WWI Soldiers Gallery

British soldiers with tank in trench, Ribecourt, France, WW1

Men of the 1st Leicester Regiment, 6th Division, in and around a captured German second line trench, one mile west of Ribecourt, northern France, during the Battle of Cambrai, First World War. A tank of H Battalion, with the name Hyacinth painted on its side, stalled when trying to cross the trench. Date: 20 November 1917

© Robert Hunt Library/Mary Evans

Christmas Truce 1914

British and German officers pictured in No Man's Land on the Western Front during the unofficial Christmas truce of 1914 which saw both sides fraternising at various points along the line on the Western Front on Christmas day 1914

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Recapture of Kut Al Amara, Mesopotamia, WW1

Recapture of Kut Al Amara, Mesopotamia (now Iraq), by Allied troops during the First World War. Showing Indian Cavalry (Lancers) riding along a narrow street. Date: 24 February 1917

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