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Portrait of a Zuoave, photographed next to his stiletto knife.
Original image source: Archives départementales de Seine-Maritime
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Russian prisoners of war on their way home, 1917. Photo taken in Volhynia - an area which straddles modern day Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine.
Original image source: Austrian National Library
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A Serbian soldier in Cukojevac, Serbia in 1915.
Original image source: Austrian National Library
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Mairi Chisholm (and Elsie Knocker, right) at the window of their British Women’s Emergency Corps billet in Flanders, Belgium on July 30, 1917.
Original image source: Library of Congress
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A member of the Royal Hungarian Landsturm Battalion has his hair cut in a trench. Photo taken in Czernowitz (which is in modern-day Ukraine), in 1915.
Original image source: Austrian National Library
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A Canadian prisoner of war who was captured for nine months.
Original image source: Canadian Library and Archives
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British Muslims to don poppy hijabs for Remembrance Sunday
Tomorrow in Britain, Muslims will be encouraged to don the poppy hijabs to mark the 100th year since the first Muslim soldier was awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery in World War One.
Backed by numerous Muslim groups in the United Kingdom, notably the Islamic Society of Britain, the £22 headscarf is a signature move to repel extremist groups who have in recent years, ‘spout hatred about the Armed Forces’, according to a report on Daily Mail.
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