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A group of Royal Engineers of No. 4 Anti-Aircraft Searchlight Section, 14 November 1918.
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Sergeant Leslie Collins, Australian Imperial Force Killed in action at Lone Pine Gallipoli on 07/12 August 1915, aged 21. Son of Daniel and Esther Collins, New South Wales.
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A line of civilians queuing for their water ration in Baku in 1918.
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Battle of Ypres. A prisoner with a man of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, 29th Division, by the side of the Menin Road at Gheluvelt, 1 October 1918.
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A camouflaged dummy British gun in a field near Albert, 9 May 1918.
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Clothing issued to British Prisoners of War in Germany between 1915-1916. The yellow piping could be removed and the buttons replaced to resemble a civilian suit that could be worn in any escape attempt.
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Circumstance of Death report for Gnr. Frederick James Michiel, who died of wounds on April 9th, 1918 Aged 17. Son of Thomas J. and Clara E. Michiel, of Innisfail, Alberta.
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Convalescent troops at Paris-Plage watching baseball, 18 May 1918.
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Visit of King Albert I of Belgium to the British Western Front. The King made a tour of newly captured territory; Vimy Ridge, 17 May 1917.
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Villagers returning to Villers-Bretonneux, September 1918. Young or old, rich or poor, anyone might become a refugee if they lived near the front lines. These people wear expensive clothes but have returned to their village to find it in ruins. Only the belongings they took away with them have survived.
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Men of a Canadian battalion are taking a quick nap in the middle of the Arras town square, 5 September 1918.
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Captain Robert Gerald Foulkes MC. Served from 1914-1919, died in Apr 1962 71.
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Troops of the 3rd Battalion Royal Fusiliers, 85th Brigade, 28th Division manning a trench near Bairakli Jum's May, 1917.
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The capture of Cambrai by the British 57th Division. A patrol of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment in a burning street in the southern suburbs of Cambrai, 9 October 1918.
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Organ pipes, ornaments and other metal objects stocked in the Douai Cathedral by the Germans ready for removal, 25 October 1918.
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Crater caused by the explosion of a British ammunition dump at Wardrecques, 19 May 1918.
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Battle of Epehy. British and German wounded soldiers at an Advanced Field Dressing Station, 21st Division, near Epehy, 18th September 1918.
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