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Russian soldiers abandoning their lines in Galicia Vintage Photographs - Battlegrounds
Updated - Saturday, 27 May, 2006

This section of the website contains archive photographs taken during, before and after the war. Specifically this sub-section contains battleground photography.

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Russian soldiers abandoning their lines in Galicia (CNP)

Riga, the Baltic port occupied by the Germans (CNP)

General von Emmich at Liege, August 1914 (CNP)

Famous City Hall of Louvain (CNP)

Belgian refugees at the port of Ostend (CNP)

Pontoon bridge from Antwerp over the Scheldt, 1914 (CNP)

German telephone post on the Western Front (CNP)

Bringing up a Belgian field gun, 1914 (CNP)

French on the firing line at the First Battle of the Marne (CNP)

Austrian field works on the Galician Front (CNP)

Women of Shavli, Kovno, returning to their burned homes (CNP)

French officers on Hartmannsweilerkopf in the Vosges (CNP)

Repairing a railway bridge over the Dunajec (CNP)

Russian Cossacks passing through a village in Galicia (CNP)

Russian officers and peasants watching an Austrian bombardment (CPE)

A French military kitchen not far from the battlefront (CPE)

Barrage fire at night (CNP)

Reinforcements and supplies for the French troops near Verdun (CPE)

Canadian soldiers enjoying a holiday behind the Western Front (CNP)

British troops advancing by auto (CNP)

Russian cavalry crossing the Danube River into Romania (CNP)

Old fortifications of Verdun (CNP)

Romanian red hussars on the firing line (CNP)

Road to Cumieres through the Bois de Corbeau (CNP)

Challenging an automobile at night on the Marne (CNP)

A tunnel on Dead Man Hill, Verdun, filled with German dead (CNP)

On Dead Man Hill (Le Mort Homme), near Verdun (CNP)

British Lewis gunners hunting aeroplanes in the Balkans (CNP)

Italian advance in difficult conditions (CNP)

Firing a rocket alarm (CNP)

Turkish flags captured by Russian forces at Erzerum, February 1916 (CPE)

Italian soldiers crossing a stream under fire (CPE)

On Dead Man Hill (Le Mort Homme), near Verdun (CNP)

British Lewis gunners hunting aeroplanes in the Balkans (CNP)

Old German lines on Messines Ridge, Belgium (CNP)

Occupying shell holes on the British front (CNP)

Revolver practice for American soldiers abroad (CNP)

Removing wounded men from the battle front (CNP)

Field drill for American soldiers in France (CNP)

Australian soldiers in Belgium studying a model of Messines Ridge (CNP)

American field artillery resting after march (CNP)

Moving a French gun on the Somme battle front (CNP)

Camouflaged soldier (CNP)

Serbian lines after victory over the Bulgarians (CPE)

American dispensary on Grecourt on the Somme (CNP)

American engineers behind the British lines (CNP)

A view of Baghdad from the left bank of the Tigris (CPE)

British soldiers sent to relieve Kut-el-Amara at a religious ceremony (CPE)

Armoured cars on the British Indian border (CPE)

British Tommies pulling a field gun out of the mud (CNP)

Ypres in the autumn of 1917 (CNP)

French and American officers reviewing American troops (CNP)

French artillery regiment reviewed by French and U.S. officers (CNP)

Remarkable German periscope (CNP)

British engineers bridging flooded ground in Flanders (CNP)

French position near Steenstraete on the Yser under bombardment (CNP)

Camouflaged road through a ruined town (CNP)

French snipers sheltered in the ruins of a village (CNP)

A view of Thiepval on the Somme, captured by the British (CPE)

American congressmen visiting the citadel of Verdun (CNP)

Beginning barrage fire in Champagne (CNP)	The Vardar valley, highway between Salonika and Nish (CPE)
Oil wells destroyed in the Romanian retreat (CPE)	Consolidating a captured position on the Aisne front (CNP)
French soldiers going into a curtain of fire (CPE)	Damascus Gate, Jerusalem (CNP)
Jerusalem, taken by British troops, December 1917 (CNP)	The Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem (CNP)
Bombardment in the mountains of the Austro-Italian frontier (CNP)	German concrete pill-box (CNP)
An Austrian mountain corps (CPE)	The city of Verdun from the canal (CPE)
Centre of German resistance on the Western Front (CNP)	Difficult Austrian advance in the Tyrol (CNP)
French charge on the farm of Mennejeav, region of Chemin des Dames (CNP)	Charge in the region of the Chemin des Dames (CNP)
French ski runners in the Vosges mountains (CNP)	Americans at field drill in France (CNP)
Italian sentry in the snow (CNP)	General Allenby entering Jerusalem through the Jaffa Gate (CNP)
Allenby receiving the notables of Jerusalem in barrack square (CNP)	Allenby reading the proclamation of Military Law in Jerusalem (CNP)
French pontoon bridges across the Meuse (CPE)	The village of Vaux after bombardment (CPE)
Cossacks entering the captured fortress of Przemysl (NW)	Japanaese bombardment at Tsing-tau (CPE)
German battery in the snows of Poland (CPE)	Austrians laying a field telephone across a stream (NW)
Ruins of Louvain (CPE)	French military car picking up the dead (CPE)
Ruins at Longwy (CPE)	German sappers wrecking Allied train line (CPE)
German signal corps cutting enemy telegraph wires (CPE)	Belgian armoured train used in defence of Antwerp (CPE)
Bombardment of Antwerp (CPE)	German observers in the Argonne (CPE)
Cross marked graves of soldiers in northern France (CPE)	German watch on the Yser (CPE)
Winter in Flanders (CPE)	After a snowstorm in France (CPE)

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