Tens-of-thousands of men on both sides lost arms and legs during the war.
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Great Britain in 1938 - still paying the price of war
The real cost of the First World War was still glaringly apparent in Britain more than twenty years after the cessation of hostilities.
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This former soldier (Harry Milton Russell) shows the terrible scarring associated with mustard gas burns.
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wounded British soldier
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