Now all roads lead to France and heavy is the tread
Of the living; but the dead returning lightly dance.
Edward Thomas, Roads

Saturday, August 23, 2025

Photo Album: The British Empire Fighting on Distant Shores


1920 Recruiting Poster
The Empire Had Seemingly Survived the War



Column in Transcaucasus



Base Hospital in Murmansk, Russia



Aircraft Carrier HMS Ben-my-Chee in the Dardanelles
(Sunk 1917)



British and Sikh Troops at Tsing Tao, 1914



Wireless Operators, Tanganyika



Field Ambulance Station, Asiago Plateau, Italy



South African Machine Gunners, SW Africa



North Beach Gallipoli



Rare Photo of T.E. Lawrence



Turkish Officials Surrender Jerusalem



Anti-Aircraft Battery, Mesopotamia



Indian Army Soldiers, Salonika



Armored Car, Iraq, 1920



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