World War One Collection (page 9)

As the sun rose over the distant hills heralding the dawn of another day it revealed the lonely figure of a British sentry standing at his post. There was no other sign of human life

Survivors from a torpedoed merchant ship who survived in the water for a day and a night about to be be picked up by a rescue ship. circ January 1918

Just behind the British frontline. Men of the Scottish regiment get use to wearing their respirators.28th October 1915

6th Dragoon Guards horse making a pillow of a troopers legs. The impression on the face of the horse makes one think it is enjoying the luxury. 9th January 1915

Machine gunners firing while a mine explodes just in front of them during a live firing exercise at a machine gun school just behind the frontline on the Western Front. 31st August 1918

Their last parade. - The turkeys about to be commandeered to make dinner for our troops in Italy. Circa February 1919

Members of the Middlesex Regiment seen here returning from the trenches in the pouring rain during the Somme campaign. The Battle of the Somme lasted from 1 July to 18 November 1916

Men reading the mobilization proclamation on the declaration of war 4th August 1914

Tanks in their stables following their performance at the Battle of Hamel. Australians soldiers had been highly sceptical of the value of these machines following their failure at Bullecourt in April

Transport bringing up ammunition to a machine gun school just behind the frontline on the Western Front. 5th September 1918

A Sopwith Camel of the RAF credited with shooting down over 1, 200 enemy aircraft during the war. It also served as a ground-attack aircraft, especially near the end of the conflict. Circa 1918

Crown Prince of Germany (left) seen here studying a map with one of his officer during the Second Champagne Offensive (25th September - 6th November 1915)

Battle of Albert the opening phase of the Battle of the Somme. Our Picture Shows: British troops in a communication trench before an attack. Circa 1st July 1916

Kaiser Wilhelm II seen here inspecting a group of army doctors in a village close to the front during the second battle of Ypres Circa May 1915

Rifleman Butterworth of the 1st Battallion Rifle Brigade circa 1914

King Albert of Belgium as commander of the Army Group Flanders Circa November 1918

The railway van that conveyed the body of the Unknown Warrior from Dover to Victoria November 1920

The pock marked landscape of the Somme Battlefield created by artillery shells seen here from the air. Circa November 1916

On Dec. 25, 1914, five months into World War I, British and German troops on the Western Front stopped fighting in a spontaneous ceasefire

Warrant Officer Tom Guttery (centre) seen here in the test house of his workshop at an RFC training unit at Montrose, Scotland in 1916

Crowds in the grounds of the Palace of Versailles shortly after the signing of the peace treaty the formally ended the First World War. 28th June 1919

Riflemen Butterworth and Webb of the 1st Battallion Rifle Brigade circa 1914

Crown Prince of Germany seen here reviewing troops at the beginning of the First World War. Circa 1914

General Mobilization order issued by the UK Government shortly after Britain had declared war on Germany following their invasion of Belgium at the start of the First World War 4th August 1914

Signal from Allied headquarters to British forces on the western front informing them of the start of the ceasefire and armistice on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. 11th November 1918

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria who was assassinated along with his wife in Sarajevo. The assassinations, along with the arms race, nationalism, imperialism, militarism

Kaiser Wilhelm II seen here reviewing the Prussian Guards Division at Marles in the Somme District. Circa May 1915

Albert Ball of the Royal Flying Corp credited with shooting down 44 aircraft, before being killed himself on the 7 May 1917

Members of the Royal Artillery along with members of British and Allied armies seen here march through the streets of London during the Victory Parade to celebrate the end of the first world war

British and American signatures on the 1919 Treaty of Versailles. 28th June 1919

British and Allied troops seen here march through Trafalgar Square during the Victory Parade to celebrate the end of the first world war on 19 July 1919

German Crown Prince Wilhelm seen here cracking a joke with officers and men during an Iron Cross award ceremony for the 1st Company, Bavarian Infantry (Bavarian Kings Guard Regt.)

British and Allied troops seen here march passed Buckingham Palace during the Victory Parade to celebrate the end of the first world war on 19 July 1919

Men and horses of the 1st Cavalry Division, British Expeditionary Force, on the retreat from Mons in August 1914

A RFC Padre seen here using the gunners position of a F. E
A RFC Padre seen here using the gunners position of a F.E.2b as a make-shift pulpit to conduct Sunday Church Parade at an unknown airfield in France just behind the frontline. Circa 1916

Aerial view The block ships HMS Intrepid and HMS Iphigenia in the channel of the Bruges ship canal at Zeebrugge following the first raid on the port on the 23rd April 1918

Kaiser Wilhelm II seen here with Grand Duke Friedrich of Austria at an Iron Cross medal ceremony during a tour of the Eastern Front. Circa June 1915

The British gunboat HMS Firefly seen here in action on the Tigris River before being captured by the Turks at Kut in 1916

The German Crown Prince Wilhelm seen here reviewing soldiers of the 5th Army at his headquarters. Circa October 1914

French President Georges Clemenceau seen here ratifying the Treaty of Versailles for the French Government. on the 13th January 1920

Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen (2 May 1892 e 21 April 1918)
Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen (2 May 1892 Ð 21 April 1918), widely known as the Red Baron, was a German fighter pilot with the Imperial German Army Air Service during World War I

German Kaiser Wilhelm II seen here with General Moltke receiving a report from an officer. Circa January 1916

Former German Kaiser, Wilhelm Hohenzollern, walks in the garden of a small estate in Holland that he was allowed to live on after his abdication. He left German Army Headquarters in Belgium at 5 a.m

German Ex-Crown Prince Wilhelm seen here in exile in Holland. 28th November 1918

The Womens Army Auxiliary Corps gardeners seen here tending the graves of our fallen heroes on the Western Front. 27th September 1917

Fire drill at a famous munition works. With true North Country grit, the girls of a big Munition Works have organised a Fire Brigade, the members attending drill with the keenest interest

Crown Prince Wilhelm, commander of the Fifth Army and son of Kaiser Wilhelm II, seen here posing with the troops during the Battle of Verdun Circa August 1917

The ships of the desert on the Monastir front. The Allies are now using camels with success to bring up supplies to the Monastir front. Circa November 1916

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