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HM King George V talking to a Frenchman whose ground was part of the 5th Army training area at Herzeele, 6 July 1917.

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Battle of Albert. Troops of the 18th (Queen Mary's Own) Hussars moving forward. Near Courcelles, 21 August 1918.

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Battle of Menin Ridge Road. South African Scottish in support, East of Fresenberg Ridge, 22 September 1917. (9th Division).

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The road from Vimy Ridge to Lens, 1920.

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French Dragoons and Chasseurs on their way to the Western Front, 1914

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Battle of Epehy, at the beginning of the Hundred Days. Three soldiers resting on ground near Epehy captured by the 12th Division that day, 18th September 1918.

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Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of the 51st Division crossing the railway at Douchy-lès-Ayette by the ruins of the blown up railway bridge, 22 October 1918.

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Battle of Epehy, at the beginning of the Hundred Days. Soldiers of the Lincolnshire Regiment holding a captured reserve trench beyond Epehy, 18th September 1918. Only wearing light gear, these Tommies are ready for a more fluid, mobile warfare.

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Men of the 27th Division having a meal in a trench, Balkan Front, November, 1916.

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Ruins of the Chateau Segar, Near Ypres. WWI

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Two women operate a shell case forming machine at the New Gun Factory at Woolwich in WWI

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A Regimental Sergeant Major of 11th Battalion, Royal Scots hands out Mills bombs to a raiding party at Meteren. This raid was abandoned just when the party was ready to start owing to the leader being killed. Photograph taken on 12 July 1918.

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"Welsh-Berry" Hand Grenades. The grenade will explode between 4 and 5 seconds after the percussion cap is struck. World War One.

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Officer of the Queen Mary's Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in conversation with an injured member at an encampment in Crecy Forest, 7 June 1918.

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British Cavalry passing the ruined basilica of Notre Dame de Brebieres, Albert, 8th September 1918.

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German Offensive in Picardy. The body of a British soldier by the roadside awaiting burial. The wooden cross is already prepared. Near Domart, 3 April 1918.

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