Empire & Commonwealth: Western Front

Members of an Indian Labour Battalion reading papers during a work break, c1917

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9th Hodson’s Horse on the Western Front, c1916

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Soldiers of 2nd Australian Division returning from the trenches, September 1916

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Indian cavalry await the order to advance on the Somme, 1916

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‘This year’s war at Contalmaison. Burmese troops hold a council of war upon rats.’

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‘Contalmaison. Autumn 1917. Burmese troops receive their mail. A year ago no one could stand in this area with impunity.’

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David Lloyd-George, Minister of Munitions, Secretary of State for War and Prime Minister during the war, visiting Indian soldiers, 1916

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New Zealand troops loading ammunition limbers, September 1918

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18th King George’s Own Lancers in ‘Sausage Valley’ near Mametz, Somme, 15 July 1916

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Canadian cooks with their gas masks at the alert taking tea up to the men in a village near the line, c1917

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Canadian soldiers, some wearing trench waders, enjoy a coffee during a break from duties on the Somme front, November 1916

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Men of the Egyptian Labour Corps at Boulogne, 12 August 1917

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An Indian barber goes to work at the Indian Cavalry camp near Querrieu, located on the Albert-Amiens road, 29 July 1916

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New Zealanders waiting to buy goods from a field canteen on the Amiens-Albert road, September 1916

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General Jan Smuts visiting African labourers on the Western Front, c1917

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