BritainsMilitaryHist

WWI Biplane Pilot Selfie

# 1,2 - Japanese Prince Fushimi, & Prince Arthur of Connaught, aboard a British torpedo boat, during Fushimi's official visit at the Firth of Forth, on 10/28/1918. # 3 - Adm Sir David Beatty & Prince Fushimi aboard British battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth. link.amazon/B0gUW5JBW

During the First World War, Japanese Prince Hiroyasu Fushimi made an official visit to Britain. On 28 Oct 1918, just two weeks before the Armistice, the Prince visited the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet & met Admiral Sir David Beatty aboard HMS Queen Elizabeth. link.amazon/B0gUW5JBW

The fuselage of a captured German Albatross D.III on an R.F.C. tender. Seen near Doullens, on the Aixi-le Chateau Road, March 1917. #WWIAirWar link.amazon/B0cO2flPB

On 8 Sept 1917, the 2/4th Battalion, East Lancashire Reg't of the 66th (2nd East Lancashire) Div. was engaged in operations in Nieuwpoort sector on the Flanders coast in Belgium, as part of the Operations on the Flanders Coast (26 June - 25 Sept 1917). link.amazon/B0h4MfD4i

The capture of the Chipilly Ridge by the 58th (London) Div. RAMC personnel are seen giving a wounded soldier water from a petrol tin at a regimental aid post located in an abandoned trench during the Battle of Amiens. Near Albert, France, August 9, 1918. link.amazon/B0efNJ2tz

A German howitzer, painted in camouflage colours, being drawn along by a tractor, September 1918. #HundredDaysOffensive link.amazon/B07yLvgo0

Battle of Amiens. German prisoners at a temporary POW camp near Amiens, 9 August 1918. #HundredDaysOffensive link.amazon/B06RaTVgR

A quarry at Fresnoy on the 20th Division front, showing entrances to the very extensive passages excavated in the chalk by the Germans during the Hundred Days Offensive, October 15, 1918. #HundredDaysOffensive link.amazon/B07akwnZp

An armoured car about to start on a reconnaissance near Biefvillers, France, during the Second Battle of the Somme. Hundred Days Offensive. August 25, 1918. #HundredDaysOffensive link.amazon/B0hLG0r4U

Men of the Royal Marine Artillery and Rifle Brigade during the Crimean War, 1854-1856. L-R George Britton and Corporal John Hubbard, 1st Bn., Rifle Brigade and William Chase, W.J. Hewlett and Samuel Smith, Royal Marine Artillery. #CrimeanWar link.amazon/B0gHW8WY7

Sergeant William Rupel, 5th Bn. Royal Artillery, standing by a gun (highly probable was captured at Sevastopol). Crimean War, 1854-1856. #CrimeanWar link.amazon/B08y1pUDq

A group of Scots Fusilier Guards are seen convalescing from wounds received in the Crimea at the Guards Barracks in London. 1856. #CrimeanWar link.amazon/B027e4s3a

Pte Clemence Brophy, of the 34th Foot, poses at Fort Pitt Military Hospital, Chatham, Kent. Pte Brophy was born in Ireland, & joined the British Army at age 21 in 1847. He lost his arm fighting at Sevastopol on Aug 31, 1855, during the Crimean War. link.amazon/B0eKI6uwT

Colour Sergeant William Gardner, 42nd Royal Highlanders. Crimean War 1854-56. #CrimeanWar link.amazon/B0arbMal5

Heroes of the Crimean War: Joseph Numa, John Potter, and James Deal of the Coldstream Guards. 1856. From the collection of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. #CrimeanWar link.amazon/B0gHW8WY7

Men of the 68th (Durham) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry) in Crimea in 1855. The soldiers wear cross belts; as the war continued, they issued a more comfortable waist belt. Photograph by Robert Fenton. #CrimeanWar link.amazon/B0ak6mYSd

A cannon captured at Sevastopol forms a permanent memorial in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. #CrimeanWar link.amazon/B03eLR9GA

Seven soldiers of the 68th (Durham) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry) are dressed for winter warfare in Crimea in 1855. Photograph by Robert Fenton. #CrimeanWar link.amazon/B0hKwh7nG

“Inkerman” by English artist Robert Alexander Hillingford. The ridge at Inkerman was a key objective to breaking the siege at Sevastopol during the Crimean War. #CrimeanWar link.amazon/B08y1pUDq

Troops of 1st Bttn, Middlesex Reg't (Duke of Cambridge's Own) under German shrapnel fire on the Signy-Signets road during 1st Battle of the Marne, Sept. 8, 1914. The man wearing goggles belongs to Intelligence Corps. He is badly wounded in the head & his face is bloody.