2014 - A hundred years since the start of the First World War
Battle of Pilckem Ridge. British and German wounded talking together.
German Retreat to the Hindenburg Line. Cyclists passing through the village of Vraignes, March 1917.
American troops, carrying Stars and Stripes, marching past an operating room; Rouen, 1st June 1917
American nurses; Rouen 1st June 1917
Two British nurses; Rouen, 1st June 1917
Party of British troops wearing German helmets; Athies, April 1917
Battle of the Scarpe. British cavalry advancing over newly captured ground; near Tilloy, 10th April 1917
Issuing rations to German prisoners, Tincourt, April 1917
Battle of the Scarpe. Wounded British soldier being removed from a dug-out; near Tilloy, 10th April 1917
Women carpenters working in theTarrant Hut Workshops, near Calais, 30th June 1917.
The ruined Town Hall, Arras, May 1917
Billet houses, made by soldiers entirely of petrol tins, at Proven, 29th July 1917. In front is a flower garden.
Distinguished visitors to the Front, including the Prince of Siam, and to his right front, Mr. Garvin. The officers in the back row are, from left to right, Major H.C. Roberts, Captain W.C. Scott and Captain Sir George Arthur. The party is about to visit Vimy Ridge. June 1917.
The first official photograph taken of a Tank going into action, at theBattle of Flers-Courcelette, 15th September 1916. The man shown is wearing a leather tank helmet.
Trees cut down by the Germans on the main road from Vendelles to Vermand.
Indian troops in the ruined village of Caulaincourt.
Mr. R. Small and Mr. Philip Simms, American War Correspondents, at Rollencourt Chateau, 28th May 1917
Silhouette; looking for a comrade's grave. Pilckem, 22 August 1917.
^ I am sure this image is from an album cover, but can't recall who
German prisoner captured in the Battle of Messines Ridge, 8th June 1917
The Duchess of Sutherland attending to a wounded soldier, Calais, July 1917
Burmese near Contalmaison, 2nd September 1917. Reading Burmese papers sent them from England.
A working party in a motor-drawn tip-truck train. Near Arras, 28th June 1917.