Soldiers of 'A' Company, 11th Battalion, the Cheshire Regiment, occupy a captured German trench at Ovillers-la-Boisselle on the Somme.
British troops advance to the attack through a cloud of poison gas as viewed from the trench which they have just left.
Wounded men being tended in a trench near Beaumont Hamel on the morning of the initial assault, Battle of the Somme, 1st July 1916.
British and German wounded at an advanced dressing station near Epehy share a cigarette, 18 September 1918.
Troops and transport of British 50th Division on the Normandy beaches, 7 June 1944.
Other Mothers' Sons
Preparations for D-Day
Winston Churchill inspects the new Lee-Enfield No. 4 Mk 1 rifle during a visit to 53rd Division in Kent, 20 November 1942.
POWs at Stalag 11B at Fallingbostel in Germany welcome their liberators, 16 April 1945.
Men of the 2nd Australian Division in the front line at Croix du Bac, near Armentieres, 18 May 1916.
Men of the Wiltshire Regiment advancing to the attack through the wire, Thiepval, Somme, 7 August 1916.
King George VI listens as Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery outlines his future strategy at his mobile headquarters in Holland, 13 October 1944.
The remains of the village of Beaumont Hamel after its capture, The Battle of Ancre Heights 10 -11 November. 1916
British soldiers eating hot rations in the Ancre Valley during the Battle of the Somme, October 1916.
A line of British troops blinded by tear gas at an Advanced Dressing Station near Bethune, 10 April 1918.
Two men of the 12th East Yorkshires wearing snow suits leaving their snow-covered trench on daylight patrol. Arleux Sector, 9 January 1918.
Lieutenant General Sir Oliver Leese, commander of the British Eighth Army in Italy, 30 April 1944.
Horse-drawn ammunition limbers pass through the ruined village of Longueval, Somme, September 1916
Icicles hanging from the roof of a dug-out Bernafay Wood, Somme, November 1916.
Soldiers of the Lancashire Fusiliers cleaning a Lewis Gun. On the left can be seen the gas alarm horn and wind vane. January 1917 near Ploegsteert.
A sergeant of the Lancashire Fusiliers in a flooded dugout opposite Messines near Ploegsteert Wood, January 1917.
The Battle of Pilckem Ridge: Crossing the Yser Canal at Boesinghe, 31st July 1917.
A Canadian soldier keeping cool in a home made tub in the shelling area.
Australian troops wait behind Quinn's Post, Gallipoli, after it was retaken on 29 May 1915.
