Trenches Collection (page 11)

Our Dressing and Medical Dug-out in the trenches. The Little Grey Home in the West. 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps

A soldier reading a letter in the trenches. 313870 Gunner Vivian John Cummings, Born 31.07.1875, 3Rd Canadian Division, Canadian Expeditionary Force

Grave to An Unknown Hero in the Trenches - Ypres
Grave to An Unknown Hero in the Trenches. Mount Sorrel, Ypres. 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Born September 1889

A cat and her family in the Trenches - WWI
A cat and her family in the Trenches. The only inhabitants of a ruined farm near the front line. (The cat had evidently been hit by a shell fragment for one of its paws was missing)

7th NFs St Georges Day in the trenches
7th NFs St. Georges Day in the trenches. The Red and White roses stuck in the shrapnel proof Helmet. What price me for a fine Tart

His first guard in the trenches. 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Born September 1889

Coming out of the trenches to go home on leave. 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Born September 1889

A Ration Wagon going up to the Trenches. 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Born September 1889

Neuve Chapelle - WWI
Neuve Chapelle. Including a separate hand-written description as follows - Here enemy made a counter-attack (under cover of a mist) in mass formation

Cream pottery porridge bowl - WWI - Bairnsfatherware
Cream pottery porridge bowl marked with the word Porridge. With transfer - Coiffure in the trenches. Keep yer ead still, or I ll ave yer blinkin ear off. On reverse - A Souvenir of the Great War

Cream pottery jug - Coiffure in the trenches
Cream pottery jug with transfer on front - Coiffure in the trenches and on reverse Dear. At present we are staying at a farm. On base - Souvenir of the Great War, Grimwades, Stoke-on-Trent

Coiffure in the trenches. Keep yer ead still or I ll ave yer blinkin ear off !. Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, 1St Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment (1888-1959)

German trenches, Le Target, Belgium. 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Born September 1889

SOS Rocket Stick Trenches, Mount Sorrel
SOS Rocket Stick. Trenches, Mount Sorrel. NOTICE ON BOARD - Rocket Stand Stick. Please do not interfere with this. 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance

In the trenches. 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Born September 1889

Periscope fitting - Le Target, Belgium
The periscope fitting for safety in the trenches. Le Target, Belgium. 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Born September 1889

Visions de Guerre - French troops in the trenches
From the French series Visions de Guerre - French troops in the trenches. Felix Valloton (1865-1925). In The 1890 S, Valloton Initiated The Modern Movement In The Use Of Woodcut

French Tanks crossing German trenches. Jean-Jacques Berne-Bellecour (1874-1939)

Plate - Give it a good ard un, Bert
Plate inscribed Give it a good ard un, Bert: You can generally ear em fizzing a bit first if they are agoin to explode. Inscribed on reverse Made by the girls of Staffordshire during the winter of

Plate - Here with a loaf of bread, beneath the row
Plate inscribed Here with a loaf of bread, beneath the bow. A muttered curse, but ne er a whine, and thou - beside me, singing in the wilderness. The wilderness is paradise, enow

The defences of the village of Caestre
Scale 1/2500 of the defences of the village of Caestre - April 1918, showing 11 machine gun positions, trenches and barbed wire produced by 286681, E. North, 90th Field Coy, Royal Engineers

Cartoon, Keeping his hand in, WW1
Cartoon, Keeping his hand in. The professional instinct again. Private Smith, the company bomber (formerly Shinio, the popular juggler), frequently causes considerable anxiety to his platoon

The Long and the Short of It - UP LAST DRAFT, WW1
The Long and the Short of It - UP LAST DRAFT: I suppose you as to be careful ow you looks over the parapet about ere. OUT SINCE MONS: You needn t worry

Private A C Crapper bringing up a limber of supplies, WW1
Private A C Crapper bringing up a limber of supplies to the trenches under heavy fire. After the horses had bolted, 670 Private Crapper of the 1/4th (Hallamshire) Battalion

Monchy-les-Preux, WW1
Monchy-les-Preux, by Lieutenant Morris Meredith Williams, Royal Engineers (b. 1881), commissioned 1.7.17. Date: circa 1917

