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

 

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: Universit� 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