The Western Front WW1

British cavalry unit crossing a bridge over a communication trench up which some Australian signallers are going near Neuve Eglise, on the 7th of May 1917.

Lest We Forget.

Photograph came from Imperial War Museums.  Image file number IWM Q 6183.  Photograph by Lieutenant John Warwick Brooke. 

The Third Battle of the Aisne.  Soldier of the East Lancashire Regiment and his pet dog manning a ditch at Guyencourt, on the 28th of May 1918.

Lest We Forget.

Photograph came from Imperial War Museums.  Image file number IWM Q 6682.  Photograph by Lieutenant John Warwick Brooke. 

A Canadian military funeral at a cemetery at Poperinghe, Belgium, on the 11th of August 1917.  The coffin is draped with the union flag.

Lest We Forget.

Photograph came from Imperial War Museums.  Image file number IWM Q 5875.  Photograph by Lieutenant John Warwick Brooke. 

Royal Field Artillery gunners hauling an 18 pounder field gun out of the mud near Zillebeke, on the 9th of August 1917.

Lest We Forget.

Photograph came from Imperial War Museums.  Image file number  IWM Q 6236.  Photograph by Lieutenant John Warwick Brooke. 

Members of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps tending soldiers’ graves at Abbeville, France, on the 15th of September 1917.

Lest We Forget.

Photograph came from Imperial War Museums.  Image file number IWM Q 5954.  Photograph by Lieutenant John Warwick Brooke. 

The bugle band of the American hospital staff of No. 21 Base Hospital, Rouen, on the 1st of June 1917.

Lest We Forget.

Photograph came from Imperial War Museums.  Image file number IWM Q 6409.  Photograph by Lieutenant John Warwick Brooke. 

The Battle of Guillemont.  On the 3rd to 5th of September 1916.  Troops of RAMC (Royal Army Medical Corps) search the packs of the dead for letters and effects to be sent to relatives after the Battle of Guillemont.  Horse and motor ambulances in the background.

Lest We Forget.

Photograph came from Imperial War Museums.  Image file number IWM Q 4245.  Photograph by Lieutenant John Warwick Brooke. 

An officer’s charger at the watering point East of Mametz and South of Bazentin-le-Grand. September 1916.

Lest We Forget.

Photograph came from Imperial War Museums.  Image file number IWM Q 4350.  Photograph by Lieutenant John Warwick Brooke. 

Battle of the Ancre. Bringing in a wounded soldier.  Hamel, November 1916.

Lest We Forget.

Photograph came from Imperial War Museums.  Image file number IWM Q 4538.  Photograph by Lieutenant John Warwick Brooke. 

Cavalry wait by the side of the road as the artillery go forward near Trescault, on the 20th of November 1917.

Lest We Forget.

Photograph came from Imperial War Museums.  Image file number IWM Q 6322.  Photograph by Lieutenant John Warwick Brooke. 

The Third Battle of the Aisne. French refugee family at Reuil, on the 29th of May 1918.

Lest We Forget.

Photograph came from Imperial War Museums.  Image file number IWM Q 6690.  Photograph by Lieutenant John Warwick Brooke. 

Grave of Second Lieutenant Philip Gillespie Bainbrigge of the 5th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, attached to 16th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, killed in action on the 18th of September 1918, amongst other graves near Lechelle.

Lest We Forget.

Photograph came from Imperial War Museums.  Image file number IWM Q 7734.  Photograph by Lieutenant John Warwick Brooke. 

Demobilized men handing in their rifles before boarding the Rhine steamer in Cologne, on 23rd of April, 1919.

The steamer took them to Rotterdam on their way to England. 

Lest We Forget.

Photograph came from Imperial War Museums.  Image file number IWM Q 7545.  Photograph by Lieutenant John Warwick Brooke. 

‘Coal-box’, a German pony mascot of the King’s Royal Rifle Corps. Albert-Amiens road. September 1916.

Lest We Forget.

Photograph came from Imperial War Museums.  Image file number IWM Q 4329.  Photograph by Lieutenant John Warwick Brooke. 

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