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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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Union troops plodding through the desert in South-West Africa (GW) Germans awaiting a Russian attack among marshes of East Prussia (GW)
With the Austrians in the Carpathians (GW) Turkish port of Smyrna (GW)
Pontooning a Union engine over the Orange River at Upington (GW) Union troops entering German territory near Raman's Drift (GW)
Ruins of the village of Mezera (GW) The battlefield of St Eloi, March 1915 (GW)
Fall of Przemysl, March 1915: Russian supply columns in the town (GW) An Austrian outpost on the road to Lemberg (GW)
Children playing among the ruins of Mont St Eloi (GW) Inspection of Union Troops by General Botha (marked with an x) (GW)
General Botha arranging surrender of Windhuk with the Burgomaster (GW) General Kusmanek and Prince Charles Franz Joseph at Przemysl (GW)
The ruins of Langemarck following the Second Battle of Ypres (GW) Belgian and British marksmen covering an enemy advanced post (GW)
Mounted infantry in action at Gallipoli (GW) In Gallipoli: an Australian giving a drink to a wounded Turk (GW)
Charge of Italian Lancers through artillery lines (GW) Indian troops bringing up fodder for mules in Gallipoli (GW)
Russian troops passing through a Galician village (GW) An armoured motor bike on the Western Front (GW)
Ypres with the famed Cloth Hall in ruins (GW) The batteries of Sedd-el-Bahr following British bombardment (GW)
German forces advancing against the King's (Liverpool) Regiment (GW) Holding one of the fortified houses along the British Front (GW)
A ruined house converted into a fortified post (GW) View of V Beach at Gallipoli in Allied hands (GW)
British marksman's position in the middle of a cornfield (GW) British troops moving to their positions behind a firing-line (GW)
A landing force leaving the transports for the Gallipoli shore (GW) Admiral Nicholson leaving Naval Observation Station in Gallipoli (GW)
The Germans entering Warsaw, 4 August 1915 (GW) Road bridge over the Vistula wrecked by retreating Russian forces (GW)
Retreat of Russian troops defending Warsaw, August 1915 (GW) French troops practicing an advance at Mudros (GW)
Destruction of a Polish village (GW) The Fall of Kovno, 17 Aug 1915 (GW)
Galician peasants returning to their homes following fighting (GW) French anti-aircraft listening post (GW)
German officers talk to peasants in the Galician countryside (GW) Polish farmhouse destroyed by German shellfire, 1915 (GW)
French soldiers hunting for German snipers in a farmhouse (GW) A ruined street at Loos looking towards the 'Crystal Palace' (GW)
Barricade captured from the Germans at Neuvill St. Vaast (GW) French troops on guard along the German Frontier (GW)
British reserves on the beach between Cape Suvla and Salt Lake (GW) French artillery-fire on German trenches on the Braunkopf, Vosges (GW)
French Colonel conferring Croix de Guerre on a soldier (GW) Allied troops mustering after landing on the Suvla Bay beaches (GW)
British infantry from Suvla Bay attacking the Anafarta Hills (GW) British attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt, 25 Sep 1915 (GW)
Quarries near Hulluch in German control (GW) Shrapnel shell bursting near the Allied trenches on the Western Front (GW)
Street scene in Belgrade, October 1915 (GW) Land-locked harbour of Cattaro as viewed from Mount Lovchen (GW)
The stricken battlefield on the road to Loos (GW) King Peter of Serbia on an ammunition wagon during the Great Retreat (GW)
British guns in position in Mesopotamia (GW) British troops cheering King George V's arrival at the Front (GW)
Chasseurs a Pied examining a captured German trench at Souchez (GW) 9th Corps removing wounded at Suvla Bay (GW)
Anzac Cove, August 1915 (GW) Australian giving a drink of water to a Turkish woman above Anzac Cove (GW)
View across the country towards Suvla Bay from the Anzac heights (GW) View showing German forces in possession of Hulluch quarries (GW)
Wrecked village of Lizerne (GW) Wrecked village of Lizerne (GW)
Mine crater on the Western Front (GW) Hoisting of the Union Flag at Qurna (GW)
Kitchener returns to Anzac Cove beach after viewing firing line (GW) View of Kut-el-Amara from the River Tigris (GW)
The devastated city of Van (GW) French troops taking a rest in Champagne behind the firing line (GW)
Montenegro's captured capital: general view of Cettinje (GW) French troops entraining at Salonika (GW)
Australian soldiers visiting graves prior to evacuation of Gallipoli (GW) Revolving steel gun-turret captured by the French in Champagne (GW)
Allied troops guarding the road between Duala and Yaunde (GW) Allied Nigerian troops in the Cameroons campaign, at Garua (GW)
Saluting the Tricolour and Union Flag at Garua, 11 June 1915 (GW) Saluting the Tricolour and Union Flag at Garua, 11 June 1915 (GW)
Northern Cameroon Railway reconstructed following German demolition (GW) Stores burning ashore at Suvla Bay following evacuation, 19 Dec 15 (GW)
Heroes of Verdun paraded before General Gouraud (GW) Ruins of Douaumont, photographed between attacks of Feb-Mar 1916 (GW)
Verdun city street ruined by German bombardment kept clear for troops (GW) Huge shell reserve behind French lines at Verdun (GW)
The first - Russian - armoured car seen in Tehran (GW) Salonika during the Allies' occupation: view along the Quay (GW)
Effects of Russian artillery fire outside Turkish fort at Erzerum (GW) Russian Cossacks on guard in Erzerum (GW)
Last stage of the Russian advance on Erzerum: the final assault (GW) 4th Division of Chasseurs on the Kargabazar Plateau, Jan 1916 (GW)
Erzerum (GW) The defences of Scutari: the Citadel overlooking the lake (GW)
The road from Lovchen into King Nicholas's kingdom of Montenegro (GW) Canadian infantry in a wood on the Western Front (GW)
Irish troops preparing to attack on the Western Front (GW) Ruins of the Hotel de Ville in Arras (GW)

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