Showing posts with label World War I. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World War I. Show all posts

Tuesday, 13 June 2017

H. D. Girdwood

 Garhwalis lining reserve trenches, Estaires La Base�e 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
 

Sunday, 4 June 2017

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.
 

Thursday, 1 June 2017

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
 

Monday, 1 May 2017

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"]
 

Wednesday, 12 April 2017

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

Tuesday, 28 March 2017

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

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