Photos WW1 British, Commonwealth & US Forces

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26th Nov in 1918, Brussels. (Wonder who they were.) Two British women ambulance drivers of Princess Royal's Volunteer Corps. who were decorated with the Belgian and French Croix de Guerre

 

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Sailors manning the Mast at HMS Ganges, 11th November 1918 to celebrate the Armistice

 

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Soldiers and local kids telling stories, January 1, 1918. "Once troops had entered a village they were often housed with local families. This was a welcome opportunity for rest and a diversion for the locals."

 

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Ward 3 at the Australian Army Hospital in Dartford, getting into the Chrismas Spirit. From Oct 1915 to Dec 1918, over 56,441 troops had been treated at the hospital Many of the soldiers married local Dartford women

 

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British soldier displaying a can of Christmas pudding at snow-covered Neulette, 17 December 1917, John Warwick Brooke, © IWM Q 6401

 

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Beaumont-Hamel, Christmas Dinner, 1916, in a shell hole beside a grave

 

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OTD in 1915, British Army School of Musketry in Hythe.

NB This is how my grandmothers first husband lost his life, boresighting a soldiers Lee-Metford rifle in 1899 in India

 

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PTE A Townsend of 46th Batt AIF (Australian Imperial Force) preparing vegetables, salvaged from a ruined garden around Villers-Bretonneux, May 1918 The 46th had recently defeated the Germans around Dernancourt during the German spring offensive

 

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Royal Engineer officers in a Somme communication trench, 1916.

 

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OTD in 1918, Bapaume, France. British soldiers looking at theatre posters.

 

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Sopwith 7F.1 Snipe E8015, Lt. Edward Mulcair of 'A' Flight, 43 Sqn RAF, ready for a patrol over the German lines. France, October 1918.

 

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New Zealand Rifle Brigade with a Stokes mortar near Le Quesnoy in 1918.

 

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A ration party of the Royal Irish Rifles in a communication trench during the Battle of the Somme. The date is believed to be 1 July 1916, the first day on the Somme, and the unit is possibly the 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles (25th Brigade, 8th Division).

 

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A tank burns after being hit by a flamethrower. 1918

 

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27th Sept, 1917. Hellfire Corner on the Menin Road, in the Ypres Sector. This well named locality was continually under observation and notorious for its danger. At night this road was crammed with traffic, limbers, guns, pack animals, motor lorries and troops. Several motor lorries received direct hits at different times and were totally destroyed. The dead bodies of horses, mules and men were often to be seen lying where the last shell had got them. The neighbourhood was piled with the wreckage of all kinds of transport. A 'sticky' spot that was always taken at the trot. Left to right is Ypres Wood on Railway Ridge in background, hessian camouflage on the corner, Hooge, track to Gordon House veers to the right with Leinster Farm in the distance.

 

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Travelling water butts at Pozieres, Somme, France in October 1916 during the Somme campaign.

 

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Farman biplane with balloon strafing rockets attached to its struts.

 

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Members of Maryland's 117th Trench Mortar Battery, operating a trench mortar. This gun and crew kept up a continuous fire throughout the raid of March 4, 1918 in Badonviller, Muerthe et Modselle, France.

 

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British stretcher bearers at the Battle of Ginchy, Somme, France: Carrying wounded across the battlefield under shell fire." Photo taken by Ernest Brooks on September 9, 1916