Collection items

A trench on the front line

Photograph

This photograph shows a pneumatic trench mortar, an indirect fire weapon, being operated by a French soldier in a frontl...

Account of a journey through Germany after the Arm...

Book, Diary

This is an excerpt from an account of a journey through Germany made by Hunter-Weston in December 1918, little over a mo...

An Alpine barber in the trenches of Cerna, a photo...

Photograph

This photograph shows daily life in a trench: a soldier is having his hair cut. At the beginning of the war, it was thou...

Arch-enemy, a Russian poster

Poster, Illustration

In World War One, for the first time, whole nations and not merely professional armies were in mortal combat. Propaganda...

Austrian poster advertising the '8th war bonds'

Poster, Illustration

The eighth Austrian war bond, or loan, from May 1918, was also the last. A ninth war bond was planned for the autumn of...

Austrohungarian ultimatum to Serbia and Serbian re...

Letter

In this correspondence are the official demands of Austria-Hungary towards Serbia, Serbia’s official response, and the r...

Battle of the Somme, a map of the situation in Jul...

Map

A 16-mile wide area of front around the River Somme, at the extreme right of the British held front line, was selected f...

Battle of the Somme, a map showing the situation i...

Map

Compared with the advances made by the Allied attack upon the German front line in July 1916, this update on the progres...

Belgians are you ready?

Postcard, Illustration

This illustration shows a confrontation between a rooster (symbol of Wallonia, the southern French-speaking region of Be...

Belgrade and Serbia obituaries

Memorandum

During the Austrian-Hungarian attack on Serbian territory in 1914 and 1915, obituaries for Belgrade and the Kingdom of S...

Booklet 'Women's effort in war time'

Booklet, Illustration

The title of this booklet translates as ‘women’s effort in wartime’, published by the European Fashion Journal. It conta...

Brigade Trench Map from Loos in Belgium, 1916

Map

A vast and comprehensive military mapping programme covered the Western Front, combining detail with caution.  This larg...

British tank in Flanders

Photograph

This photograph shows a British tank Mark I in operation in Flanders in 1917. Tanks were one of the major military innov...

Brussels Water Supply Map

Map

From August 1914 Belgium and its population was under German military occupation. The occupation was particularly contro...

Bryce report: Committee on alleged German outrages

Report

Germany invaded neutral Belgium on 4 August 1914. Their armies killed 6,500 civilians there and in northern France that ...