Photos WW1 British, Commonwealth & US Forces

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Cope cage on a WW1 tank??

 

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Mark IV tank 'Black Arrow II' knocked out near the main crossroads in Fontaine Notre Dame. The Germans posing beside it are completely oblivious to the dead Tommy lying at their feet.". Black Arrow II was tank No. 2080 and was part of No 6 Section, 5th Coy. December 1917

Fate of Black Arrow II's crew:
Lt W.J.G Birnie, Section commander, KIA
2/Lt J.O. Evans, Tank commander, KIA
Sgt F. Bailey, 76038, KIA
Pte L. Hullett, 75862, Gearsman, KIA
Pte A. Bates, 75920, Driver, KIA
Pte W. Campbell, 75210, 6 pdr gunner, KIA
Pte E. Russell, 75256, 6 pdr gunner, KIA
Pte W. Wilson, 200340, 6 pdr gunner, KIA
Pte G. Hackney, 200304, Gearsman, MIA (POW?)

 

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Cope cage on a WW1 tank??

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Chicken wire used to stop hand grenades being thrown on top of the tank.

 

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British troops moving in devastated, wet and muddy conditions on the Somme Front at Ancre. Corbie Albert Area, France. c. 1916

 

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The Royal Navy Air Service had an armored car division???

 

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Americans using a Chauchat MG. Possibly a training scenario.

 

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Australians guarding German prisoners captured at Stormy Trench, near Bazentin, in February 1917.

 

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British troops in a sunken road between La Boisselle and Contalmaison, Battle of the Somme. July 1916

 

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A South African nurse places a wreath on her brother's grave during the South African Brigade's memorial service at Delville Wood, 17 February 1918. It was here that the South African Brigade suffered 2300 casualties out of 3153 officers during the Somme offensive, July-August 1916.
Private Dudley Beresford Hoole Fynn, Regimental Number 1387, a volunteer in the 3rd South African Infantry, member of C Company, 9th Scottish Division. The woman in the image is the dead soldier’s sister, Mildred Atherstone Fynn. Mildred was a Nursing Sister in the Royal Red Cross and serving in France during the war. This allowed her to visit her brother’s grave.
Dudley was the son of West White Fynn and Elizabeth Fanny Fynn nee’ Dick, of Redlands, Dohne, Cape Province. Born 11th of August 1895 at Redlands, Stutterheim, Cape. Descendants of the 1820 Settlers to the Cape of Good Hope. He was ‘killed in action’ on the 16th of July 1916, aged a mere 20 years. Fynn’s remains were later moved to London Cemetery, Extension Longueval.
Not only did West and Elizabeth Fynn lose Dudley to the Great War, but two additional sons, namely Lance Corporal Hedley Sutcliffe Fynn who died on the 20th of September 1917 at Flanders, aged 26. Hedley had previously been wounded at Delville Wood. Also, 2nd Lieutenant Robert Charles Fynn who died 25th of March 1918 in the Great Battle of March, aged 30 years

 

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Men of the King's Own Scottish Borderers go into action in during the Third Battle of Krithia, Cape Helles, Gallipoli. 12 July 1915

Sgt. Louis Fisher, 1/4th Battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers, tried to put into words what he had just experienced.

“It is impossible here to give you a proper idea of what a charge is like, but I may say it is nothing short of a pure hell. It seems a funny thing to say, but the noise is so great you cannot hear it, what with big black shells (coal boxes) bursting on the ground, and shrapnel bursting overhead, to say nothing of the rattle of rifles, and the shouting of men, it is awful.”

 

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Harrow School, Junior Officer Training Corps (OTC) training in 1914

 

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Men of the 11th battalion and 1st Field Company, Australian Engineers, the day before the Gallipoli landing. 24 April 1915

 

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Officers of 1/7th Battalion, King's Liverpool Regiment checking a map in trenches on the La Bassée Canal sector, 28 February 1918.

 

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March 1917
Four members of the 13th Battalion AIF at Ribemont, smiling over the contents of their parcels from the Australian Comforts Fund.
Left to right: unidentified; 2922 Private (Pte) Steve Alfred George Waller; 2113 Lance Corporal (L Cpl) William Thomas Butler; 4260 Signaller (Sig) Reginald Ralph Bamford.
Pte Waller was a carpenter from North Sydney, New South Wales prior to enlistment and embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Argyllshire on 30 September 1915 for Egypt. He subsequently served on the Western Front, France and returned to Australia in November 1917 for discharge as medically unfit. Sig Bamford was an accountant from Tamworth, New South Wales who embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Port Lincoln for Egypt. He also served on the Western Front, France, and returned to Australia for discharge in March 1919.
Pte Butler was a labourer from Bendigo, Victoria, who embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Wandilla on 14 June 1915 for Gallipoli. He was hospitalised due to illness and was evacuated to Egypt. In June 1916 his battalion relocated to the Western Front, France, where he was wounded in action on the first occasion in August 1916. In October 1917 he was awarded the Military Medal for his actions near Zonnebeke on 26 September 1917. He was appointed L Cpl on 22 December 1917. L Cpl Butler was wounded in action a second time near Villers-Bretonneux on 4 July 1918 and died of these wounds the same day. He was aged 24 years. His brother, 6718 Pte Henry George Butler, 8th Battalion, died of wounds received in action on 11 August 1918. He was aged 26 years.

 

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Hospital ship HMAT (His Majesty's Australian Transport) Kyarra (A.55) berthed at Alexandria. Kyarra operated as a hospital ship from November 1914 to March 1915 when she was converted to a troop ship. After service in many parts of the world she was torpedoed and sunk in the English Channel on 26 May 1918.

 

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British soldiers help Father Leon Peulmeule, the temporary curate of Armentieres, to remove statues and relics from the Church of Saint Vaast, which had been damaged by shell fire. Armentieres, 26 February 1918.

 

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Men of the Australian 45th Battalion, following close behind a creeping artillery barrage, which is sweeping the enemy positions in front of Ascension Farm, near Le Verguier.
These positions were the objective of the 12th Australian Infantry Brigade in this attack, and were successfully carried by them in the fighting that morning.
Identified, left to right: 3113 Lance Corporal Herbert Bickerstaff MM; Lieutenant J. Lovell MM; 2043 Corporal Nicholas F. Lagutin MM; Private (Pte) W. Hoffmier; Pte W. Jones; Pte M. Stirling; Pte M. Lyons.
France - 18th September, 1918.