H. D. Girdwood

 Garhwalis lining reserve trenches, Estaires La Basée Road, France. 4 August 1915

  

A football match. Gurkhas versus a Signal Company, St Floris, France. 23 July 1915

 

Gurkhas charging a trench near Merville, France. 29 July 1915

  

Gurkhas on the march near Merville, France. 26 July 1915

 

 Gurkhas on the march near Merville, France. 26 July 1915

 

Source: British Library

World War I

In Lyon. Bron airfield. The delegation 

of Greek troops marching past the flags.

  

On the Somme canal. Within hours the bridges destroyed 

by the Germans are replaced by boat decks.

 

The gala of the three guards - Serbs, Belgians 

and French. Allied guards fraternizing.

 

The promenade of the seriously wounded in the Tuileries Gardens

 

Under bombardment, Paris is a "city at the front". Despite the 

German shells, a crowd of Parisians came to the scrap fair.

 

Source: Université de Caen Basse Normandie

British Women Workers

These ladies are shown working in industrial settings during World War I. Some are in directly war-related industries, while others are not, but they all aided the war by taking the place of men who would have had the jobs but were instead away at the war.

British rubber workers in Lancashire spreading 

machine for coaling canvas for tire making, 1914

  

British woman winding cotton from spools 

on to rollers at lace factory in Nottingham

 

British women aeroplane workers near Birmingham 

welding frame tugs for planes, 1914

 

British women chemical workers in the Midlands taking limestone 

from stock, loading and wheeling barrows of lime to wagons, 1914

 

British women chemical workers in the Midlands, 1914

 

British women oil workers in Lancashire moulding cakes, 1914

 

Source: University of British Columbia, World War I British Press Photo Collection

H. D. Girdwood

Mr. Girdwood photographed British Army activity in France during World War I, with emphasis on Indian troops.

2nd Leicesters rushing a position, Bout de Ville, France. 6 September 1915

 

A dispatch rider of the Indian Corps repairing 

motorcycle, Merville, France. 3 August 1915

 

Arrival of mail at Brigade Post Office, Linghem, France. 28 July 1915

 

Cooks in the field, Estaires, France. 28 August 1915

 

Highlanders skirmishing through ruined village, Fauquissart, France. 9 August 1915
[I love that bit of sardonic graffiti on the wall of the ruined house: "Warview Terrace"]

 

Source: British Library

World War I - Women

A group of women workers of the glucose factory 

of Messrs Nicholls, Nagel & Co., UK

 

A woman machine operator working with a cutting 

tool at an aircraft factory during World War 1

 

A woman weeps at the roadside in Antwerp, 

Belgium next to her wordly possessions

 

Chilwell Munitions Factory, UK

 

Two women munitions workers at the National Shell Filling Factory 

in Chillwell, Nottinghamshire during the First World War, 1917

Henry Armytage Sanders

A long line of New Zealand troops digging 

trenches near Couin, France, 6 April 1918

 

A priest speaking to soldiers, who are sitting on the ground, at a New Zealand 

Brigade church service in Sapignies, France, 8 September 1918

 

New Zealand regimental aid post in a captured trench at Puisieux, France

 

New Zealand soldiers preparing a 6 inch trench mortar 

near Le Quesnoy, France, 29 October 1918

 

Soldiers eating sausage rolls, Selle, France, 1917

World War I

 Airmen of the Lafayette Escadrille

[The Lafayette Escadrille was composed of volunteer American

airmen before the official entry of America into the war.]

  

 All Saints. A crowd of Parisians come to lay flowers on the graves of soldiers.

  

 French Front. Frontline trench

  

 In the Somme. A French regiment reinforces the English lines

  

On the Serbian front. Serbian irregulars used to 

transport ammunition, supervised by regulars

 

Source: Université de Caen Basse Normandie

War Workers, World War I

 These photos of British women in "war work" factories during World War I were taken in 1914.

 General view of brass fittings shop

  

 View of canteen at munitions factory

  

 Woman at battery drills, drilling angles and T bars for ribs of airship sheds

  

 Women copper banding t60 pdr shrapnel

  

Woman operating vertical drilling machines, drilling 

angles for connections to ribs of airship sheds

 

Source: University of British Columbia, World War I British Press Photo Collection

World War I

 A Canadian Tommy soldier covered in mud 

returning from front lines, ca. 1918

  

 French women selling oranges to Canadian troops 

on their return to camp, ca. 1918

  

Soldier searching the seams of his shirt for lice, ca. 1918

  

 War casualties on the battlefield after a charge by the Canadians, ca. 1918

  

Wounded Canadian soldiers en route for Blighty, ca. 1918

 

Source: Archives of Ontario

Henry Armytage Sanders

 A New Zealand soldier reading from a 

German magazine, Grevillers, 20 August 1918

  

 New Zealand and French soldiers 

at Louvencourt, France, 2 June 1918

  

 New Zealand Engineers take a break, 

Spree Farm, Ypres Salient, Belgium 1917

  

 Soldiers having their hair cut at an open air barber-shop 

in the transport lines near Louvencourt, 21 April 1918

  

Tug of war with horses, New Zealand Artillery 

sports, Louvencourt, 22 June 1918