World War One

WWI, 30 July 1917; British soldier sitting in the shell-hole in a gasometer at Nieuport. Cropped. © IWM (Q 2642)

The Battle of Verdun, which claimed more than 300,000 lives over the course of 10 months, has left behind a lasting scar across the landscape where the battle once raged.

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WWI, 21 July 1917, Fampoux ; Soldier of the 9th Division using two salvaged sewing machines as a writing desk. Cropped. ©IWM Q 5700

RED CROSS NURSE, ~1918 Artist Unknown. Original WW1 Poster. This poster depicting a stoic nurse typifies the recruitment campaign for new nurses and funding during the first world war. ” The red cross nurse carries our soldiers out of sickness, out of darkness back to the light of good health….Help the red cross”. The poster …

Sugar rations, WWI - America

The letters that you are about to read are some of the most moving and dramatic accounts of the conflict you'll ever come across.

In 1914, gunners began pointing their weapons toward the sky

This WWI recruitment poster from 1915 shows soldiers firing from a trench, and a vignette of players on a soccer pitch. It reads: 'Young men of Britain! The Germans said you were not in earnest. Extract from Frankfurter Zeitung: 'The young Britons prefer to exercise their long limbs on the football ground, rather than to expose them to any sort of risk in the service of their country.' 'We knew you'd come - and give them the lie!' Play the greater game and join the football battalion.'

Canteen counter of the 17th Division erected in hole in wall of building made by shell. Blangy-sur-Ternoise, 27 June 1917.

Group portrait of seven unidentified soldiers with a British male Mark IV tank, temporarily out of action, near Westhoek Ridge. In September 1917 Australian troops were engaged in the battles of ...