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Please note with regard to scanned antique prints there may be some age related marks or faults from the originals which will show also on any print ordered. This is inevitable with prints of this age & actually lends an authentic look to the prints. Please refer to the actual image on sale. If you are interested in purchasing the original engraving or print that may be possible if I still have it, please send me a private message to check. Please also note that the wording artfromthepast on the image shown is just a watermark & will not appear on your final print or other product. From the Illustrated War Record published in 1918 photographer uncredited. Taken with a no. 3A folding pocket Kodak.

Illustration from the Great War Vol 10 published in 1918. London buses were used as a ferry service between reserve troop headquarters & the front line. Outward journey took reliefs & reinforcements & on the return journey bringing back men to the rest camps who had finished their spell in the trenches. Somewhere in the region of 900-1000 buses were redeployed from the capital to the war many drivers also went with them. Please note with regard to scanned antique prints there may be some age related marks or faults from the originals which will show also on any print ordered. This is inevitable with prints of this age & actually lends an authentic look to the prints. Please refer to the actual image on sale. If you are interested in p...

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It's a long way to Tipperary - so why not go in style? This is the uniform for the other five days of the week.

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Flying high a dogfight between aces....one must lose...in this case it was the Death of the Red Baron

Flanders Fields and Poppies are forever linked. But why so many poppies in Flanders that before the First World War was almost devoid of poppy as the soil was "too poor"? The war created prime conditions for poppies to flourish in Flanders and north-west France. Continual bombardment disturbed the soil and brought the seeds to the surface. Poppy seeds are numerous from a single poppy head and can remain viable (able to germinate and grow) for many years. They were fertilized by nitrogen in the explosives in these war zones and in other places such as the dardanelles, Gallipoli, Turkey. The poppy the symbol of the Royal British Legion. Col. John McCrae a Canadian medical Doctor penned the poem. IN FLANDERS FIELDS In Flanders fields...

From the Great War published in 1918. Info from wiki: During World War I, the statue of Mary and the infant Jesus – designed by sculptor Albert Roze and dubbed the Golden Virgin – on top of the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Brebières was hit by a shell on 15 January 1915 and slumped to a near-horizontal position, where however it remained until further shelling in 1918 destroyed the tower. The British said that whoever made the statue fall would lose the war, whilst the Germans thought the opposite. The Leaning Virgin became an especially familiar image to the thousands of British soldiers who fought at the Battle of the Somme (1916), many of whom passed through Albert, which was situated three miles from the front lines. It was finally des...

From the Great War vol 12 published in 1919. Please note with regard to scanned antique prints there may be some age related marks or faults from the originals which will show also on any print ordered. This is inevitable with prints of this age & actually lends an authentic look to the prints. Please refer to the actual image on sale. If you are interested in purchasing the original engraving or print that may be possible if I still have it, please send me a private message to check. Please also note that the wording artfromthepast on the image shown is just a watermark & will not appear on your final print or other product.

A Retro, patriotic piece . Based on the propaganda Posters of the early 1900s,

Many thanks to all those men who risked their lives for the Rescue