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A 1942 photograph of a British tank regiment soldier shaving in the desert in North Africa during the Western Desert Campaigns of the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)

Alabaster bas-relief sowing a beheaded soldier; he was an Assyrian enemy. An Assyrian cavalry is passing over him. Neo-Assyrian Period, 865-860 BCE. Detail of Panel 9 (top), Room B, the North-Palace Palace, Nimrud...

A Christmas card dating to c. 1887 showing a soldier. Drawn by Harry Payne, military themes were popular with those who sent cards to family members in the armed services across the British empire. (Victoria and Albert...

A December 1917 photograph of a British soldier kissing a French farm worker under a sprig of mistletoe during the First World War (1914-18). Imperial War Museums, London.

Grave stele of Staphilos, son of Glaukias, from the Bosporan Kingdom. It depicts a soldier with the traditional Bosporan long hair and beard, and Scythian costume. It dates to the 2nd century CE and comes from the Necropolis of...

Image of a modern-day Cheyenne Dog Soldier at a Native American Powwow in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2008. The Dog Soldiers are one of the military societies of the Cheyenne nation.

A December 1915 photograph of a Maori soldier, member of the ANZAC, taken in the trenches during the failed Gallipoli Campaign of 1915-6 in the Dardanelles during the First World War (1914-18). (Imperial War Museums)

Alabaster bas-relief showing an Assytian soldier killing his enemy. Neo-Assyrian Period, 865-860 BCE. Detail of Panel 8 (top), Room B, the North-Palace Palace, Nimrud, modern-day Iraq. (The British Museum, London)

A photograph taken in October 1942 showing a British soldier watching the approach of a sandstorm in the Western Desert Campaigns in North Africa during the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)

Alabaster bas-relief showing a vulture pecking an eye of a soldier who was killed by the Assyrian army. Neo-Assyrian Period, 865-860 BCE. Detail of Panel 11 (top), Room B, the North-Palace Palace, Nimrud, modern-day...