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Beside the barbed wire of a German position near Sailly-Laurette, east of Amiens, British troops of the III Corps examine a captured 08/15 light machi...

German soldier in a trench uses a flamethrower against a British Mark IV tank. The Battle of Amiens was the opening phase of the Allied offensive late...

German prisoners taken at Amiens. The Battle of Amiens was the opening phase of the Allied offensive later known as the Hundred Days Offensive that ul...

American troops push their way to the front, September 29, 1918. The Battle of the Argonne Forest, was a part of the final Allied offensive of WWI tha...

German dugouts built in the side of a hill in the Argonne region and strongly fortified, They were captured in desperate fighting by the 103rd Infantr...

British troops in a captured secondary trench, Cambrai, November, 1917. The Battle of Cambrai (November 20 - December 7 1917) was a British campaign o...

British troops cross the Canal du Nord. The Battle of Canal du Nord was part of a general Allied offensive against German positions on the Western Fro...

Horse-drawn field artillery passing through the Canal du Nord by a destroyed bridge. The Battle of Canal du Nord was part of a general Allied offensiv...

Tirailleurs (Algerian riflemen) of the French army attack German guns, from a painting by Fernand Besnier. Tirailleur dates back to the Napoleonic per...

The Battle of the Marne was a WWI battle fought between September 5-12, 1914. The battle ended the month long German offensive that opened the war and...

German ammunition abandoned at Battle of the Marne. The Battle of the Marne was a WWI battle fought between September 5-12, 1914. The battle ended the...

German troops move to the front to hold the line. The Second Battle of the Marne (July 15 - August 6, 1918) was the last major German Spring Offensive...

French and British soldiers. Machine gun crew aiming a Hotchkiss Machine Gun Model 1900. The Hotchkiss machine gun, a sturdy and reliable weapon, rema...

French and British soldiers.The Second Battle of the Marne (July 15 - August 6, 1918) was the last major German Spring Offensive on the Western Front...

The remains of Oosttaverne Wood and the wrecked German trenches captured on the first day of the offensive. The Battle of Messines (June 7-14, 1917) w...

German prisoners taken during the battle. The Battle of Messines (June 7-14, 1917) was an offensive conducted by the British Second Army on the Wester...

Identification papers are collected from a dead British soldier, Ch?teau Wood, October 1917. The Battle of Passchendaele was a campaign of WWI, fought...

It took a stretcher party of seven to carry a wounded soldier from the muddy battlefield, August 1917. The Battle of Pilckem Ridge, July 31 - August 2...

Canadian machine gunners on Passchendaele Ridge, the furthest point of the Allied advance, Novemebr 1917. The Battle of Passchendaele was a campaign o...

British 6 inch howitzer crew, August 1917. The Ordnance BL 6 inch 26cwt howitzer was a British howitzer used during WWI. It was originally towed by ho...

British gunners watching wounded German prisoners escorted to the rear after the taking of Guillemont. The Battle of Guillemont (September 3-6, 1916)...

The attack was preceded by an eight day artillery bombardment, in which 1537 British guns fired 1,723,873 rounds. The aim of the bombardment was to ki...

The crossing of the St. Quentin Canal by the men of the 46th Division. The canal was heavily defended by fortified machine gun positions), but they ca...

The inexperienced Americans did not clear German positions as effectively as they might have. This forced the advancing Australians to fight for the g...

The Battle of Thiepval Ridge was an offensive mounted by the Reserve Army of Lieutenant General Hubert Gough during the Battle of the Somme and was in...

The Battle of Thiepval Ridge was an offensive mounted by the Reserve Army of Lieutenant General Hubert Gough during the Battle of the Somme and was in...

French infantry on the way to Verdun. The Battle of Verdun was fought from February 21 - December 18, 1916 during WWI on the Western Front between the...

Germans in trench near Verdun, as their artillery barrage begins. The Battle of Verdun was fought from February 21 - December 18, 1916 during WWI on t...

The Battle of Gallipoli was a WWI campaign that took place on the Gallipoli peninsula in the Ottoman Empire (April 25, 1915 - January 9, 1916. The pen...

Warships near the Gallipoli Penninsula, Turkey during the Gallipoli Campaign of WWI, 1915. The Battle of Gallipoli was a WWI campaign that took place...

55th Infantry Division troops blinded by tear gas during the Battle of Estaires, April 10, 1918. The Battle of Estaires was one of the eight battles o...

British cavalry armed with both lances and rifles pass through an unidentified ruined village. Cavalry or horsemen were soldiers or warriors who fough...

British soldier daring trench with improvised pump. After the Battle of the Marne in September, 1914, the Germans were forced to retreat to the River...

Men of the Gordon Highlanders pull on rubber boots, Bazentin-le-Petit, France, November 1916. The Gordon Highlanders was a British Army infantry regim...

The British Mark V tank was an upgraded version of the Mark IV tank, deployed in 1918 and used in action in the closing months of WWI. The Mark V was...

Ration wagons on the muddy road to Montauban, November 1916. Field kitchen is a mobile kitchen, mobile canteens or food truck used primarily by milita...

British troops receive rations from field kitsch, October 1916. Hot food was a morale booster in the cold, muddy, wet conditions of the Somme campaign...

British armored cars set out on a reconnaissance mission in the Somme region. With the fighting leaving the trenches mobility became more and more ess...

The Royal Corps of Signals is one of the combat support arms of the British Army. Signaling was the responsibility of the Telegraph Battalion until 19...

The Trench Signaling lamp was in a wooden case and was battery operated. It had a bulls eye lens to concentrate the light and had a morse key to switc...

In August 1914, the French Armed Forces numbered 1,300,000 soldiers. At the beginning of the war, the French Army was wearing the uniform of the Franc...

A French tank leads an attack along the Marne, with infantry advancing in its cover. The Schneider CA 1 tanks were widely used in combat during the la...

British tank hauls away a captured German artillery piece. The 15 cm schwere Feldhaubitze 13 (15 cm sFH 13), was a heavy field howitzer used by German...

A dead German machine gunner abandoned on the Ypres salient. The Ypres Salient is the area around Ypres in Belgium which was the scene of some of the...

Telephones were used extensively in WWI because radio sets were large, heavy, expensive, in short supply, affected by weather, and could only be used...

Telephones were used extensively in WW1 because radio sets were large, heavy, expensive, in short supply, affected by weather, and could only be used...

German infantry dash through a cut barbed wire entanglement on the Aisne. The Third Battle of the Aisne was a battle of the German Spring Offensive du...

German machine gun crew. The Maschinengewehr 08, or MG 08, was the German Army's standard machine gun in WWI and is an adaption of Hiram S. Maxim's or...

British soldier passes the iron frameworks of a German pillbox at Broodseinde. The German practice of defending frontline trenches regardless of casua...

German troops endure a British bombardment on a dugout. Fully armed they are ready to rush back to the front line once the artillery barrage ceases. D...