'Comrades in war', 1915 (c)

Lantern slide, World War One, Western Front (1914-1918), 1915 (c).

A Belgian, Indian, English and Scottish soldier walk through a French town. From the outset, the Allied force on the Western Front opposing the Germans was a multinational affair. As well as French, Belgian and British troops, there were soldiers from all three nations' Asian and Africa colonies.

From a group of 31 lantern slides relating to the Indian Army, 1897-1915 (c).