First World War Collection

Cammell Laird shipyard at Birkenhead BL22201_002
Cammell Laird & Co shipyard, Birkenhead. Interior view showing a bay in the engine shop. One of a series of photographs of Cammell Laird works. Bedford Lemere. June 1913

Cammell Laird shipyard at Birkenhead BL22201_011A
Cammell Laird & Co shipyard, Birkenhead. Exterior view across the outer basin looking towards a ferry moored outside the Cammell Laird buildings

German U-boat, Hastings Beach BB88_07120
HASTINGS, EAST SUSSEX. People in rowing boats and on the beach, looking up at the German U-boat submarine, U-118, which ran aground on Hastings beach in February 1919

Cyclops Works, Sheffield BL22301_010
Cammell Lairds Cyclops Ordnance Steel Tyre and Spring Works in Grimesthorpe, Sheffield. Men at work in the fettling shop, with huge components for ships

Steel production, Barnsley BL22301_002
Cammell Laird & Co, Penistone. Men at work in Cammell Lairds bessemer department, producing steel from pig iron. One of a series of photographs of Cammell Laird works. Bedford Lemere. August 1913

Liverpool War Memorial CC73_02987
Groups of people surrounding the First World War memorial in the Cotton Exchange, Old Hall Street, Liverpool

Cenotaph DP180281
The Cenotaph national war memorial, Whitehall, Westminster, London. Cenotaph with Spectra, a temporary installation by Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda in the background. Night time view from north

Bootle War Memorial DP175404
War Memorial South of Balliol Road junction, Stanley Road, Bootle, Merseyside.Erected around1920 with figures signed M. Manenti

Hornchurch, 1915 BB88_07119
HORNCHURCH, Havering, London. The 1st Sportsmens Battalion of the 23rd Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers, possibly marching to war. Photographed in 1915. Howarth-Loomes Collection

Cammell Laird shipyard at Birkenhead BL22201_003
Cammell Laird & Co shipyard, Birkenhead. Interior view showing men working in the ship shed. One of a series of photographs of Cammell Laird works. Bedford Lemere. June 1913

Taxis with banner We are enlisting for the war BL22698
Taxis outside the a offices at Fanum House, Westminster, London. Motor cars, each with the banner We are enlisting for the war

Cunard Shell Works BL_24001_09
CUNARD SHELL WORKS, Bootle, Sefton, Merseyside. Women manufacturing shell casings, 1917. Bedford Lemere

Wounded soldiers and nurses CC002807
Great Dixter, Garden, Northiam, Great Dixter, Rother, East Sussex. Red Cross staff, recuperating soldiers and members of the Lloyd family in the gardens of Great Dixter, Northam

Royal Naval Memorial Southsea DP173359
The Royal Naval War Memorial, Clarence Esplanade, Southsea Common, Portsmouth, Hampshire

Memorial passage CC46_00322
Cheltenham College, Bath Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Interior view of the fan-vaulted passage connecting the chapel to the main school building

Memorial chapel CC46_00285
Dean Close School, Chapel, Shelburne Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. The chapel was built as a memorial to former pupils who were killed in the First World War

Memorial paques CC46_00315
Eastbourne College, Memorial Building, College Road, Eastbourne, East Sussex. Interior view of a room on the ground floor of the Memorial Building at Eastbourne College

School War Memorial CC46_00113
Rugby School, War Memorial Chapel, Dunchurch Road, Rugby, Warwickshire. The lectern, with tablets inscribed with the names of former students who died in the First World War on the wall behind

Hertford War Memorial BL26700_001
War Memorial, Parliament Square, Hertford. The war memorial in Hertford, Hertfordshire was designed by Sir Aston Webb, RA. It consists of a bronze stag set on a Portland stone plinth

Guys Hospital Memorial Arch BL26209
War Memorial Arch, Memorial Park, Guys Hospital, St Thomas Street, London. The reverse of the War Memorial Arch at Guys Hospital, commemorating those lost in the First World War

Guys Hospital Memorial Arch BL26207
War Memorial Arch, Memorial Park, Guys Hospital, St Thomas Street, London. The front of the War Memorial Arch and colonnade at Guys Hospital, commemorating those lost in the First World War

City Of London War Memorial BL25608_005
City Of London War Memorial, Cornhill, London. The City of London First World War memorial outside the portico of the Royal Exchange

