Trenches Collection (page 2)

1st Battalion Rifle Brigade
" Pleased to meet you!" Photograph showing some men of the 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade " standing-to" in their trench in anticipation of an attack by Germans January 1915

The Conscientious Exhilarator, by Bairnsfather
The Conscientious Exhilarator " Every encouragement should be given for singing and whistling" - (Extract from a Military Manual ) That painstaking fellow, Lieut

In No Mans Land
" In No Mans Land: The Dread Territory Which Belongs to Neither German nor Briton" Royal engineers, working in the dark of No Mans Land to construct barbed wire barriers in front of British

Gallipoli trench WWI
Royal Navy Division Sector Lieutenant C.H. Parkes RNVR with Periscope rifle (sniperscope) at Gallipoli during World War I

Canadian Infantrymen attack, France, 1916
Photograph showing Canadian soldiers running out of their trenches to attack German positions during an Allied offensive on the Somme Front, France, 1916

British troops wearing gas masks in the trenches, Salonika
British troops wearing gas masks in the trenches, Thessaloniki, 1917. Lantern slide from box of 111 slides associated with the Balkans, 1914-1918. One of 29 boxes of lantern slides

My Dug-Out A lay of the trenches by Bruce Bairnsfather
Old Bill shows his prowess as a poet in this cartoon by Bruce Bairnsfather. Date: 1915

The Big Push March 1916
The Big Push - a march, no doubt intended to rouse all who hear it to push a little harder for victory Date: 1916

Prayer before returning to the Front
British soldiers pray in St Martin-in-the-Fields church, London, before leaving from Charing Cross Station for the trenches

Look-out in 1917
A soldier in a look-out post in a trench using a camouflaged periscope to keep watch on the British Front in France during World War I in 1917

George V Visits Dug-Out
George V visiting a captured German dug-out during the First World War

Ww1 Cartoon / Haircut 1916
COIFFURE IN THE TRENCHES " Keep yer ead still, or I ll ave yer blinkin ear off!"

Development of trench warfare in France by Matania
Protecting the man and armouring the trench. French soldiers wearing the new steel helmet holding an armoured trench during a violent German artillery bombardment

Death of Michael Godfrey, first Deputy Governor of the recently founded Bank of England, on 17 July 1695, during the Siege of Namur (2 July to 4 September 1695, part of the Nine Years War)

Training dogs in the trenches, WW1
Training war dogs. Dogs at the British War Dog School being acclimatised to trenches (part of the ground) before being sent to the Front where they were used in various roles such as messengers

A night raid into no-mans-land near Messines - WW1
A night raid into no-mans-land near Messines during the First World War

A captured German machine gunner at Croiselles - WW1
A captured German machine gunner at Croiselles during the First World War

British troops near Arras during the First World War

Going up to the front at Croiselles - WW1
Going up to the front at Croiselles during the First World War

The Hindenburg line taken from 8, 000 feet - WW1
The Hindenburg line taken from 8, 000 feet during the First World War

Moving a gun in the Flanders mud during the First World War

British troops advancing at Bernafay Wood - WW1
British troops advancing at Bernafay Wood during the First World War

Briish troops at Passchendale during the First World War

Seaforth Highlanders (and dog) during the First World War

A Black Watch soldier in a trench during the First World War

Signallers, Sausage Valley, during the First World War

Gas attach at Serre and Thiepval during the First World War

WW1 - Lancashier Fusiliers front line trench overlooking no-mans land opposite Messines near Ploegsteert Wood - January 1917

WW1 - Battle of the Somme - machine gunners wearing gas helmets near Ovillers - July 1916

WW1 Battle of the Somme - Lewis gun in action in front line trench near Ovillers, France - July 1916

WW1 - British working party at German trenches and dug-outs near Boezinge, Belgium - 5th August 1917

Battle of Flanders, British troops and German trenches near Boesinghe, 5th August 1917

Battle of Albert, British troops approaching German trenches at Beaumont Hamel, 1st july 1916

WW1 - Battle of Albert - Patrol crawling towards German trenches during the attack on Beaumont Hamel - 1st July 1916

Verey light fired from trenches, Thiepval, 7th August 1916

WW1 - Verey light fired from trenches in Thiepval, France - 7th August 1916

YMCA dug-out hut during WW1

Belgian peasant woman and child wearing gas masks near the trenches on the Flanders front

Belgian peasant and child wearing gas masks in their home near the trenches on the Flanders Front WW1

Artillery planning in the trenches

German infantry in trenches in WW1

British Sergeant Artillery planning in a trench during WW1

German Infantry in a trench during WW1

WW1 Troops in trenches going over the top

Moving Artillery Guns by Raft during WW1 Date: circa 1916

Machine Gun Corps training during WW1 Date: circa 1916

A London Recruiting Depot during WW1 Date: circa 1916

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