Calonne, near Loos - British troops in their trenches, WW1
Calonne, near Loos - British troops in their trenches, by Lieutenant Morris Meredith Williams, Royal Engineers (b.1881), commissioned 1.7.17. Date: circa 1917

Cartoon, Coiffure in the Trenches, WW1
Cartoon, Coiffure in the Trenches. Keep yer ead still, or I ll ave yer blinkin ear off. By Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, 1st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment (1888-1959)

Victorious British advance at Loos
Part of one British battalion, with a strong party of bombers in advance, charged across the interveniing space between the British and the first-time German trenches. Date: 1915

Samuel Brothers, Xmas Gifts in the trenches, WW1
Advertisement for Samuel Brothers Ltd of Ludgate Hill, London, suggesting number of practical comforts to be sent as gifts to soldiers in the trenches

Decca advertisement, WW1
Advertisement for the popular Decca gramophone during the First World War, showing two soldiers discussing asking their commanding officer for a favour

Siege trenches in the Aisne district, 1914
Interior view of a trench constructed by the British in the Aisne district of France, showing the head cover made of straw and earth

Trench in sand dunes, Northern France, 1914
Allied soldiers standing in a trench in sand dune country in Northern France, 1914. Date: October 1914

King George V at the Western Front
King George on a visit to the Western Front, in World War One, where he was more than once in the middle of shell fire. Date: 1918

French soldiers - an old hand and new recruit by Georges Sco
Piou-Piou the veteran and Piou-Piou the recruit: Tips from the Lips of Experience. An old, experienced hand takes a new recruit under his wing in the French trenches. Date: 1915

Gong Soups advertisement, WW1
Advertisement for Gong soups, the instant packet soup variety of choice during the First World War, both on the home front and in the trenches

Tatler Coat of Arms, WW1
A symbolic coat of arms for The Tatler magazine from the First World War period. Its motto, The Unique Paper, is flanked by the image of the Tatler 18th century mascot in tricorn hat

British refashioning a German trench, WW1
Illustration showing British soldiers working hard to put a German first line trench, just taken at Hulluch, into a proper state of defence for their purposes

Second wave of French troops in German trenches, WW1
A second wave of French troops in a German trench during an attack, amid gas, in Champagne. After an advance by a first wave of soldiers, a second wave would clear out any Germans remaining by

Hansi the caricaturist in French trenches, WW1
Jean-Jacques Waltz (23 February 1873, Colmar - 10 June 1951), also known as " Oncle Hansi", or simply " Hansi" (" little John")

Biscuits & Beef, British soldiers rations, WW1
A humorous cartoon by a serving soldier, Sapper E. G. Eschini showing a British soldier gnawing at the tough and unpalatable biscuits and beef, typical rations during the First World War. Date: 1917

Army artist making sketches of enemy lines, WW1
A British Army artist shown working from the slender cover on top of the first line trenches in order to sketch the enemy lines. 1915

Reading the Tatler in the trenches
The Tatler doing its bit. British soldiers in a trench in the fighting line pose with a copy of The Tatler magazine. Date: 1915

Knitting cartoon, WW1
A cartoon from the First World War, turning the tables on the activity of knitting comforts for the troops. Instead, soldiers in the trenches are pictured busy knitting warm clothing for society

An airmans camera 1917
Efficiency in the French Army: Apparatus for taking photographs from an aeroplanes. The French Armys camera takes aerial photographs of the enemies trenches, they are developed and put on maps

Officer at the front, obtaining German pointed helmets 1915
British officer dodging bullets from every direction, while picking German pointed helmets from a near by enemies trench, using a couple of bayonets, some string and a bar of soap

A Really Welcome Economy by Bruce Bairnsfather
A Really Welcome Economy " One shell-less day a week wouldn t be a bad idea, would it Bert?" A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander Date: 1917

Its the Little Things that worry by Bruce Bairnsfather
Its the Little Things that Worry What is so particularly annoying to Private Lovebird is, that he would not have had this bother with his dug-out if his leave had not been postponed A cartoon by

The Tourists by Bruce Bairnsfather
The Tourists, 19..? " Remember this place, Bert?" " Yes, its where we used to chuck the fish to you, ain t it, Bill?" A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander

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