Today marks 100 years since the start of the battle near the Belgian city of Ypres, which killed or wounded an estimated one million solders, 77,000 of whom were Australian.
Norwood Thomas, 93, and Joyce Morris, 88, reunited in Adelaide, Australia on Wednesday. The two met a briefly dated in England, shortly before D-Day.
Ken Watson, 89, from Kingston-Upon-Thames, London, pictured, had been posted to Australia. He was in Sydney on VJ Day and remembers 'there were lots of sailors dancing with girls'.
Norwood Thomas, 93, and Joyce Morris, 88, reunited in Adelaide, Australia on Wednesday. The two met a briefly dated in England, shortly before D-Day.
The Norfolk County Asylum in Thorpe St Andrew, Norwich was one of the very first asylums in Victorian Britain dedicated to pauper lunatics - and was revolutionary for its time.
Ken Watson, 89, from Kingston-Upon-Thames, London, pictured, had been posted to Australia. He was in Sydney on VJ Day and remembers 'there were lots of sailors dancing with girls'.
The Ragged School movement would help rough sleepers emigrate to Canada to start a new life, and took their photo for posterity. The men aged between 12 to 28 were mostly sent to Toronto.
Ken Watson, 89, from Kingston-Upon-Thames, London, pictured, had been posted to Australia. He was in Sydney on VJ Day and remembers 'there were lots of sailors dancing with girls'.
Ken Watson, 89, from Kingston-Upon-Thames, London, pictured, had been posted to Australia. He was in Sydney on VJ Day and remembers 'there were lots of sailors dancing with girls'.
York's Chocolate Story released the images of workers from across Rowntree's and Terry's factories as part of its Chocolate and the People of York exhibition, which opened in North Yorkshire.
Ken Watson, 89, from Kingston-Upon-Thames, London, pictured, had been posted to Australia. He was in Sydney on VJ Day and remembers 'there were lots of sailors dancing with girls'.
Elizebeth Friedman (main, left) a married Quaker mother of two, was one of the FBI's secret weapons as a cryptologist in the World Wars and against organized crime, turning a keen eye to codes (inset)
Ken Watson, 89, from Kingston-Upon-Thames, London, pictured, had been posted to Australia. He was in Sydney on VJ Day and remembers 'there were lots of sailors dancing with girls'.
The remarkable images from the early days of photography depict the brave men and their Inuit guides who endured sub-zero temperatures in their bid to become the first to reach the North Pole.
The ape - called John Daniel (pictured) - played with children, went to classes, ate roses from gardens and even enjoyed cups of tea with residents in the quaint village of Uley, Gloucestershire.
Among the criminal records that have been put online are those belonging to Pierre Le Vionnais, pictured, who served time in Woking Prison for committing an 'unnatural offence'.
The pictures were taken by Yosuke Yamahata, a Japanese military photographer, who was tasked with documenting the destruction for propaganda purposes in the immediate aftermath.
Leonard Knight, 17, had put the Bible in the breast pocket of his uniform when he was shot at by an enemy. The Bible now belongs to the fifth generation of his aunt's family, from Bristol.
The Ragged School movement would help rough sleepers emigrate to Canada to start a new life, and took their photo for posterity. The men aged between 12 to 28 were mostly sent to Toronto.
The Norfolk County Asylum in Thorpe St Andrew, Norwich was one of the very first asylums in Victorian Britain dedicated to pauper lunatics - and was revolutionary for its time.
Ken Watson, 89, from Kingston-Upon-Thames, London, pictured, had been posted to Australia. He was in Sydney on VJ Day and remembers 'there were lots of sailors dancing with girls'.
The Norfolk County Asylum in Thorpe St Andrew, Norwich was one of the very first asylums in Victorian Britain dedicated to pauper lunatics - and was revolutionary for its time.
Alluring Tsarist beauty Baroness Moura Budberg (pictured) spied for 'mass murderer' Genrikh Yagoda and may also have been a double agent working for the British during a plot to kill Lenin in 1918.
Bob Bruner's grandfather was one of eight men tortured and killed by the Japanese during World War II, when they were dissected alive as part of gruesome medical experiments
The Norfolk County Asylum in Thorpe St Andrew, Norwich was one of the very first asylums in Victorian Britain dedicated to pauper lunatics - and was revolutionary for its time.
Ken Watson, 89, from Kingston-Upon-Thames, London, pictured, had been posted to Australia. He was in Sydney on VJ Day and remembers 'there were lots of sailors dancing with girls'.
The Australian descendants of eight ANZAC veterans have proudly showed off their relatives' wartime medals and photographs in a moving commemorative photo series.
The Ragged School movement would help rough sleepers emigrate to Canada to start a new life, and took their photo for posterity. The men aged between 12 to 28 were mostly sent to Toronto.
The Ragged School movement would help rough sleepers emigrate to Canada to start a new life, and took their photo for posterity. The men aged between 12 to 28 were mostly sent to Toronto.
The rare photographs all date from 1872, and were collected by Arthur Munby, a diarist so obsessed with the milk maid profession that he would wander around London to ask them about their lives.
Haunting photographs show some of the women who attended the infamous Bethlem Royal Hospital in Bromley, south east London, where patients were 'treated' by being spun round in a chair.
In 1923, when battered and heavily indebted Germany was struggling to recover from the disaster of the First World War, cash became very nearly worthless. At one point bread cost billions in cash.
Fascinating images show the important role played by iconic Australian animals that were smuggled over during WWI and WWII which saw over one million Australian men conscripted.
As the charity marks its anniversary it's released heartbreaking details of some of its early cases - from Britain's first black foster child to a charming Swiss toddler whose father disowned him.
The Ragged School movement would help rough sleepers emigrate to Canada to start a new life, and took their photo for posterity. The men aged between 12 to 28 were mostly sent to Toronto.
Lunatics, Imbeciles and Idiots: A History of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Britain & Ireland, reveals the heinous conditions in which the mentally ill were kept.
The photographs, taken throughout the 20th Century, portray Inuit families surviving on barren northern islands where temperatures could reach -40C.
Ken Watson, 89, from Kingston-Upon-Thames, London, pictured, had been posted to Australia. He was in Sydney on VJ Day and remembers 'there were lots of sailors dancing with girls'.
The pictures were taken by Yosuke Yamahata, a Japanese military photographer, who was tasked with documenting the destruction for propaganda purposes in the immediate aftermath.
The postcards of the Netherlands are from 1890 and were created using the Photochrom process, a technique for applying lifelike colour to black-and-white images.
The Ragged School movement would help rough sleepers emigrate to Canada to start a new life, and took their photo for posterity. The men aged between 12 to 28 were mostly sent to Toronto.
Former cricketer Robert Edwin Bush and his wife Marjorie splashed £10million of their own fortune adapting Knoll Hill in Bristol to care for casualties from the First World War.
A series of incredible portraits of scandal-hit Victorian performers charts the rise of celebrity culture and continued fascination with the lives of the rich and famous.
A new book, City of Neighborhoods: Philadelphia, 1890-1910, looks at a period of rapid growth when people flocked to the city to work in its many factories and mills.
The Ragged School movement would help rough sleepers emigrate to Canada to start a new life, and took their photo for posterity. The men aged between 12 to 28 were mostly sent to Toronto.
Before Hitler completed his march to power in 1933, the German capital was a liberal hotbed where people indulge their sexual and hedonistic appetites in Berlin's nightlife and party culture.
The Norfolk County Asylum in Thorpe St Andrew, Norwich was one of the very first asylums in Victorian Britain dedicated to pauper lunatics - and was revolutionary for its time.
