Major John Charles Bradley Firth, while posted at Ste-Marie-Cappel, 1917.
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Absolutely magnificent creature.
(source: Sears catalog, Fall/Winter 1918.)
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French and British soldiers sharing a light at Étaples, c 1915.
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Little girl and patient friend. Taken in France during the reconstruction period after the devastation of WWI - ca. 1917 - 1924. Source.
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The Grim Reaper doesn't come for the dead. That's a myth. He doesn't wear a robe either. Nor does he carry a scythe.
The Grim Reaper comes for the living. He wears the uniform of a private, ill fitting on a young man who's barely past boyhood.
The Grim Reaper comes for mothers. And when he comes every mother on the street steps outside to watch him go, dreading that it's her door where he's gonna stop.
The Grim Reaper is trembling and shy. It never gets easier. All those eyes on him.
The Grim Reaper doesn't carry a scythe. He carries a mailbag. And in it are a hundred letters. Each stamped with the Royal Army Seal.
The mother cries. She refuses the letter. But the Grim Reaper will not be denied. He is not the instrument of death. Only its herald.
The Grim Reaper has no time to stay. There're so many letters yet to deliver today.
The year is 1915, and the Grim Reaper knows that tomorrow will be a busy day as well.
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HUGH DANCY as Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett
2015 · Deadline Gallipoli · S1·EP1 · dir. Michael Rymer
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One of The Red Baron's triplanes on display, 1935
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French officers in blackened greatcoats and face coverings for night operations, 1915
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*wakes up at 2am in a cold sweat* A7V toaster
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Handsome Side-Boy was the HMS Neptune‘s ship’s cat, early 20th century
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Russians and Germans soldiers dancing together at the time of the peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk (1918)
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"An honest-to-goodness dollbaby."
(source: The Miami Daily Record-Herald, December 20, 1918.)
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A woman moving to another village takes with her the bones of her dead son, decorated with marigolds, the native mourning flower, Balkan Front, June 1916.
Photo by Ariel Varges (1890-1972)
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"Lucky Black Cat: mascot of the Royal Fusiliers." 1917. Source.
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