanzadeh, Persia, 1918
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  British Infantry outside former Turkish HQ, Kirkuk
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  Turkish Troops surrendering, Mesopotamia, c.1917-18
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  Persian Police being drilled, c.1918
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  Persian Levies being drilled, c.1918
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  Gas Mask Training in Mesopotamia, c.1918
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  Mounted Police in Mesopotamia, c.1918
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  Rifle Training for Arab Police, c.1918
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  Sikhs preparing for festival, Mesopotamia
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  RAF R.E.8 over Mesopotamia
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  Commodore Morris and General Dunsterville
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  General Dunsterville and Staff
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  Armenian Refugees at Hamadan, 1918
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  Armenia Troops drilling at Baku, 1918
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  British Observer and Armenian Troops, Baku
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  Armenian Soldier on Outpost Duty, Baku 1918
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  General Dunsterville greets young Armenian Soldier
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  Armenian Female Solder, Baku, 1918
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  Artillery inside Baku Arsenal 1918
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  Artillery outside Baku Arsenal 1918
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  Baku Street Scene, autumn 1918
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  Armenian Troops drilling, Baku, 1918
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  Oil Wells at Baku, 1918
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  British Military Notice, Baku
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  Persians waiting for water ration, 1918
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  Arab Mounted Police crossing dried ancient canal
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  Insect class gunboat firing her guns on the Tigris
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  HMS Sedgefly in action, Tigris, c.1918
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  North Staffordshire Regiment, Baladajar Station
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  British troops at Narin Kupri Bridge, 1918
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  Union Jack raised over Kirkuk, October 1918
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  Baku Harbour, 1918

Austro-Hungarian Army

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  Austrian Reservists in 1914

Aircraft

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  Zeppelin Shed at Maubeuge, 12 November 1918
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  Airship R.34 on the Ground
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  British Fighters over the Alps, c.1918
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  23-class Airship and SS class blimp of First World War
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  R.A.F. F.E.2 in 1912
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  Gas Tubes for filling Airships, c.1914
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  Pre-war Zeppelin over German City
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  Zeppelin Lz-18 (L-2)
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  French Officer in gondola of Zeppelin L49
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  Zeppelin L49 in France
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  Commander's Cabin of Zeppelin L49
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  Short S.81 'Gun Carrier' Seaplane
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  RAF Smoke Bomb explodes, c.1918
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  Smoke from smoke bomb settles over water

War at Sea - Royal Navy

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  Spink & Son Jutland Memorial Medal - Front
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  Spink & Son Jutland Memorial Medal - Reverse
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  HMS Banshee in heavy seas
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  HMS Monarch firing broadside
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  Stern of British Minelayer, c.1914
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  Cleaning funnel on pre-dreadnought battleship
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  Super-dreadnought HMS Orion
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  HMS Neptune leads line of Dreadnoughts
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  Side guns on Edward VII Class pre-dreadnought battleship
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  Royal Navy in Mount Bay, Cornwall, c.1914
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  St. Vincent Class Battleship being Launched
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  HMS Edinburgh after use as target, 1908
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  HMS Hero turret ram
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  Watching the mouth of the Tyne, 1914
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  9.2in guns of HMS Lord Nelson
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  15 ton block of armour plate for battleship
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  Steam Yacht Liberty, c.1914
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  British sailors wiring a mine, 1914
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  Prince Albert on HMS Collingwood, 1914
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  Bow of HMS Highflyer
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  Side view of HMS Highflyer
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  British Mediterranean Fleet at Malta before First World War.
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  HMS Laertes (1913)
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  HMS Lion
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  WRENs parade, Crystal Palace
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  WRENs signalling with semaphore

War at Sea - Imperial German Navy

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  Officer's Mess, German Navy, c.1914
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  Pre First World War German Sailors
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  SMS Blucher capsizing at Dogger Bank, 24 January 1915
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  SMS Derfflinger sinking, 21 June 1919
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  Damage suffered by SMS Derfflinger at Jutland
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  Damage suffered by SMS Derfflinger at Jutland
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  SMS Dresden showing the white flag, Chile, 14 March 1915
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  SMS Dresden at New York, pre First World War
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  SMS Goeben with steam up
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  Close view of SMS Goeben
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  SMS Goeben flying the German Naval Jack
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  Yavuz Sultan Selim at Istanbul, 1946
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  Yavuz Sultan Selim, 1918-1919
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  Yavuz Sultan Selim in sea of Marmora, 1919-20
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  Kaiser Wilhelm II meets Enver Pasha on Yavuz Sultan Selim
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  SS Hohenzollern (ii)
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  SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse
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  SMS Moltke, c.1914-1917
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  The main 8.2in guns of SMS Scharnhorst
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  SMS Seydlitz steaming to be interned, 21 November 1918
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  SMS Seydlitz before First World War
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  SMS Von der Tann soon after completion
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  SMS Von der Tann mid war

