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Canadian soldiers returning from Vimy Ridge
Photo courtesy of: Canadian War Museum George Metcalf Archival Collection 19920085-295
Colourized for the first time ever by Canadian Colour
A little French paper boy selling papers in Canadian line. June, 1917.
Credit: Canada. Dept. of National Defence/Library and Archives Canada PA-001436
Gen. Currie telling now Vimy Ridge was taken. Visit of Canadian Journalists to the Front. July, 1918.
Credit: Canada. Dept. of National Defence/Library and Archives Canada PA-002913
Battle of Amiens. Tanks advancing. Prisoners bring in wounded wearing gas masks. August, 1918.
Credit: Canada. Dept. of National Defence/Library and Archives Canada PA-002951
Pack horses taking up ammunition to guns of 20th Bty CFA Neuville St. Vaast. April, 1917.
Credit: Canada. Dept. of National Defence/Library and Archives Canada PA-001229
Canadian and German wounded help one another through the mud during the capture of Passchendaele. November, 1917.
Credit: Canada. Dept. of National Defence/Library and Archives Canada PA-003737
Canadians filling their water bottles, etc. Amiens. August, 1918.
Credit: Canada. Dept. of National Defence/Library and Archives Canada PA-002970
Three Canadian soldiers in a German dug-out captured during the Canadian advance east of Arras.
Credit: Canada. Dept. of National Defence/Library and Archives Canada PA-003201
Canadian wounded enjoying a cup of tea at Advanced Dressing Station during the advance East of Arras. October, 1918.
Credit: Canada. Dept. of National Defence/Library and Archives Canada PA-003192Gen.
Sir Sam Hughes and Party looking at ruins in Arras. August, 1916.
Credit: Canada. Dept. of National Defence/Library and Archives Canada PA-000590
Canadian forestry men having a skate.
Credit: Canada. Dept. of National Defence/Library and Archives Canada PA-004972
On sentry duty on a front-line trench. September, 1916.
Credit: Canada. Dept. of National Defence/Library and Archives Canada PA-000568
Telephone testing station at the front. Operators at their posts. October, 1916.
Credit: Canada. Dept. of National Defence/Library and Archives Canada PA-000740
Despatch Rider for His Majesty’s Pigeon Service leaving with birds for the trenches. November, 1917.
Credit: Canada. Dept. of National Defence/Library and Archives Canada PA-002069
Canadians interested in Canadian Daily Record in trenches near Lens. February, 1918.
Credit: Canada. Dept. of National Defence/Library and Archives Canada PA-002403
Unable to ride his cycle through the mud caused by the recent storm, a Canadian messenger carries his “horse”. August, 1917.
Credit: Canada. Dept. of National Defence/Library and Archives Canada PA-001581
Highlander cleaning his rifle. June, 1916.
Credit: Canada. Dept. of National Defence/Library and Archives Canada PA-000163
Canadians testing their gas masks after heavy work in the trenches. September, 1917.
Credit: Canada. Dept. of National Defence/Library and Archives Canada PA-001835
Communication trench. September, 1916.
Credit: Canada. Dept. of National Defence/Library and Archives Canada PA-000791
All photos courtesy of Library and Archives Canada (modified from the originals).
Colourized for the first time by Canadian Colour.
