poor-bloody-infantry:

© IWM (Q 26595) Tommy mounted on a donkey outside an Italian house. Note the sheepskin coat worn over his uniform.

poor-bloody-infantry:

ism.gov.au/EZ0011 Troopers of the 2nd Australian Division queue in a trench with their mess tins as they wait to be served with hot tea. The soldier on the left is doling out tea from a large steaming pot.

poor-bloody-infantry:

Postcard from Tom of the York and Lancaster Regiment. Tom says on the back, “…Dear Aunt & Uncle, …How do you like the bed cot, can you find your photo on it? I come to Sheffield on duty on Sunday so I may pop down for a couple of hours.”

poor-bloody-infantry:

Private James Smith of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.

poor-bloody-infantry:

Northumberland Fusiliers ready for anything. Look at the Sergeant on the right. He’s wearing an unusual brace attachment for his 1908 webbing. How tall do you think he was? I also like the “Gor Blimey” hat on the gentleman second from left. 

poor-bloody-infantry:

Royal Naval Division, Howe Battalion…

poor-bloody-infantry:

King George Ward of a British hospital.

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Fitter Staff/Sgt David Boyd Reid,103238 H.Q. 15th Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery Died of Wounds 3 Oct 1918 buried Les Baraques, Sangatte, a very senior noncom, fitter would be a mechanic. Befitting a senior non-commisioned officer, his uniform is a tad personalized with cuffs on his trousers and cane.  

poor-bloody-infantry:

© IWM (Q 53640) A despatch rider of the 3rd Battalion, 1st County of London Yeomanry (Middlesex Duke of Cambridge’s Hussars) delivers a message to an officer during training in Richmond Park, 10 February 1915.

poor-bloody-infantry: © IWM (Q 12745A) A Yeomanry rest camp at el-Arīsh in Egypt, November 1917.

nondescripthistory:
A soldier writes home. The Battle of Verdun, 1916. Unattributed

rojsebastien: An Allied soldier in a trench posing with a Vickers machine gun in Sannaiyat, Iraq, April 1916

aber-flyingtiger:
acmtedder:

An Officer of the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders

I like that pack he has on

poor-bloody-infantry:

© IWM (Q 53549) British soldiers using the minature rifle range during their training at the British Army School of Musketry in Hythe, 21 January 1915.

poor-bloody-infantry:

© IWM (Q 30008) British soldier in a full kit. Near Buckingham Palace, August 1917

poor-bloody-infantry:

© IWM (Q 53939) Troops of the 8th Battalion, Black Watch Regiment (Royal Highlanders) making a bayonet attack at Bordon Camp 1915.

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© IWM (HU 123298) Lieutenant IG Hewlett of the Hampshire Regiment, date of death and location of his remains known but to God.

poor-bloody-infantry:

© IWM (Q 3060) The Regimental Mascot of the 1st Battalion North Staffordshire (Prince of Wales’s) Regiment near Cassel, 8th September 1917. The regimental dog is sitting on a horse.