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Russian soldiers on the Eastern Front take aim in a trench while wearing chlorine gas masks. The use of gas is ultimately unique to the first world war, having made its debut and exit within the four short years. It was often used on both axis and allies sides, and created a sense of anxiety and fear in the enamy.

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Men of the 11th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in a captured German communications trench near Havrincourt during the Battle of Cambrai, November 1917.

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A British 8-inch Mk V howitzer in action at Monchy, near Arras, 31st May 1917.

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Captured camouflaged Turkish guns in action against the enemy. Mesopotamia.

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British troops watching shell-bursts near Bullecourt, 21st June 1917.

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Sopwith Camels of No. 32 Squadron at Humieres aerodrome, near St. Pol, 6 April 1918.

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A mother with her wounded son at the Duchess of Westminster's (No. 1 Red Cross) Hospital, at Le Touquet (Le Touquet-Paris-Plage), 18th June 1917. Showing weighted leg-rest.

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Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (W.A.A.C.) cooks in an army cookhouse at Rouen.

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Fokker E.II Eindecker (69/15), location and date unknown. For more, see my Facebook group - Eagles Of The Reich

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Troops of the 8th Battalion, Liverpool Regiment (57th British Division, XI Corps), swarmed by local children, entering Lille, 18 October 1918. The soldier carrying a Lewis machine gun is Private Arthur John O'Hare 307465. Lille spent almost the entire war in German hands. The relief of these young residents is plain to see. The Liverpool Regiment had more hard fighting ahead of them.

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French President Raymond Poincare received at one of the gates of Lille by General William Birdwood ( Commander-in-Chief of the 5th Army) and a British Guard of Honour, 21 October 1918. Note German notices on the Gate.

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Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg with General Otto von Below, the Commander of the German Sixth Army, at the latter's headquarters in Lille, June 1917.

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Battle of Amiens. Arranging blankets to shade from the sun wounded awaiting evacuation from a Field Dressing Station at Le Quesnel, 11 August 1918. The allies lost 19000 dead, and the Germans 26000. It showed that the allies could win the war with superior equipment and tactics.

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My Dad was stationed on the USS Wesson, a destroyer escort as a sonar-man. One night, he was on watch near their kingfisher, the fuselage was open and he crawled in, he went to sleep, but woke up and could not open the fuselage! He was discovered in the early morning and said he had never got in so much trouble!

A Vought OS2U Kingfisher is launched from turret no. 3. Catapult on USS TEXAS (BB-35), during one of the escort crossings in the Atlantic Ocean.

Date: January 1-March 31, 1944

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George and his May <3

“George never liked to leave his wife. Writing from York Cottage in 1923 he told her: ‘It is quite ridiculous how much I miss you here, the House seems altogether different, & I was very lonely last night." (Jane Ridley, Never a Dull Moment).

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HM King George V talking to a Frenchman whose ground was part of the 5th Army training area at Herzeele, 6 July 1917.

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Battle of Albert. Troops of the 18th (Queen Mary's Own) Hussars moving forward. Near Courcelles, 21 August 1918.

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