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First World War

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11 Mar 2015
Go to: How the First World War began
23rd September 1916:Leather coated aviators on their way to a zeppelin crash in an Essex field are followed by a boy with a push bike.(Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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This gallery provides a series of snapshots illustrating the way in which the First World War unfolded at home and abroad, and on land, in the air and over water. In this picture two airman, followed by a boy with a bike, make their way to a German zeppelin airship that had crash-landed in an Essex field in September 1916.

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British soldiers line up in a narrow trench in October 1914 during World War I.

1914:Blowing up a bridge over the River Aisne in France during WW I.(Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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A bridge over France's River Aisne is blown up.

circa 1915:A woman munitions worker operating a machine in an armaments factory during the First World War.(Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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A female munitions worker operates a machine in an armaments factory.

British soldiers on the banks of the captured St Quentin canal in France. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

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Hundreds of British soldiers sit on the banks of the captured St Quentin Canal in France in 1918.

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1917:A Sopwith Camel, one of the First World War's best-known British fighter planes.(Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

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A pilot poses in a Sopwith Camel, one of the First World War's best-known British fighter planes.

A stretcher-bearing party carrying a wounded soldier through the mud near Boesinghe during the battle of Passchendaele in Flanders. (Photo by John Warwick Brooke/Getty Images)

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A wounded soldier is carried through knee-high mud near Boesinghe during the battle of Passchendaele in Flanders.

29th November 1916:Private Ryden, VC is lifted aloft on the shoulders of his friends after being invested with the Victoria Cross at Buckingham Palace, London.(Photo by Topical Press Agency/G

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Private Robert Ryden is lifted onto the shoulders of friends after receiving the Victoria Cross at Buckingham Palace in 1916. After his officers were wounded and his company was held up by heavy rifle fire at Thiepval, France, the 20-year-old soldier ran to the enemy trench and cleared it on his own.

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