Photos WW1 British, Commonwealth & US Forces

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British troops coming home for Christmas leave. December 1916.

 

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Canadian nurses working among the ruins of No. 1 Canadian General Hospital after the German bombings. June 1918.
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July 1916 WW1, Men of the British Royal Rifles rest in their trenches during the Somme river battle in France which was intended to relieve pressure off French forces fighting in the fortress city of Verdun but doing it lost many troops.

 

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HMS New Zealand. Despite participating in all the major WW1 North Sea actions she was only struck by enemy fire once, earning her a reputation as a lucky ship. Her crew put this down to her captain wearing Māori warrior dress gifted to the ship, in battle.

 

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USS Tennessee, after the installation of a cage mast and before her renaming as USS Memphis in May 1916

USS New York (BB-34) in Firth of Forth during the Surrender of the Germany Navy, November 1918.

 

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Doughboys of the 60th Infantry Regiment in front of the 5th Infantry Division HQ, Longuyon, France. Thanksgiving 1918.

 

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Basil H. Liddell Hart (1895–1970) was an English soldier, news correspondent, author, historian, and military strategist. Wounded and gassed in the Great War, he afterward became a prolific commentator on all things military building on his own experience and observation. An early advocate of mechanized warfare and airpower, he ironically was probably more influential in Germany during the interwar years. Something of an eccentric in his private life, much of his work still holds up, such as his one-volume history of 1914–1918, The Real War.

 

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British Whippet cavalry tank in action. WW1.

 

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Wounded Canadians on their way to the aid-post. Battle of Passchendaele. November 1917.

 

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A New Zealand soldier sitting in a funk hole of a trench recently captured from the Germans. The soldier is reading a New Zealand newspaper. A rifle lies on the grass above. Photograph taken Puisieux 21 August 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders.

 

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HMS Tiger at anchor 1916-17

 

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105 years ago, the last Australian troops withdrew from Gallipoli. The evacuation began on 8 December 1915 & the two nights following 18 December signified the final withdrawal. The ANZAC evacuation was declared complete on 20 December 1915.

 

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Monitor HMS Earl of Peterborough in Moudros Harbor, Greece 1917
HMS Earl of Peterborough was the third of eight Lord Clive-class monitors launched in 1915, she was armed with two BL 12" Mk VIII naval guns in a single gun turret removed from the Pre-Dreadnought Battleship HMS Mars
HMS Earl of Peterborough spent WW1 in the Mediterranean where in 1916 she shelled Turkish Positions in the Dardanelles and then for the remainder of the war was used against Turkish units in Egypt, Palestine and Turkey
Following the armistice in November 1918, Earl of Peterborough and her sisters were put into reserve and in 1921 was scrapped along with all of her sisters
IWM

 

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HMS Princess Royal seen here just at the start of World War 1. I've got a sneaking suspicion that this was taken during her brief spell stationed in the Caribbean in November 1914 to guard against the possibility of Admiral von Spee using the Panama Canal to gain a short cut for his Squadron on their journey back to Germany. What is interesting to note is that her Torpedo Nets have been deployed. Princess Royal spent about a month in the tropics before the defeat of Von Spee's Squadron at the Battle of the Falklands, leaving Jamaica on December 19th to sail back to the UK, and arriving back in time to participate in the Battle of Dogger Bank 23rd January 1915.

 

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WWI. Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. 6 June 1918. Major Wilfred McClaughry MC, Officer Commanding No. 4 Squadron Australian Flying Corps (AFC), proudly poses for the camera in front of his Sopwith Camel fighter. [AWM E02656]

 

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HMS Canada during WW1 with her guns trained to starboard
Ordered in 1911 for Chile as the Almirante Latorre, she was requisitioned by the UK for WW1 and commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Canada in 1915, where she served in the Battle of Jutland
She was sold to Chile for 1/3 of the original price in 1920 and renamed Almirante Latorre
The main guns were ten BL EOC 14"/45 guns in five twin turrets manufactured by Elswick Ordnance Company (EOC), these guns were of a different design than the Vickers 14"/45 manufactured for Japan
The secondary guns were 6” guns in casemates
Her sister-ship Almirante Cochrane, was never completed, the unfinished hull was purchased by the UK and completed as the Aircraft Carrier HMS Eagle after WW1
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Government approached the Chilean Government with the intent of purchasing Almirante Latorre for the United States Navy
Chile rejected the U.S. offer and kept her, the Almirante Latorre was scrapped in Japan, 1959
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WWI. Italian Front. June 1918. A British soldier tends to the grave of two unknown Austro-Hungarian soldiers killed in action during the failed Second Battle of the Piave River

 

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Soldiers from the Royal Irish Fusiliers in a southern sector trench during the Gallipoli campaign, Autumn 1915

 

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U.S. Marines rests up after the bitter fighting at Belleau Wood (June 1918)

 

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U.S. Marines during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, 1918
Source: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/.../File:U.S._Marines...