Home Front - Germany

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  German crowds cheer Kaiser Wilhelm II, 1914
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  Spandau Citadel

Home Front - Post-War Germany

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  Durham Light Infantry changing the guard, Cologne
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  Guards outside house of British Commander, Cologne
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  Battery of Royal Field Artillery east of Rhine, 1919
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  British Guards on Hohenzollern Bridge
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  Guards outside British Army Bank, Cologne
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  American Military Police, Rolandscek
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  British Mounted Police, Cologne
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  French Troops guarding bridge over Rhine, c.1919
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  German Officer crossing Rhine Bridge, c .1919
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  General Lecomte meets German Officials, Wiesbaden
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  Sir Douglas Haig meets Canadian officers, east of Rhine
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  Sherwood Forester on Guard Duty, Cologne
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  Canadians Guarding Palais Schaumburg, Bonn
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  Grenadier Guards marching onto Hohenzollern Bridge
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  British Blockade of the Rhine, c. 1919
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  British Motor Launch Patrol moored, Cologne
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  Grenadier Guards returning from route march, Cologne
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  Motor Launch ML542 on the Rhine at Cologne
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  Changing the Guard at Bonn University
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  21st Canadians crossing the Rhine at Bonn
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  Generals Mangin and Marchand meet on the Rhine, late 1918
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  French Pontoon Bridge over the Rhine at St. Goar
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  General Plumer watching British Troops crossing Rhine, 1918
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  BL 6-inch 26 cwt howitzer at Cologne during riots, c.1918
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  Austin Armoured Car passing Tram, Cologne, late 1918
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  British Sentry guarding German munition factory, Cologne
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  British Vickers Machine Gun Post, Cologne, late 1918
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  British Sentry watching Rhine at Cologne
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  British Sentry on Suspension Bridge at Cologne
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  President Poincare promotes Petain to Marshal
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  Border Regiment changing guard, Bonn University
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  13th Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment, Clothing Parade, Bonn
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  Lancashire Fusiliers changing the guard, Bonn
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  Crews of British Rhine Patrol drilling, Cologne
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  British Nurses visit Rhine Naval Patrol
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  18th Hussars at Cologne, December 1918
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  French Guards at Limburg, c.1918-19
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  Allied Military Attaches at British Second Army HQ, Cologne, February 1919
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  General Hirschauer reads proclamation at Kehl
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  French Searchlight at St. Goar on the Rhine
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  General Lecomte reviews troops at Wiesbaden, December 1918

Home Front - France

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  Bordeaux Prefecture, President Poincare's Residence 1914
• French War Council HQ, Bordeaux, 1914
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  Bordeaux, c.1914
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  Austrian Jewellers Shop wrecked, Paris 1914
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  French troops guard German-owned shops, Paris, 1914
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  French Parade at Molsheim, late 1918
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  French Parade outside Strasbourg Cathedral, November 1918
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  French Troops dipping Colours in the Rhine, November 1918
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  General Castelnau in Colmar, December 1918
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  French Troops parade at Colmar, December 1918
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  General Lecomte reviews troops at Wiesbaden, December 1918
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  French Cavalry greeted at Strasbourg, 1918

