This collection contains images and recruitment posters from the First World War period, as well as records such as letters and cards sent home by soldiers at the front towards the end of the war. The images feature Ordnance photography and photographs from the Home Front, with women working on farms, in factories or on the railways.
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Royal Navy Recruitment poster, RNVR Signals branch, 1917
Construction of airships and sheds, Scotland, 1916-1918
Air raid on Hull, 1915
Group of Wilfred Owen's War Service records, 1915-1919
Page from Signal Code Book captured from the cruiser Magdeburg in August 1914
New Year's card from the Front, 1917
View of Coventry Ordnance Works
Drying stove at HM Explosives Factory, Gretna, Dumfries, 1918
Members of the Women's Land Army with piglets
Women volunteers, summer 1917
Women cleaning rolling stock on the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, 1917
Ministry of Munitions poster
Royal Navy Recruitment poster, RNVR Signals branch, 1917
Construction of airships and sheds, Scotland, 1916-1918
Air raid on Hull, 1915
Group of Wilfred Owen's War Service records, 1915-1919
Page from Signal Code Book captured from the cruiser Magdeburg in August 1914
New Year's card from the Front, 1917
View of Coventry Ordnance Works
Drying stove at HM Explosives Factory, Gretna, Dumfries, 1918
Members of the Women's Land Army with piglets
Women volunteers, summer 1917
Women cleaning rolling stock on the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, 1917
Ministry of Munitions poster