Highlights of the First World War Poetry Digital Archive: Photographs from the Imperial War Museum: Man, Culture and War

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Photographs from the Imperial War Museum: Man, Culture and War

The war truly was a world war, as the British and French mobilised their colonial empires. Over 600,000 troops fought in the ranks of the Allied Forces originating from five continents.

This photograph shows the British West Indies Regiment in camp on the Albert to Amiens Road, September 1916.