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Incredible images from WWI on Flickr. Overwhelming to consider my easy experience compared to the trials of others.

‘The shells were dropping practically on the very brink of the trench. Now the worst had come. We were face down in the slime, with boot and finger and knee clutching and scraping for the veriest inch of cover.’ 

- Lance Corporal Thomas Owen

Officer leads the way amidst the bursting of German shells (by National Library of Scotland)