Historical Period - First World War

An Australian officer wading through the mud, Gird Trench, Gueudecourt.

We Risk Our Lives to Bring You Food

Christmas Day in the London Bridge YMCA Canteen

Gassed. 'In Arduis Fidelis'

Dazzled Tramp In Portsmouth Harbour

Mined, 1918

You Cannot be a Man of the World Unless you See the World

Vote for Martin Who Has Done His Bit

Women Wanted Urgently

A well concealed and revetted trench, between two-lines of trees. Gommecourt, given up by the Germans in March 1917.

A barbed wire gate in a trench system to form a block against raiders at Cambrin, 16 September 1917.

9.2 inch howitzers of the 148th Siege Battery, RGA at Maricourt, September 1916.

Officers of 12th Royal Irish Rifles wading through mud in a trench, Essigny, 7 February 1918.

Air photo of a gas attack.

Battle of Loos; British attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt. Photograph shows a cloud of smoke and gas in the centre and on the left. 1915.

Officers standing in deadly fumes of gas on the training school.

The French Army on the Western Front, 1914-1918

Photography during the First World War; Womens War Work Exhibition

Join the Navy - The Service for Fighting Men

If You Want to Fight - Join the Marines

Gee! I Wish I Were a Man

L'Impossible Pardon [The Impossible Pardon]

A Howitzer Firing

A Convoy in the Channel