Just like a team of operators working at a busy telephone switchboard, this image shows the network of communications at company HQ that was required to co-ordinate an armys activities. The object immediately in front of the signaller on the right looks like a mouthpiece, which suggests that they are using wireless sets or field telephones to communicate. The Royal Engineer Signals Service was formed in 1908, and provided communications during World War I. It was at this time that motorcycle despatch riders, wireless sets and field telephones came into prominence on the Western Front. Towards the end of the war there was agreement that a separate Signal Corps regiment should be established, and the Royal Corps of Signals was established in July 1920. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. H.Q. Signals.'] digital.nls.uk/74548966

Steven Withey discovered an old photograph of his 87-year-old grandfather from his days in the Royal Navy during World War II and needed help to restore the photo.

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CO 3214. A portrait of four smiling Canadians as they sit against a wall and await treatment at a Casualty Clearing Station (CCS) at Duisans 3 September 1918

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Queen Marie Henriette of Belgium, neé Archduchess of Austria. 1860s

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Sergeant Amohau, 28 (Maori) Battalion, photographed during training in Egypt in 1941 by an army photographer.

1945, Homecomings / Britain, A British soldier returning home gets a warm welcome from his wife

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British cavalry resting alongside the Arras-Cambrai road, April 1917.

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Q 61057. The French Tissot mask demonstrated by a French soldier. The Tissot mask was revolutionary in that it gave the wearer greater visibilty by allowing air to pass over the eye-pieces

Darker days of the Birmingham blitz

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[Photo] HMS Exeter after refit, Mar 1941

NA 11324. British troops and American Rangers meet on the Anzio-Rome road 23 January 1944.