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“We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.”

- Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front.

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British troops digging trenches. Bus les Artois. May 1918.

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Battle of Cambrai. German prisoners working as stretcher bearers in the grounds of a chateau (just outside Cambrai) used as a British 57th Division's advanced dressing station, 8 October 1918.

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The road from Vimy Ridge to Lens, 1920.

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A British officer of the Army Veterinary Corps in Salonika with his pets which included two jackdaws, a wild goose, a wolf cub and an Alsatian dog. 1916

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Dominion journalists are shown a demonstration at Central Depot of the Messenger Dog Service at Etaples, 6 September 1918.

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Lieutenant J. B. McDowell, British official cameraman, filming the town of Amiens with the view of the Cathedral, 7 April 1918.

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A British war dog wears a gas mask as it is held by its handler at the British Army kennels near Etaples. 1918

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Officers of the 27th Division playing badminton in a village (possibly Stavros) in Salonika. 1916

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Destruction caused by the explosion of a British ammunition dump at Wardrecques, 19 May 1918.

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Ruins of the Chateau Segar, Near Ypres. WWI

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A graves registration officer locating a grave in the old trenches at Sannaiyat, near Kut, 1917. 

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"Welsh-Berry" Hand Grenades. The grenade will explode between 4 and 5 seconds after the percussion cap is struck. World War One.

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The Butte de Polygon. New Zealand Division Front, 1918.

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Turkish prisoners surrendering with their hands high after being captured by the 38th Lancashire Brigade in the action of Tuz Khurmatli on 29th April 1918.

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Battle of Epehy. Wounded and Prisoners coming in, near Epehy, 18th September 1918.

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Children, like adults, were caught up in war fever after hostilities broke out in August 1914. Many wanted to join the Army, including nine-year-old Alfie Knight from Dublin. Alfie wrote this letter to Secretary of State for War Lord Kitchener, volunteering as a front-line despatch rider. In a reply sent by his private secretary, Lord Kitchener thanked Alfie for his offer, but explained that he was 'not yet quite old enough to go to the front'. 

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