Infantry from 103rd (Tyneside Irish) Brigade, 34th Division, advancing to attack La Boisselle on the morning of 1 July 1916, the opening day of the Battle of the Somme.
Men of the 2nd Australian Division in the front line at Croix du Bac, near Armentieres, 18 May 1916.
Men of the Wiltshire Regiment advancing to the attack through the wire, Thiepval, Somme, 7 August 1916.
A pack horse loaded with rubber trench boots (waiders) is led through the mud near Beaumont Hamel on the Somme battlefield, November 1916.
An Australian carrying his wounded mate to a medical aid post for treatment, Gallipoli, 1915.
The remains of the village of Beaumont Hamel after its capture, The Battle of Ancre Heights 10 -11 November. 1916
The road to Guillemont viewed from Waterlot Farm, 1916. In the words of the official history it was 'straight, desolate, and swept by fire.'
Men of the Lancashire Fusiliers cleaning a Lewis gun in a trench near Messines in Belgium during January 1917.
The dawn sky is lit by the bombardment before the assault on Thiepval, 15 September 1916, during the Battle of the Somme.
Three 8-inch howitzers of 39th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA), firing from the Fricourt-Mametz Valley during the Battle of the Somme, August 1916.
British soldiers eating hot rations in the Ancre Valley during the Battle of the Somme, October 1916.
The mine under German front line positions at Hawthorn Redoubt is fired 10 minutes before the assault at Beaumont Hamel. First day of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916.
A line of British troops blinded by tear gas at an Advanced Dressing Station near Bethune, 10 April 1918.
A Vickers machine gun team wearing PH Type anti-gas helmets in action near Ovillers during the Battle of the Somme, 1916.
Tank F4, 'Flirt II', at the Tank Driving School at Wailly on 21 October 1917, in training for the Battle of Cambrai.
A raiding party from the 9th Battalion, Scottish Rifles (Cameronians), leaving a sap and making for the German lines, 11 April 1917.
Two men of the 12th East Yorkshires wearing snow suits leaving their snow-covered trench on daylight patrol. Arleux Sector, 9 January 1918.
The Battle of Pilckem Ridge: Crossing the Yser Canal at Boesinghe, 31st July 1917.
The Gunboat HMS KILDANGAN in dazzle camouflage, 1918.
A wounded First World War soldier with facial injuries has a plaster cast made of his face so that a mask can be produced to cover his wounds.The work was undertaken at the 3rd General Hospital in Wandsworth, London.
Aerial photograph showing the opposing trench systems between Loos and Hulluch in July 1917.
Horse-drawn ammunition limbers pass through the ruined village of Longueval, Somme, September 1916
Icicles hanging from the roof of a dug-out Bernafay Wood, Somme, November 1916.
Soldiers of the Lancashire Fusiliers cleaning a Lewis Gun. On the left can be seen the gas alarm horn and wind vane. January 1917 near Ploegsteert.
