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The 99th Aero Squadron of the Air Service, US Army/France c. 1917

Mark V tanks with British and New Zealand infantry moving forward after their capture of Grevillers, 28 August 1918.

A British soldier fires a machine gun with periscope attachment in the trenches at Gallipoli.

WWI Italian Bersaglieri

This lingering belief in the utility of cavalry combat has often been cited as evidence of the incompetence of Britain’s generals. David Lloyd George complained about this in his 1934 memoir of the war, claiming of the ‘ridiculous cavalry obsession’ of his generals.

Wounded British soldiers stretch their legs beside their train, which has stopped just outside Amiens during a German Offensive/4 March 1918.

Although the British Army wanted nothing to do with the women of FANY initially, by the time of the Armistice those who worked in the field and drove ambulances had been decorated many times for bravery including: 17 Military Medals, 1 Legion d’Honneur and 27 Croix de Guerre.

Australian soldiers and army nurses playing cards at Mudros on the Greek island of Lemnos, 19 September 1917.

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Winnipeg 1919

Chigwell Alberta, 1913 Basketball team.

c1910  Hatfield Point, New Brunswick

Silhouette of a British soldier overlooking the carnage of the Front. France, June 1917.

A very young german soldier.