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Image: IWM (Q 309) HM King George V conversing with wounded men in a hospital train. An ambulance train full of wounded, under Captain Ackland RAMC was inspected at Doullens Station, 29th March 1918.
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Image: IWM (Q 87406) German soldiers pose happily on the barrel of the long range Paris Gun (Paris-Geschütz) which bombarded Paris during the Spring Offensive, 1 May 1918.
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Image: IWM (Q 6713) A "visual" signalling station of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment on the canal bank at Carvin, 18 June 1918.
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Battle of Estaires, during the German Spring Offensive of 1918. A Medical Officer examining the breast wounds of a Highlander of the 51st Division, at an Advanced Dressing Station RAMC at Lapugnoy, 11 April 1918. He is accompanied by a soldier of the South Staffordshire Regiment.
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Image: IWM (Q 5790) A digging party going along a communication trench at the foot of buildings outside Arras, May 1917.
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A group of German soldiers. One of them is operating a telephone.
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Image: IWM (Q 50479) Lieut. C. N. Graham (left) and companion starting out for a day ashore at Lemnos.
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Image: IWM (Q 2233) British troops moving an 8-inch Mk V howitzer into position, Bécordel-Bécourt, 26 May 1917.
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Image: IWM (Q 32182) Rolling a puggaree. A puggaree was a decorative band wound around hats. They could also signify a unit.
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French troops waiting before the charge, on the Chaintrix plain during the Battle of the Marne. 4 Sept 1914
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Box labeled PB and Co in a shallow trench. PB stands for permanent base, but I can’t tell what’s in the box. Any ideas?
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Image: IWM (Q 92954) camp life for volunteers
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A German Fokker D.VII pilot from the Royal Prussian Jagdstaffel 74 shows off high-altitude oxygen equipment c.1917
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Autochrome reproduction of French colonial troops. Circa 1915.
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Image: IWM (Q 24863) The Armenians retiring. Note the Armenian Regimental Medical orderly. By the beginning of 1918, the Russian Army’s Armenian Legion consisted of; two rifle divisions, three volunteer brigades, and a cavalry brigade.
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Sergeant illustrates the correct form for throwing a hand-grenade (mills bomb).
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Men of the 28th Battalion of the 2nd Australian Division practicing Lewis gun drill at Renescure, France, 1917
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