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ON THE BATTLEFIELD

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WW1 photo guerre 14 18 1914 1918 indian cavalry vraignes

Vraignes en Vermandois

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Indian cavalry near Vraignes, France

Apr. 1917

NARA165-BO-0941

Source of Photograph: US National Archives Record Group 165:

Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs, 1860 - 1952;

Series: British Photographs of World War I, 1914 - 1918 (Photo Section British War Museum).

WW1 photo guerre 14 18 1914 1918 indian cavalry vraignes somme ancre campaign

Vraignes en Vermandois

Vraignes en Vermandois.jpg

Indian cavalry, near Vraignes, France Somme

Ancre Campaign

4-17

NARA165-BO-0940

Source of Photograph: US National Archives Record Group 165:

Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs, 1860 - 1952;

Series: British Photographs of World War I, 1914 - 1918 (Photo Section British War Museum).

WW1 photo guerre 14 18 1914 1918 boezinge boesinghe flanders belgium belgique british soldier

Boezinge -Boesinghe

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Scene on Flanders Battlefield near Boesinghe , Belgium

British soldiers

8-5-17

NARA165-BO-0903

Source of Photograph: US National Archives Record Group 165:

Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs, 1860 - 1952;

Series: British Photographs of World War I, 1914 - 1918 (Photo Section British War Museum).

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Dormans

Dormans.jpg

French soldiers in their wagon, Dormans France

5-30-18

NARA165-BO-0731

Source of Photograph: US National Archives Record Group 165:

Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs, 1860 - 1952;

Series: British Photographs of World War I, 1914 - 1918 (Photo Section British War Museum).

WW1 photo guerre 14 18 1914 1918 daphne mascot british battery monchy preux

Monchy le Preux

Monchy le Preux.jpg

'Daphne' mascot of British Battery at Monchy le Preux

Mar. 18, 1918

NARA165-BO-1018

Source of Photograph: US National Archives Record Group 165:

Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs, 1860 - 1952;

Series: British Photographs of World War I, 1914 - 1918 (Photo Section British War Museum).

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Arras

Arras.jpg

British troops on Fampoux Road

Arras -Cambrai Area

undeated

NARA165-BO-0809

Source of Photograph: US National Archives Record Group 165:

Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs, 1860 - 1952;

Series: British Photographs of World War I, 1914 - 1918 (Photo Section British War Museum).

WW1 photo guerre 14 18 1914 1918 mesnil british troops

Le Mesnil Saint Firmin

Le Mesnil Saint Firmin.jpg

British troops entering Mesnil, France

undated

NARA165-BO-0746

Source of Photograph: US National Archives Record Group 165:

Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs, 1860 - 1952;

Series: British Photographs of World War I, 1914 - 1918 (Photo Section British War Museum).

WW1 photo guerre 14 18 1914 1918 foncquevillers arras cambrais british car

Foncquevilliers

Foncquevillers.jpg

British Staff car, Foncquevillers

Arras-Cambrai Campaign

March 1917

NARA165-BO-0780

Source of Photograph: US National Archives Record Group 165:

Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs, 1860 - 1952;

Series: British Photographs of World War I, 1914 - 1918 (Photo Section British War Museum).

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WW1 photo guerre 14 18 1914 1918 alarm gaz gas
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Biefvillers les Bapaume

Biefvillers.jpg

British armored car near Biefvillers

8-25-18

NARA165-BO-0860

Source of Photograph: US National Archives Record Group 165:

Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs, 1860 - 1952;

Series: British Photographs of World War I, 1914 - 1918 (Photo Section British War Museum).

WW1 photo guerre 14 18 1914 1918 german troops trench

The retreat of the German army at the Somme.

Reserves expecting enemy divisions.

Photograph shows German soldiers in a trench during World War I.

March 1917

On mount of similar photograph at the National Archives: "German Official Photograph."

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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German Hospital on the Russian Front.

Print from R.C. Magazine. Copyright released for Red Cross Slide Department.

December 1917

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Guillemont

Guillemont.jpg

Red Cross Workers bringing in wounded across an open country after an attack on Guillemont

Print from R.C. Magazine. Copyright released for Red Cross Slide Department.

December 1917

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Some of the men who took Tilloy

Photograph shows soldiers of the 13th Battalion, King's (Liverpool) Regiment

with captured machine guns in front of a German mobile pill box and observation post,

Tilloy-les-Mofflaines, France,

April 10, 1917 during the Battle of Arras, during World War I.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Bain News Service, publisher

1917 April 10

Similar photograph found in the Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection,

Imperial War 

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

Tilloy les Mofflaines

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WW1 photo guerre 14 18 1914 1918 tilly mofflaines 13 battalion king liverpool

Tilloy les Mofflaines

Tilloy_lès_Mofflaines.jpg

Some of the men who took Tilloy

Photograph shows soldiers of the 13th Battalion, King's (Liverpool) Regiment

with captured machine guns in front of a German mobile pill box and observation post,

Tilloy-les-Mofflaines, France,

April 10, 1917 during the Battle of Arras, during World War I.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Bain News Service, publisher

1917 April 10

Similar photograph found in the Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection,

Imperial War 

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

WW1 photo guerre 14 18 1914 1918 tilloy 13 battalion king mofflaines

Tilloy les Mofflaines

Tilloy_lès_Mofflaines.jpg

British booty Tilloy

Photograph shows the troops of the 13th Battalion, King's (Liverpool) Regiment

with some German machine guns which they captured in Tilloy-les Mofflaines, France,

April 10, 1917, during the Battle of Arras during World War I.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015 and Imperial War Museums website)

1917 April 10

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

WW1 photo guerre 14 18 1914 1918 wijtschate mesine german gun belgium

Wijtschate

Wijtschate.jpg

Photograph shows British soldiers with a captured German field gun (7.7 cm FK 96 n.A.)

near Wytschaete, Belgium, during the Battle of Messines during World War I,

on June 10, 1917.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015 and Imperial War Museums)

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

WW1 photo guerre 14 18 1914 1918 british observer royal artillery oosttaverne wood belgium wijtschate

Wijtschate

Wijtschate.jpg

British observers in captured observation post

Photograph shows British Artillery observing officers of the Royal Artillery,

in a captured German observation post near Oosttaverne Wood, Belgium

during the Battle of Messines offensive, during World War I.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015 and similar image on Imperial War Museums website)

1917 June 6

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

WW1 photo guerre 14 18 1914 1918 u troops grenade guns tromblon

U.S. troops in trench in France

Photograph shows American troops in France learning how to use grenade guns (tromblons)

to fire grenades at German forces during World War I.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016 and The Sunday Oregonian, Dec. 23, 1917)

1917

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

WW1 photo guerre 14 18 1914 1918 seaforth highlanders mortar trench

23 July 1915,

Men of the 1st Seaforth Highlanders firing a mortar from their trench

Photographer : American Press Association

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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