A former dustman, Bob Smethurst, has amassed one of the Britain's best collections of First World War photographs after spending decades rescuing them from rubbish tips and bins.

'I've got photographs from the trenches, photographs from Commonwealth Indian regiments and pictures from the Germans', he told The Telegraph newspaper.

Here are two Sikh soldiers, probably photographed just after they had been captured by the Germans.

Full picture story here.

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