#commonwealth forces

Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve Boarding Party armed with Naval Cutlass's and wearing balaclavas 1914.

The 3rd Canadian Infantry Battalion, with small mascot in tow, parade for Major General Sir Sam Hughes.

"22 October 1951, prisoners of war from the 1st Commonwealth Division, captured during Operation Commando, a six division offensive against elements of four Chinese armies. It would be the last major UN offensive of the war."

"Australian troops approach a German-held strong point under the protection of a heavy smoke screen somewhere in the Western Desert, in Northern Africa on November 27, 1942."

Well, supposedly. This photo is staged.

Canadian sled-dog teams make their way across the bleak Russian landscape during the Allied Intervention during the Russian Civil War.

Australian artillery men work a BL 9.2-inch siege howitzer during the Battle of Passchendaele.

Weighing in at between 13 (Mk. I) and 16 (Mk. II) tons, the massive artillery piece had to be broken down into smaller bunches to be moved. As luck would have it, the Mk. I had just finished testing - with high marks - when war was declared, and began to see use on the Western Front before the year was up. While the Mk. I had a range of just over nine kilometers, the Mk. II improvement, which entered service in late 1917, improved the range of the 290-lb HE projectile to nearly 13 kilometers.

"These Arab recruits line up in a barracks square in the British Mandate of Palestine, on December 28, 1940, for their first drill under a British solider. Some 6,000 Palestinian Arabs signed up with the British Army during the course of World War II."