Views of the battlefield after the third Battle of Ypres, 1917. A soldier look across devastated country near Ypres showing a derelict Mark IV Tank, shell-splintered trees and general battle detritus, 15 February 1918. IWM Q 10711

OTD 1915: Pte Richard Crombleholme died of wounds in the 2nd West General Hospital in Manchester. Western Front Association WW1 On This Day WW1cemeteries.com Commonwealth War Graves

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107819, Gunner W. F. Cheney, Royal Garrison Artillery - Hédauville Communal Cemetery Extension.

Doomed Station

18th April 1958: The grand roof over the platforms of Cannon Street Station, London, just before it was demolished as part of British Rail’s modernisation plans.

By the late 1960s the only original features to survive were the two towers and part of the station

Summer at Givenchy Road Canadian Cemetery.

RIP the 56. Never forgotten.

A great photograph of of the munition workers of WW1 in Woolwich

On This Day in Belfast history (1915) c.17,000 soldiers of the 36th (Ulster) Division held an impressive 'farewell' march through the city centre as they prepared for their deployment to the Western Front during the First World War.

#Belfast #History #WW1

The Crystal Palace #London (Aerofilms)

An officer of the 12th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment, draws the gas curtain of a dug-out - in this atmospheric image by 2nd Lieutenant Thomas Keith Aitken - while on his rounds in a snow-covered support trench near Roclincourt, 9 January 1918. IWM (Q 10621)

🙏 Om 20.00 uur zijn we 𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹.

#4mei #Dodenherdenking

1916 image of Puchevillers British Cemetery, Somme, France, taken by Sergeant John Lord, 1916. © MUSEUMS VICTORIA

A distant pre 1939 view of Serre Road Cemetery, No.2 - looking down the D919 Serre Road towards Serre and Puisieux. #WW1 #History Image from CWGC Archive.

Beautiful and poignant, our ancestors waving to us through the lens of time. A fascinating and touching film from the north of England in 1902.

Private Hugh Parry Griffiths.

From #Bangor , Caernarfonshire (now Gwynedd), he served with the RWF.

Buried in Longuenesse (St. Omer) Souvenir Cemetery, he died in June 1916 aged 21.

Inscription:

GWYN EU BYD Y RHAI ADDFWYN

(BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO MOURN).

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A portrait of a smiling group of Gordon Highlanders in a reserve trench, Bazentin-le-Petit, November 1916. IWM Q 4475

OTD 1917:
The Ox & Bucks were in the forefront at the Battle of Arleux a British offensive attacking German defences near Arras. As a result 2nd and 2/4th Battalions lost 71 men on the 28th April. Western Front Association WW1cemeteries.com Commonwealth War Graves