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Description: | Fifty black and white photographic prints mounted on card covering First World War subjects between 1914 - 1917 including:
1914: Infantry, muleteers and signallers of the Indian Corps on the Western Front, October 1914.
1915: Farriers at work, Army Service Corps inspection of meat purchased for British Army in France, Indian Army ambulance train in France, entrained field kitchens in France, British infantry repairing barbed wire, British sniper in roof of ruined barn, Vickers machine guns in firing position along a roadside ditch in France and a Royal Field Artillery battery in action on the Western Front.
1916: British troops constructing a dugout on the Western Front, German dead in a trench near Guillemont in September 1917: New Zealand infantry in camp on the Western Front, under inspection by the Duke of Connaught and a French general, wounded British soldiers disembarking from a ship in England, medical staff at work at an Advanced Dressing Station on the Western Front, the Duke of Connaught inspecting war trophies seized during the fighting at Messines, supplies going onboard a US warship, general view at a New Zealand Field Ambulance and Boy Scouts from Ealing preparing lunch whilst helping farmers at Goring.
Undated: Canadian and US soldiers on sentry duty on a bridge marking part of the Canadian - USA border, British troops constructing a track for wheeled transport, fumigation of blankets at a British Army camp, a British Army saddler at work in France, construction of new horse lines for a cavalry regiment, the arrival of new boots at a British camp on the Western Front, part of a Field Post Office in France, British soldiers at a French street market and Indian convalescents in Cairo.
Black and white photographic prints mounted on card with typed notes on reverse providing basic caption information and details of source of photographs. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Western Front 1914-1918 British Army 1914-1918 Ceremony Medical Casualties Rest and Recreation Accommodation | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Unknown Photographer | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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