orphic222: WORLD WAR ONE slang !

Villa Trento hospital staff in the Spring of 1916. From left to right: (standing) L Underwood, D Carey, H Smeets, D Ewbank, M Haines, E Spackman, K Kennedy, E Gibson, L Struthers, R Bonar, C Payton, Sybil Reeves, D Wroughton; (seated) Sister Maskell, Sister Price, Sister Murray, E Partridge, E Ewbank; (front) R Sessions, J Hislop, E Seabrooke.

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Captain GF Malley, Australian Flying Corps standing next to his Sopwith Camel in 1918. Image is in the public domain.

148th American Aero Squadron field. Making preparations for a daylight raid on German trenches and cities - NARA - 530739 (restored).png

captain-price-unofficially: Italian 149mm gun at Forte del Col Vaccer. 30 Dec 1915

Commander E. L. Rhoades RNR, officer commanding HMS Guendolen on Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi). HMS Guendolen commanded by Captain Edward Rhoades, above won the first naval action of WW1.

Prisoners from the German steamboat ‘Hedwig von Wissmann’ guarded by a British serviceman, Lake Malawi.

Major William Sholto Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside, M.C , D.F.C. Commanding Officer of Number 84 Squadron R.A.F at Bertangles, France, Summer 1918.

The 1/25th London Regiment on the Indian Frontier.

deutschland-im-krieg: The one original Alter design was the Alter A.I fighter. This was an approximate copy of the Nieuport Bebe fighter with modified wing cellule. The engine was an 80 hp Oberursel U.0 7-cylinder rotary which provided inadequate performance

I’ve been a school librarian for 31 years. I have one day left to work. Any love for retired teachers?

Image: IWM (Q 50366) Belgian cavalryman!

Image: IWM (Q 57001) Belgian chauchat machine gun crew.

One of the top personalities of the war; enigmatic and unconventional, Col. T.E. Lawrence (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935) proved the exception to the rule according to the “one size fits all” of British military leadership.

the1920sinpictures: 1918 The real Lawrence of Arabia. From Vintage Fashion Uncovered, FB.

redarmyscreaming: La baïonnette

A British tank at Vert Galand, August 1918.

Image: IWM (Q 42244) Rifle gallery in a front line trench. Buckenoff (probably Alsace), 1914.

Image: IWM (Q 31947) A French sailor standing inside a huge vase unearthed whilst constructing military camps at Mikra near Salonika, May 1916.