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      Vancouver's Bronze Angel, a war memorial erected in 1921 at Vancouver's Canadian Pacific Railway Station, commemorates those who had previously worked for the C.P.R. and had lost their lives in the war. This is one of four commissioned by the railway company and placed near their stations across Canada. After …

      The Adriatic, an ocean liner belonging to the White Star Line, was launched in Belfast in Sept. 1906. Her route was primarily from Liverpool to New York. During World War I she served as a troop ship and survived the war. She was scrapped in 1935.

      A postcard of the Aldershot military camp near Kentville, Nova Scotia, during World War I.

      A postcard of the Aldershot military camp near Kentville, Nova Scotia, during World War I.

      A postcard of the Aldershot military camp near Kentville, Nova Scotia, during World War I.

      A postcard of the Aldershot military camp near Kentville, Nova Scotia, during World War I.

      A postcard of the Aldershot military camp near Kentville, Nova Scotia, during World War I.

      A postcard of the Aldershot military camp near Kentville, Nova Scotia, during World War I.

      Throughout its history, the military prison on Melville Island housed French and American prisoners of the Napoleonic Wars and the war of 1812 and German prisoners during the First World War. Melville Island is now home to a yacht club.

      This railway station is equidistant between the village of Dannes and that of Camiers, in the Department of Pas de Calais, 14 miles south of Boulogne-sur-Mer, in Northern France. During World War I the Canadian Army Medical Corps operated hospitals here: General Hospital No. 3 (McGill University) from June 1915 …

      Printed on reverse: Musuem of the Porte de Hal. Here are installed our collection of arms and weapons of war which contain objects of great archaic interest. Builded [sic] in 1383 and transformed in 1868 it is the only vestige of the ancient fortifications.

      The Villa Orphée in Étretat was built in 1858 by musician Jacques Offenbach as a summer retreat. During World War I it was used by the British as a 20-bed convalescent home for nurses. In 1833 gifted 14-year-old cellist Jacob Offenbach left his home in Cologne with his father and …

      A postcard sent by James Gallaher from Germany one month after the end of World War I. A statue of Ludwig van Beethoven was unveiled in the plaza in 1845 -- he had been born in Bonn in 1770.

      Witley Military Camp, often simplified to Camp Witley, was a temporary army camp set up on Witley Common, near Godalming, Surrey, England (southeast of London) during both the First and Second World Wars. The 185th Battalion CEF was called the Cape Breton Highlanders, and the 193rd Battalion CEF was called …

      Witley Military Camp, often simplified to Camp Witley, was a temporary army camp set up on Witley Common, near Godalming, Surrey, England (southeast of London) during both the First and Second World Wars.

      Tintern Abbey, founded by Walter de Clare, Lord of Chepstow in 1131, is situated on the River Wye in Monmouthshire, Wales. In 1536 the monastery ended and the decay of the buildings began. On 4 August 1914, Britain declared war on the German Empire. In September 1914 the steam ship …

      Étretat is a small seaside town flanked by dramatic chalk cliffs about 26 kilometres north of Le Havre on the Upper Normandy coast. It was the location of a British General Base Hospital for five years during World War I. Fishermen are mending their nets in front of several caloges. …

      Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument located in the English county of Wiltshire. One of the most famous sites in the world, Stonehenge is composed of earthworks surrounding a circular setting of large standing stones and sits at the centre of the densest complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in …

      Scottish-born trained gardener 39-year-old James Gallaher had emigrated to Canada a year before the outbreak of war to work for the Dominion Experimental Station in Kentville, Nova Scotia. He signed up for war duty in November 1914 serving with the 5th Cavalry Division Supply Column of the Canadian Army Service …

      Postcard of the North Cliff Walk, overlooking Lynmouth Bay, in Lynton, Devon, England. On 4 August 1914, Britain declared war on the German Empire.