I died in hell – They called it Passchendaele

"Once trench warfare set in everyone was bound to the wheel; and when the High Command gave it a turn, Army, Corps and divisional commanders turned with it." WW1 History PhD student, Canberra, Australia.

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Casualties from the Battle of Pozieres at the Australian dressing station at Becourt in July 1916.

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Australian Light Horsemen doing some very normal sword drill.

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Shell handling at an Australian ordnance park near the Somme in July 1916.

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A successful daylight raid by a South African unit brings in three captured Germans some time in the first half of 1917.

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Australian Light Horsemen doing some very normal sword drill.

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Captured German medical orderlies preparing to bring in one of their wounded comrades using a stretcher improvised from a wooden pole and a ground sheet, 10 April 1917.

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American ground crew attaching bombs to their plane.

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British troops wearing gas masks during the pursuit of the German retreat to the Hindenburg Line, March 1917.

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An American field gun crew firing their 75 mm Gun M1897, better known as the French 75.

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Back when it was introduced, this recoil system was nothing short of revolutionary.

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Oh a hundred percent.

It was a state secret for years, particularly because it was better than either of it's main rivals in Britain and Germany until the war.

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Showing what a section of Vickers guns can do to a sandbag wall, June 1918.

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Mule wrestling as training at the Machine Gun Corps training school, June 1918.

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Refilling a Vickers machine gun belt at the Machine Gun Corps Training School at Rombly, France, 15-17 June 1918.

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This is a cool little piece I just got. An Austro-Hungarian army identification tag, with ID paper still inside.

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read and translated to the best of my abilities: Corps: Batallion Infantry Regiment 25 Batch: ??? in/of the Regiment (i presume, not sure!) first, last Name: Robert Glesinger Religion: muslim Year of Recruitment (lit. year of Ascent): 1915 Page number of entry into a base book (?) Right to home (responsible) in Place: Teschen Political district: Teschen Country: Schlesien (Silesia, now in Czechia) Born in Place: Nieborg Country: Schlesien (Silesia) Year: 1894 In Case of Death, notify: Julius Glesinger Vienna I Schottengasse No. 1 ??? Notified on (day): (empty)

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Amazing, thank you!

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This is a cool little piece I just got. An Austro-Hungarian army identification tag, with ID paper still inside.

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A Russian floatplane rendezvousing with a destroyer in the Black Sea after flying from Batum in the Caucasus, c1916.

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French troops move aside to allow a squadron of armoured cars to pass by, April 1918.