Photos WW1 British, Commonwealth & US Forces

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OTD in 1918, Méaulte area, France. Whippet tanks captured by the Germans and recaptured by the British.

 

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22 year old postman, Harry Lucas, Wiltshire Regt. DOW 14/7/16 at Millencourt. A comrade said that before the attack, Harry “was a bundle of nerves. He was simply shivering & shaking like a leaf. He could hardly hold his rifle, never mind fix his bayonet!”

 

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Western Front, 1917

 

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Members of the US 2nd Battalion, 318th Infantry Regiment, receiving phosphorus rifle and hand grenade training at Le Neufour, France on October 26, 1918.

 

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Palestine, WWI: Australian patrol in Ford Model-T's armed with Lewis guns

 

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(1st Aug 1918) Navy railway battery. Assembly of a United States Navy railroad battery gun awaiting the cab placement over the gun at St. Nazaire, France,

 

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France. December 1916. Australian soldiers of 5th Division enjoy a smoke and rest up by the side of the Montauban road, near Mametz.

 

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Canadian artillery firing at Vimy Ridge in the night, 1917

 

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US troops displaying a captured German flamethrower. Chaumont, 16 October 1918.

 

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Men of the British Army Veterinary Corps in France, 1915

 

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The wreck of Mark IV tank "BLARNEY CASTLE" knocked out at Cambrai in November 1917

 

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Medium Mark A "Whippet" tanks recaptured after falling into German hands near Meaulte on September 20th 1918

 

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Palestine. 12 October 1918. Troopers of the 6th Australian Light Horse Regiment pass through Jerusalem

 

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France. September 1918. Meuse - Argonne Offensive. A US Army gun crew from the Regimental Headquarters Company, 23rd Infantry Regiment, firing a French Canon d'Infanterie de 37 modèle 1916 TRP infantry support gun during an advance against entrenched German positions

 

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October 1917. Troops from Canadian 4 Mounted Rifles in their efficiently made billet.

 

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On St Andrews Day 30th Nov, we remember those from Scotland who were killed during World War One. It is estimated that over 100,000 Scottish soldiers were killed throughout WW1. We will remember them.

 

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Two of the first tanks ever knocked out in combat during the Battle of Flers-Courcelette in September 1916

 

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Ruined tank used as a roof for a dugout Ypres Salient and Area - 20 September, 1917

 

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British soldiers in silhouette march towards trenches near the Ypres Salient, Belgium, circa 1917

 

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Australian soldiers enjoying a swimming carnival 'somewhere in Europe' c.1918. This is at Rivery, on the eastern outskirts of Amiens, on the Somme Canal. The men are of the 9th Brigade AIF. Rivery was a popular "pleasure grounds" area, well-used by Australian ORs, banned from Amiens city.