WWI face

Harry Drinkwater signed up to a 'Pals Battalion' in 1914 and was sent to the front line. In his diary extracts he writes about his brutal introduction to trench life.

Armistice Day

Two-Minute Silence, Armistice Day. London, 1919.

France, 1918

WWI Brigadier- General J.V. Campbell (on bridge) congratulates soldiers of the 46th (North Midland) Division at Riqueval after their successful crossing of the St. Quentin Canal

France, March 1915

Belgium, May 1917

A WWI allied soldier and a Red Cross working dog in Flanders. Unknown.

Old parfume

Armin T Wegner, 1890s

The Big War. Unknown

Captain, my captain...

Captain Bruce Bairnsfather (1888 - 1959), British soldier, artist and cartoonist. 1918, by Pirie MacDonald.

Human horse

1915, 650 Officers and Enlisted Men of the Auxiliary Remount Depot No3 26, Camp Cody, Deming NM

WWI trenches

A British soldier eats his dinner in the trenches, 1917. Unknown

1917. Unknown

Battle of Broodseinde Ridge (near Ypres in Flanders). Men of a Yorkshire regiment on the march, 1917.

Men & goat

A young soldier of the Royal Scots Regiment holds its mascot, a black goat kid.

 

Music & war

Albert Sammons ( who first performed Elgar's violin concerto) playing on a tank in front of St Martins in the Fields church, London during WWI

Irony. Unknown

War

Unknown.

Gunny

WWI Gunner Francis Edward Alban Eldridge (1895-1962) of the Royal Field Artillery

France, WWI, ca. March 1919

The East end of the Nave in the Basilique at Saint-Quentin in Northern France, photographed soon after the end of World War One, circa March 1919.

Neulette, 1917

The human part of the war: a British soldier and a kitten “shaking hands”

Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck -The German general who told Hitler to go screw himself

http://timashby.com/the-german-general-who-told-hitler-to-go-screw-himself/

A Canadian soldier giving his dog a bath, February 1918 World War I

Something that kept them sane, I think... Anyway, the human part of the war.