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August 25th Photos: Imperial War Museum


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© IWM (Q 7005)
Battle of Albert. British soldier tending a wounded horse of the Royal Artillery at Bihucourt, 25 August 1918 (captured on 23 August).
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© IWM (Q 7035)
Second Battle of the Somme. An armoured car about to start on a reconnaissance near Biefvillers, 25 August 1918.
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© IWM (Q 7036)
Second Battle of the Somme. Armoured cars setting out on a reconnaissance near Biefvillers, 25 August 1918.
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© IWM (Q 8257)
Captain R Maude (Assistant Provost Marshal of Amiens, centre) supervises Mr Dudley Forsyth (a designer of church windows, seated left,
wearing cap), and Major William Orpen (seated right) as they sit at an easel to make sketches on a street in Amiens. A sign on a shop
front behind them points towards Poulainville, Allonville, Villers-Bocage, Doullens and Vignacourt.
Mr. Dudley Forsyth, designer of Church Windows, Captain R. Maude, A.P.M. of Amiens and Major Orpen. The first and last are sketching,
Amiens, 25 August, 1918. Stereoscopic.
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© IWM (Q 9264)
Royal Air Force Sports Day at Rang du Fliers, 25 August 1918. 
The winning tug-of-war team of the Red Cross women ambulance drivers which beat the team of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps.
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© IWM (Q 9265)
Royal Air Force Sports Day at Rang du Fliers, 25 August 1918. 
RAF officers and Red Cross female ambulance drivers in blindfold race.
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© IWM (Q 9266)
Royal Air Force Sports Day at Rang du Fliers, 25 August 1918. 
RAF officer and a Red Cross female ambulance driver in blindfold race.
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© IWM (Q 9267)Royal Air Force Sports Day at Rang du Fliers, 25 August 1918. 
Winners receiving War Bonds as prizes. 
Note that the men are still wearing Royal Flying Corps uniforms.
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© IWM (Q 9268)
Royal Air Force Sports Day at Rang du Fliers, 25 August 1918. 
The winning tug-of-war team of the Red Cross women ambulance drivers which beat the team of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps.
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© IWM (Q 11241)
Following the capture of Grevillers by the New Zealand Division, Royal Garrison Artillery officers and gunners load a captured 4.2
inch gun at Grevillers, 25 August 1918. 
In the background an horse-drawn artillery passes by.
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© IWM (Q 11242)
Following the capture of Grevillers by the New Zealand Division, a working party passes a captured 4.2 inch gun near the town, 25
August 1918.
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© IWM (Q 11243)
Following the capture of Grevillers by the New Zealand Division, Men of the Royal Garrison Artillery pose beside one of the 4.2 inch
guns of a captured battery at Grevillers, 25 August 1918. Note the camouflage netting on the ground, which was designed to prevent the
guns from being spotted from the air.
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© IWM (Q 11244)
Following the capture of Grevillers by the New Zealand Division, men of the Royal Garrison Artillery fire a captured 4.2 inch gun at
Grevillers, 25 August 1918.
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© IWM (Q 11245)
Following the capture of Grevillers by the New Zealand Division, men of the Royal Garrison Artillery prepare to fire a captured 4.2
inch gun near the town, 25 August 1918.
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© IWM (Q 11246)
Following the capture of Grevillers by the New Zealand Division, Royal Garrison Artillery officers and gunners prepare to fire a
captured 4.2 inch, 25 August 1918.
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© IWM (Q 11247)
Bearers of the Royal Naval Division, including a medic, and their escorted prisoners, break for a meal near Grevillers, 25 August
1918, during the Second Battle of the Somme.
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© IWM (Q 11248)
Bearers of the Royal Naval Division, including medicss, and their escorted prisoners break for a meal near Grevillers, 25 August 1918,
during the Second Battle of the Somme.
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© IWM (Q 11251)
A German shell-burst, seen near Grevillers, on the New Zealand Division front.
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© IWM (Q 11252)
A German shell-burst, seen near Grevillers, on the New Zealand Division front.
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© IWM (Q 11253)
A German shell-burst, seen near Grevillers, on the New Zealand Division front.
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© IWM (Q 11254)
Men of the Royal Naval Division with a fox they have killed, seen at Grevillers, 25 August 1918.
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© IWM (Q 11255)
A soldier of the New Zealand Division takes cover behind a small farm building as a German shell-bursts nearby, Grevillers, 25 August
1918.
