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Background imageHome Front Collection: Unprepared For Action But Willing To Fake It

Unprepared For Action But Willing To Fake It
A soldier with a primitive gas mask brandishes a cane as a gun while on guard outside a hospital, Harrogate, Yorkshire, July 1915. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHome Front Collection: Balloon Crash

Balloon Crash
24th July 1915: An emergency crew clears the wreckage of a balloon accident from a row of terraced houses in Romford, Essex. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHome Front Collection: American Flag

American Flag
23rd April 1917: The American flag flying from Victoria Tower over the Houses of Parliament after the United States entered World War I. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHome Front Collection: New Potatoes

New Potatoes
2nd July 1917: Jersey new potatoes at fourpence a pound in a London market. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHome Front Collection: Captured Plane

Captured Plane
25th June 1917: The opening ceremony of the National Welfare Exhibition. A captured German Fokker monoplane is on display. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHome Front Collection: Military Leisure

Military Leisure
30th July 1917: Convalescing soldiers watch a ladies cricket match at Hurlingham. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHome Front Collection: War Aims Meeting

War Aims Meeting
August 1917: Welsh Liberal politician and Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, presiding over a war aims meeting at Queens Hall. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHome Front Collection: No Horse Power

No Horse Power
28th January 1918: Mechanised tractors and ploughs waiitng to be sent out to farms. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHome Front Collection: Home Grown

Home Grown
22nd September 1917: Prize winning vegetables grown by underground railway workers. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHome Front Collection: Napier Car

Napier Car
March 1918: Decorated with flowers, a Napier car on Welsh Day. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHome Front Collection: American Allies

American Allies
15th August 1917: American troops marching through the streets of London watched by a welcoming crowd. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHome Front Collection: To General Gordon

To General Gordon
26th January 1918: Statue of General Gordon of Khartoum in Trafalgar Square is decorated with wreaths (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHome Front Collection: London Welcome

London Welcome
15th August 1917: A crowd round Queen Victorias statue opposite Buckingham Palace watching American troops parade through London. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHome Front Collection: Piccadilly Circus

Piccadilly Circus
12th March 1918: People line the pavement round Eros in Piccadilly Circus. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHome Front Collection: Soldiers And Scholars

Soldiers And Scholars
18th June 1918: Etonian schoolboys entertaining wounded colonials in a quadrangle at Eton. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHome Front Collection: Safe To Walk

Safe To Walk
August 1918: Trafalgar Square with no buses during the transport strike in the last few months of WW 1. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHome Front Collection: Oxford Circus

Oxford Circus
August 1918: Taxi cabs but no buses at Oxford Circus in London during a bus and transport strike. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHome Front Collection: Busless London

Busless London
August 1918: Piccadilly Circus, London with no buses, during the transport strike in the last few months of WW 1. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHome Front Collection: Bus Strike

Bus Strike
August 1918: Buses parked at Shepherds Bush, Lonndon, terminus during a bus strike. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHome Front Collection: Here He Comes

Here He Comes
May 1918: Crowds outside the Houses of Commons wave at a car in which Coalition Prime Minister, David Lloyd George (1863 - 1945) is arriving. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHome Front Collection: Army Band

Army Band
25th September 1918: A crowd line the pavements to see an Italian military band march through the streets of London. (Photo by J. J. Lambe/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHome Front Collection: Bunker Shot

Bunker Shot
6th July 1918: Playing out of a bunker in an American golf tournament at Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHome Front Collection: Guns On Show

Guns On Show
October 1918: Sandbags protect the guns at the Feed The Guns show in Trafalgar Square, London. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHome Front Collection: Gale Damage

Gale Damage
November 1918: Wrecked planes as a result of a gale at Hendon aerodrome. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHome Front Collection: Propaganda Campaign

Propaganda Campaign
7th October 1918: A mock village and a ruined building in the Feed the Guns campaign in Trafalgar Square, London (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHome Front Collection: Top Heavy

Top Heavy
19th October 1918: A driver is perched high up above his horses on a cart piled dangerously high with baskets at Nine Elms goods yard, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHome Front Collection: Feed The Guns

Feed The Guns
7th October 1918: A sign round the base of Nelsons column encourages people to buy War Bonds at the Feed the Guns campaign held in Trafalgar Square

Background imageHome Front Collection: Beasts Of Burden

Beasts Of Burden
19th October 1918: Cart horses, their carts piled high with sacks, wait patiently at Nine Elms goods yard, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHome Front Collection: Recruiting League

Recruiting League
1st September 1915: Crowds gather outside a Toronto Recruiting League tent. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHome Front Collection: Kitchener Inspects

Kitchener Inspects
1st March 1915: The parade of various sections of the New Army of 12, 000 men, recruited in Liverpool, south Lancashire and West Cheshire, opposite St Georges Hall

Background imageHome Front Collection: St Denis

St Denis
1st March 1916: The funeral cortege for the St Denis victims gathers outside the citys town hall. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHome Front Collection: Bomb Site

Bomb Site
October 1940: Middle Temple Hall, bomb damaged during an air raid. (Photo by Hudson/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHome Front Collection: Bombed House

Bombed House
July 1915: Crowds outside a house in Shoreditch, London, bombed in a zeppelin raid during World War I. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHome Front Collection: Crowds In The Street

Crowds In The Street
July 1915: People gathered in the streets of Shoreditch after a zeppelin raid on the area. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHome Front Collection: Bomb Damaged House

Bomb Damaged House
July 1915: The remains of a house in Shoreditch, London, after a Zeppelin raid on the area. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHome Front Collection: Funeral Procession

Funeral Procession
May 1915: The funeral procession after the railway crash at Gretna Green in Scotland, where 158 soldiers were killed. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHome Front Collection: Damaged Building

Damaged Building
July 1915: A group of women and children looking at a damaged building in Shoreditch in east London which was hit during a zeppelin raid during World War I

Background imageHome Front Collection: Tilling The Soil

Tilling The Soil
30th March 1917: A woman guides a plough over a field at Cambridge University Farm. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHome Front Collection: Plough The Park

Plough The Park
19th January 1917: Ploughing land in Richmond Park to help the war effort. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHome Front Collection: U-Boat In Britain

U-Boat In Britain
July 1916: The captured German submarine UC5 moored at Sheerness. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHome Front Collection: Armament Plant

Armament Plant
Interior of the Krupp steelworks in Essen, the chief arms supplier of the German Empire. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHome Front Collection: Overhead Plane

Overhead Plane
23rd September 1916: Visitors to a Zeppelin crash site in Essex watch a low flying aeroplane pass overhead. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHome Front Collection: Warming Drink

Warming Drink
February 1916: Standing beside her bus a woman bus conductor is drinking hot milk from a large mug. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHome Front Collection: German Captive

German Captive
November 1915: The wings of a German bi-plane are displayed in the Horseguards Parade, London, during a military recruitment event. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHome Front Collection: Zeppelin Raid

Zeppelin Raid
February 1916: Crowds in the street in Leyton during a Zeppelin raid. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHome Front Collection: Winter Drill

Winter Drill
March 1916: The Inns of Court OTC (Officers Training Corps) carrying out a drill on Londons Hampstead Heath during a snowy winter. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHome Front Collection: British Red Cross

British Red Cross
March 1916: St Johns ambulances entering the gates of Buckingham Palace in London during World War I. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHome Front Collection: Bomb Crater

Bomb Crater
February 1916: A bomb crater in Paris near an Underground station. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)



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