Photos WW1 British, Commonwealth & US Forces

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An American soldier in August of 1917 shakes hands with a young member of the watching public as his troop parades through the streets of London.

 

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A service is held in Hoboken, New Jersey, for American soldiers who died on the battlefields of France, 1918

 

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Men of the 16th Canadian Machine Gun Company holding the line in a landscape of mud and water-filled shell holes at Passchendaele, November 1917.

 

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Two Canadian wounded, both heavily bandaged, one with face and hands almost completely obscured, being removed in a motor ambulance from Lieven, during the Battle of Passchendaele. July 1917.

 

[JimHPTN]

An American soldier in August of 1917 shakes hands with a young member of the watching public as his troop parades through the streets of London.
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IIRC, this is an American Railway Engineering unit. They were one of the very few units, maybe the only one, that forward deployed with 1898 Krag rifles instead of the 1903 or 1917 rifles.

 

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Canadian soldiers returning from Vimy Ridge. May 1917

 

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An Australian mother, proudly marching with her soldier son to the wharf in Sydney, August the 8th, 1914, prior to departing for Rabaul.

 

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Armourer Sergeant and Staff of the Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigade repairing guns. April, 1918

 

[colin traveller]

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Seaforth Highlanders wait in their trench for orders to advance. 1915

 

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HMS B-11 sinks Turkish battleship and the Captain is awarded the first Victoria Cross for a naval action. The attached narrative describes the action and is a compelling read! Images show what must have been a very cramped station.

https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/wars-and-missions/ww1/where-australians-served/gallipoli/dardanelles-strategy/submarine-b11

 

[colin traveller]

Dubbed the 'immortal soldier', Adrian Carton de Wiart was a veteran of the Second Boer War, the First World War, and World War II

But what's his story?

Adrian Carton de Wiart was born on 5 May 1880 in Brussels, Belgium to parents Ernestine Wenzig and lawyer Léon Constant Ghislain Carton de Wiart.

Carton de Wiart's military career began in the Second Boer War, where the legend of the 'immortal soldier' begins. After being injured in combat in South Africa, he was sent home and greeted by a very angry father who was previously unaware that he had even enlisted and thought he was still at school.

He also saw action in Somaliland at the outbreak of the First World War. Unfortunately, his bad luck on the battlefield continued and throughout the war - he lost his left eye, a hand, part of his ear and also suffered gunshot wounds to the skull and ankle.

Undeterred by his previous injuries, Carton de Wiart would go on to serve in the Second World War as well. Whilst no major injuries were suffered, his time was no less eventful. After being captured and sent to a prisoner of war camp, he made as many as five escape attempts in his two years at the camp, spending no less than eight days on the run after one successful attempt.

After the Second World War, he finally retired and saw out the rest of his days in County Cork, Ireland where he died in 1963, aged 83.

 

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Armourer Sergeant and Staff of the Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigade repairing guns. April, 1918
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Weapon in the center is a German Maxim 08 on its carrying tray which could double as a mount or a sled.
To the left as viewed is A British Vicker's .303 HMG basically the British version of the Maxim.

 

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The Signal Office and Headquarters of the 4th Australian Divisional Signalling Company on the Vaulx-Beugny Road. A despatch rider is seen leaving for the forward units with a basket containing carrier pigeons. France - 20th May, 1917.