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© IWM (Q 11262)
Battle traffic seen at Grevillers on 25 August 1918, following the village's capture by the British 37th Division and the New Zealand
Division at the start of the Hundred Days Offensive, a few days earlier. Mark V tanks of the 10th Battalion the Tank Corps and British
and New Zealand infantry going forward. Also seen are captured German 4.2 inch guns etc.
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© IWM (Q 11263)
Battle traffic seen at Grevillers on 25 August 1918, following the village's capture by the British 37th Division and the New Zealand
Division at the start of the Hundred Days Offensive, a few days earlier. Mark V tanks of the 10th Battalion the Tank Corps and British
and New Zealand infantry going forward. Also seen are captured German 4.2 inch guns etc.
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© IWM (Q 11264)
New Zealand gunners in a German emplacement pose with a captured German anti-tank rifle, near Grévillers, 25 August 1918, following
the village's capture by troops of the New Zealand Division and British 37th Division, at the start of the Hundred Days Offensive.
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© IWM (Q 11265)
Captured German doctors dressing the wounds of men from the British 63rd (Royal Naval) Division at an advanced dressing station at
Grevillers, 25 August 1918, following the village's capture.
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© IWM (Q 11267)
A horse-drawn 60 pounder gun going forward near Clery, 30 August 1918, following operations in the area to occupy Peronne.
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© IWM (Q 12102)
The Pilot and Forward Observer in a Handley Page 0/400 Bomber of No. 207 Squadron at Ligescourt Aerodrome, 25 August 1918.
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© IWM (Q 12103)
Officers of No. 207 Squadron, a unit of the Independent Air Force, at Ligescourt Aerodrome, 25 August 1918. This group shows the
mixture of naval, military and RAF uniforms in vogue on active service. Behind the group is one of the Squadron's Handley Page 0/400
bombers.
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© IWM (Q 12106)
Pilots of No. 207 Squadron in flying kit outside a Nissen hut at Ligescourt Aerodrome, 25 August 1918.
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© IWM (Q 49645)
A British gun carrier Mk I "Dublin" carrying a 6 inch howitzwer and it's ammunition to the lines. Irles, 25 August 1918.
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© IWM (Q 56435)
A British gun carrier Mk I "Kingston", used as a supply vehicle, going up to the front line near Miraumont, 25 August 1918.
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© IWM (Q 61069)
A British gun carrier Mk I "Dublin" carrying a 6 inch howitzwer and it's ammunition to the lines. Irles, 25 August 1918.
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© IWM (Q 61315)
Ruined church at Irles, 25 August 1918
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© IWM (Q 61316)
All that remains of the village of Irles, 25 August 1918.
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© IWM (Q 69604)
A British 6-inch, 26 cwt howitzer being towed up to the line by a lorry at Irles, 25 August 1918.
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© IWM (Q 70322)
A British gun carrier Mk I "Kingston", used as a supply vehicle, going up to the front line near Miraumont, 25 August 1918.
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© IWM (Q 71929)
Troopship SS Takada arriving at Albert Docks in London with troops of the American 77th Artillery Regiment, 25 August 1918.
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© IWM (Q 78695)
British troops and their horses outside dugouts on a reverse slope at Beaumont Hamel, 25 August 1918.
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© IWM (Q 85387)
American officers distributing cigarettes to American and English soldiers as they board HMS Hector bound for Russia at the Royal
Albert Docks, London, 25 August 1918.
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© IWM (Q 94484)
British gunners towing heavy guns on the Somme, 25 August 1918.
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© IWM (HU 118143)
Private Charles Robert Mays 110755. Unit: 21 Squadron, Middlesex Yeomanry, attached Machine Gun Corps (Cavalry). Death: 25 August 1918
Palestine. Son of William and Helen G. Mays, of 13, Brimmington Rd., Asylum Rd., Peckham, London.
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First Name: Charles Robert
Initials: C R
Surname: Mays
DOB: Circa 1891
Age: 27
Birth Town: Peckham, Surrey
Resided Town: Peckham, Surrey
Nationality: British
Date of Death: 25/08/1918
Fate: Died
Information: Parents: William and Helen G. Mays, of 13, Brimmington Rd., Asylum Rd., Peckham, London.
Rank: Private
Service Number: 110755
Duty Location: Egypt
Service: British Army
Regiment: Machine Gun Corps (Cavalry)
Battalion: 21st Sqdn

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