#the great war

A Lance Naik (Lance Corporal) of the Indian 112th Infantry, 34th Brigade (17th Division), kneeling in a trench during the Battle of Sharqat, Mesopotamia 28-30 October 1918. Two days later the Turks surrendered and an armistice was declared.

Men of the 9th Hodson’s Horse, Indian Army charging directly towards the camera and armed with lances during training near Querrieu. 1916

A British mounted sentry outside Cafe Jordan, Mailly Maillet, 28th June 1916.

German soldiers posing in front of a dugout with rats they caught in their trench and with captured French business signs. “Assurance against Thirst”. 
Although shooting at rats was strictly prohibited – being regarded as a pointless waste of ammunition – many soldiers nevertheless took pot shots at nearby rats in this manner. Attacking rats with bayonets was also common.

Entrance to a German Officer’s dugout showing the protection over its doorway and its depth. 1916

Battle of Bazentin Ridge. Dressing the wounds of a German prisoner near Bernafay Wood, 19th July 1916.

A French horse-drawn battery of 155 mm short artillery guns going up to forward positions between Eclusier and Frise, 10 July 1916.

An observation balloon above the ruins of Ypres, Belgium, 27 October 1917.

A chaplain conducting a burial service on the battlefield near Ovillers, middle of July 1916.

French dugouts destroyed by German artillery fire on the Somme. 1916

Men of the 8th Battalion, Border Regiment, resting in shallow dugouts in a captured German trench to the south side of Ovillers-la-boisselle, ca. 4 July 1916.

British troops using their tin helmets as wash bowls at Ovillers, September 1916.

Battle of the Ancre. British wounded at a Dressing Station. Aveluy Wood, 13 November 1916.

Three wounded British soldiers, one drinking from a bowl, in a dressing station in a churchyard at Morlancourt, near Albert. 1916

Two Canadian soldiers near the remains of a German pill-box at Passchendaele, November 1917.

“German prisoners taken in an attack on the 20th of August at Verdun”
Saxons from Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 183 and one defiant Prussian (hands on his hips) photographed after being captured during a French attack at Verdun on the 20th of August 1917.

Photo : Brett Butterworth-Color by Frédéric Duriez

12th (Labour) Battalion, the Black Watch,  broadening a road at Fricourt, outside the 48th (South Midland) Divisional Headquarters. 
1916

RMS Mauretania arriving in New York, with American aviators and other troops returning from Europe after the war - December 2, 1918.
The Mauretania seen here in dazzle camouflage colours. 

A cavalry pack horse has a fall whilst climbing a steep bank. Albert-Amiens Road. September 1916.

12 inch Mark IX railway gun with a message to Germans reading - “Remember Captain Fryatt”, Albert, August 1916.