Historical Period - First World War – Page 8

The Gunboat HMS KILDANGAN in dazzle camouflage, 1918.

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Aerial photograph showing front line trenches and mine craters near Loos in 1917.

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Munition workers painting shells at the National Shell Filling Factory No.6, Chilwell, Nottinghamshire in 1917.

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A busy howitzer shop at Coventry Ordnance Works. Men and women work together as several gun barrels are transported overhead by pulleys.

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Officers verses other ranks football match played by members of the 26th Divisional Ammunition Train near the city of Salonika, Christmas Day 1915.

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A group of dog handlers stand with their dogs at the British Army kennels near Etaples, 20 April 1918.

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A sister and a matron from Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service during the First World War.

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A female munitions worker is lifted into the barrel of a 15-inch naval gun manufactured at the Ordnance Works, Coventry, during the First World War, in order to clean the rifling.

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Sopwith F1 Camel, single-seat scout.

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BE2c, two-seat reconnaissance aircraft, used by the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) during the First World War.

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Still from the British documentary film 'The Battle of the Somme'. The image is part of a sequence purportedly showing British soldiers moving forward through wire at the start of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916.

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Ammunition limbers of 35th Field Battery, Royal Field Artillery, passing a corner of the shattered Delville Wood, Somme, 17th September 1916.

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Carrying wounded across the battlefield under shell fire, Battle of Ginchy, Somme, 1916.

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Horse-drawn ammunition limbers pass through the ruined village of Longueval, Somme, September 1916

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2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders marching to the trenches along Becordel-Fricourt Road, Somme, October 1916.

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Working party of British troops on muddy ground near Bernafay Wood, Somme, November 1916

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Troops outside their dug-outs in Bazentin-le-Petit, Somme, July 1916.

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An advanced water supply point on the Mametz Road near Fricourt, Somme, July 1916.

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Miss Mairi Chisholm, one of the 'Women of Pervyse' looking through binoculars in Pervyse.

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A motorcyclist with the Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF) on a Clyno motorcycle combination.

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Ernest Brooks: Men of the Wiltshire Regiment waving their helmets as they march along the Acheux road to the trenches.

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In an Ambulance : a VAD lighting a cigarette for a patient

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Zayem Svobody - Voyna Do Pobyedy [Freedom Loan- War until Victory]

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Even a Dog Enlists Why Not You?

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