Apr 29 1918 Near Domart, war photographer Thomas Keith Aitken takes
this photo, IWM Q 10943, of a British soldier wearing a greatcoat as
he stands amidst a dump of empty shell cases.

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April 29 1918-04-29

New-York Tribune Aug 31 1919 “Pile of shells cost the British government $25 each. An enterprising Philadelphian managed to buy them for 60 cents apiece. Now that shell cocktail shakers have gone out of vogue, wonder will he convent them into rolling pins”

May 18 1918 In order to help out the war effort a lot of war material was reclaimed. Here a photographer takes this photo, IWM HU 90284, of women sorting shell cases for recycling.

18 May 1918-05-18

Sep 30 1917 During the Battle of Polygon Wood (Part of the Battle of Passchendaele) war photographer Ernest Brooks takes this photo, IWM Q 2915, of British soldiers resting on a dump of shell-cases, beside the Ypres-Menin road.

30 September 1917-09-30

Jul 30 1917 At Nieuport, war photographer Ernest Brooks takes this photo, IWM Q 2642, of a British soldier sitting in the shell-hole in a gasometer.

30 July 1917-07-30

Mar 15 1918 Near Roye, France, war photographer David McLellan takes this photo, IWM Q 9279, of Royal Engineers on a bridge over the Avre river at Roye. It was destroyed by the Germans before they abandoned the town to the French in March 1917.

March 15 1918-03-15

Chicago Tribune Feb 11 1915 publishes a picture, taken by Tribune staff photographer Edwin F. Weigle, showing a large pontoon bridge over Scheldt River during the Imperial German Army’s Siege of Antwerp. Bridge was destroyed to prevent German capture

Jan 5 1918 At Riencourt, near Bapaume, France, war photographer David McLellan takes this photo, IWM Q 8395, of Royal Artillery gunners of 51st Division look out from their billet converted from a collapsed water tower.

5 January 1918-01-05

The Canadian official photographer William Rider-Rider, takes this photo of a Canadian helping a Mother and children through a hole in a bridge. November, 1918

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USS Texas (BB-35) sailing up the east river to New York Navy Yard, sometime between August 21, 1914 and June 22, 1916.

Here we can see the "Fighting Tops of the Texas" as she passes under the Brooklyn Bridge.

Photo from Henry Sabuda's Collection: link

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British infantry in a captured German trench, 1917.

THOMAS J. SOMERSCALES (1842 - 1927, English)- «The S.S. Ortega entering the straits of Nelson with the S.M.S. Dresden in pursuit», dated 1916