Photos WW1 British, Commonwealth & US Forces

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Troops of the 1st Battalion, County of London Volunteers (United Arts Volunteer Rifles) at physical exercise and rifle drill. Green Park, October-November 1914.

 

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'A' Battery, 108th Field Artillery Regiment (formerly 2nd Regiment, Field Artillery and detachment of the 1st Cavalry, Pennsylvania National Guard) firing 75 mm guns near Varennes-en-Argonne, 3 October 1918.

 

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German troops examine Mark II Male tank 799 knocked out and captured during the Battle of Arras on April 11th 1917

 

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Members of an Irish regiment in a trench during the Gallipoli campaign (Autumn 1915)

 

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Irish troops in a trench during the Gallipoli campaign (Autumn 1915)
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These men belong too the Royal Irish Fusiliers.
Your term "Irish troops" is a little misleading, while many Irishmen joined an Irish Regiment, the Regiments were part of the British army, and often in "Irish" Regiments could be found English, Welsh, Scots as well as Irish men. ​

 

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These men belong too the Royal Irish Fusiliers.​

Your term "Irish troops" is a little misleading, while many Irishmen joined an Irish Regiment, the Regiments were part of the British army, and often in "Irish" Regiments could be found English, Welsh, Scots as well as Irish men. ​

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Indian Lewis gun team engage an enemy aircraft in Mesopotamia, circa 1918

 

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Jodhpur, Mysore and Hyderabad Lancers from the British Indian Army during the Mesopotamian Campaign, circa 1917

 

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Belgium. September 1917. A BL 9.2 inch Mark I heavy siege howitzer of the 55th Australian Siege Artillery Battery in action

 

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OTD in 1916, France. A piper from 7 Seaforth Highlanders leading four men down a sunken road after the attack on Longueval.

 

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A group of unidentified Australian and New Zealand soldiers in a front line trench on the Gallipoli Peninsula. Standing in the narrow confines of a trench passage, with sandbags at the parapet above them, several of the men are smoking pipes and cigarettes.

 

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Men of the 95th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery loading a 9.2 inch howitzer during the Battle of Amiens, 8 August 1918

 

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A British sentry cuts a lonely picture as he stands at his post at sunrise in France, March 1915

 

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Triage station for evaluating wounded soldiers at a field hospital for the US 42nd Infantry Division near Suippes, France, July 17, 1918

 

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The troopship USS Leviathan in a ‘dazzle’ camouflage pattern. The Leviathan was formerly the SS Vaterland, a German, Hamburg America Line ship, seized by the U.S. government in 1917.

 

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These men, from the 2nd Australian Division, are returning from the trenches on the Somme. The destroyed village of Contalmaison is visible in the far distance; 1916.

 

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US First Aid station on the trenches of the Western Front; c. 1917-18 after a light snowfall. The snow covered ground was deadly to soldiers in the open, making them easy targets against the white background. See the soldier on the right manning a French Chauchat light machine gun.

 

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MK IV tank that got stuck in the mud and eventually succumbed to artillery fire - Passchendaele, 1917

 

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Soldiers of the “Blackwatch”, near the Western Front in France

 

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Submarine HMS E34 in a floating drydock, circa 1917-18