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Description: | Dated images are from1914, more French and Belgian images of fighting and general British preparations for war, and about half are captioned in the album. All captions are in the caption book.
More sorting of mail by Field Post Office, a Belgian aeroplane, British soldier guarding an M.T. training dump, numerous images of German POWs playing football, with model aircraft, acrobatic display, boxing and quartered in horseboxes at a concentration camp' on Newbury Race Course, Belgian Minister Count Lalaing with Mrs Geoffrey Dureen at opening of a new toy shop in London, collectors of a Distress Fund for Belgian Refugees, University and Public School Corps at Epsom. Images of Indian soldiers from Simla District in camp near the New Forest, with mule lines, eating, in camp, repairing harnesses, Indian transport taking up forage', making Chuppaties' and smoking with Hookahs. Belgian wounded arriving at Folkestone, images of wounded soldiers arriving at a hospital in West Ham, London. Camp of 4th Royal Berkshire National Reserve at Newbury Race course and being inspected by Mr J H Bessyon (Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire), French farriers, Belgian refugees leaving Ypres, journalists having a meal at a Field Kitchen, Ghurkhas arriving by troop train, armoured car (designed by Chas Tarrott), Viscount Maitland inspects Sportsmen's Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers, wounded soldier of this Battalion teaching English to French children, images of London Scottish Regt. in London, Colonel Greig of this Regt., German mine washed up in Sizewell in Suffolk, French customs notice at Franco-Belgian border, images of French anti-aircraft machine gun, an Algerian trooper, Belgian artillery observers, a German 5.9-Inch howitzer battery, Prince Leopold of Bavaria, a woman on a barge in England, a German working party repairing a tunnel at Moumedy, images of German artillery, German engineers building a bridge, images of the German Crown Prince in car and inspecting troops, a German 21cm. Howitzer battery near St. Mihiel, Germans encamped on the Russian Frontier, Russian prisoners, German Officer giving troops Iron Crosses, a scene at a German Headquarters, a Belgian grave in a shell hole, German troops milking a cow, numerous images of the Wandsworth Battalion of the Home Defence, digging trenches on Wandsworth Common, receiving musketry instruction, on a route march and their cyclist despatch riders. Images of British sailors interned in Holland receiving a shave and having a snowball fight, an Italian soldier, men of Kitchener's Army stationed at the White City (a London district), images of Belgian artillery in snow and on the march near Dunkirk, numerous images of Belgian cavalry on dunes near Belgian coast and advancing over muddy ground, presentation of medals to French naval officers, Senegalese troops in Dunkirk, ruined Belgian villa, German prisoners escorted by Spahis, wounded Belgian troops in Calais, German cooks in a Field kitchen, Bedouins on camels in Cairo, German artillery, Bleriot monoplane, Belgian Field Telephone Signal Service, camouflaged German gun, Belgian motor cyclist volunteer corps, Belgian machine gun section with dogs, Belgian artillery, French prisoners under German escort in St. Mihiel, H Company of the London Scottish at a reunion dinner in London, the 9th London Regt. Queen Victoria's Rifles at Hampstead, 1st City of London RFA at Hampstead, ruins of Whitby Abbey, funeral of Coastguard Randell at Whitby after German naval bombardment. Numerous images of the aftermath of the bombardment of Scarborough, Belgian champion wrestler Constant le Marin commanding a machine gun section, images of 9th Battalion London Regt. training and their officers, wounded British soldiers at West Ham Hospital, images of the Royal Academy of Arts Corps, Albanian water carrier and pony, French 120mm gun in Argonne Woods, Albanian merchants in French village, a party of the 21st Eastern Mounted Brigade ASC with Princess Mary Christmas Gift Boxes, men of the Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment in White City, German POWs in Frimley, British POWs at Doberitz Camp, Belgian observation post, images of Pat O'Keefe of 1st Surrey Rifles boxing, French machine gun section and troops in a ditch, French General Mand'huy with Captain Marty. Images of ruined church and village of Vise, French trench wiring party, General Arlabosse, British troops on ships for France, German troops and dugout, Austrian troops, German prisoners at Chalons-sur-Marne, British battleship in the Dardanelles and French POWs in a German ration store. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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