Collection items

An Indian Cavalry horse hospital in a French facto...

Photograph, Image

This image shows an Indian cavalry horse hospital in a French factory in 1915. Cavalry divisions still played a crucial...

An officer's dugout in France

Photograph, Image

This photograph shows an officer in his hut, which is dug into the side of a trench. The walls are reinforced with sandb...

Casualties after a charge

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This photograph shows injured and killed soldiers lying in a field after charging, presumably from a trench to try to ga...

Electrical and galvanic treatment room at the Kitc...

Photograph

This photograph shows two Indian soldiers being treated at the Kitchener Indian Hospital in Brighton. The typewritten la...

Highland Territorials with their dog mascot

Photograph

This photograph shows a group of Highland Territorial soldiers in a trench, armed with bayonets. Several of them are wea...

Highlanders and Dogras in a trench

Photograph

In this photograph we can see a group of soldiers, Highlander and Indian Dogras, sitting in a trench. Each man has a rif...

Indian infantry digging trenches

Photograph

In this photograph we can see Indian soldiers digging a trench, which is then reinforced with sandbags and protected by...

Indian infantry with gass masks in the trenches

Photograph

This photograph shows a group of Indian soldiers armed in a trench. The hoods they are wearing are gas masks; the First ...

Looking at a portion of a zeppelin bomb

Photograph

This photograph shows a group of people looking at a piece of metal that the typed caption identifies as part of a bomb...

Operation Room, Kitchener Hospital

Photograph

Here we can see a soldier being operated on by doctors searching for a bullet. It appears that the soldier is being give...

Photograph of a bagpiper performing for soldiers

Photograph, Image

This photograph by Charles Hilton De Witt Girdwood, a Canadian photographer, shows a group of wounded Indian soldiers re...

Photograph of a listening post leaving a trench

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In this photograph we can see a small group of soldiers coming out of a trench, over the protective sandbag wall. They h...

Photograph of Indian and British soldiers playing...

Photograph, Image

This photograph shows soldiers from the 3rd Horse regiment taking on a group from the 18th Lancers in a football match i...

Photograph of soldiers 'waiting in the open'

Photograph

In this photograph we can see four soldiers lying flat on the ground, ‘waiting in the open’ with their bayonets fixed. I...

Photograph of stretcher bearers at work

Photograph, Image

This photograph, taken by Charles Hilton DeWitt Girdwood, shows four stretcher bearers ‘at work’. They are attending to ...