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Royal Field Artillery battery in action in Mesopotamia, c 1917
Photograph of a Royal Field Artillery Battery in action with an Indian sepoy in the left foreground in Mesopotamia
Royal Field Artillery battery in action in Mesopotamia, c 1917
Photograph of a Royal Field Artillery Battery in action in Mesopotamia, looking down the row of field guns.
Indian Army Sepoys constructing fieldworks in Mesopotamia, c 1917
Photograph of Indian Army Sepoys constructing defensive fieldworks in Mesopotamia.
Soldiers of East Surrey Regiment bivouacking during the battle for Bazentin on the Somme, 1916
Photograph of soldiers of the 8th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment (55th Brigade, 18th Division) bivouacking in a sunken road to the left of Trones Wood during the battle for Bazentin on the Somme in July 1916.
Buried trench, German second line, near Montauban, Somme battlefield, 1916
Photograph showing the effects of the British artillery bombardment on the Somme on the German second line near Montauban.
British first line trench at Carnoy, Somme battlefield, 1916
Photograph of the British first line trench at Carnoy on the Somme battlefield. Note the dog kennels and the gas gong made out of a shell case hanging right of centre.
German first line trench near Montauban, Somme battlefield, 1916
Photograph of the German first line trench neat Montauban where the firing step has been hit by a British shell.
Dummy gun near trench 75, Billon Wood, Somme battlefield
Photograph of a dummy gun near trench 75 in Billon wood, near Carnoy on the Somme battlefield
Highlanders Title from plan of Ardsheal, 1773
Title from plan of the estate of Ardsheal flanked by kilted highlanders and a scene containing military encampment, baggage train and soldiers.