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Ladies at a factory in Scotland keep munition works going at the weekend, lady seen on the left is Mrs Godfrey Collins, whose husband was Liberal Member of Parliament. Date: 1916
Cartoon, The good trader. A salesman of food and other items offers a French soldier some Camembert cheese for a much lower price if he will say where the 20th Corps is
Cartoon, Two German spies. Two fat men at a table laden with food agree that its worth being spies and risking their lives, when they can eat so well. 1916
Cartoon, Hunting season. At a French border post, two German officers ask two French soldiers if the hunting season is in progress hereabouts. 1916
A five-storey dwellings heavily damaged by a bomb by a zeppelin attack. Date: 1916
American advert for a compact pocket Kodak camera. Date: 1916
A cat sits by a window and gazes at the moon and night sky. Date: 1916
American men wear: cravat, fly-fronted overcoat, wing collar, spats, bowler hat, trilby & a S-B two-piece suit. Holding the lapels won t help the suit to last! Date: 1916
A young lady displays her legs on the platform of her beach cabin. Date: 1916
A German youth, with the national flag. Date: 1916
Buying produce from a stall in a German village market selling chickens and eggs. Date: 1916
Ye Red Spider Tea Rooms, Church Street, Rickmansworth. Date: 1916
American advert for McCray Refrigerators - Snow White Opal Glass. Food compartments with run an electric motor with nickel-plated trimmings lined with white opal glass
A German guard on night watch in the middle of winter. Date: 1916
Russian troops abandon their guns and retreat before the advancing Germans Date: 1916
Crown Prince Wilhelm (1882 - 1951), son of Kaiser Wilhelm II, seen here in uniform during the First World War. Date: 1916
The approach to Newcastle station, claiming to be the Largest Railway Crossing in the World Date: 1916
Max Immelmann (1890 - 1916), German air ace in World War One but shot down in action
WW1 - Postcard sent home by a German soldier on the front - the inset picture shows the soldier (with a colleague) a horse and a young foal. 1916
WW1 - Home Front - Keeping the home fires burningKeeping the home fires burning. A Mother and her two daughters spending an evening by the fire while husband/Father is away at war
Arrival of the Turbine Steamer into port at Folkestone, Kent, England. 1916
Three nurses, senior nurse, gentleman. Front reads Tregaron 1916 Date: 1916
Nurses at Training School, Clapton, London. Reverse reads Nurses at Training School Clapton London. Annotated Miss Martha Malins indicated by x. c.1916. Date: circa 1916
Kitchener Memorial, Orkney, ScotlandOn Marwick Head, five miles east of Dounby in Orkney, stands a crenallated tower built by public subscription to honour the memory of Herbert Kitchener
Prince Albert with Crown Prince Alexander of SerbiaPrince Albert (later King George VI - 1895-1952) riding in an open carriage to Buckingham Palace, London with Alexander I (1888-1934)
Christmas Greetings - Australian War Contingent AssociationChristmas Greetings from the Australian War Contingent Association - London, 1916. The group sent out gift boxes to Australian servicemen in action abroad, along with these cards. Date: 1916
WW1 - French Zouave soldiers - awarded The Croix de GuerreTwo Zouave soldiers awarded The Croix de guerre (plus star) for their role in combat during WW1. This medal was commonly bestowed on foreign military forces allied to France
Group on rear verandah, Quex ParkGroup of patients and one nurse on the rear verandah, overlooking the gardens, Quex Park. This verandah ran along the back of the Museum buildings and was used as a sheltered outdoor space in summer
Queen Mary inspecting tribute to East End patriotismQueen Mary pictured in Palace Road, South Hackney, chatting to locals and inspecting a local Rolls of Honour, attached to the wall of a house in the street
A tribute to the brave in an East London street, WW1A shrine around a roll of honour attached to the wall of a house in Palace Road, Hackney and adorned with flags, flowers and a portrait of the recently deceased Lord Kitchener
A patriotic cast iron frying pan with German soldierA patriotic cast iron frying pan with a German soldier shaking the hand of a German woman in relief on the handle. Embossed around the diameter with Der Deutschen frau opfersinn
Ornaments - German Internees - Knockaloe Internment CampA pair of carved bone ornaments with raised foliate decoration with inscriptions - one saying Zur Freud (In Joy) and one saying Im Leid (In Sadness)
Victoria Cross - Lieutenant William Leefe Robinson (1895-1918) (Royal Flying Corp) - awarded for most conspicuous bravery
British soldiers trying on captured German headgear 1916British soldiers of the Northumberland Fusiliers trying on German helmets and gas-masks following the battle of St. Eloi. Date: 1916
British soldiers celebrating after Battle of St. EloiCheering British soldiers and officers of the Northumberland Fusiliers after the battle of St. Eloi. Some are wearing captured German helmets
This Austrian cart is being hauled by bullocksTwo bullocks pulling a cart alongside the Save. The soldier, from Austria, cracks his whip to keep the animals moving. Date: 1916
A mobile, military washing machine being guarded by troopsHorse-drawn machine was designed to rid a soldiers bedding from lice and infectious diseases. Steam is used to clean the bedding and uniforms. Straw-filled mattresses can be seen in the foreground
An early bomb disposal method to detect unexploded bombsFrench soldier holding an electrical induction balance, capable of detecting buried explosive shells. These shells had been causing large numbers of casualties to civilian agricultural workers
Crew of a British C Class submarine 1916British sailors struggle to haul some German sailors onboard a submarine, after the German ship was torpedoed. At this stage of the war
French female munitions worker making powder primers 1916A photograph of a female munitions worker, as she makes the primers and other associated percussion cap parts for shells, in a French munitions factory
Interior of a mobile French dental laboratory 1916The modern interior of a French army dental surgery. The drill can be seen along with the other surgical equipment used in oral hygiene. Date: 1916
Sailors relax on the deck of a British destroyer 1916Stokers, Sailors and Gunners, have a cigarette break - and shelter from the sun - lying on the wooden decks of a British destroyer
Sailors swab the decks after refuelling their shipSailors, many in bare feet, clean the decks after coal has been put into the hold. Coal was known by the sailors as black diamonds
Zeppelin destroyed over Britain 1916The ruins of a zeppelin destroyed over Britain, near London. Date: 2 September 1916
SHORT SKIRTS SAVE FABRICPatriotic German woman does her bit by taking the new fashion for short skirts to an extreme to save on fabric. Yet her long boots / gaiters must require a lot of material? Date: 1916
A TRIP TO BOX HILLA motor excursion to Box HIll, Surrey, a popular tourist spot. Date: 1916
Love in the Back SeatLove in the back seat. Date: 1916
PIANOLA ADVERT 1Everyone admires the Duo-Art Pianola; such an instrument as this leaves prejudice defenceless Date: 1916