The British Dressing Station for slightly wounded at Minden Post, during Battle of the Somme, in World War 1. Medics providing first aid to the wounded. Watching in the background are several soldiers of the 24th Oldham (Pioneers) Battalion, awaiting orders to advance and occupy captured German trenches. German curtain artillery barrage outside the Minden Post. Their shells exploding in a line across the battlefield. A lone British soldier standing in the remains of British fire trenches wrecked by German high explosive shelling, minutes before. British patrol moving cautiously and stepping over barbed wire, in no-man's-land to clear the area of German snipers and hidden machine guns. They move along line of captured trenches checking for German soldiers hidden in dugouts.
A British Mark I Female (machine-gun) tank being maneuvered into position on a battlefield in France, during World War One. British soldiers watch as tank drives out of ditch, One soldier repositions a machine gun that had swiveled backwards on its sponson (half turret).
British troops fire 18 pounder artillery from a battery of hidden, entrenched guns, in France, during World War One. British gunners fire 8 inch howitzer in the field. Crew stands back as the gun fires and recoils, before stepping forward to reload.
French soldiers fill platform between two rail lines at a train station in France during World War 1. They crowd into rail cars for transportation closer to the front lines. From an embankment, as the train moves past, the soldiers are seen waving from open rail car doorways.
Slate notes that women made significant contribution to work force in weapons manufacture during World War 1. Interior of a rifle manufacturing plant in France. Men and women busy at their jobs. Belt-driven lathes and other machinery seen. Workers clean out newly rifled barrels. Others work on wooden parts. stacks of assembled rifles are moved through the factory on motorized carts, and between factory floors by elevator. (WWI. WW1)
Crew members climb aboard a Caproni bomber parked on an airfield in France, during World War 1. One of them slides a slender bomb into a holder in front of the plane. Brief view from rear engine looking forward to crew in their seats. Crew placing bombs into holders. Right engine being started. The bomber taxiing out for takeoff. Views from cockpit of takeoff and in flight. View from the air of military airfield and barracks below. View from the bomber of a French Nieuport 17 approaching. (WWI; WW1)