Historical Period - First World War

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.

Sopwith F1 Camel, single-seat scout.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Even a Dog Enlists Why Not You?

'The Pride of the German Fleet'

'Victoria Station, District Railway'

The Harwich Force at Sea

'Motor Transport Troops and German Prisoners. Chaulnes, Autumn 1918'

A Proclamation: Martial Law

We're Both Needed to Serve the Guns!

WARNING. Defence of the Realm

City of London Police. Notice To Alien Enemies