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World War I . New recruits for the French Army depart for military training from Montparnasse station , Paris 1915

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WILFRED OWEN (1893-1918).<br>English poet. Owen (front row, third from left) with fellow officers during World War I, c1918.

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FRANCE Western Front -- 12 Sep 1918 -- Wounded German prisoners receiving medical attention at first-aid station of 103rd and 104th Ambulance Companies -- Picture by J M Liles / Lightroom Photos / US Army

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WWI: BLACK VETERAN, 1919. <br>A wounded veteran of the U.S. 369th Infantry Regiment is among the honored at the victory parade up Fifth Avenue, New York City, 17 February 1919.

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WORLD WAR I: GERMAN POSTER. <br>'Endurance, Strength and Energy.' A German soldier  featured in a lithograph poster advertisement by Ludwig Hohlwein for Kola-Dallmann Dallkolat candies during World War I, Munich, c1917.

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WWI: DEAD GERMAN SOLDIER. <br>The corpse of a German soldier killed during the Allies' Somme offensive, face stripped to the bone by rats, lying in a trench near the village of Beaumont Hamel, late 1916.

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WWI: GAS WARFARE. <br>Both soldiers and horses of the British cavalry utilize gas masks in infested regions.

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WORLD WAR I: GERMAN DEAD. <br>Dead German soldiers lying in a trench near La Bassé in northern France, autumn 1914: from a stereograph view.

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WORLD WAR I: RUSSIAN DEAD. <br>Identifying Russian dead before burial.

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WWI: FRENCH ATTACK. <br>French soldiers storming the fort on Hill Notre Dame de Lorette: from a stereograph view.

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WWI: BATTLE OF THE MARNE. <br>French reservists resting during the Battle of the Marne: from a stereograph view.

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WORLD WAR I: GAS MASKS. <br>French troops wearing gas masks in World War I, winter of 1915-1916.

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WORLD WAR I: POSTER, 1915. <br>'Daddy, What Did You Do In The Great War.' British World War I poster by Savile Lumley, c1915

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WORLD WAR I: TRENCH. <br>Scottish soldiers in a trench on the lookout for Germans, using a mirror periscope during World War I.

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WORLD WAR I: NURSE. <br>A nurse tending to a badly wounded soldier at a hospital in Antwerp, Belgium, during World War I, 1914.

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BIPLANES, c1917. <br>Biplanes flying in formation during World War I, c1917.

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JOHN MCCRAE (1872-1918). <br>Canadian physician and poet. Photographed while a surgeon to first brigade of Canadian artillery during World War I.

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WORLD WAR I: FRANCE.<br>A gas and flame attack seen from the air, St. Mihiel, 1918.

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RUPERT BROOKE (1887-1915). <br>English author. Oil over a photograph, 1913.

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WILFRED OWEN (1893-1918). <br>English poet. Photograph, n.d.

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WORLD WAR I: FRANCE.<br>French soldiers resting in the trenches.

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WORLD WAR I: BATTLEFIELD. <br>British stretcher bearers carrying a wounded comrade through the mud at the battle of Pickem Ridge, near Boeshinge, Belgium, summer of 1917.

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WORLD WAR I: RUSSIAN ARMY. <br>Russian troops marching through the snow during World War I.

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RUPERT BROOKE (1887-1915). <br>English poet. Photographed in 1913 by Sherril Schell.

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WORLD WAR I: GAS WARFARE. <br>British soldiers blinded by a German gas attack during the Lys offensive shuffle toward an advanced dressing station near Bethune, France, April 1918.

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WORLD WAR I: BATTLEFIELD. <br>Gun crew, Regimental HQ Co., 23rd Infantry, 2nd Division, firing a 37mm gun during an advance through Belleau Wood, France, June 1918.

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First World War<br><br>... Some corner of a foreign field that is forever England .. A crater caused by explosion of land mine , near Ypres , France

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Casualties of the war , with various injuries to their face and body

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British with German wounded prisoners

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First World War<br><br>American troops adjusting gas masks at the sound of the alarm

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First World War<br><br>British infantry in front line trenches awaiting the zero hour

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First World War<br><br>Canadian infantry find it hard going over ground which has been churned up by high explosives

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What was once a French farm , all that is left are foundations of the building

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First World War<br><br>First lessons in trench digging at an American cantonment.  No real preparation for what they were to face.

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First World War<br><br>Chemical Warfare : A flier's view of a German gas attack , on the Eastern Front

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First World War<br><br>News : Relatives of British soldiers awaiting news outside the War Office in London , England

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First World War<br><br>From Down Under : Australian howitzers on the Somme front , France

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First World War<br><br>Anti-conscription in London : London rioters protesting against Conscription Act

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First World War<br><br>Tempoary field hospital in Russian church

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First World War<br><br>Tags : Austrian prisoners captured at the Isonzo front

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First World War<br><br>Gallipoli , Turkey : A Faugh-aBallagh or Royal Irish fusilier , teases a Turkish sniper

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First World War<br><br>Battle of Lens , British wounded , France<br>August 1917

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First World War<br><br>French soldiers with wooden crosses to be placed on temporary graves

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Broken propellers used to mark graves of fallen aviators

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First World War<br><br>A British ammunition column finds hard going , France

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The Guests at a house party at the home of W S Blunt in 1914 left to right Victor Plarr, Sturge moore, W B Yeats, Wilfred Scawen Blunt, Ezra pound, Richard Aldington and F S Flint

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Siegfried Sassoon 1930<br>WWI poet

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Wilfred Owen, war poet, WWI.

