American volunteers in the French Foreign Legion; Victor Chapman (centre) and Kiffin Rockwell (right) enjoy some time away from the front in 1916, (Image source: David Hanna)

Image: © IWM (Q 51646) The Battle of Festubert. Lieutenant Colonel Philip Rynd Robertson (right), commanding officer of the 1st Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) and Major J. G. Chaplin in headquarters dugout at Grande Flamengrie Farm (Bois-Grenier sector), 20th May 1915.

Royal Fusiliers Company. Scots Guards on the range at Cormette.

First World War 1914-1918 (War 14-18). Training of young soldiers recruited by the Russian army. In “” Le Petite Journal””, on 30/04/1916. Private Collection

Image: IWM (Q 6662) The Third Battle of the Aisne. French nurse attending British wounded at Maizy, 27 May 1918.

An officer of the Highland Light Infantry holding posing with an artillery shell. Notice how the officer has a Scottish cutaway jacket.

Wounded British troops at 43 Casualty Clearing Station, Frevent © IWM (Q 333)

Dancing to celebrate the end of war, 1918!

Image: IWM (Q 61057) The French Tissot mask demonstrated by a French soldier. The Tissot mask was revolutionary in that it gave the wearer greater visibilty by allowing air to pass over the eye-pieces. Arras, 12 July 1918.

English gas masks for men and horses.

Image: IWM (Q 53606) French troops gathering materials for constructing trenches in Aisne, 1915.

Commander Samson, Royal Navy Flying Corps, First World War, 1914)

Image: IWM (Q 49087) A French Renault FT-17 tank, serial number 3151, on the road near St. Julien, 2 October 1918.

Image: IWM (Q 10824) British wounded passing through the French and British outpost line, Roye, 25th March 1918.

Image: IWM (Q 53604) Two French troops in a front line trench, using a box periscope to look over the top in Argonne, 1915.

A collapsed British dugout, Mesopotamia, WWI, 1918

New uniforms of the British Royal Naval Air Service, 1914 )Addison Thomas Millar

French cavalry tangling with their German counterparts.

this one gives me chills. It is titles “Les Eparges” which directly means “savings” but here is translated as the “last ones.” Don’t you know they were tough!

First World War (1914-1918): “the passage of the Yser during the Flanders offensive in 1917”” Watercolour painting by Francois Flameng (1856-1923) 1917,