A nurse tending a wounded officer. According to the photograph’s original caption he has been wounded in a car accident.
Female drivers of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry in front of their Red Cross ambulances.
“Established by Lord Kitchener in 1907, the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) was initially an auxiliary unit of women nurses on horseback, who linked the military field hospitals with the frontline troops. Serving in dangerous forward areas, by the end of the conflict First Aid Nursing Yeomanry members had been awarded 17 Military Medals, 1 Legion d’Honneur and 27 Croix de Guerre. A memorial to those women who lost their lives while working for the organisation, can be found at St Paul’s Church, Knightsbridge, London.”
German POWs captured by the British. Original caption on these photographs read: “Types of German prisoners captured in the new push.”
Whilst many photographs were deliberately taken as propaganda, some, like this, provide us with a more honest account of war and the people involved. Despite the biased caption, this very real and striking portrait refuses to demonise the enemy. (Source.)
They are so tired.
![“Hun Humour” - German graffiti on the wall of a ruined building on the Western Front. To the left it reads, ’ ..ier gehts fur Kaiser und Reich’ which could be translated as ‘For king and country’. To the right, partly hidden by the wall, are the words, ‘Gott straf[e?] Engl.’, which could mean, ’ May God punish England’. An iron cross shape is also visible in the upper left corner.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4l2187s1T1r6y3vao1_500.jpg)
“Hun Humour” - German graffiti on the wall of a ruined building on the Western Front. To the left it reads, ’ ..ier gehts fur Kaiser und Reich’ which could be translated as ‘For king and country’. To the right, partly hidden by the wall, are the words, ‘Gott straf[e?] Engl.’, which could mean, ’ May God punish England’. An iron cross shape is also visible in the upper left corner.
A young soldier of the Royal Scots Regiment holding a black goat kid. As the French farmers were forced to flee their homes many animals were inevitably abandoned. Some undoubtedly ended up in the cooking pot, but others like this kid seem to have been adopted as good luck mascots.
The Royal Scots raised 35 battalions during World War I, of which 15 were on overseas service. The Regiment not only served in the Western Front, but also in the Dardanelles, Macedonia, Egypt and Northern Russia.
