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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

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
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  King's Certificate of Honour, First World War
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  Pembroke Lodge Hospital for Officers, c.1917-18
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  Fulham Palace Hospital, c.1918
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  New Zealand Hospital Ward, Western Front
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  Surgery in Operating Theatre of New Zealand Hospital on Western Front
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  No.14 Convalescent Depot, Trouville, 16 August 1918
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  R.A.M.C. staff treating wounded German POW
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  British Wounded being loaded onto Ambulance Train
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  British Wounded waiting for Ambulance, Western Front
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  Improvised Ambulance on the Western Front
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  R.A.M.C. Orderlies carrying wounded German
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  Officers of the 1st Battalion, Welsh Guards
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  Officers of the Brigade of Guards at Caterham
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  Officers of the 1st Coldstream Guards, 1919
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  1st Battalion, London Rifle Brigade, marching to the Mansion House, 30 May 1919
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  Changing the Guard, Buckingham Palace, 19 February 1919
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  Armistice being read to Irish Guards, 12 November 1918
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  Lowering Water Pipes into River
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  X-Ray Machine on Western Front
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  Canvas Water Cistern, Western Front
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  Filling a Canvas Water Cistern, Western Front
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  York and Lancaster with Trench Mortar
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  York and Lancaster Regiment, Cambrin, 6 February 1918
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  East Surrey Regiment cheering the armistice
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  York and Lancaster Regiment Gas Respirator Training
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  Duke of Connaught inspects King's Royal Rifles, 1918
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  Duke of Connaught inspects a Midland Regiment, 1918
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  King George V inspects St. Quentin Canal
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  British Soldier in ruins of Arras Cathedral Cloisters
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  Ruins of St. Leger village, late 1918
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  Royal Munster Fusiliers marching to Memorial Service
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  Royal Munster Fusiliers at Memorial Service
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  Welsh Regiment marching to Hyde Park Review
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  Mascot of Irish Guards, March 1918
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  17th Division at Henecourt, March 1918
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  Dublin Fusilier winners of Serbian Medals
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  Testing Portable Wireless equipment at Somersham, c. 1913
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  Marconi 500w pack wireless set in use
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  Receiving radio message from aircraft, India, First World War
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  Operating Cart of Marconi 1.5kw Field Set radio
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  Power Cart of Marconi 1.5kw Field Set radio
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  Convoy for Marconi 1.5kw Field Set radio

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
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  Australian Cavalry marching down Fleet Street, Anzac Day 1919
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  Dominion Artillery passing Australia House, 1919
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  Australians march past George V, 1919
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  Men of Australian Imperial Forces prepare for George V
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  George V inspects Australian Guard of Honour, 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

Canadian Army on Western Front

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  Canadian Irish enter Belfast Cathedral, 1917
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  Canadian Irish outside Belfast Cathedral, 1917
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  Princess Patricia inspects Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry
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  Unveiling of the Taplow Memorial, April 1919

Prince of Wales presents colours to Canadian troops
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  Princess Patricia decorating Canadian Colours
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  Princess Patricia taking salute of PPCLI

Canadians leaving Southampton, 1919
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  Newfoundlanders leaving Liverpool, 1919
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  Canadians on HMT Olympic, 1919 .
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  Officers of Canadian 4th Division, 1919
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  2nd Canadian Division colours presented to Mons
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  German Medals for Canadian War Museum
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  Sixteen Aircraft donated to Canada, February 1919

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
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  French Mobile Wireless Truck
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  French Wireless Train Carriage of First World War
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  Exterior of French wireless train carriage, First World War

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
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  German Trench Stoves at Namur
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  German POWs returning looted furniture, Belgium, c.1919
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  German Gas Shells at Luttre, c.1919

South African Army

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  South Africans march past George V, 1919
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  Gunners from South African Heavy Artillery, England

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
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  US Wounded in hospital at Richmond, Surrey
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  Puerto Rican Regiment (65th Infantry), San Juan, 1917

Italian Front

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  Northampton Yeomanry crossing a stream, Italy, 1917-18
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  Horseman of Northamptonshire Yeomany, Italy, 1918-19
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  British Soldiers in Venice, c.1918-19
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  First British Soldiers to demobalise, Italy

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