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Select a page: (1) C.1100 - General Gouard visits a school of instruction for officers (2) C.1215 - French soldier and his wife returned to one of the captured villges i... (3) C.1216 - Her house once stood on this spot (4) C.1472 - Georges Clemenceau and General Sir H. Rawlinson walking through the ma... (5) C.1512 - Ruins in Tilloy (6) C.1513 - Ruins of the village of Tillay [sic] captured by our troops (7) C.1662 - Offices of Le Petit Parisien in Peronne (8) C.1737 - Station Square, Arras (9) C.1881 - Monchy (10) C.1882 - Shells falling in Monchy (11) C.2396 - Combien Mademoiselle? (12) C.2500 - French troops resting on the road-side en route for the front (13) C.2502 - French soldier entertains his comrades during the rest by the road-sid... (14) C.2503 - French troops on the march en route for the front (15) C.2777 - Two little girls that only just escaped death by a few yards (16) C.2811 - Scene in the Square at Bethune (17) C.2814 - Scene in Amiens near the Cathedral (18) C.677 - View in Delville Wood (19) C.691 - Guillemont railway station (20) C.914 - General view of the church in Albert (21) D.1010 - Bombarded fort of Peronne (22) D.1014 - Building in flames in Peronne (23) D.1017 - Wrecked building on the Grande Place, Peronne, showing German notice (24) D.1020 - Street scene of Peronne (25) D.1021 - Flamicourt Station, Peronne (26) D.1029 - Flamicourt Station, showing blown up bridge (27) D.1041 - Wrecked houses (28) D.1076 - View of wrecked Chaulnes (29) D.1088 - Wanton destruction at Nesle (30) D.1090 - Street scene in Nesle which with its inhabitants was captured by the B... (31) D.1093 - Scene showing how the Germans destroyed the station at La Chapellette (32) D.1099 - View of Bucquoy which we have captured (33) D.1103 - View of Ervillers (34) D.1124 - How Boche blew up the houses before he left Boyelles (35) D.1125 - How Boche blew up the houses before he left Boyelles (36) D.1129 - Church Boche blew up at Boisieux-au-Mon (37) D.1133 - View of Boisleux au Mont, which the Germans ruthlessly destroyed befor... (38) D.1140 - Scene in Irles (39) D.1193 - View of Tilloy which we have captured (40) D.1221 - View of Blangy which we took from the Boche (41) D.1224 - View of Athies which we have just captured (42) D.1245 - Scene in Feuchy (43) D.1255 - Scene in Feuchy (44) D.1267 - Ruins of the church in Peronne after the Huns had done with it (45) D.1270 - Ruins of the church in Peronne blown up by the Huns (46) D.1313 - Interior of Arras Cathedral (47) D.1314 - View of Arras Cathedral taken from the top of one of its walls (48) D.1316 - Church in Arras cut in half by German shells (49) D.1319 - Interior of Arras Cathedral wrecked by Boche shell fire (50) D.1322 - View of Arras which has been wrecked by Boche shells (51) D.1379 - Once Contalmaison Chateau (52) D.1412 - Race for French children is never forgotten by Tommy (53) D.1423 - After the sports the Balmorals give an entertainment (54) D.1556 - Waiting to receive Lt. General Pershing Chief of American Expeditionar... (55) D.1587 - Little French girl braves the shells to sell her wares to our Tommies ... (56) D.1763 - French ladies admiring the prizes at a Divisional Horse Show (57) D.2118 - Officer chatting with a French 'Poilu' (58) D.2276 - Cathedral and Cloth Hall, Ypres, as they appeared at the end of 1916 (59) D.2680 - Germans shelling a church behind our lines (60) D.2719 - French armoured car supporting our men in a combined attack (61) D.2721 - Picture was taken within a 100 yards of the enemy (62) D.2724 - French armoured car waiting in support during a combined British & Fre... (63) D.2737 - French and British make a line to hold up the enemy (64) D.2739 - Digging a line to hold up the enemy (65) D.2744 - Wounded French and British tommies coming back together (66) D.2745 - French nurse attending to our wounded tommies (67) D.2753 - Set on fire by German shells (68) D.2760 - French and British marching back together (69) D.2763 - French and British on the roadside (70) D.2767 - Two poor old French refugees crossing the Marne (71) D.2770 - Refugees on the road back (72) D.2771 - Refugees getting a lift on a French cooker (73) D.2780 - View of Epernay of wine fame which the Germans are bombing and shellin... (74) D.2866 - French girls at work (75) D.2867 - French girls washing top boots before they are repaired (76) D.3023 - Chipilly which was taken after hard fighting by London troops (77) D.3081 - British back in Merville - the blown up railway bridge (78) D.3082 - All that is left of Merville Church which town we again occupy (79) D.3126 - View of Moislaine which we have just taken with the ridge beyond (80) D.3134 - General view of Queant where the Hindenburg and Wotan lines join (81) D.3151 - View of Inchy, one of the villages captured by us (82) D.551 - French official kinematographer taking a close picture of one of our w... (83) D.577 - Group of French 'Tommies' come straight out of the trenches to receive... (84) D.579 - Prince Arthur of Connaught decorating a French sergeant (85) D.582 - Prince Arthur of Connaught decorating a French General (86) D.619 - Railway track at Beaucourt (87) D.741 - Tommy versus French school-children (88) D.792 - Axeman yarning with a Frenchwoman (89) D.961 - View of the Chateau at Gommecourt (90) D.963 - Captured Boche trench running through Gommecourt (91) D.968 - Two of the best houses left in Gommecourt after our artillery had fini... (92) D.985 - What remains of the railway line at Miraumont-le-Grand (93) D.999 - Ruins of water mill (94) L.1062 - Field Marshall Foch visits the King (95) X.32043 - Exhausted by its struggles to get out of a shell hole (96) X.32077 - Friendly tug-of-war between a British and French battery (97) X.32094 - Getting two mules out of a shell hole (98) X.33039 - Looking towards the Cathedral, Arras (99) X.33086 - Shewing the blown up mill stream bridge at Peronne (100) X.33090 - Great dug-out in the garden of a house at Nesle which was occupied by ... (101) X.33094 - German crane & barges which they destroyed near Pero[nne] (102) X.33099 - Bridge over the canal at Nesle which the Germans destroyed (103) X.34019 - View of Boiry Becquerelle (104) X.34050 - View of Ablainzeville, France, during World War I (105) X.34055 - Boche left neither line nor sleepers (106) X.34058 - View of Courcelles showing the mine crater in centre of cross roads (107) X.34089 - View of the village of Courcelles (108) X.34096 - Inhabitants of a newly captured village are greatly interested in a Br... (109) X.35003 - Some inhabitants of Nesle telling all the news of the Germans (110) X.35007 - Debris of Le Barque, after the bombardment (111) X.35009 - Shattered homestead in Le Barque (112) X.35013 - Inhabitant of Nesle talking to our Tommies (113) X.35024 - Freaks of gun fire (114) X.35043 - Wise old owl lived in an oak � (115) X.36010 - Locomotive abandoned in front of Thiepval (116) X.36070 - Mr. Clemenceau et le Mal. Douglas Haig (117) X.36071 - Sur les marches de l'Hotel de Ville [On the steps of the Town Hall] (118) X.36072 - Le Mal. Douglas Haig [?] les decorations anglaises aux officiers de la... (119) X.36073 - Mal. Douglas Haig et le Gal. Anthoine [Field Marshal Douglas Haig and ... (120) X.36075 - D�fil� des troupes devant le Mal. Douglas Haig [Procession of troops i... (121) X.36076 - Gal. Joffre et le Gal. Douglas Haig [General Joffre and General Haig] (122) X.36077 - Arriv�e du Gal. Douglas Haig [Arrival of General Haig] (123) X.36080 - Mr Briand et le Gal. Douglas Haig (124) X.36081 - Mr. Balfour, le Gal Douglas Haig, le Gal. Wilson (125) X.36083 - Mr. Balfour et le Gal. Douglas Haig (126) X.36084 - Gal. Douglas Haig (127) X.36090 - D�part du Mal. Douglas Haig [Departure of Field Marshal Haig] (128) X.36091 - Mal. Douglas Haig salue le drapeau des fusiliers marins [Field Marsha... (129) X234010 - Newfoundland memorial, Beaumont Hamel, France, 1925 (130) X234011 - War memorial for Newfoundland soldiers (131) C.1232 - Canadian Band (132) C.1233 - Inspection of a Canadian Battalion (133) C.1240 - Inspection of a Canadian Battalion with their gas helmets on (134) C.1241 - Inspecting the horse transport of a Canadian Battalion (135) C.1244 - Group of Canadian Officers (136) C.1286 - Original members still serving with a Canadian Infantry Brigade (137) C.1853 - Two typical Canadians (138) C.1855 - Some of the Canadians who are working at the Front (139) C.1858 - Laying down a railroad through the forest (140) C.1861 - Canadian forestry - skidding (141) C.1864 - Group of Canadian Forestry Officers (142) C.956 - What it looks like in the front line 50 yards from Regina trench (143) D.1390 - Senior officers of the Newfoundland Regiment (144) D.1391 - Guard of the Newfoundland Regiment (145) D.1394 - Cooks of the Newfoundland Regiment at the cookers (146) D.1397 - Officers and men Newfoundland Regiment now serving in France and who s... (147) D.1399 - Officers, Newfoundland Regiment (148) D.1400 - Officers and men of the Newfoundland Regiment (149) D.1402 - Officers and men of the Newfoundland Regiment (150) D.1404 - Newfoundland Regiment marching back to billet after Monchy (151) D.1405 - Transport of the Newfoundland Regiment (152) D.1406 - Regiment marching back to billets after Monchy (153) D.1407 - Officers chatting in their billets (154) D.2679 - Scene near the front line in the Ypres salient (155) D.789 - Forest Lumber Works - officers of the Forest Control on the bank of th... (156) D.797 - Officers of the Forest Control on one of the trucks (157) H.226 - Winston Churchill inspecting Canadian troops, during World War I (158) H.230 - Troops being inspected by Winston Churchill, during World War I (159) H.233 - Winston Churchill in plain clothes (160) L.911 - Inspecting the work of the Canadian Forestry Detachment (161) L.986 - Cloth Hall, Ypres, Belgium, during World War I (162) O.1005 - Canadian troops returning from trenches pass pack mules loaded with am... (163) O.706 - Scene near the front in the Ypres Salient (164) O.772 - German dead in a captured trench (165) O.810 - Bringing in wounded Canadians on a truck from the battle of Courcelett... (166) O.847 - German field gun captured by Canadians at Courcelette (167) O.867 - Ruined interior of Albert Cathedral (168) O.874 - Time's up - over you go! (169) O.925 - Canadian heroes buried where they fell on the barbed wire (170) O.939 - Battlefield after a Canadian charge (171) O.944 - Canadian captives marching through a town (172) O.954 - Ruined church at Courcelette (173) O.955 - Canadian mail arriving behind the firing line (174) S.2825 - Moving our guns to an advanced position (175) X.25005 - German Regiment Commanders captured by the Canadians (176) X.25006 - Canadians digging in and waiting for the next wave to pass them and go... (177) X.25007 - Canadians marching through the streets of Mons, on the morning of Nove... (178) X.25008 - Most eastern outpost on the British Western Front; it is east of Mons ... (179) X.25009 - German field guns captured by the Canadians (180) X.25010 - Canadian signallers using a German rifle as a telephone pole, during W... (181) X.25011 - View of Cambrai from the Canadian Front Line on October 1st (182) X.25013 - Famous Canal du Nord which the Canadians stormed (183) X.25014 - First Canadian patrol entering Valenciennes from the West (184) X.25015 - Who said that the Canadian Service Corps have 'cushy jobs'? (185) X.25016 - On Sunday October 13th 1918 � a thanksgiving service in the Cambrai C... (186) X.25018 - Canadian Corps heavy artillery in action (187) X.25019 - Canadian officers examining German machine guns (188) X.25020 - In Pronville the Germans erected the