Category Archives: Soldiers

Another of those Daily Mail postcards I showed you during the daily/weekly postcard series of 2020, here we see a British labour battalion in action. 

R.A.M.C. doctors drawing rations. 

The Royal Regiment of Artillery in the Great War comprised three separate elements, and this post pays tribute to men from all three. 

‘Through Adversity to the Stars’.  Royal Flying Corps mechanics at work, 1915. 

Royal Engineers bridging a stream sometime in 1917.  Around 25,000 strong at the start of the war, the R.E. had expanded to well over 300,000 men by 1918. 

Grenadier Guards reservists await their medical examinations in August 1914. 

British cavalry pictured at Nery during the retreat from Mons, the photograph probably taken on 1st September 1914.