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Charles Sorley.<br><br>Charles Hamilton Sorley (May 19, 1895 – October 13, 1915) was a British poet of World War I. Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, he was educated, like Siegfried Sassoon, at Marlborough College (1908-1913). At Marlborough College Sorley's favourite pursuit was cross-country running in the rain, a theme evident in many of his pre-war poems, including Rain and The Song of the Ungirt Runners. Before taking up a scholarship to study at University College, Oxford Sorley studied in Schwerin, Germany, up to the outbreak of World War 1. After a brief detention in Trier, Sorley returned to England and volunteered for military service, joining the Suffolk Regiment. He arrived at the Western Front in France as a Lieutenant in May 1915, and quickly rose to the rank of Captain at the age of only twenty. Sorley was killed in action, shot in the head by a sniper, at the Battle of Loos on October 13, 1915.<br><br>

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Edmund Blunden , poet<br>Author of " Undertones of War "<br>1896 - 1974

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A German wartime photographer takes pictures of the action over the trenches on the front line.<br>1914-18<br>©TopFoto

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British troops coming out of the trenches<br>Guillemont, Battle of the Somme<br>27 November 1916<br>©TopFoto

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FRANCE Western Front -- 01 Jan 1917 -- Repairing front line trench after bomb explosion fifty yards from enemy trenches. D W Griffith in civilian clothing.  During filming of the motion picture Hearts of the World in France -- Picture by Lightroom Photos / US War Dept / Topfoto

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London Armistice Day Celebrations - 1918

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1. Weltkrieg, Deutschland im... :  Versorgung der Bevölkerung.<br>Kinder suchen auf einem Schleppkahn im Grubenabfall nach Kohle und Holz zum Heizen.<br>Ruhrgebiet, Winter 1917<br><english> WW I, Germany during...   , supply / provision of population -- Children  on a barge searching for useable waste (coal/firewood) of a coal pit.  <br>Ruhr district, Winter 1917  <br> </english>

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Russian soldiers in the First World War trenches.

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Emperor Nicholas II, Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army (center), discussing a plan of military operations with the generals Alexeyev (right) and Pustovoitenko (left).  World War One (1914-1918).

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Germans captured near the village of Naroch. World War One (1914-1918).

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The Grand Palais during WWI (the rehabilitation room) - plate 40. Anonymous photograph. Paris, musée Carnavalet.

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The Grand Palais during WWI (the arms drill of injured soldiers ending their treatment) - plate 37. Anonymous photograph. Paris, musée Carnavalet.

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Coldstream Guards in a trench . April 1915

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WWI British trench on the Western front. Men of &quotC" Company 1/6th Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment in No 8 Trench, Messines Road, France. 1915

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War 1914 - 1918<br>Derby recruiting

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Satirical illustration from Simplicissimus a satirical German weekly magazine : O Gulbransson 1917

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Manfred von Richthofen  *02.05.1892-21.04.1918+<br>Offizier, Flieger, Jagdflieger im I.WK, D<br><br>- R.(m) im Kreis von Kameraden, die zu seiner Staffel gehören (JaSta11)<br>- Frankreich, Sommer 1917<br> <english> Manfred von Richthofen (1892-1918)  - Aviator, Officer,  fighter pilot ww1   - Germany<br> - Richthofen (Center) and comrades of his fighter squadron <br>Jasta11 (fs11)  France, Summer 1917<br>   </english>

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An embarkation scene at Alexandria.  Indian troops about to ship their A.T. mules and fodder.  April 1915

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A column of 2/4th King's African Rifles moving along a flooded road in Portuguese East Africa in 1918<br>WWI

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Italian troops entrenched alongside a road on the Piave river.<br>WWI<br>

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Albert Ball , the greatest English flying pilot of the First World War , killed in 1917

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Tomas Masaryk with Czech Legionaries in Russia (Bobruisk , near Minsk)<br>Summer 1917

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General Smuts inspecting a South African Labour Unit<br>Dannes , France<br>April 1917<br>

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Guerre 1914-1918. Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929) en visite sur le front de Picardie. Photo colorisée.    RV-461772<br>Clemenceau on a visit to the front in Picardy

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Armistice Day Celebrations 1918<br>A well loaded bus halts in a carefree, flag-waving journey through London's streets. " It was with feelings which do not lend themselves to words that I heard the cheers".<br>11th November 1918.<br>

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WWI Western front. Battle of Verdun. German troops waiting for the order to go over the top. Three minutes to go.

