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Sergeant

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Hello everybody,

I hope this is new to you.
The national Library of Scotland has published a digital collection of WW1 photographs:

http://digital.nls.uk/pageturner.cfm?id=74462370

a lot of interesting photos including equipment for instance a nice little serie of armoured car pics:

http://digital.nls.uk/index.cfm?search_term=armoured+car

cheers
-Oirob

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Fantastic photos, love the ones of the French Renault armoured cars with British Troops - when was this? Presumably 1918

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Thanks for the link, oirob.

This photo of Rolls Royce armoured cars http://digital.nls.uk/pageturner.cfm?id=74549474 is the one I was talking of in another thread. If you look closely, there are 3 Rolls Royces, and the front one is in splinter pattern camouflage whereas the two nearest the camera are just one colour.

Great find, oirob, thanks again.



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Found two of the Renault autocanon photos on the IWM site - it was the 26th April 1918, in the Battle of the Lys, and the British troops are the 18th Middlesex Regiment

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Fantastic find, interesting to note the tyre tread pattern on the Austin in D3120
Paul

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