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WWI German soldier with armored Breastplate.

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German artillery in action on the Western Front. I like the elevation and trajectory notes on the shield.

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A soldier of the 1st Australian Division having a shave while wearing a captured German pickelhaube in a rest area behind the lines during the Battle of the Somme. July 23, 1916.

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Guerrilla Campaigns 1917: Camel lines of the Imperial Camel Corps at El Arish. Wadi El-Arish is a mostly dry riverbed in the Sinai peninsula. It only has water in it at certain times of the year and flows north into the Mediterranean Sea.

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Image: IWM (Q 13159) The Imperial Camel Corps Brigade outside Beersheba, 1st November 1917.

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The lines of the Imperial Camel Corps shaded by trees near Beersheba.

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Lieutenant Geoffrey Inchbald of No 8 Company, Imperial Camel Corps with his kneeling camel in the Western Desert. I think that is Djoser’s Step Pyramid in the background.

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Men of an ANZAC Battalion of the Imperial Camel Corps Brigade at Ludd, 1918. Ludd is about 15 km south-east of Tel-Aviv, Israel.

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A signal-man from His Majesty’s Imperial Camel Corps and a canine friend. The ICC was mostly engaged in the Sinai and Palestine. They would be disbanded in 1919 and reassigned. The ICC was really more of a brigade, with 4,150 assigned to it in total. The brigade consisted of four battalions.

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Image: IWM (Q 57958) German troops in Finland. German machine gun company advancing upon Red Guards on the Hango-Helsingfors railway.

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Image: IWM (Q 108161) Servicemen with missing limbs in wheelchairs at Roehampton Military Hospital. Note the soldiers are wearing "Hospital Blues". Such a terrible price.

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Image: IWM (Q 53047) German sailors at work in the torpedo room of an U-boat.

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Image: © IWM (Q 14801) This camp was frequently shelled when the enemy had sufficient ammunition. (RN Division) Howe Rest Camp, Drake's Hill, June 1915. Very little rest. Systematically shelled by Turks - when they had shells. They were nearly as hard up as we were from July to September.

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Two members of The Queen's Bays using a trench periscope in the front line duriong winter 1914 - 1915.

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“The Blessing of the Troops” (a fragment)

A.N. Romasyukov

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Image: IWM (Q 86874) German troops waiting to cross the Dvina (Daugava) river. Note a demolished bridge in the background, September 1917. The German Eighth Army captured the city of Riga from the Tsar’s army.