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Russian soldiers abandoning their lines in GaliciaVintage 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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Observation shelter near Memel, Prussia (CPE) Italian scouts approaching Austrian lines in the tall grass (CPE)
French infantry in a bayonet charge (CPE) A German telescoping searchlight in France (CPE)
Fleeing the Russian invasion from Silesia, 1914 (CPE) Effects of a Zeppelin bomb in Antwerp (NW)
Stragglers from the Russian line of march (NW) Peasant's shelter in East Prussia (CPE)
Results of a single shell at the Battle of Haelen (CPE) In the forest of Mesnel after the fight (CPE)
A barricade among ruins in France (CPE) Russian Ammunition train destroyed by shells near Warsaw (CPE)
The dead in heaps at Belgrade (CPE) A town swept by the Russians (CPE)
Gurkhas defending the Suez Canal (CPE) Russian Poles searching the ashes (CPE)
Destruction of a forest overlooking the Meuse by shell-fire (CPE) German riflemen in Russian Poland (CPE)
Burning the bodies of war dead in Russia (NW) A difficult homecoming for Russian women near the Baltic (CPE)
Landing French and English troops at the Dardanelles (CPE) Making 16,000 daily loaves for German Army consumption (NW)
Scene after battle with German Uhlans (MF) Russian infantry and civilians evacuating Przemysl (NW)
The horror of war - one of the Austrian dead (NW) A battleground in Galicia (CPE)
A charge by French African Chausseurs (CPE) Storing explosives in a cave near the Aisne (CPE)
Execution of Serbian spies by the Austrians (CPE) An Austrian field watch on the Tyrolese border (CPE)
Defending the Masurian Lake country, East Prussia (CPE) French and German dead in Champagne, France (CPE)
Carting the dead off the battlefield (CPE) Sentry on guard for the Allies in a ruined chateau (CPE)
A Russian armoured car in Poland (CPE) The orderly Russian retreat from Poland (CPE)
A mine explosion on the Western Front (CPE) A bridge on the Kalesch-Warsaw line (CPE)
Bursting shell which killed the photographer (visible at bottom) (CPE) French sapper mine laying under the enemy lines (CPE)
A ruined fort at the Dardanelles (CPE) An Austrian field priest and a wounded soldier, May 1916 (CPE)
After a house-to-house battle in Champagne (CPE) Lowering a wounded Austrian soldier on the Austro-Italian border (CPE)
View of the banks of the River San in Przemysl (NW) A barrier of spikes protecting the battleground (CPE)
A forest entanglement (CPE) Meuse heights under bombardment during the Battle of Verdun (CPE)
Panorama of Lemberg (CPE) A movable telephone on the Western Front (CPE)
The trees of Hurlus forest, Perthes (CPE) Bulgarian convoy near the border of Serbia (CPE)
A glimpse of Uskub (Skopje), Serbia (CPE) A shallow grave somewhere in France (CPE)
British cycle corps near the Greek border (CPE) Retreat of the Serbian Army (CPE)
A British searchlight on the coast of Flanders (CPE) Cross-marked Allied graves at Gallipoli (CPE)
Broken hills of the Gallipoli peninsula (CPE) Serbian advance in the face of bursting shells (CPE)
Austrian portable disinfecting apparatus (NW) Turkish camps at Gallipoli (CPE)
Battered helmet of a French soldier, penetrated in 22 places (CPE) Clearing a battlefield (NW)
German military supplies at Belgrade (CPE) Undermining the enemy: entry to underground mine passages (CPE)
An observer's station (CPE) German transport passing through a destroyed Polish town fire (CPE)
Lancashire landing and harbour at the Dardanelles (CPE) British troops landing at Salonika (CPE)
British South African troops in German East Africa (CPE) French colonial soldiers at Mudros (CPE)
Winter uniforms worn by German soldiers on the Austrian frontier (CPE) Shells bursting on German positions near the Somme (CPE)
Russian troops in Prussia, 1914 (SR) French infantry move up to positions in a captured village (SR)
French troops marching to the Somme front past colonial troops (SR) French kitchens behind the front lines (SR)
Serbian soldiers crossing snow mountain terrain (SR) Photo taken from a balloon showing battlefield devastation (SR)
Ruins of Ypres (SR) Belgian postcard showing the German Army's November 1918 retreat (SR)
Dugouts at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli (SR) Aerial photo of Verdun under German bombardment (SR)
Lieut-Col. Boeger arriving as German Commandant of Dinant (WW) Belgian field guns in the Battle of Hofstade (WW)
Austrian atrocities in Serbia (WW) A Serbian supply depot behind Serbian lines (WW)
Pont des Arches bridge in Liege wrecked by Belgians (WW) Ruins of Louvain (WW)
Belgian militia attacking Uhlans near Ypres (WW) Ruins of Louvain along Rue de Station (WW)
German troops passing through Louvain (WW) Before the ruins of Termonde (WW)
Germans camped in the ballroom of an estate near Aerschot (WW) Beersheba when the British entered it (WW)
British camelry resting in the dried-up bed of the river Wadi (WW) Allied leaders in Jerusalem, General Allenby saluting (WW)
Priest reading the proclamation of Military Law in Jerusalem (WW) British infantry visiting Solomon's Pools in Jerusalem (WW)

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