Henry Armytage Sanders

Henry Armytage Sanders was a New Zealander who photographed his country's troops in action in France during World War I. The photos are from Flickr.

A convoy leaving the New Zealand Stationary Hospital 

for the ambulance train, France, 16 August 1918

   

A French woman sits next to a New Zealand soldier on a horse-drawn wagon packed with household furniture and belongings. They are shown outside a house (hers?) in a street in Bus-les-Artois near the front lines, 15 April 1918

   

A howitzer supporting New Zealanders at the front, 

France, Bus-les-Artois on the Somme, 16 April 1918

  

A New Zealand Field Ambulance corps established in a wood near 

Bus-les-Artois, France. Shows camouflaged tents under the trees, 11 May 1918

  

Horses killed in a German bombing raid, 1917-18

World War I - women workers

These photos of women workers in England during World War I come from here.

 Female labourers push loaded wheel barrows on a construction site in Coventry, ca. 1917

  

 A British women's fire brigade takes the salute, March 1916

  

 A woman drives a delivery van pulled by a pair of horses, August 1916

  

 A woman munitions worker operates a machine that makes shell cases 

in an armaments factory during the First World War, ca. 1915

  

 Members of the Women's Police Service, ca. 1916

  

 Members of the Women's Reserve Ambulance Corps, June 1916

  

 Women forestry workers have their lunch sitting on a pile of logs, May 1918

[these ladies were called "lumberjills"]

  

 Women war workers pull a truckload of boxes on the 

Midland Railway in Somerton, Somerset, May 1917

  

 Women work at Cross Farm in Shackleton, Surrey, April 1917

  

Women workers at the Gas Light and Coke Company at 

Bromley By Bow, London, serve tea on top of a gasometer, June 1918

[what is a gasometer? hint: it seems a dangerous place to be having tea]

World War I - women workers

These photos of women workers during World War I come from here.

 A woman delivers coal in France

  

 A woman makes and repairs shoes

  

 Women filling shells in a munitions factory in Scotland

  

 Women grease and inspect the signals at the Gare du Nord, in Paris, France

  

 Women pilots in flying suits

  

 Women shovelling snow from the road, in Paris, France

  

Women unloading a coal wagon in England

World War I

More photos from the First World War.

 Salvation Army worker writing for wounded soldier

 Skeleton of German Soldier at Beaumont Hamel

 Soldiers and mule wearing gas masks

 The Camel Corps at Beersheba

 The Wiltshire Regiment attacking near Thiepval

 Troops advancing through trees

 Verdun in World War I

 Vickers Machine Gun Crew with gas masks

 Wounded heroes of the Battle of Mons

 Victory parade, Paris, 1919

World War I, ctd

More photos from the First World War.

 German POWs in French Prison Camp

 German machine gun crew

 German soldier giving wounded British soldier a light

 Infantry from the British Royal Naval Division training on Lemnos

 Landsturm Infanterie Ersatz Bataillon des XII Armeekorps

Men of the 23rd Infantry on the Western Front

 Public Schools Batallion at the Battle of the Somme

[what was the Public Schools Batallion? find out here]

[story of the PSB's action at the Battle of the Somme]

 Ration Party of the Royal Irish Rifles at the Battle of the Somme

 Refugee Children at Grand Val, France

Russian Troops Awaiting a German Attack

London crowd celebrating the Armistice

World War I, ctd

Another set of photos from the First World War.

 Canadian machine gun squad on Vimy Ridge

 Canadians in captured German trench at the Battle of Hill 70

 Destroyed German trench at the Battle of Messines

 Five soldiers silhouetted at the Battle of Broodseinde

 Football in No-Man's-Land during 1914 Christmas Truce

[more on this incident] [still more] [a song about it]

 French and American soldiers advancing through No-Man's Land, 1918

 French army cyclists

 French assault on German positions

 French couple in Brieulles-sur-Bar welcoming British soldiers

 French troops near the Marne

German infantry attacking at Verdun