Blood Garden

Raymond at brigade headquarters training camp, Boxford, Massachusetts, before embarking for France (August 12, 1917), Collection of the author

Raymond (seated) and Caswell Driscoll, mobilized with National Guard forces at the United States/Mexican border, prior to U.S. declaration of war with Germany (1916), Collection of the author

Embarked for France, probably Hoboken, New Jersey. Western Newspaper Union (1917), National Archives (War and Conflict no. 462)

A great-grandfather with his grandson just before the latter embarked to Europe during the "Great War." (The firearms they carry are not indicative of those that were used in Europe at the time.)

Training camp practice with bayonet fixed

Canadian troops going “over the top” during training near St. Pol, France (October 1916), National Archives (War and Conflict no. 635)

Howitzer on railroad car, in action

Carrier pigeon released from aircraft, Great War Primary Document Archive

Street corner in Poelcapelle, Belgium (December1918), National Archives (War and Conflict no. 702)

Bill, a veteran British artillery horse, was one of the few horses to survive the entire campaign. He served faithfully with the 47th Battery of the Royal Field Artillery, 2nd Division, from 1914-1919. Courtesy http://www.flickr.com/photos/8974807@N02/2498171005/

British soldier and horse wearing gas gear, Library of Congress, Serial and Government Publications Division, American Memory Collection in the Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures Collection.

Horses hauling water cart bogged in mud, Imperial War Museum, Photograph Archive, Q5943

Infantry moving forward to take up front line positions at evening, their images reflected in the rain-filled crater at Hooge, Flanders (October 1917), National Library of Australia. Hurley, Frank. Part of the Hurley negative collection (picture) nla.pic-an23478229-v

Salvation Army worker writing home for a wounded soldier (1917), National Archives, (War and Conflict no. 668)

Five soldiers silhouetted while on the march during the First World War Battle of Broodseinde. Collection Imperial War Museum

Sculptors and artists designed lifelike masks for gravely wounded soldiers. Anna Coleman Ladd papers, Archives of American Art, S.I

Portraits in Anna Coleman Ladd's Paris workrooms documented the progress of patients who were the beneficiaries of new noses, jaws and eyes. Anna Coleman Ladd papers, Archives of American Art, S.I.

Cover photograph,: Shell Shock: Traumatic Neurosis and the British Soldiers of the First World War, Macmillan: 2002

Members of the 5th Division during WWI, Copyright Unknown, Courtesy of Harry S. Truman Library (Photo ID: 65-4057)

Soldier of Company K, 110th Regiment Infantry, just wounded, receiving first-aid treatment from a comrade. Varennes-en-Argonne, France (September 1918), National Archives (War and Conflict no. 669)

Released from AEF command, the black 369th Infantry Regiment was awarded the Croix de Guerre under French command.