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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 Street
scene in Gallipoli
(NW) |
 French
transports and cavalry horses after arrival at Salonika
(NW) |
 Cattle
being driven to the Russian army while in Galicia
(NW) |
 German
attack on Soissons
(NW) |
 Returning
through the mud to duty in the drowned trenches
(NW) |
 Effects
of French artillery fire around Verdun
(NW) |
 German
convoy destroyed by French Dragoons at Villers-Cotteret
(NW) |
 War
and art in Ypres
(NW) |
 Turkish
troops at Gallipoli
(NW) |
 Troops
landing at the Dardanelles
(NW) |
 Dardanelles
landing camp
(NW) |
 British
batteries at work at the Dardanelles
(NW) |
 Allied
drinking water cans in the Dardanelles
(NW) |
 At
the Dardanelles
(NW) |
 Russians
passing through Stryj (Galicia) following capture of Przemysl
(NW) |
 A
view of Gaba Tepe
(NW) |
 Austro-Hungarian
troops resting among Russian dead on the battlefield
(NW) |
 Hundreds
of Russians in a single grave on a Galician battlefield
(NW) |
 Serbian
infantrymen arrive in Warsaw to repel German attacks
(NW) |
 A
field of bayonets on the Polish frontier
(NW) |
 Russian
Black Sea troops going into action
(NW) |
 Russian
supplies left behind during a hasty retreat
(NW) |
 Results
of bombs dropped in Warsaw by advancing Germans
(NW) |
 German
troops on the march to Warsaw
(NW) |
 German
transports in the campaign against Warsaw
(NW) |
 Allied
camp at Salonika as seen from an aeroplane
(NW) |
 A
heavy meal by the wayside in Russia
(NW) |
 Russian
troops retreating from Przemysl
(NW) |
 Austrians
burying Russian dead in Galicia
(NW) |
 Serbian
women burying their dead
(NW) |
 Polish
farmhouse fired by retreating Russians
(NW) |
 Old
men and boys, side by side, in the Serbian army
(NW) |
 Serbian
camp scene at reveille
(NW) |
 Salonika
from the sea
(NW) |
 French
soldiers constructing barbed wire entanglements outside Saloniki
(NW) |
 Serbian
officers' odd shelter at Gradek on the Vardar River
(NW) |
 Serbians
resting during a hard march
(NW) |
 View
of Monastir from a minaret
(NW) |
 Monument
marking where 4,000 Serbs fell at Monastir in 1912
(NW) |
 Serbian
reinforcements for a hard-pressed line
(NW) |
 Company
of Serbians at Lone Tree Hill, Halinchi, near Prilip
(NW) |
 French
rolling kitchen stopping for lunch
(NW) |
 Foreign
Legion troops halt in front of Hartmansweilerkopf in Alsace
(NW) |
 An
ammunition depot in the rear of the French lines at Verdun
(NW) |
 French
troops enjoying repose in the rear after front-line service
(NW) |
 240mm
calibre guns on steel cars near Verdun
(NW) |
 A
dummy - fake - French gun intended to fool German airmen
(NW) |
 Village
near Verdun with a parade of newly arrived French troops
(NW) |
 Verdun
in ruins photographed from a French aeroplane
(NW) |
Verdun
in ruins photographed from a French aeroplane
(NW) |
 Firemen
fighting a fire caused by an incendiary shell in Verdun
(NW) |
 French
soldiers playing field sports behind lines at Verdun
(NW) |
 Observation
post on the first line at L'Homme Mort (Dead Man's Hill)
(NW) |
 Algerians
in a street fight
(NW) |
 French
poilus eating behind the lines at Verdun
(NW) |
 View
of Verdun showing the bridge over the Meuse
(NW) |
 The
village of Vaux following a terrific battle
(NW) |
 Shattered
town of Verdun as seen from the Bishop's Palace
(NW) |
 German
rockets designed to illuminate an enemy position
(NW) |
 Monument
to men who fell in 1870 at Verdun, in the Bishop's Palace
(NW) |
 A
street in Verdun after six months' bombardment
(NW) |
 Douaumont
village photographed from a French aeroplane
(NW) |
 Corpses
of French grenade throwers who died during the initial attack
(NW) |
 Searchlight
crew that helped to shoot down a Zeppelin
(NW) |
 Taking
captured ammunition to a place of safety
(NW) |
 French
soldiers bringing in their wounded Corporal
(NW) |
 This
pile of guns represented about 200 killed and wounded
(NW) |
 Ruined
Cloth Hall at Ypres
(NW) |
 Cloth
Hall at Ypres before the war
(NW) |
 Cloth
Hall at Ypres after the first bombardment, November 1914
(NW) |
 The
shell that killed this German soldier also dug his grave
(NW) |
 Cloth
Hall at Ypres after the second bombardment, 22 November 1914
(NW) |
 Fort
on the Bosphorus near Constantinople
(NW) |
 A
ruined train
(NW) |
 Transporting
wounded on the Italian mountain front
(HW) |
 British
telephone signallers
(HW) |
 Canadian
troops going over the top
(HW) |
 The
ruins of the market place in Ypres
(HW) |
 Canadian
machine gunners on Vimy Ridge
(HW) |
 Serbs
defending the mountain passes to the Serb capital
(HW) |
 Aerial
photo of a French attack on the naval base at Trieste
(HW) |
 Canadian
narrow gauge railway ferrying ammunition at Verdun
(HW) |
 Motor
transport used to carry supplies at Verdun
(HW) |
 U.S.
troops attacking a German trench position
(HW) |
 U.S.
forces attacking at Cantigny on 28 May 1918
(HW) |
 General
Maude's entry into Baghdad on 11 March 1917
(HW) |
 U.S.
soldier examining a German machine gun at St. Mihiel
(HW) |
 Temporary
bridge built by the Germans using a British tank
(HW) |
 A
combined tank and infantry attack at Bapaume
(HW) |
 Soldiers
billeted to a French house during wartime
(HW) |
 The
Salvation Army on the Western Front
(HW) |
 The
Y.M.C.A. in the front line trenches
(HW) |
 U.S.
troops following German forces through Thiaucourt in St Mihiel
(HW) |
 British
forces using Camels during the campaign to capture Jerusalem
(HW) |
 Bulgarian
forces holding thanksgiving mass to celebrate the armistice
(HW) |
 Italian
troops trekking the snow-fields of the Alps
(HW) |
 Canadians
forces during the Cambrai drive
(HW) |
 French
and U.S. servicemen overlooking Chateau-Thierry
(HW) |
 Bridge
across the Meuse at Vise destroyed by the Belgians
(GW) |
 German
forces examining ruins of a Liege Fort
(GW) |
 Destroyed
railway from Landen to St Choud to slow the German advance
(GW) |
 Belgian
residents of Vise under arrest by German forces
(GW) |
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