Huge shell, weighing 1400lb, Somme campaign, France, World War I, 1916. Ready to be fired by the 15-inch howitzer, or 'Grandmother' as it was called....
The Battle of Crecy on 26 August 1346 marked the beginning of the Hundred Years' War on the European mainland. In this battle, which took place at...
King Edward III of England crosses the Somme River in northern France with his army, before the Battle of Crecy during the Hundred Years' War, 1346....
The Battle of Tertry, Somme an engagement in Merovingian Gaul between the forces of Austrasia under Pepin II on one side and Neustria and Burgundy on...
Childhood portrait of soldier and field marshal Douglas Haig, , later 1st Earl Haig of Bemersyde. Haig, born in Edinburgh, was educated at Oxford and...
'The English Passing The Somme', , 1890. Battle of Crecy , during the Hundred Years War - the French under King Philip VI blockaded the River Somme...
In the 1914-18 war, armament grew bigger and more destructive. Eight-inch howitzers fire a barrage during the Battle of the Somme in August 1916,...
Lan Seeger was an American poet who fought and died in World War I during the Battle of the Somme serving in the French Foreign Legion. Seeger was...
The Great War, . A classic 1915 war postcard. The soldier dreams of his loved one left at home. 'His Dream' A postcard sent by Edward Heron of East...
At a height of 150 meters above the fighting line, the daring French photographer was able to get this rare photograph of French troops on the Somme...
'Les Journees glorieuses de la Somme; La progression du 12 septembre, a l'est de Clery, vers Feuillaucourt : trois phases de l'assaut; le...
General Sir Henry Seymour Rawlinson, commander of the British Fourth Army. Best known for his roles in the Battle of the Somme of 1916 and the Battle...
Portrait postcard of footballer Evelyn H Lintott, circa May 1907. This was about the time that he signed for Queens Park Rangers from Plymouth...
Circa 1910, Walter Tull, born in Folkestone, Kent in 1888, the first outfield black footballer in Britain, He was born to mixed race parentage but...
George Butterworth, British composer and folk music collector, c1910. Butterworth was involved in the turn-of-the-century revival of interest in...
General Sir Henry Seymour Rawlinson, commander of the British Fourth Army. Best known for his roles in the Battle of the Somme of 1916 and the Battle...
Lieut.-General Sir Henry S Rawlinson commanding the Fourth Army, World War One. General Henry Seymour Rawlinson was a British First World War general...
Raymond Asquith , eldest son of the 1st Earl Asquith. He practised law for some years, before his death in September 1916, in the Battle of the Somme.
An original pencil illustration featuring the hat-trick of Major Booth of Yorkshire during the Essex v Yorkshire cricket match at Leyton on 8th...
Douglas Haig, British First World War general, 1914. Haig was commander of the 1st Army Corps of the British Expeditionary Force at the outbreak of...
German dugout captured in the advance at Bapaume, France, World War I, 1914-1918. Bapaume was one of the British objectives at the Battle of the...
The Sun going down over 'no man's land' on the Somme, France, World War I, c1914-c1918. Stereoscopic card detail.
British Army World War One recruiting poster for the "Football Battalion", the 17th Service Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment, featuring...
Prince Arthur of Connaught decorating a French sergeant, France, World War I, c1914-c1918. Prince Arthur of Connaught was the son of Arthur, Duke of...
Phases of the British army's involvement in the First World War. L-R from top: 1914 retreat from Mons, 1915 Gallipoli, 1916 Battle of the Somme, 1917...
Ian Seeger , was an American who fought and died in World War I during the Battle of the Somme, serving in the French Foreign Legion. Seeger was the...
British General Sir Douglas Haig with Liberal statesman Lord Richard Haldane , March 8, 1914. Haig, born in Edinburgh, was educated at Oxford and the...
Player's cigarette card depicting Field Marshal Douglas Haig, officer of the British Army. During the First World War he commanded the British...
An artillery shell is hoisted into position by French and English soldiers at the battle of the Somme, France 1915. World war one.
Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, . During the First World War he commanded the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front from late...
Photograph of British soldiers eating their rations, taken by an unknown photographer in France in about 1915 during World War One. This photograph...
Studio portraits of Edward Hurst of the 22nd Battalion Manchester Regiment, aged 19, in uniform and in civilian clothes, during World War One, circa...
Studio portrait featuring Private Edward Hurst of the 22nd Regiment Manchester Regiment, taken in Penge, circa 1915. He was killed at the Battle of...
Mobile French anti-aircraft gun at the Somme. The Battle of the Somme was a major First World War battle in which both Britain and Germany suffered...
Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, officer of the British Army. During the First World War, he commanded the British Expeditionary Force on...
An artillery shell is hoisted into position by French and English soldiers at the battle of the Somme, France 1915. World war one.
Field Marshal Douglas Haig. 1st Earl Haig. . During the First World War he commanded the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front from late...
War 1914-1918. Battle of Champagne. Explosion of a French mine during the attack of the Navarin Farm, on the road of Souain to Somme-Py . September...
Photograph of gas-masked men of the British Machine Gun Corps with a Vickers machine gun during the first battle of the Somme. Dated 1916.
Canadian troops in a trench prepare their rifles with bayonets before going 'over the top', Western Front, Somme, France, World War I.
Situated in the town of Albert, France, is the famous 'Golden Virgin' leaning over the spire of the church in the centre of the town, where most of...
Scottish soldier and Field Marshal Douglas Haig ,1st Earl Haig of Bemersyd visiting the troops during World War I. Haig, born in Edinburgh, was...
War and Conflict, World War I, pic: circa 1916, France, A destroyed German stronghold with a dead soldier, during the long Battle of the Somme
War and Conflict, World War I, Western Front, France, pic: 1916, The devastated French village of Beaumont-Hamel where Newfoundlanders attacked with...
War and Conflict, World War One, pic: July 1916, Ovillers, Battle of the Somme, British soldiers with a Vickers machine gun as they wear PH, helmets...
War and Conflict, World War I, Battle of the Somme A German soldier facing a trench mirror as he sits in a reconnoitring post
War and Conflict, World War I, , Battle of the Somme, France A German soldier wearing a gas mask about to hurl a hand-grenade from a trench
War and Conflict, World War I, , Battle of the Somme, France German soldiers preparing to throw hand-grenades from a trench near Chemin Des Dames
