'Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red'. The dry moat was filled with 800,000 ceramic poppies commemorating the First World War Centenary. Created by ceramic artist Paul Cummins and theatre stage designer Tom Piper.

The First World War 1914-1918: Senegalese, French colonial troops, part of the Allied expeditionary force at Gallipoli. From 'Le Pays de France', Paris, 17 June 1915. Military , Army, Soldier, Dardanelles, Turkey.

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Askaris practice shooting Photo the First World War in the colonies German East Africa today Tanzania Askaris Photo.

France - December 1917 the First World War. The pennant of the 43rd battalion Senegalese infantrymen decorated with the fourragère.

Africa, Tanzania (German East Africa), Natives building dugouts near Dar es Salaam, 1915.

France - 1915 the First World War. African cavalrymen resting in a trench.

Lord Kitchener the British Commander in Chief reviews North African (Algerian) soldiers under French command. 1914.

The Conflict of Nations

French colonial troops on the Salonika Front during the First World War. They are a Company of Annamites, a French Colonial Marine Infantry from Cochin China (Vietnam).

Soldiers of C Company M1 at Varmi Fort, Nigeria, West Africa, during the First World War. Year: circa 1914-1916.

Black American troops of the 369th Infantry, 93rd Division at Maffrecourt, May 5th, 1918, during the Ludendorf offensive.

British artillerymen of a Nigerian regiment of the Royal Field Artillery with a field gun in Africa during the First World War. Year: circa 1914-1916.

African American infantry troops marching along a road north-west of Verdun, Argonne, north eastern France, towards the end of the First World War

British troops at Freetown, Sierra Leone, leaving for an attack on a German fort at Duala (Douala), Cameroon, west central Africa, during the First World War. - Year: circa 1914

Indian cavalry, WW1

Soldiers digging trenches in France.

Allied Indian troops relaxing in a camp on the Western Front in France during the First World War. - Year: circa 1916

German colonial forces in West Africa during the First World War.

A French colonial 75 mm gun in action near Sedd el Bahr during the Third Battle of Krithia, 4 June 1915 Dardanelles Expedition, Gallipoli campaign.

French colonial forces mobilise at Algiers, Algeria, North Africa to support France at the outbreak of World War One, 19140101

French colonial soldiers with injured African soldier in the Middle East (probably Syria 1915)

French African colonial soldiers in Bulgaria during World War One.

A Good Samaritan - Indian Soldier – WWI

A British colonial battalion boarding a train for Cameroon, west central Africa, during the First World War. They belong to the 1st Battalion, Nigeria Regiment, and are boarding the train at Kaduna in Nigeria, from where they will travel to Lagos, and on to Douala, capital of Cameroon. They are armed with Lee-Enfield rifles and short bayonets, and carry their blankets and rain capes rolled up on their backs. The bare-headed man in the fore-ground is carrying his sleeping mat under his left arm.

French African soldiers History the First World War Auxiliary troops French African soldiers in the French army in a dugout near Verdun.

British colonial African soldiers cross a river in East Africa during the First World War.

A troop train stopped at a station in Algeria, to collect French colonial forces mobilised to support France at the outbreak of World War One.

Photograph of Indian Colonial Troops.

 

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