Guardsmen in front line. The Gully, Ypres Salient, April 1916.

Cooks and field cookhouse, 8th Royal Scots, Garleton Hills, autumn, 1914.

Men of the 8th Royal Scots digging trenches. Captain G. Suttie and Major Brook watching. Autumn, 1914.

Front line tranch held by the the Scots Guards. Showing graves near officers dug-out. Laventie, France. December 1915

A sergeant of ’D’ Company, 1st Battalion, Royal Scots, using a trench periscope to observe German trenches near Kemmel in January 1915.

Ward in No. 12 Casualty Clearing Station in lace factory at Hazebrouck, 1915.

Wounded outside No. 10 Casualty Clearing Station, Hazebrouck, 1915.

Gassed cases outside No. 5 Casualty Clearing Station, Hazebrouck, 1915.

Image: IWM (Q 57177) 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards and transport on the march to Tielt after leaving Ghent, 12 October 1914.

rockyp77mk3: “Dough Boy” by Rick Reeves

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rockyp77mk3: This Memorial Day please spare a thought for those who raised their right hands and put the nation and our freedoms above their own personal comfort and safety, never to return.

Image: IWM (Q 1601) British troops returning from leave, Mailly Maillet, November 1916. The group of soldiers includes men of the Lancashire Fusiliers, York and Lancaster Regiment, and the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment (West Riding).

Image: IWM (Q 2983) British troops carrying hot food in containers. A scene at dinner time in a very muddy street in Mailly-Maillet, 24th April 1917.

Image: IWM (Q 720) A British mounted sentry outside Cafe Jordan, Mailly Maillet, 28th June 1916.

Image: IWM (Q 728) General Beauvoir De Lisle, GOC 29th Division, in conversation with another General; Mailly-Maillet, 29 June 1916. The British had great success with little bush wars and Colonial scraps during the previous twenty years, but nothing prepared them for an enemy that could hit them in the commercial running of their Empire. The Germans began to fray the million little trade agreements, but it was America, in World War II, that finished it. Roosevelt cut the Empire apart not because of any moral, or high ideal, but simply to open doors for American business.

Portrait of Bayonet Exercise Class, Staff Sergeant Major Stock.

Image: IWM (Q 1596) British Artillerymen drinking soup obtained from a Y.M.C.A. stall, Mailly Maillet, October 1916.

Tractor towing one of the Royal Navy motor boats over the first bridge built by the British naval forces near Fungurume after repair by the local tribesmen.

Portrait of an unidentified Australian Infantryman in full uniform and kit, carrying a .303 rifle with bayonet attached.