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Off on a night raid, our troops steal into the inky darkness of No Man's Land near Messines

Holding the line near Dickebusch before our final onslaught against Messines Ridge, Ypres

Zero hour! Prompt to the second our men go over the top in an assault on Wyschaete Wood

Disaster on the Dunes; the Huns blow up the bridges & isolate our hard-pressed battalions

Under frightful difficulties, our troops carry supplies over destroyed bridges on Yser Canal

Unexpected, our moppers up come to grips with Jerries lurking in a captured village

Kamerad! Dazed Huns pour out of their fortified cellars at Pilken in answer to our bombs

Daybreak on Vimy Ridge, after our dogged and impetuous assault on its heights, Apr. 9th, '17

North Country troops bomb Hun machine-gunners out of their lairs in Polygon Wood, Sept., '17

Troops clearing Polygon Wood

After weeks of weary fighting for the fateful Menin road, victors & the vanquished, both happy

Attending to wounded on the Menin road, Ypres, during strenuous struggles around Zonnebeke

Our troops occupy Houthhoulst Forest, the combined British and Belgian attack having ousted the enemy

An enemy block-house seized at Poelecappelle is quickly converted into a machine-gun nest

After the bitter struggle for the stricken village of Gheluvelt, lost and retaken several times

In a firing bay at Passachendaele (sic) we repulse repeated Bosche counter-attacks of great fury

Through smoke and gas, our infantry advance to the final assault of Passachendaele (sic) Ridge

Tenderly carrying a "blighty" case to an aid post through maze of trenches, Passachendaele (sic)

14th century walls & Lille gate through which British troops entered during defence of Ypres

Guarding sacred Ypres, where British heroism shone resplendent through war's darkest hours