Historical Period - First World War – Page 2

Officers of 1/7th Battalion, King's Liverpool Regiment checking a map in trenches of the La Bassee Canal sector, 28 February 1918.

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A raiding party from the 9th Battalion, Scottish Rifles (Cameronians), leaving a sap and making for the German lines, 11 April 1917.

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Two men of the 12th East Yorkshires wearing snow suits leaving their snow-covered trench on daylight patrol. Arleux Sector, 9 January 1918.

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Wounded British soldier showing shrapnel damage to his steel helmet caused near Hamel on the Somme Front in December 1916.

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Men of the Wiltshire Regiment advancing to the attack through the wire, Thiepval, Somme, 7 August 1916.

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A pack horse loaded with rubber trench boots (waiders) is led through the mud near Beaumont Hamel on the Somme battlefield, November 1916.

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The remains of the village of Beaumont Hamel after its capture, The Battle of Ancre Heights 10 -11 November. 1916

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The road to Guillemont viewed from Waterlot Farm, 1916. In the words of the official history it was 'straight, desolate, and swept by fire.'

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A British soldier stands besides the grave of a comrade near Pilckem during the Third Battle of Ypres, 22 August 1917.

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Tank F4, 'Flirt II', at the Tank Driving School at Wailly on 21 October 1917, in training for the Battle of Cambrai.

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Munition workers in a shell warehouse at National Shell Filling Factory No.6, Chilwell, Nottinghamshire in 1917.

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Still from the British film "The Battle of the Somme".

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A wounded First World War soldier with facial injuries has a plaster cast made of his face so that a mask can be produced to cover his wounds.The work was undertaken at the 3rd General Hospital in Wandsworth, London.

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View of the blasted tree stumps in Delville Wood, Somme, 1916

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Icicles hanging from the roof of a dug-out Bernafay Wood, Somme, November 1916.

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Soldiers of 'A' Company, 11th Battalion, the Cheshire Regiment, occupy a captured German trench at Ovillers-la-Boisselle on the Somme.

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The Battle of Pilckem Ridge: Crossing the Yser Canal at Boesinghe, 31st July 1917.

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Unveiling of the permanent Cenotaph at Whitehall, by His Majesty King George V, 11 November 1920.

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Is Your Home Here? Defend It!

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Public Warning

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Boys! Come along You're Wanted

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Battle of Albert. British troops asleep in a support trench previous to the attack on Beaumont Hamel, 7 a.m. July 1st 1916.

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Wounded men being tended in a trench near Beaumont Hamel on the morning of the initial assault, Battle of the Somme, 1st July 1916.

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A captured German pillbox nicknamed 'Gibraltar' in the ruins of Pozieres, Somme, 20th September.

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