War memorial plaque BL25049
Detail of the war memorial at 41 City Road, Islington, Greater London. The photograph was taken fors Mordan & Company Limited who occupied the premises

Great Western Memorial BB48_01157
Great Western Railway War Memorial, Paddington Station, Praed Street, Greater London. The memorial on Platform One was originally erected to commemorate the men

Tealby Memorial a080947
All Saints Church, Rasen Road, Tealby, Lincolnshire. Looking from the south porch of All Saints Church, towards the war memorial cross in the churchyard

Memorial detail DP196143
Church of St Faith, Church Row, Overbury, Worcestershire. Detail of carving on inner side of lychgate, on First World War memorial by Herbert Baker, view from west

Garden of Remembrance DP186044
Garden of Remembrance, Bird Street, Lichfield, Staffordshire. View from South East

Poppy wreath DP185980
The Crescent, Salford, Greater Manchester. Hand Knitted Poppy Wreath

Farewell DP0044505
Church of St Laurence, East Harptree, Bath and NE Somerset. Nave south window first world war memorial. Detail of lower panels showing a soldier leaving home with wife and child waving

Sorrow DP185966
Oak Hill Park, Hollins Lane, Accrington, Lancashire. War Memorial detail view from East

Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red DP180310
Tower of London, London. View from east. Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red, a work of installation art placed in the moat of the Tower of London, England, between July and November 2014

War Memorial DP100275
War Memorial, Shipham, Somerset

Portland Cenotaph DP176461
Portland Cenotaph, Isle of Portland, Dorset. Genereal view from south overlooking Chesil Beach

War memorial detail DP220267
Wells Street, Bury, Greater Manchester. War memorial, commemorating the Home Front 1914-18. Flanked by curved wall with two rectangular bronze relief panels

Memorial Bell DP218218
St Mary the Virgin Church, Church Lane, Berkeley, Gloucestershire. Interior, the Bell Tower. View of the treble bell which was dedicated as a war memorial

Unveiling the Cenotaph SAM01 / 02 / 0074
The unveiling ceremony of the Cenotaph on Whitehall, Westminster, Greater London. The Cenotaph was unveiled on Armistice Day, 11 November, 1920 by King George V

Company War Memorial BL29373
The First World War memorial in the office of Eagle Star & British Dominions Insurance Co Ltd, 1 Threadneedle Street, London. Photographed 1927-8 by Bedford Lemere and Company

Memorial sculptures DP172954
The Northernhay War Memorial, Northernhay Gardens, Northernhay Gate, Exeter, Devon. Detail view of bronze seated figure of a prisoner

War Memorial, High Street, Ledbury, Herefordshire. Mosaic tiles depicting a WW1 soldier

Childrens memorial DP176438
Detail of figure in the childrens monument and memorial garden, Poplar Park, Tower Hamlets, London

The Poppy Factory DP176046
Detail of poppies at The Poppy Factory, 20 Petersham Rd, Richmond, Greater London

Keswick War Memorial FAR01_01_127
The First World War memorial in Keswick, Cumbria, surrounded by floral wreaths. Photographed in the 1920s. Part of the G Farthing War Memorials Collection

Bolton War Memorial FAR01_01_076
St Georges Church, St Georges Road, Bolton. The First World War memorial. Photographed in the 1920s. Part of The G Farthing War Memorials Collection

Monument to fallen comrades CC73_03040
Three Chelsea pensioners looking at the First World War memorial in Battersea Park, London, commemorating the 24th East Surrey Division. The memorial was designed and sculpted by Eric Henri Kennington

Ash Grove DP174561
Ash Grove Industrial Estate, Ripon, Ash Grove, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, 2016. General view of three former army camp buildings on the east side of the industrial estate, from the south-west

Ismailia Railway Station EGP_22663_20
Ismailia, Egypt. An aerial view of the railway station of Ismailia, Egypt, in October 1918. It shows military encampments beyond the railway line and buildings within the city in the foreground

Ismailia EGP_22663_012
Ismailia, Egypt. An aerial view of the city of Ismailia, Egypt, probably dating to 1918. It shows military encampments to the left of the frame adjacent to the rail-head

Seaton Carew seaplane station 34112_034
The site of First World War seaplane station of Seaton Carew II, established in 1918 to carry out coastal patrols against the increased threat of German submarine attack, Seaton on Tees, Hartlepool

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