Photos WW1 British, Commonwealth & US Forces

Australian stretcher bearers of the 45th Battalion sheltering in a trench at Anzac Ridge, in the Ypres Sector. 28 September 1917
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Four members of the 13th Battalion AIF at Ribemont, smiling over the contents of their parcels from the Australian Comforts Fund. March 1917
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Munster Fusiliers in their Indian uniforms preparing to proceed to their billets on Monday 11th January 1915
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British despatch riders on Triumph motorcycles, Northern Italy, 1917-1918
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1st Battalion, Irish Guards prepare to leave Wellington Barracks, Westminster, London, following the outbreak of the First World War, 6 August 1914. The Battalion arrived in France as part of the British Expeditionary Force on 13 August 1914.
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British 20th Hussars cavalry unit crossing a bridge over a communication trench up which some Australian signallers are going near Neuve Eglise, on the 7th of May 1917.
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Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 24 May 1915. Australian soldiers recovering for burial the dead bodies of some Turkish soldiers, killed in an unsuccessful attack on Anzac positions on 1915-05-19. Australian and Turkish forces had arranged a day-long armistice or truce so that they could retrieve their dead and wounded from No Man's Land. The soldier at rear has a handkerchief tied across his nose and mouth as a defence against the stench of decaying corpses
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Australian burial parties burying Australian and Turkish dead during the armistice. More than 3000 Turks and approximately 160 Australians were killed during the Turkish counter attack on 19 May 1915. Appoximately [sic] one million rounds of ammunition were fired during the one day attack. The stench from the dead was so unbearable that the Turks initiated a nine hour armistice so that both sides could recover and bury the dead
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Abbassia, Cairo, Egypt. June 1915. Interior of a ward at No. 4 Auxiliary Hospital
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Four unidentified members of a British Tunnelling Company attached to the Australian Corps making a dugout in the slimy mud beneath a artillery observation post, at Hill 63, near Messines, Belgium. 22 January 1918
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A soldier of the East Lancashire Regiment and his pet dog manning a ditch at Guyencourt. 28th of May 1918 at the Third Battle of the Aisne
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Members of 13th Battalion, AIF, occupying Quinn's Post on the heights above Anzac Cove. Identified left to right: Back row: Glasgow (probably 1015 Private Alexander James Glasgow); McRae (a New Zealander); unidentified. Front row: Fenn (probably 255 Private Samuel James Fenn died of wounds 30 May 1915); Ward (unable to further identify); Lance Sergeant 'Curly' Rogers (probably 905 John Rogers, killed in action 3 May 1915)
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A 10-pounder mountain gun and crew from 4th (Highland) Mountain Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) in the British lines at Cape Helles, Gallipoli. 1915
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Troops of the 52nd (Lowland) Division with captured German MG 0815 machine guns. In Queant, a commune in the Pas-de-Calais, September1918
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The view down from a balloon to its parent ship in The Dardanelles, 11th December 1915.
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Members of the 8th Australian Light Horse Regiment moving out of a ravine close to the beach probably not long after landing at Anzac in May 1915
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November, 1916, Machine Gun Corps Lieutenant and a Sergeant wearing trench waders, standing at the entrance of a captured German dug-out under the ruined Church at Beaumont Hamel.
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Action of Gully Ravine. Rifles and ammunition collected on captured ground, Gallipoli. 29th June 1915.
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