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Pictures from the Great War. Cross-section of a front-line trench. Arrival in France (Etaples). British wiring party near Arras. A soldier uses a box periscope to look at No-Man's-Land. Hill 60, a few miles from Ypres in 1915, a German stronghold - Peter Savelkoul.
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Pictures from the Great War
Hill 60, a few miles from Ypres in 1915, a German stronghold - Peter Savelkoul
A British Army chaplain takes the personal belongings from the bodies of the fallen.
The standard form sent by the British War Office to next of kin to notify them of the death of a member of the army