World War 1 Collection

Porthleven, Cornwall. 1914-1918
Porthleven fishermen in their boat by Newlyn Harbour wall. All aged over 70, they returned to fishing during the manpower shortage in the First World War. Photographer: Arthur William Jordan

England, London, Tower of London, Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red by ceramic artist Paul Cummins, with setting by stage designer Tom Piper, 888

Preparations for the Easter (Dublin) Rising of 1916 Mary Spring Rice and Molly Childers on the yacht Asgard bring guns from Germany to the Irish Volunteers, July 1914

Poster for MA Wetherells The Somme (1927)
SOMME

Rebel prisoners being marched out of Dublin by British Soldiers May 1916 The Easter Rebellion, was an armed uprising of Irish nationalists against the rule of Great Britain in Ireland

Corporal Thomas Edward Rendle, VC. Probably 1915
Thomas Rendle (born Bedminster, Bristol on the 14th December 1884) with a dog, wearing his Victoria Cross medal. At the time of his award he was a bandsman in the 1st Battalion

Russian Flag Day, Lemon Street, Truro, Cornwall. 22nd September 1915
Two ladies collecting at the top of Lemon Street, by the Barrack Lane turning, for Russian Flag Day. A man sits on a motorbike. Photographer: Arthur William Jordan

8in. howitzer gun carriage on an Open B wagon at Swindon Works, c. 1914
This 8in. howitzer gun carriage was one of the first batch to be made at Swindon Works. It sits on an unfinished OPEN B wagon awaiting dispatch

Lance Corporal Rendle VC speaking at Grampound, Cornwall. 18th May 1915
Lance Corporal Rendle VC speaking to a crowd of people at Grampound in front of the post office during World War One. " I will willingly go back and fight for these women and children

Lady and soldier on Flag Day, Lemon Street, Truro, Cornwall. 18th October 1916
Collecting day for " Our Lady". The soldier is a sergeant in the 14th (County of London) Battalion, London Scottish Regiment

Mrs Morse (left) with Lady Falmouth lecturing on the Cornwall Work Auxiliary (part of the Red Cross), Truro. April 1917
The tour opened in Penzance on 14 April 1917 but the photograph was presumably taken later in the month at Truro. Photographer: Arthur William Jordan

Its Blackadder and Baldrick, going well over the top in a new BBC series set in the trenches of World War one. Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson, along with their other old mates

Queen Alexandra at the Royal Aircraft Factory, Farnborough, July 3rd, 1915, where she named four of the aeroplanes furnished by the Overseas Club to the Royal Flying Corps. July 3rd, 1915

World War I first-aid station, artwork
World War I first-aid station. Artwork showing stretcher-bearers and wounded soldiers arriving at a first-aid station during the First World War (1914-1918)

WORLD WAR (1914-1918). Soldiers and horses of the German army, both with gas masks to protect against poison gas launched by the enemy

First World War surveillance kite. US soldier being lifted up by a surveillance kite during the First World War (1914-1918)

Winston Churchill at Antwerp. By October 1914, World War I was raging and the Germans were threatening vital Antwerp -one of Belgiums last lines of defense

World War I Memorial, Llandudno, Conwy County, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Europe

Macaw B railway wagon No. 84350 loaded with gun carriages at Swindon Works, c. 1915
Macaw B railway wagon No. 84350 has been photographed here loaded with 2 gun carriages awaiting dispatch from Swindon Works

Christmas card sent by Swindon Works Accounts Staff, 1918
Christmas card dated 1918. The figure of Britannia features prominently on the front of the card in reference to Allied success in the war

WWI: CARTOON, 1918. And this is no scrap of paper. Comment on the close of World War I from the New York Herald, depicting French Marshal Foch presenting Germany with a demand for reparations

Young girls playing croquet, WWI. They wear short pinafore dresses, cloche caps, ankle socks and shoes. One in a short carrick cape or coachman's coat

Fashionable woman in an ankle-length cerise dress with lace collar, embroidered panels, matching sash. Handcoloured lithograph by Fattorini & Crespin after a fashion plate by GR from Alain

Two fashionable women on an autumn stroll in a park, WWI. One in a wool coat over green dress, holding a walking cane. One in a dress with matching tunic, purse and fur stole

Men of the Second City Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment leaving Sutton Coldfield, holding Lee Enfield Rifles. July 1915

Scottish soldiers practise bayonet charging during World War One. The bayonet charge was an effective weapon on infantry troops who were on the point of giving up

World War One German troops in a trench attack the Allied forces with a flamethrower. 1917

World War One Anglo-French troops leave Solonika October 1915

Cast of Blackadder Goes Forth in costume for photocall Black Adder Rowan Atkinson Baldrick Tony Robinson Captain Kevin Darling Tim McInnerny Lt. the Honarable George Colhurst St

