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the-greatwar · 3 days ago
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A group photograph of British army officers posing in dress uniforms. The front row sit on the ground, the second row sit on chairs, and the rear row stand with trees behind them. The second man from the left on the middle row is Winston Churchill.
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the-greatwar · 3 days ago
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Image: IWM (Q 7138) The Mole at Zeebrugge showing one of the 150mm guns of the Lubeck Battery at the shore end, 23 October 1918.
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the-greatwar · 3 days ago
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WW1, American ambulance drivers in France. @ AFS Archive
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Image: IWM (Q 73683) H.M. King George V talking to Admiral Rodman and H.R.H. The Prince of Wales shaking hands with American Officers on board the U.S.S. 'New York.'
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the-greatwar · 5 days ago
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Unknown pilot and hydroplane.
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Image: IWM (Q 858)
Officers and men of the Gordon Highlanders resting by the roadside, near Meaulte, July 1916.
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Nieuport 17 single seat fighter biplane. Serial number N1539.
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the-greatwar · 8 days ago
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French hotchkiss gun
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the-greatwar · 9 days ago
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Soldats du 41eme régiment d'infanterie à Rennes en hiver 1914.
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the-greatwar · 11 days ago
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Bodies of American troops laid out in a US cemetery near the road leading to Gillemont Farm and Bony. They were killed in the fighting near Gillemont Farm on 29 September 1918 when the 27th US Division attacked over the main Hindenburg Line and suffered heavy casualties.
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the-greatwar · 11 days ago
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German stormtrooper with a MP18, 1918
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the-greatwar · 11 days ago
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Russian infantry under German barrage, 1914
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the-greatwar · 11 days ago
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From inside the hanger
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the-greatwar · 11 days ago
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Image: IWM (Q 94511) American troops painting artillery guns in camouflage patterns at the Camp de Souge near Bordeaux.
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the-greatwar · 11 days ago
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Les frères Peyerimhoff devant un Breguet XIV de l'escadrille BR 123 avec sa panoplie d'armes offensives, des bombes de 50 ou 75 kg et une paire de mitrailleuses Vickers. Source : SHD/département Air
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the-greatwar · 11 days ago
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WWI soldier’s boot lying on the battlefield at Hartmannswillerkopf in the Vosges mountains
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the-greatwar · 11 days ago
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© IWM (Q 49395) First attack on Bellewaarde, 16th June 1915. "Y" Wood, Hooge, at 6 a. m, during the attack. From a film found on the body of a soldier killed on that day. The flag on the right was one of those put up to show that the German trench had been captured and that the troops were going on. The Liverpool Scottish (l/lOth King's Regiment) taking cover under the parapet of the captured German front line. The officer standing with cap on is F. O. O. Note Pickelhaube in foreground. Third Division.
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