Home Front - Great Britain

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  Women's Volunteer Reserve Garage, First World War
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  Scottish Women's Hospitals X-Ray Car
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  Southend National Motor Volunteers awaiting inspection
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  Ambulance Trailer built by Southend National Motor Volunteers
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  Millicent Sutherland Ambulance
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  General Macintyre inspects Essex Motor Volunteers
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  Officers of London Motor Volunteer Corps, c.1917-18
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  Motor Volunteer Corps driving wounded to countryside
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  Women Drivers of British Service Corps, First World War
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  Motor Volunteer Camp at Kelvedon,
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  London Balloon Apron, c.1917
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  Yorkshire Light Infantry guard railway junction, Dublin 1914
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  London Territorials Preparing for War, 1914
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  National Volunteers, Ireland, 1914
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  Ulster Volunteers, 1914
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  Volunteers drill in Hyde Park, 1914
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  British Troops on London Buses, c.1908
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  John Redmond MP presents colours to the Maryborough Corps of Nationalist Volunteers
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  Motorbike Volunteers, Wimbledon, 1914
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  Recruits Drill in Hyde Park, 1914
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  Crowds at the Central London Recruiting Depot, 1914
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  Service Wives register for Army Pay at Swansea, summer 1914
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  Germans arrested at Swansea Docks, 1914
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  London Artist's Rifles drilling, 1914
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  Recruits drill on a beach in South Wales, 1914
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  Army Transport convoy in Buckinghamshire
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  Recruiting at Horse Guards Parade, 1914
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  Grenadier Guard on Duty at Buckingham Palace, 1914
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  German 'spy' at Montreal
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  POW Camp at Camberley, 1914
• 2nd King Edward's Horse at White City
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  2nd King Edward's Horse on Parade
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  Edward, Prince of Wales, leads a parade
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  Land Army Ploughing Contest, Maidstone
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  Munition Girls twisting haybands
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  Land Army Ploughing Lesson, First World War
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  Milking Time, Welbeck Abbey
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  Thresher Lessons, Agricultural School, Nottinghamshire
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  Pigs at Women's Farm Colony, Heathfield
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  Women's Land Army Harrowing, Oxfordshire
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  Land Girls build Hay Rick
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  Painting An Aeroplane Wing
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  Women constructing wing ribs
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  Women testing balance of airship propeller
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  Women making lines for non-rigid airships
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  Women preparing wires for airships
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  Women building R-class airship
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  QMAAC Reviewed at Aldershot
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  Cooking Apple Pudding for Army
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  Army Camp Kitchen, Dartford
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  Carpenters extending workshop
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  Welding at Royal Naval Airship Station
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  Machinist at Royal Naval Airship Station
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  Women's Land Army spraying fruit trees, Maidstone
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  Women's Forestry Corps felling a tree
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  Women's Reserve Ambulance Corps heading for Russia
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  Mobile Anti-Aircraft Guns in Britain, First World War
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  QF 3-pdr Vickers Anti-Aircraft Gun, Kenwood House, 1915
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  Bomb Damage on the Embankment, 4-5 September 1917
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  Odham's Printing Works after air raid, 1918
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  Bomb Damage at Chelsea Hospital, 1918
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  Eaglet Pub Bombed, 1917
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  Warrington Crescent, Maida Vale, bombed 1918
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  First World War Fire Precautions, St Paul's Cathedral
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  Red Cross Party at Waterloo Station, c. 1917-18

Home Front - Belgium

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  Belgian Civilians returning to Antwerp, 1918
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  Refreshments for Belgian Refugees, 1918
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  Dover Ferry arrives at Ostend, 1918
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  Packing cases for loot, Ecole Militaire at Brussels, 1918
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  Instruments left by Germans, Ecole Militaire at Brussels, 1918
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  Damaged Electric Cranes, Ostend Harbour, 1918
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  Damaged Swing Bridge, Ostend Harbour, 1918
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  Ville de Liege arrives at Ostend, 1918
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  Crowded Train, Belgium 1918
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  Checking Refuge Papers, Ghent
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  Removing damage to Ghent Station
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  Repairing damaged railway, Ghent
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  Belgian Victory Parade, Bruges, 1918
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  Victory Parade, Liege, 1918
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  British Third Corps parades at Brussels, c.1918
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  Marble Hall, Palais de Academies, Brussels, late 1918
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  Hall of the Royal Historical Commission, Palais de Academies, Brussels, late 1918
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  Belgian Hall, Palais de Academies, Brussels, late 1918
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  Great Hall, Palais de Academies, Brussels, late 1918
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  Temporary New Station, Ghent, late 1918
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  Repairing Stykens Lock, Ostend, 1918
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  Grand Place, Termonde, after liberation 1918.
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  King Albert's Band outside Royal Albert Hall, c 1918

Pictures provided by Osprey

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  Irish Guards treat wounded prisoner, Pilckem Ridge, 31 July 1917
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  French First World War Flamethrower
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  Belgian troops with Maxim Machine Guns, 1914
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  Australian Trench Shelter, Fleurbaix, June 1916
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  Machine Gun Section, 11th Hussars, Zillebeke Winter 1914-15
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  Vermorel gas dispersal spray, May 1915
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  1st Scots Guard, Big Willie Trench, Loos, October 1915
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  Mk IV Tank 'Hyacinth' Ditched at Cambrai, 20 November 1917
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  2in Trench Mortar Ammo being moved to the front, 28 June 1916
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  German Weapons Captured on the Somme, 1916
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  Raiding Party, 1st/8th (Irish) Battalion, King's Liverpool Regiment, 18 April 1916
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  Australian Engineers with Dummy Tank, September 1918

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