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Herbert Henry Asquith - Liberal Prime Minister of England - 1908-1916
Wikipedia - "H. H. Asquith"

Field Marshal Lord John French
Wikipedia - "John French, 1st Earl of Ypres"

Field Marshal Lord John French in Paris
Wikipedia - "John French, 1st Earl of Ypres"

David Lloyd George - Liberal Prime Minister of England - 1916-1922
Wikipedia - "David Lloyd George"

Ruins of Ypres market square (1915)
Wikipedia - "Second 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).
 Imperial War Museum
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 British trench near the Albert–Bapaume road at Ovillers-la-Boisselle, July 1916 during the Battle of the Somme.
 Imperial War Museum
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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
Wikipedia - "Tanks 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
 Imperial War Museum
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Devastation of Ypres during WW I
Wikipedia "Battle 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.
Wikipedia - "World War I"

Mark II Tank Number advancing with Canadian Infantry at Vimy - April 1917
 Library and Archives Canada (PA-004388)
Wikipedia - "World War I"

British Mark II tank captured by German troops at Bullecourt near Arras - 11 April 1917
Wikipedia - "Mark I tank"

British Mark IV tank - 1220 were built for service in the war
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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.
Wikipedia - "Battle 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)
Wikipedia - "Battle of Arras (1917)"

A French assault on German positions. Champagne, France - 1917
 National Archives
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Georges Clemenceau by Cecilia Beaux (1920)
Prime Minister of France - 1906-1909 and 1917-1920
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Wikipedia - "Georges 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.
Imperial War Museum
Wikipedia - "World 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
Wikipedia - "World 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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The Town Square, Arras, France. February, 1919.
(click picture for larger resolution)
National Archives
Wikipedia - "Battle of Arras (1917)"


Wikipedia - "Treaty of Brest-Litovsk"

The signing of the Brest-Litovsk Treaty - March 3, 1918.
The treaty took away a third of Russia's population, half of her industry and nine-tenths of her coal mines.
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Prepared by Miles H. Hodges