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Isaac Rosenberg  - poet and painter  1909                      Jews College London

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1.Weltkrieg: Kriegsschauplatz Westfront , Sommeschlacht<br>Juni-November 1916:  Tote Pferde, zerschossene Fuhrwerke, auf einem Nachschubweg hinter der Frontlinie.   1916<br><english> 1.WW , Theatre of war , western front 1916, Battle of the Somme, June-Nov.1916:  Dead horses,  broken vehicles on a supply road behind frontline.  1916 </english><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>

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1.Weltkrieg: Kriegsschauplatz Westfront allg. 1915 <br>Maschinengewehr - Abteilung rückt in offenem Gelände vor.<br>ohne weitere Angaben<br>1915<br><english> 1.WW , Theatre of war , western front 1915  : <br>German machine gun detachment advancing  across open terrain. - no further details,  1915  </english><br><br><br><br><br>

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1.Weltkrieg: Kriegsschauplatz Westfront , Sommeschlacht<br>Juni-November 1916:  Deutsche Soldaten  in den Ruinen von Peronne.   November 1916<br><br><english> 1.WW , Theatre of war , western front 1916, Battle of the Somme, June-Nov.1916:  Peronne in ruins - german soldiers in the streets. November 1916   </english><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>

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1.Weltkrieg: Kriegsschauplatz Westfront Lothringen/Argonnen  1915 :<br>Kämpfe im Raum Maas/Mosel - Deutsche Soldaten gehen aus den Schützengräben zum Angriff vor. Mai/Juni 1915<br><br><english> 1.WW , Theatre of war , western front 1915  , Lorraine/Argonne: Meuse/Moselle region - german soldiers going over the top , assault  on french postitions.  May/June 1915 </english><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>sturmangriff

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1.Weltkrieg: Kriegsschauplatz Westfront 1915: Nach den Kämpfen bei Soissons/Craonne an der Aisne.  : Abgelöste Frontsoldaten ziehen in ihre Quartiere. <br>Anfang 1915<br><english> 1.WW , Theatre of war , western front 1915  : <br>German infantrymen, removed from combatzone Soissons/Craonne (Aisne)  move into their quarters. <br>beginning of 1915 </english><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>marschgepäck tornister

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 'Gee!! I Wish I Were a Man, I'd Join the Navy', United States N;avy Recruitment Poster by Christy, Howard Chandler (1873-1952) <br>©TopFoto

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The Third Battle of Ypres 1917, known popularly at passchendaele: Australian troops over a duckboard track at Chateau Wood

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File of soliders moving into the line near Frezenberrg 5 October 1917 during the Battle of Broodseinde <br><br>Yorkshire Regiment

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WW1/ British and German officers in 'No Man's Land' during the unofficial truce, Christmas 1914. Northumberland Hussars 7th Division. Bridoux-Rouges Bancs Sector.

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WW1: A German observation post in a front line trench, 1914

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WW1: Anzac Beach. Gallipoli, May 1915.

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WW1: Carrier pigeons being put in a gas chamber by soldiers. (Presumably gas &quotproof" chamber).

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WW1: Northern France: 2nd Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 19th Brigade 6th and 7th Division, Bois Grenier Sector, March-June 1915. A group of men in the trenches. Note jam-tin bombs, brushwood revetting and dugout in parapet.

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October 28th 1918. Mass manifestation of people in the Wenceslas Square of Prague, Czechoslovakia.

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WW1: Allied troops entering Baghdad, the City of the Caliphs on March 11th 1917.

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WW1: The Battle of the Somme. In single file, a column of troops make their forward through what was once a forest - by the autumn of 1916, it was a muddy swamp.

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WW1: German troops digging trenches, Argonne, Nov. 1915.

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WW1: A lorry and two cavalrymen pass through the ruins, near Ypres, at the start of the final advance by the allied armies. The gaunt shell of the town's Cloth Hall is seen on the right. In the foreground are the remains of ammunition limbers and horses caught by shell-fire.

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WW1: Lord Kitchener poster. 'Britons - Wants You" Join your country's army. God save the King.'

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WW1: Arranging the fuse heads in one of England's great gun factories.

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WW1: British Infantry marching through Viuex Berquin after the Battle of Loos, 1915.

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WW1: The Dartmoor &quotconscientious" objectors are seen professedly cultivating the soil, but they spend much of their time &quoton leave" or &quotstrolling on the moors, smoking, reading and talking". April 1917.

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WW1/France: Allied troops unloading shells from the light railway. Brielen, 3rd August 1917.

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31st July 1914: The threatening state of war in Berlin under the lime trees.

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German troops marching with resting Austro Hungarian troops looking on at the Eastern Front during August 1914

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British Tanks rapidly fell victim to breakdowns and German gunfire. A surviving Mark IV Tanks on the Amiens Road on 10 August 1918

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A heliograph station in action at the Chemin des Dames. A heliograph is used for signalling messages by reflecting flashes of sunlight

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A Chaplain conducting church parade from the nacelle of an F E 2 B night bomber, 1 September 1918, No 2 Aeroplane Supply Depot.

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Guillaume Apollinaire ( 1880-1918 ), French writer, in the centre, in 1915. HRL-515171

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Edward Thomas - First World War Poet - died 1916

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