elaborate ferro-concrete trap see... (189) X.25021 - Canadians of the first platoon to enter Valenciennes from the west (190) X.25023 - Canadian leaving a hole in Cambrai with some rare souvenirs (191) X.25026 - One of the enemy who was killed by Canadian Cavalry a few minutes befo... (192) X.25028 - H.R.H. the Prince of Wales with General Currie and the Canadian divisi... (193) X.25029 - Flooded station at Valenciennes (194) X.25030 - Dug-out fire in Bourlon Wood (195) X.32097 - Inspection of a Canadian Battalion (196) X.33049 - Our anti-aircraft gunners spot a Hun plane (197) X.33088 - German prisoners bringing in their wounded (198) X.34072 - Big gun whose tractor has got in slight difficulty (199) X.36017 - Cyclists crossing Cologne (200) C.1225 - South African look-out (201) C.1227 - South African officers having lunch (202) C.1765 - South African munition workers (203) C.1892 - One of the side shows was wrestling (204) C.1894 - General view of the dance (205) C.1896 - Some of the natives from Zululand (206) C.1900 - Some of the men that took part (207) C.1902 - Some of the Zulus waiting to enter the ring for the dance (208) C.1907 - Some famous Zulus being presented to the QMG (209) C.2790 - South African Infantry in their glory (210) D.1158 - General Smuts inspecting a South African native labour unit in France (211) D.1347 - Some South Africans have dinner to music supplied by the inside of an ... (212) D.1697 - Hospital staff on parade (213) D.1698 - General view (214) D.1703 - Scene in one of the wards (215) D.924 - Some boys waiting to have a bath (216) D.931 - Cook boys preparing dinner (217) L.587 - Native laboureres holding a shell-shattered radiator (218) X.27007 - Two South Africans (219) X.35019 - Group of native N.C.O's (220) X.35049 - Smiling and warm (221) X.35050 - Native police (222) X.35051 - Native parson (223) X.35052 - S.M. giving a native policeman instructions (224) X.35054 - Soup kitchen (225) X.35055 - At the window of one of their huts (226) X.35057 - Two boys greasing their feet (227) X.35060 - Digging sand (228) C.1436 - Chinese students on a visit to the British Western Front (229) D.1119 - Chinese students starting for the trenches on the Western Front (230) L.579 - Calling the roll in a Chinese Labour Camp in France (231) L.613 - Chinese in France entertain British troops behind the lines (232) L.614 - Officer directing a stilt walking party (233) L.618 - Dragon built by the Chinese in France to entertain British troops (234) L.620 - Dragons ready for the dragon fight (235) L.680 - Chinese boat display (236) L.683 - Display on stilts (237) L.784 - Dragon dance (238) L.786 - Chinese entertain soldiers and nurses in an open air theatre in France (239) X.34097 - Chinese students on a visit to the British Western Front, outside an o... (240) C.1780 - Two famous American war correspondents in France (241) C.1835 - Group of medical officers (242) C.1838 - Harmonised 'dinner up' (243) C.1841 - I'll guess it's hot carrying that lot (244) C.1842 - Americans at the Front (245) C.1843 - Few of the American nurses in France (246) C.1847 - Two American nurses at the Front (247) D.1559 - Saluting as the French Band plays the American National Anthem (248) D.1562 - Crowd round the gangway as Gen. Pershing lands in France (249) D.1564 - Lt. Gen. Pershing the Chief of American Expeditionary Force, landing o... (250) D.2137 - Party of American Engineers working on the light railways on the Briti... (251) D.2141 - General and Staff in charge of the American engineers who are construc... (252) D.2144 - American Engineers on the British front making a field oven in their c... (253) D.2147 - Meal time with the American Engineers on the British front (254) D.2148 - American lumberman on a road near the Front (255) D.2934 - Americans still passing into France (256) L.534 - American Labour Representatives photographed in France (257) L.535 - American Labour Representatives looking over battle-fields in France (258) L.538 - Talking to British soldiers (259) L.602 - American troops in France passing British men resting by the roadside (260) L.605 - American troops in France resting by the roadside (261) L.606 - American & British officers in France discussing equipment (262) L.608 - Keen American & British interest in the progress of the war (263) L.609 - American & British troops getting ready for a musical evening at a cam... (264) L.611 - British machine gunner explains the working of his gun to American tro... (265) L.612 - American & British troops in France enjoying a game of cards (266) L.717 - His job is a popular one (267) L.886 - Machine gun instruction (268) C.452 - Funeral of an Anzac man (269) C.455 - Dressing wounds of an Anzac man (270) C.470 - Australian cookhouse in the field (271) C.473 - Australian machine gunners returning from the trenches (272) C.475 - Night scene within the Australian lines (273) C.898 - Australians moving up to the firing line (274) C.952 - All that remains of Moquet farm (275) C.992 - Mr. Massey at La Boisselle (276) C.994 - Mr. Massey and his party on the lip of a huge mine crater (277) C.996 - Sir Joseph Ward visiting a captured German dugout (278) C.999 - Prime Minister of New Zealand examining a British machine (279) C.1015 - Mr Massey interested in an aeroplane (280) C.1034 - Australians off up to the trenches to take up their position (281) C.1036 - Australians off up to the trenches (282) C.1075 - Australians off up to the trenches (283) C.2111 - Unveiling the memorial to the 1st Anzac Division (284) C.2113 - Unveiling the memorial to the 1st Australian Division (285) C.2420 - Australians resting on their way to the front line (286) D.802 - Fine cut by a Maori (287) L.691 - Having a good look at it before going over (288) L.700 - Draught horses, harness and limbered wagon (289) X.33007 - Scene on the road (290) X.35046 - Heavy gun in action (291) D.1594 - Commanding Portuguese Expeditionary Force, General Tamagnini (292) D.1600 - Portuguese drawn up for inspection (293) D.1602 - Portuguese at the Instructional School (294) D.1604 - Portuguese infantry resting (295) D.1607 - Portuguese cooks (296) D.1608 - Portuguese field limbers (297) D.1609 - Portuguese Red Cross limbers (298) D.1614 - Portuguese at the Infantry Training School (299) D.1616 - Portuguese officers at bayonet practice (300) D.1620 - Portuguese at bomb throwing practice (301) D.1624 - Portuguese entering a gas trench (302) D.1626 - Portuguese at a Gas School (303) D.1628 - Advanced dressing station (304) D.1629 - Letter home (305) D.1630 - Arrival of hot rations (306) D.1633 - Portuguese in the trenches (307) D.2129 - First decoration to be presented to a Portuguese soldier in France (308) C.1716 - Brigadier general points out the place where he was wounded to a Belgi... (309) C.2406 - Taken near Zonnebeke (310) C.2411 - Slight mishap to one of our machines (311) C.2467 - All is quiet on our front (312) C.2470 - Cleaning up (313) C.2473 - Belgian armoured cars on their way up to the front (314) C.2510 - Digging out a German gun that was smashed by the fire of our guns (315) C.2607 - Battle of Flanders (316) C.2773 - British lady ambulance drivers attached to the Belgian Army (317) D.1514 - View of Wytschaete (318) D.1516 - Shell bursting at Valloy, near Messines (319) X.36044 - Aerial photograph, Lombartzyde, Belgium, 1917 (320) D.2181 - Natives of Manipur ready to do a war dance (321) D.2182 - Butchers of the natives of Manipur at work (322) D.2183 - Types of Natives of Manipur (323) D.2185 - Natives of Manipur with their liberal dinner rations (324) D.2188 - Two natives of Manipur at dinner (325) D.2189 - Natives of Manipur are greatly interested in the workings of a motor (326) D.2193 - Issue of soap and cigarettes

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