The First World War in 100 Objects  8717

  • 100 Objects

Nations to War

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  1. Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s Car
  2. The two Kaisers: Kriegs-Errinerungs-Karte
  3. The Triple Entente: patriotic badges
  4. Austrian feldkappe
  5. Pantalon garance
  6. Pickelhaube
  7. Iron Cross
  8. Propaganda Cross
  9. Kitchener poster
  10. Liverpool Pals badges

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The Soldier

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  1. ‘Les Poilus’ postcard
  2. Russian furazhka
  3. Canadian insignia
  4. Khaki uniform
  5. Puttees
  6. Lebel rifle
  7. ‘Butcher’ bayonet
  8. German identity disc
  9. Ottoman belt buckle
  10. US field equipment
  11. Austrian water bottle
  12. French field kit
  13. Field dressing
  14. Adrian helmet
  15. Colt 1911
  16. Trench coat

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First Moves, 1914

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  1. Moisin-Nagant rifle, Tannenberg
  2. Short Magazine Lee-Enfield
  3. Taxi cab of the Marne
  4. Cloth Hall, Ypres
  5. ‘Our Indian Troops’ Scrapbook
  6. Christmas gift
  7. French 75
  8. Vickers machine gun

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Developing Trench Warfare

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  1. A-frame
  2. Barbed wire
  3. Gallipoli trench sign
  4. Trench periscope
  5. Minenwerfer
  6. Shell shards
  7. Death card
  8. Mills bomb
  9. The Wipers Times

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The War Deepens and Expands, 1915-16

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  1. Trench art ring
  2. War maps
  3. Croix de guerre
  4. ‘Rising Sun’ badges
  5. ‘Iron crescent’
  6. Kukri
  7. Russian imperial insignia
  8. Gas helmet
  9. Loos football
  10. Alpine crampons
  11. Austrian Howitzer
  12. On Les Aura! poster
  13. Douaumont Ossuary
  14. Tyneside Scottish Cap
  15. Lochnagar crater
  16. Gallantry medals
  17. Wolseley helmet
  18. Legion of Frontiersmen badge

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Plumbing new depths, 1917-18

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  1. Trench club
  2. Grabendolch
  3. Cavalry sword
  4. Tank mask
  5. Karl Truppenkreuz
  6. Chinese Labour Corps badge
  7. Canadian identity bracelet
  8. Lemon squeezer hat
  9. Pillbox
  10. Mark IV tank
  11. Wound badge
  12. Stahlhelm
  13. Demarcation stone
  14. Glade of the Armistice

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War at Sea, in the Air

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  1. USS Texas
  2. Naval Reichskriegsflagge
  3. Royal Naval division badges
  4. SMS Emden relic
  5. RFC cap
  6. Aerial photographs
  7. Immelmann, Meine Kampfflüge
  8. Dardanelles forts
  9. Lusitania medal
  10. Albert Ball’s grave
  11. SPAD XIII
  12. Zeppelin fragments
  13. Royal Marine ‘necessaries’
  14. Torpedo badge
  15. HMS Vindictive

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At Home

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  1. Iron for gold
  2. Glasgow food poster
  3. ‘Munitionette’ model
  4. Hospital mementos
  5. Telegram
  6. CWGC grave
  7. Prosthetic limb
  8. Inter-Allied Victory Medal
  9. Borne de la Terre Sacrée
  10. Menin Gate

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