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Firefighters attempt to extinguish a fire started by the German bombing of Dunkirk, France, 1917[/caption][caption id="attachment_15334" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]
A girl holds a doll next to soldiers' equipment in Reims, France, 1917[/caption][caption id="attachment_15335" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]
A French soldier peers out from a position on the Western Front in Alsace, 1917[/caption][caption id="attachment_15336" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]
A French soldier eats a loaf of bread in Reims, France, 1917[/caption][caption id="attachment_15337" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]
Soldiers look at the 45-meter-deep crater left by the detonation by the British of 21 tons of explosives underneath German positions near Messines in West Flanders. One of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history, the blast killed 10,000 soldiers and was heard as far away as Dublin. 1917[/caption]
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French soldiers in Hirtzbach, Alsace, 1917[/caption][caption id="attachment_15339" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]
A French outpost near the front in Hirtzbach, Alsace, 1917[/caption][caption id="attachment_15340" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]
A French officer inspects the barbed wire around French positions in Soissons, 1917[/caption][caption id="attachment_15341" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]
A news vendor in Reims, France, 1917[/caption][caption id="attachment_15342" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]
A camp in Egypt of workers from the British Chinese Labour Corps recruited to participate in the Middle East campaign, 1917[/caption][caption id="attachment_15343" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]
An Algerian guard on a bridge in Pommiers, France, 1917[/caption][caption id="attachment_15345" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]
French soldiers and horses in the cloister of the Abbey de Saint-Jean-des-Vignes in Soissons, which was heavily damaged by artillery fire, 1917[/caption][caption id="attachment_15346" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]
Doctors, nurses and medical personnel in front of field hospital 55 in Bourbourg, France, 1917[/caption][caption id="attachment_15347" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]
French machine gunners set up a position amid ruins during the battle of the Aisne in France, 1917[/caption][caption id="attachment_15348" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]
French soldiers camouflage a 370mm railway gun near the Western Front, 1917[/caption][caption id="attachment_15349" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]
French soldiers stand on a narrow-gauge railroad in an artillery-ravaged battleground in West Flanders, 1917[/caption][caption id="attachment_15350" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]
French soldiers read newspapers at a kiosk in Rexpoede, Calais, 1917[/caption][caption id="attachment_15351" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]
French soldiers from Africa prepare a meal on the Western Front, 1917[/caption][caption id="attachment_15352" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]
Wounded soldiers from the battlefield near Laffaux at Saint-Paul Hospital in Soissons, France, 1917[/caption][caption id="attachment_15353" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]
French soldiers dig through the rubble of a destroyed building in Reims, France, 1917[/caption][caption id="attachment_15354" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]
Senegalese Bambara soldiers serving with the French Army in Balschwiller, Alsace, 1917[/caption][caption id="attachment_15355" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]
French soldiers of the 370th Infantry Regiment eat soup during the battle of the Aisne, 1917[/caption][caption id="attachment_15356" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]
Senegalese soldiers serving in the French Army rest near the Western Front in Alsace, 1917[/caption][caption id="attachment_15357" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]
A group of Swiss border guards behind a fence between Switzerland and France, 1917[/caption][caption id="attachment_15358" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]
A worker from Indochina in Soissons, France, 1917[/caption][caption id="attachment_15359" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]
A French military cemetery on a hillside in the town of Moosch, Alsace, 1917[/caption]
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