Great War in Real Time (now with gas warfare)

He was a enjoyable cuss who didn’t care for war mongering.

Especially profitable war mongering and excuses for it!

He certainly didn’t like selfish husbands and fathers!

Politicians who turned on their words once they got theirs weren’t safe.

He said fuck the police!

He absolutely didn’t like people ruining little things for kids.

He stood up for foreigners. Especially those doing their best to communicate with limited second language knowledge.

He was not having any tomfoolery when it came to gun safety and laws. Especially with youth involved.

You had better not abuse a animal with him nearby. He’d right that wrong real quick!

And best of all him and his wife were both prickly cusses together. Relationship goals.

Sacking the bread ready for shipment at Mechanical Bakery, Advance Section #1, Q.M.C. Is-sur-Tille, Côte-d'Or, France, 2/5/1919

Series: Photographs of American Military Activities, ca. 1918 - ca. 1981

Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1985

Image description: Black soldiers take loaves of bread off wooden shelves and put the loaves into large burlap sacks reading “BAKERIES / U.S. ARMY”. 

Eidolon, oil on linen by SombrePainter

Jul 21 1918 At the Exhibition of Naval Photographs at Princes Galleries, Piccadilly, photographer George P. Lewis takes this photo, IWM Q 1963, of King George V, Queen Mary, Queen Alexandra, Sir Dighton MacNaughton Probyn, Keeper of the Privy Purse and Petty Officer Ernest Pitcher (VC)

Top Left -  Ernest Brooks takes this photo, IWM Q 19520, of British sailors in fighting equipment. 

Center - IWM Q 18887, of British Arrogant-class cruiser HMS Vindictive taken after Apr 23 1918 Zeebrugge Raid

Mar 23 1918 During Spring Offensive, war photographer Thomas Keith Aitken takes these photos of a Mark IV Female Tank (2559) “Gladys” with an unditching beam passing through Peronne.   

IWM Q 10832 - Colourized by Frederic Duriez

IWM Q 10838 - Miscaptioned by Getty as being taken on Jul 16 1918

IWM Q 10833

IWM Q 10831

Film clip, IWM IWM 503, shows a British Mark IV Female Tank (2559 Gladys) captured by the Germans and then recaptured in the Battle of Amiens displayed with its crew at Beauquesne on Sep 16 1918

Jul 10 1918 #OTD Unknown Australian Official Photographer takes this photo, AWM E02677, of 7th Australian Light Trench Mortar Battery operating a light trench mortar. On the left is 1916 Lance Corporal A. J. Ellis and on the right is 2700 Private A. Lawler. Photo taken just east of Villers-Bretonneux between the railway and the south side of the Amiens-St Quentin main road, alongside a position called ‘The Orchard’. Colourized by DB Colour @dougbanksee Probably Arthur Lawler, service Number: 2700, who enlisted in Geraldton, Western Australia. He died of disease (Acute Bronchitis) on Jan 1 1919 in France.

Probably Alfred John Ellis, service Number: 1916, who enlisted in Keswick, South Australia. He returned to Australia on Jan 24 1919

French soldiers in a trench during the Battle of Verdun

IMAGE number: XRD1701963

Colourized by colorsofhistory

La Grande Guerre

Jun 30 1918 At Bois-de-Warnimont, war photographer Henry Armytage Sanders takes this photo, Ref: ½-013282-G, of New Zealand (Māori) Pioneer Battalion performing a haka for Joseph George Ward.

Colourized by Rarity Color