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Three horses at No. 5 Veterinary Hospital, Abbeville. WWI

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Vimy Ridge from the Loos Arras Road. This gives an idea of the importance of Vimy Ridge seen on the horizon and its consequent importance to the holders. Taken from within the German lines. 1918

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French troops bivouacked amongst mulberry trees on the Franco-Serbian sector of the front, west of the River Vardar, December 1916.

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A Belgian refugee family in a British horse-drawn wagon. Courtrai, 18 October 1918. British soldier holding one of their children.

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General Officer Commanding New Zealand Division watching infantry practising rapid fire. March 1918.

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Formal group portrait of No. 202 Squadron Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS), Varrsenaeire (Varsenare), Belgium, December 1918.

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Men of the 27th Division having a meal in a trench, Balkan Front, November, 1916.

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The Battlefield of "Third Ypres", September 1917. (A corpse, water filled shell hole, elephant iron, wire, pill box, tree-stumps).

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Battle of Epehy. A captured German doctor bandaging a wounded soldier of the West Yorkshire Regiment at an Advanced Field Dressing Station, 65th Field Ambulance, 21st Division, near Epehy, 18th September 1918.

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Italians unloading a mule from a ship at Salonika. 1916

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An illiterate Indian soldier of the 7th (Meerut) Division, is making a thumb impression on the pay sheet instead of signing his name for his pay. 1918

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A man firing a Very light pistol from a front line trench, near Bairakli (Turkey). May, 1917.

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Interior of the Cathedral in Arras, 30 April 1917.

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Chateau where New Zealand Officers billeted at Renescure. March 1918.

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This British recruiting poster was produced in 1915 and has since become infamous for its use of emotional blackmail to urge men to enlist with the British Army.

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General Milne and senior officers of British Salonika Force General Headquarters, November 1916.

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Casualties from 77th Brigade were brought to a dressing station by mule during the Salonika (Greece) Campaign in 1916.