The War to End all Wars

WWI and the Lost Generation

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Sep 14 1916 German prisoners are carrying an officer of the Grenadier Guards. 

Scene on a road near Guillemont, 14th September 1916. An armoured car and wounded on stretchers waiting to be evacuated; they are being collected by an ambulance of the Guards Division. XIV Corps Front. Scene on the outskirts of Delville Wood

IWM Q 1222, IWM Q 1219, IWM Q 1224

September 14 1916-09-14

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Sep 7 1917 Newspapers

“Every Soldier Must Undergo Vaccination" 

The Daily Alaskan publishes this picture #OTD Sep 7 1917 of American soldiers getting vaccinated somewhere in New York. The small pox vaccination requires three shots.

New Jersey newspaper Perth Amboy Evening News publishes this Bob Satterfield cartoon #OTD Sep 7 1917

Idaho newspaper The Record publishes this cartoon #OTD Sep 7 1917

Seattle Star September 7 1914

US “Fighting Man” Produces For World When Great War Paralyzes Europe

Daily Missoulian September 7 1914

US Labor is “Beneficiary of Peace and Prosperity” during WWI

The Athena Press. Sep 7 1917

East Oregonian : E.O., Sep 7 1917

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Sep 6 1917 IWM Q 2992 “A Labour Battalion returning in the evening after the day’s work consolidating newly won ground, near Ypres” September 6 1917 by Ernest Brooks (Lieutenant) (Photographer)

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September 6 1917 During the Battle of Passchendaele war photographer Ernest Brooks takese photos of ammunition-carrying horses passing along the road to Veldhoek, near Ypres with camouflaged screen borders.

IWM Q 2991,  IWM Q 3001

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Sep 6 1914 in WWI

September 6 1914 issue of NY Sun publishes a picture of HMS Amphion sinking after hitting a German mine

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HMS Amphion sunk by mine, 6 August 1914

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Sep 5 1917 IWM Q 3018 “Men of the Royal Garrison Artillery (R.G.A.) moving a 9.2 inch howitzer onto its travelling carriage, to move it forward. Wieltje” September 5 1917 by Ernest Brooks

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IWM Q 3019 -  Ernest Brooks

IWM Q 3020 -  60 pounder Mark I

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Aug 31 1916 IWM Q 78885 “A French 305 mm railway gun firing near Lihons, 31 August 1916. Note camouflage screens draped over the equipment.”

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IWM Q 78885

The Battle of The Somme

Production date: 1916-08-31

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1916 Nieuport 11 - Jaroslaw Wróbel

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The grave of an unknown Canadian soldier on the Somme battlefield, October 1916.

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NZ Truth Aug 4 1917

Which gun should I fire first? 

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To many shades - German Fields - June 2k20

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USS New York (BB-34) in Scapa Flow, Scotland as part of Battleship Division 9. 1918.

Note: she is wearing an experimental camo.

NH 45143

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Lt. Lothar von Richthofen wearing Pour le Mérite.

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German WWI soldiers inscription

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Stuck In The Mud

Rolls-Royce armoured car stuck in a mud filled shell hole on the Arras-Tilloy road #OnThisDay Apr 13 1917

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While war photographer Ernest Brooks took the above  IWM (Q 3876) picture war photographer three days earlier John Warwick Brooke took the picture below:

Apr 10 1917 in WWI IWM (Q 6436) “Scene on the Arras-Tilloy road. The British troops occupying trench alongside road. Note a Rolls-Royce armoured car stuck in shell-hole" by 

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Returning on a Tank - Aug 1918

Members of the 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles return from combat piled on a tank in this posed August 1918 photograph. At the Battle of Amiens, where this photograph was taken, Canadians experimented with transporting infantry to the front inside the tanks, but carbon monoxide exhaust and the crippling heat left most of them vomiting and unable to fight.

George Metcalf Archival Collection CWM 19930012-528

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