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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The photos reproduced below are in thumbnail format - simply click a given photograph to view a larger copy within a separate window.
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 British
troops marching through Baghdad
(WW) |
 Turkish
observation nest
(WW) |
 Stone
bridge at Liege destroyed; new pontoon bridge in distance
(NW) |
 Indian
troops laying telephone wires over desert in Mesopotamia
(WW) |
 British
troopers marching on the sands of Mesopotamia
(WW) |
 Pontoon
bridge across the Diala River built by British Engineers
(WW) |
 Bridge
destroyed by the Russian Army at Przemysl
(NW) |
 British
heliograph post at Kara Tepe in Mesopotamia
(WW) |
 British
armoured car ploughing through Diala River in Mesopotamia
(WW) |
 Armenians
in the defence of city of Van
(WW) |
 Armenians
holding a strongpoint at Van
(WW) |
 Corpses
found by Serbian troops on entering Kumanovo
(WW) |
 Aviator's
photo of St Quentin in German hands in 1918
(WW) |
 Aerial
view of Fort Troyon
(WW) |
 Aerial
view of Rheims in flames
(WW) |
 Italian
aerial trolley swung across opposite high peaks
(WW) |
 Italian
aerial ferry transports food and wine
(WW) |
 Wrecked
village on the Salonika Front
(WW) |
 Building
roads of approach to Mt. Tonale Pass
(WW) |
 A
Przemysl fort after bombardment by Krupp howitzers
(NW) |
 Mountain
front where Italy fought Austria-Hungary
(WW) |
 Inhabitants
of Przemysl compelled to use boats over the San
(WW) |
 Russian
infantry in flight
(WW) |
 A
German masked battery
(NW) |
 German
troops driving through Galicia
(WW) |
 Russians
blow up village in Galicia
(WW) |
 Blowing
up a bridge in Galicia during the Russian retreat
(WW) |
 A
camouflaged road in France, prepared by U.S. 42nd Division
(WW) |
 Huts
of U.S. Marines in training behind the lines in France
(WW) |
 Artillery
barrage provides cover for French grenade attack
(WW) |
 U.S.
troops encamped on the Aisne
(WW) |
 British
and French infantry in open fighting in Picardy
(WW) |
 German
ammunition dump destroyed by retreating German forces
(WW) |
 Americans
charging through barbed wire entanglements
(WW) |
 U.S.
troops working through German barbed wire
(WW) |
 Shopkeeper
waiting for customers in a shell-shattered shop
(WW) |
 Wrecked
German observation post after the Battle of Messines
(WW) |
 British
wounded passing French line during German 1918 drive
(WW) |
 French
drive back German raiders with grenades
(WW) |
 French
cantonment in the Oise District
(WW) |
 Member
of U.S. Field Battalion carrying a Frenchwoman into a cellar
(WW) |
 German
ammunition wagons destroyed by British gunnery
(WW) |
 U.S.
liberation of Chateau-Thierry
(WW) |
 A
British cavalryman waits under shell fire to advance
(WW) |
 French
soldiers in the Vosges mountains hurling stones at the Germans
(WW) |
 French
camouflage road erected on the Marne
(WW) |
 Building
a temporary bridge while pursuing German forces in Picardy
(WW) |
 Making
a charge on the Chemin des Dames
(WW) |
 Explosion
of ammunition stored in a French house
(WW) |
 German
redoubt 30 feet underground exploded by the Canadians
(WW) |
 British
ammunition dump in a village exploded by the Germans
(WW) |
 52
and a half tons of German shells detonated by the Allies
(WW) |
 French
troops storming Monkey Mountain north of the Aisne
(WW) |
 British
troops going up the French line along a shell-swept road
(WW) |
 German
soldier killed during the Allied drive in 1918
(WW) |
 Bringing
in the wounded via a light railway on the Western Front
(WW) |
 German-made
trenches occupied by French forces
(WW) |
 German
concrete gun pits captured by Canadian forces
(WW) |
 German
concrete gun pits captured by Canadian forces
(WW) |
 British
soldiers at home in captured German dugouts
(WW) |
 A
German headquarters
(WW) |
 Civilians
preparing to leave Warsaw as the Germans approach
(NW) |
 Belgian
infantry defending Antwerp from German siege
(NW) |
 Looking
down on Namur from the fortifications
(NW) |
 French
infantry awaiting the order to advance
(NW) |
 Bridge
at Amiens repaired by the Germans
(NW) |
 German
scouts keeping watch in Flanders
(NW) |
 British
cavalry in Peronne
(WW) |
 The
Marne in 1918
(WW) |
 An
Allied raft on the Yser river used to reconnaissance enemy lines
(WW) |
 The
Cantigny battlefield
(WW) |
 U.S.
soldiers on a hill in Lorraine
(WW) |
 U.S.
soldiers going into combat toward the Rhine in an Alsace wood
(WW) |
 Louvain
laid waste
(NW) |
 The
ancient city of Louvain, wrecked by war
(NW) |
 Bridge
at Termonde blown up to halt the German advance
(NW) |
 U.S.
Signal Corps running a telephone cable through a French town
(WW) |
 French
soldiers replanting a ruined orchard
(WW) |
 U.S.
soldiers embarking on reconstruction work in Montdidier
(WW) |
 Canadian
engineers rebuilding a detonated bridge
(WW) |
 Defending
the Belgian swamps
(NW) |
 British
ammunition train halting for lunch
(NW) |
 German
officers lunching in Liege following its fall
(NW) |
 House
in Antwerp smashed by a German shell
(NW) |
 Bridge
over the Scheldt over which thousands escaped from Antwerp
(NW) |
 Panic-stricken
mobs escaping from Antwerp
(NW) |
 Belgian
infantry defending a village near Liege
(NW) |
 A
ruined Liege fort
(NW) |
 Belgian
hospital wrecked by shellfire
(NW) |
 Hole
torn in a pavement in Antwerp by a German shell
(NW) |
 Hungry
women and children waiting in a bread line in Malines
(NW) |
 Crater
of a Zeppelin bomb in Paris
(NW) |
 Shooting
grenades from a gas pipe
(NW) |
 Behind
the French lines in the Vosges
(NW) |
 Trench
adaptation of the old crossbow
(NW) |
 Graves
marked with bottles
(NW) |
 British
troops landing at the Dardanelles
(NW) |
 A
short rest at Suvla Bay
(NW) |
 Anzac
troops charge a Turkish trench near Gallipoli
(NW) |
 Stores
at the Lancashire landing, near Sedd-el-Bahr
(NW) |
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