Soldiers in the trenches, men advancing across no man’s land, heavy weaponry – these are all well-known sights from World War One, the brutal conflict that began a century ago this year.
But in addition to these scenes, a selection of previously unpublished pictures from a private collection also reveals more unfamiliar aspects of the war, from squadron athletics to pigeons used to send messages at the Front.
Sequence:
In this sequence of images, showing an aspect of the war at sea, a German U-boat sinks an Allied merchant vessel.