Herbert Henry Asquith - Liberal
Prime Minister of England - 1908-1916
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Asquith"
Field Marshal Lord John French
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French, 1st Earl of Ypres"
Field Marshal Lord John French
in Paris
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French, 1st Earl of Ypres"
David Lloyd George - Liberal
Prime Minister of England - 1916-1922
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Lloyd George"
Ruins of Ypres market square
(1915)
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Battle of Ypres"
A ration party of the Royal
Irish Rifles in a communication trench during the Battle of the Somme.
The date is believed to be 1 July
1916, the first day on the Somme, and the unit is possibly the 1st Battalion,
Royal Irish Rifles (25th Brigade, 8th Division).
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War I"
British trench near
the Albert–Bapaume road at Ovillers-la-Boisselle, July 1916 during the
Battle of the Somme.
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War I"
An early model British Mark
I "male" tank, named C-15, near Thiepval, 25 September 1916.
The tank is probably in reserve
for the Battle of Thiepval Ridge which began on 26 September. The tank
is fitted with the wire "grenade shield" and steering tail, both features
discarded in the next models.
Imperial War Museum
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in World War I"
Chateau Wood - Ypres - 1917
Soldiers of an Australian 4th Division
field artillery brigade on a duckboard track passing through Chateau Wood,
near Hooge in the Ypres salient,
29 October 1917.
Australian War Memorial
collection number E01220
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Passchendael - before and
after the 3rd Battle of Ypres - 1917
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Devastation of Ypres during
WW I
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of the Lys"
Australian infantry small
box respirators Ypres 1917
The soldiers are from the
45th Battalion, Australian 4th Division at Garter Point near Zonnebeke,
Ypres sector, 27 September 1917.
Australian War Memorial
catalogue number E00825.
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War I"
Mark II Tank Number advancing
with Canadian Infantry at Vimy - April 1917
Library and Archives
Canada (PA-004388)
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War I"
British Mark II tank captured
by German troops at Bullecourt near Arras - 11 April 1917
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I tank"
British Mark IV tank - 1220
were built for service in the war
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I tank"
Canadian machine gunners
at Vimy Ridge - April 1917
The Canadians took the important
position of Vimy Ridge on Easter Monday, April 9, 1917. They advanced with
brilliance, having taken the whole
system of German front-line trenches between dawn and 6.30 A.M. This shows
squads of machine gunners operating
from shell-craters in support of the infantry on the plateau above the
ridge.
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of Vimy Ridge"
The Hindenburg Line at Bullecourt.
Three
trench lines and communications are here shown, with acres of wire entanglements
in the left foreground protecting first-line positions. Beyond Bullecourt
runs the St. Quentin Canal and tunnel, which was taken late in September
by the Twenty-seventh and Thirtieth American divisions."
"The Literary Digest History
of the World War", volume V, p. 384 (1920)
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of Arras (1917)"
A French assault on German
positions. Champagne, France - 1917
National Archives
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War I"
Georges Clemenceau by Cecilia
Beaux (1920)
Prime Minister of France
- 1906-1909 and 1917-1920
Smithsonian American Art
Museum
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Clemenceau"
British troops blinded by
tear gas
They await treatment at an Advanced
Dressing Station near Bethune during the Battle of Estaires,
10 April 1918, part of the German
offensive in Flanders.
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War I"
American troops going forward
to the battle line
in the Forest of Argonne
in Renault FT-17 tanks. September 26, 1918.
National Archives
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War I"
Officers in the forest of
Compiègne after reaching an agreement for the armistice that ended
World War I.
This railcar was given to Ferdinand
Foch for military use by the manufacturer,
Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits.
Foch is second from the right.
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War I"
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by Miles H. Hodges