Collection items

A field kitchen at over 6000 feet

Photograph

This photograph shows an Italian field kitchen, created to provide hot meals for soldiers even in a mountainous area. Th...

A machine gun placement on the Mittagskofel

Photograph

This photograph shows Italian machine-gunners in Carnia, a primary war front in the mountainous area northeast of the Fr...

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...

A World Language: why not Esperanto?, by Margaret ...

Booklet, Manual

Margaret L. Blaise (née Jones, 1878-1935) was one of the most accomplished and fervent pioneers of the Esperanto ...

After centuries of struggle and matyrdom Italy bre...

Poster, Illustration

This is a print showing Vittorio Emanuele III on a horse encouraging his bersaglieri (marksmen) to assault and cross the...

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...

An French infantry charge in Argonne, France

Photograph

Infantry played a key role in all the battles of the First World War. This photograph shows a charge conducted by French...

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...

Analysis of 1000 injuries received in action and t...

Booklet, Report

This is a secret paper that was written by Colonel Sir Bruce Seton to address the question of the degree of prevalence, ...

Army photographic service, Bas-Rhin department

Photograph

This photograph is from a collection known as the Valois Albums, created during and after World War One. It was taken on...

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...

Battlefield at Etrepilly, Marne

Photograph

This photograph was taken in September 1914 during the French counter-offensive known as the Battle of the Marne. The de...

Before the Adriatic - disputing the territories al...

Book, Illustration

This book cover shows a caricature depicting the Adriatic question – the problem of defining the eastern borders of Ital...