6in. naval guns on display on Macaw B wagons at Swindon Works c. 1915
6in. naval guns on display on Macaw B wagons at Swindon Works. The guns were sent in from elsewhere, but the manufacture of 40 large field carriages upon which the guns were mounted was a specialist

Naval guns outside A Shop, Swindon Works c. 1915
Four 6in. naval guns are proudly displayed on the tracks outside of A Shop, with County Tank, No. 2232, in steam, just behind. The guns are mounted on carriages with limbers attached

No 18 Stamping Shop at Swindon Works in 1915
A view of No. 18 Stamping Shop from March 1915, showing the reverse of a stationary boiler. At the bottom left of the image are sheets of metal ready to be heated in the gas furnaces just above

Nordenfelt anti-aircraft gun in V Shop, Swindon Works c. 1915
This striking image shows a newly made 6 pdr Nordenfelt anti-aircraft gun complete with mounting platform and protective skirting

Carriage and Wagon Stamping (No. 18) Shop in 1915
This image of the Carriage and Wagon Stamping (No.18) Shop was taken in March 1915. Although no men are in shot, it shows the busy, dirty and hot nature of this workshop

Swindon Works Polishing Shop in 1914
A photograph taken on 7th August 1914 of the Polishing Shop in the Carriage and Wagon Works. French polishing was a skilled trade

London Troops War Memorial, London, England, UK

France, Nord-Pas de Calais Region, Neuville St-Vst, World War One German military cemetery, Christian crosses

France, Picardy Region, Somme Department, Somme Battlefields, Thiepval, Memorial to World War One British troops, Allied cemetery, grave of unknown soldier

France, Nord-Pas de Calais Region, Souchez, Notre Dame de Lorette, World War One French War Memorial, military cemetery

France, Nord-Pas de Calais Region, Vimy, Vimy Ridge National Historic Site of Canada, World War One battle site and memorial to Canadian troops, Vimy Ridge Mounument designed by Walter Seymour Allward

Germany, Baden-Wurttemburg, Karlsruhe, ZKM, Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, modern art museum in former WW1-era munitions factory, exterior, dusk

Canada, Nova Scotia, Halifax, Citadel Hill National Historic Site, military display for the end of World War One centenial, display of British trenches

Cannon from the 1st World War, Monte Piana, Alta Pusteria, Sexten Dolomites, South Tyrol, Italy

Footpath to old positions of first World War, Bellum Aquilarum, open-air museum Anderter Alpe, Croda Rossa, Sexten, Sexten Dolomites, Alta Pusteria, South Tyrol, Italy

Trenches around the Carducci Monument, 1st World War Freilichtmusem, Monte Piana, Alta Pusteria, Sexten Dolomites, South Tyrol, Italy

Barbed wire with old tin cans with bullet holes, 1st World War Freilichtmusem, Monte Piana, Alta Pusteria, Sexten Dolomites, South Tyrol, Italy

Grenade from the First World War before the Three Peaks Lodge, in the background the north walls of the Three Peaks, Alta Pusteria, Sexten Dolomites, South Tyrol, Italy

World War I French Soldiers charge across a field with rifles raised circa 1916

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"Porthleven, Cornwall. 1914-1918: A Coastal Town Amidst the Storms of World War 1" "Our Little Contemptibles, 1914 (oil on canvas): The Brave Faces of British Soldiers in the Trenches" "Recruitment Poster 'Remember Scarborough. Enlist Now', pub: Rallying Cry for Patriotism and Duty" "Preparations for the Easter (Dublin) Rising of 1916: Mary Spring Rice and Molly's Courageous Stand" "England, London, Tower of London: Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red by Ceramic Artist - A Haunting Tribute to Fallen Heroes" "The Somme (1927): MA Wetherell's Heart-Wrenching Depiction of One of WW1's Most Devastating Battles" "8in. Howitzer Gun Carriage on an Open B Wagon at Swindon Works, c. 1914: Engineering Ingenuity in Times of Conflict" "The Snow Soldiers: Ski Patrol Engages Combat with Enemy Scouts - Unconventional Warfare Tactics in WW1" "On the Anniversary of the Battle of Ortigara: Alpine Pilgrimage Honors Six Thousand Lives Lost in a Fierce Struggle (Colour Litho)" "The War of Prodigies (Colour Litho): Young Minds Shaped by Conflict - Innocence Lost on the Battlefield" "Recruitment Campaign 'Teamwork Builds Ships', pub. 1917 (colour lithograph): Mobilizing Industrial Might for Victory. " "Lance Corporal Rendle VC Speaking at Grampound, Cornwall. 18th May 1915.