Photos WW1 British, Commonwealth & US Forces

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A horse drawn ambulance wagon passing through Gully Ravine, Helles Front, Gallipoli. 1915

 

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A British soldier looking at a dead comrade, in a gully on the Gallipoli Front. Possibly near Gully Ravine, 29th June 1915

 

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Canadian soldiers gather to celebrate, with German war trophies, Dominion Day on Jul 1, 1917 in a village they have recently captured. Dominion Day was renamed Canada Day in 1982

 

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Private Walter Joseph Crump, 14th Reinforcements, 14th Battalion, of Auburn, Victoria. He enlisted on 30 August 1915 and embarked aboard HMAT Ballarat on 18 February 1916. He returned to Australia on 27 August 1917 as a member of the 12th Field Artillery Brigade.

 

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Irish troops serving the British Army, moving over the captured German 2nd line at Cambrai, France (1917)

 

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Irish troops serving the British Army, moving over the captured German 2nd line at Cambrai, France (1917)
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Just for clarification Ireland all 32 counties at this time were part of the United Kingdom, ethnic Irishmen could be conscripted if living in the U.K., however, there was no conscription in place in Ireland, Irishmen could volunteer to join* Irish Regiments of the British Army in Ireland or travel to the UK and join up.
* depending on the situation in France & Flanders a man joining an Irish Regiment in Ireland could be transferred to any British Regiment in need depending on the casualties sustained in fighting.

 

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October1918, Bohain, France. Soldier from 1/4 Leicestershire Battalion with children wearing German Pickelhauben.

 

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Men of the Lancashire Fusiliers and the Oxford and Bucks Light infantry being photographed by a German photographer in a model Rhine boat for the purpose of sending postcards home, 26 March 1919.

 

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The flogging of a German by orders of Colonel William Holmes, as a reprisal for the flogging of a British missionary, the Reverend W A Cox, by masked Germans.
The floggers were captured and flogged in the presence of German residents and Australian soldiers of the Australian Navy and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF) only. Rabaul - November, 1914.

 

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Soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards digging trenches near Zandvoorde, October 1914.

 

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Passchendaele. November, 1917

 

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HELIOPOLIS, EGYPT. C. 1915. THE INTERIOR OF THE AUXILIARY HOSPITAL WHICH FORMED PART OF NO 1 AUSTRALIAN GENERAL HOSPITAL (1AGH), LOCATED IN THE FORMER HELIOPOLIS PALACE HOTEL. THE INMATES WERE FROM GALLIPOLI.

 

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Australians with captured Turkish sniper who had camouflaged himself with cannabis plants.

 

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Infantry of the 1st Canadian Division having a meal in the trenches at Ploegsteert, Belgium.
20th March 1916.

 

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Soldiers of the 2/14th (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment (London Scottish) carrying out bayonet drill in the White City area of London on 10 November 1914. The 2/14th Battalion was formed of soldiers of the 14th Battalion who had not volunteered for overseas service and were used for home defence.

 

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Men of the Royal Irish Rifles, 36th (Ulster) Division, near Bertincourt, 20th November, 1917

 

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The King's Liverpool Regiment, 55th Division, moving along a communication trench leading to the front line near to Blairville Wood, Wailly in April 1916.

 

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An intimate portrait of 28-year-old James Cameron, his 19-year-old brother Donald, and their sisters.
What is most striking about the image is the affection the siblings display toward each other.
James’ arm is tightly laced with one sister’s, while the younger Donald places a protective arm around both. And the sisters undoubtedly wear their brother’s felt hats with pride.
The photograph is one of a series snapped at the family home in Reid River near Townsville.
The Cameron family migrated from Scotland to Australia searching for new beginnings. James always retained his broad Scottish accent, and the nickname ‘Scottie’.
James enlisted on 27 September 1915, and Donald a day later.
The brothers joined the 26th Battalion in France in September 1916, just weeks after the AIF had suffered a staggering 23,000 casualties on the Somme at Pozieres.
The attritional battles continued into 1917.
In early May that year, the 26th Battalion attacked the Germans near Lagnicourt.
While carrying bombs forward, a sniper’s bullet struck James in the head.
He died instantly.
Apparently, pioneers buried James where he fell, but no-one really knew for certain.
His remains were never recovered. He became one of Australia’s 23,000 missing soldiers.
James’ name was duly published in the casualty lists. His bereft sisters placed a memoriam notice in the local newspaper. They knew little beyond that ‘He fell “somewhere in France”.’
Meanwhile, Donald was invalided to England in October 1916.
He returned to his battalion in April 1917, and survived the carnage at Broodseinde Ridge in October 1917.
But his luck ran out near Villers-Bretonneux on 14 July 1918, when he suffered a serious wound.
He died three days later.
Donald is buried in the Crouy British Cemetery in France. His tombstone reads: ‘In the care of Jesus’.
He was one of 62,000 Australians killed in the Great War.
James is commemorated on the Australian National Memorial near Villers-Bretonneux. Its vast panels list 10,738 Australian soldiers who died in that region and have no known grave.