Photos WW1 British, Commonwealth & US Forces

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A German A7V tank with the name "Mephisto" captured by the 26th Australian battalion, at Monument Wood, near Villers-Bretonneux, in France, on July 14th, 1918.

 

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British soldier (London Scottish?) tending a grave of two unknown Austro-Hungarian soldiers (killed in action on 16 June 1918), buried by the British.

 

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Men of 4th Battalion, AIF, photographed c. August 1915, probably near Lone Pine.

Group portrait of men from the 4th Battalion, including 932 Corporal (Cpl) Sydney Gordon Henderson, facing camera at left, in a trench, possibly near Lone Pine. Cpl Henderson died of sickness on board the hospital ship Aquitania on 21 September 1915, and is commemorated at the Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula

 

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Members of Australian 1st and 2nd Light Horse Regiments in Monash Gully preparing to dig trenches. Gallipoli, 1915

 

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Gallipoli,1915. An Australian soldier with boxes and kerosene tins of provisions. The box at left is labelled: "Morris & Company's Supreme Corned Beef." The kerosene tin in the centre appears to contain rough loaves of bread or damper

 

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A 6" 26 cwt howitzer is man-handled through the mud, with the aid a light railway; near Pozieres, September 1916.

 

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8" howitzers of the 39th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery conducting a shoot in the Fricourt-Mametz Valley, August 1916, during the Battle of the Somme

 

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Australian troops carry hot soup to reserve troops near Hyde Park Corner in West-Vlaanderen, Messines, Belgium, January 1918.

 

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Two unidentified soldiers back on the shore after bathing at the beach north of Anzac Cove. 1915

 

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Bringing back dead and wounded from Field Hospital placed next to 60-pdr. Battery and shelled by the Turks. Suvla Bay, August 1915

 

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Australian soldiers washing their gum boots outside the gum boot store at Houplines, near Armentieres. Infantry and working parties were issued with dry boots from this store before going into the line, and on returning, handed them back, after washing off the mud in the tubs provided for the purpose. January 1917.

 

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Two members of Australian 8th Battalion in Biscuit Trench, located in the front line east of Flers.
Lieutenant A D Temple MC, Lewis Gun Officer of the 8th Battalion, is on the right looking over the parapet towards Bapaume. On the left is 4796 Private (Pte) J Hawkins, in charge of Lewis Gun Section A Company.
Pte Hawkins later died of wounds at Pozieres on 10 August 1918. He has sandbags tied round his shins. Note also his sheepskin vest, and gas mask worn in the 'ready' position.
France - 10th December, 1916.

 

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Two Canadian soldiers standing on top of a German pillbox which was waterlogged and out of action. Passchendaele, Belgium. c. 1917

 

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Captain (Capt) Harold Paul, A Company, 20th Battalion, of Bathurst, NSW. Capt Paul enlisted on 5 May 1915 and embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Berrima on 25 June 1915. Capt Paul had previously served as a private and lieutenant with 1 New South Wales Mounted Rifles in South Africa. During the First World War he served at Gallipoli and France where he was promoted to major on 24 February 1916. He was later promoted to lieutenant colonel with the 49th Battalion. He was mentioned in despatches in June 1917 for his devotion to duty. He returned to Australia on 3 October 1918 and died in 1922 aged 44 years.

 

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Troops of an Australian battalion on the deck of the battleship Prince of Wales in Mudros Harbour just before the landing. This ship was part of the fleet which transported Australian troops to the Gallipoli landing at Anzac Cove. 24 Apr 1915

 

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British troops at a bombed and burned train. Rail yard somewhere in France - 1918. (looks like a mobile machine shop)

 

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These are always shocking numbers whenever you see them.......what a waste!

 

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Mules and donkeys of the 3rd Light Horse Regiment carrying ammunition and supplies. Destroyer Hill is in the background. Gallipoli,1915