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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 French
railway engineers at work in the Argonne
(GWS) |
 German
position on a mountain-side in the Vosges
(GWS) |
 Partially
destroyed barbed wire entanglements near Carency
(GWS) |
 Area
of Carency devastated by artillery
(GWS) |
 View
of battlefront from a captured German trench in Flanders
(GWS) |
 A
devastated section of the battlefront in Northern France
(GWS) |
 Remains
of a prosperous flower mill in Lizerne in Belgium in 1915
(GWS) |
 French
War Minister Millerand at Carency
(GWS) |
 French
soldier, overcome, being tended by his orderly under fire
(GWS) |
 A
street in Maroeuil bombarded by the Germans
(GWS) |
 French
Light Infantry Corps charging trenches on the Meuse
(GWS) |
 French
Light Infantry Corps charging trenches on the Meuse
(GWS) |
 Farm
d'Attiche, Carency, destroyed by German artillery fire
(GWS) |
 A
corner of Carency shattered by shot and shell
(GWS) |
 French
soldiers carrying the bodies of two officers for burial
(GWS) |
 Charge
by a regiment of French Zouaves on the plateau of Touvent
(GWS) |
 Village
of Villers au Bois, near Carency, destroyed
(GWS) |
 Remainder
of Carency railway station's refreshment room
(GWS) |
 Eastern
slope of the Souchez Spur
(GWS) |
 Farm
d'Attiche, Carency, destroyed by German artillery fire
(GWS) |
 Lord
Kitchener visiting the French battlefront, August 1915
(GWS) |
 A
charge by the Royal Naval Division in Gallipoli
(GWS) |
 Railway
station at Aspach le Haut, Alsace
(GWS) |
 A
British instruction class in field telegraphy progress
(GWS) |
 British
cyclist tapping wires and sending information to HQ
(GWS) |
 British
observers in a tree top
(GWS) |
 A
shattered homestead: the Mayor's former home in Alsace
(GWS) |
 German
shell bursting between advancing French troops
(GWS) |
 French
field post at Hermaville starting for the Front
(GWS) |
 Serving
out soup to French outposts
(GWS) |
 French
troops about to entrain for the Front
(GWS) |
 Kitchener,
Millerand and Joffre in north-eastern France
(GWS) |
 General
view of the ruins of Jozefov, on the Vistula
(GWS) |
 A
Galician oil well blaze which lasted for 18 days
(GWS) |
 Russian
soldiers waiting their turn for a bath in a Red Cross train
(GWS) |
 The
harbour of Libau, occupied by German forces on 7 May 1915
(GWS) |
 The
marketplace in Mitau
(GWS) |
 View
of Mitau, capital of Baltic province of Courland
(GWS) |
 Patrol
of Austrian cavalry reconnoitring on the south-east Front
(GWS) |
 A
German forage store in Poland
(GWS) |
 A
battlefield in Poland where Mackensen drove back Russian forces
(GWS) |
 German
Landsturm marching along the principal street in Lodz
(GWS) |
 General
view of Lemberg from a height near the town
(GWS) |
 German
troops in the vicinity of Warsaw
(GWS) |
 German
searchlight section on the march
(GWS) |
 German
searchlight section on the march
(GWS) |
 Photo
of the Russian lines as captured German cannon were brought in
(GWS) |
 Members
of German staff observing an action on the Russian Front
(GWS) |
 Austrian
armoured train used in the Carpathian campaign
(GWS) |
 Feeding
German soldiers in Przemysl
(GWS) |
 German
officers surveying damage caused while fighting in Galicia
(GWS) |
 Conflict
in the Galician oilfield area: a scene at Boryslav
(GWS) |
 Wrecked
interior of a textile factory in Galicia
(GWS) |
 German
pioneers repairing bridge between Warsaw and Praga suburb
(GWS) |
 Russian
horse artillery crossing a stream on the Polish front
(GWS) |
 Austrian
troops advancing on Russian position at Novo Georgievsk
(GWS) |
 Austrian
bridge constructed across the Vistula
(GWS) |
 Apparatus
used by the Austrian army for the production of poison gas
(GWS) |
 The
Bavarian flag over a captured fort in Warsaw
(GWS) |
 Watching
the Austro-German entry in Warsaw
(GWS) |
 Shattered
bridge across the Vistula at Warsaw
(GWS) |
 Russian
HQ staff examining a large-scale map of the Eastern area
(GWS) |
 German
soldiers well-sinking in Russian Poland
(GWS) |
 Russian
forces transferring guns onto railway trucks in Poland
(GWS) |
 German-constructed
railway into Poland
(GWS) |
 Awaiting
the arrival of Prince Leopold in Warsaw
(GWS) |
 Austrian
officer's sleeping quarters on the field
(GWS) |
 Blown
up forts on the east front of Libau abandoned by the Russians
(GWS) |
 German
troops massed on the quay at Libau
(GWS) |
 Shavli
as seen from the railway
(GWS) |
 German
cavalry entering conquered Shavli, in Courland
(GWS) |
 Wounded
Russians on their way out of Warsaw
(GWS) |
 Russian
forces stripping Warsaw of metal before their retreat
(GWS) |
 Russian
attack under a smoke cloud
(GWS) |
 Russian
forces stripping Warsaw of metal before their retreat
(GWS) |
 An
attack by Austrian troops on the Cholm-Lublin line
(GWS) |
 Austrian
machine for disinfecting clothing in Galicia
(GWS) |
 Village
constructed by French artillerymen on the Aisne
(GWS) |
 A
blazing granary in Brest Litovsk
(GWS) |
 Prince
Leopold of Bavaria's entry into Warsaw
(GWS) |
 Prince
Leopold of Bavaria's entry into Warsaw
(GWS) |
 Effect
of a successful French mining operation
(GWS) |
 A
crater in Flanders
(GWS) |
 M.
Vandervelde chatting with Belgian soldiers at the Front
(GWS) |
 Wounded
French Army soldier being assisted behind the firing line
(GWS) |
 An
open-air destructor for burning the clothes of enemy dead
(GWS) |
 British
motor-buses bringing troops to the Front in Flanders
(GWS) |
 French
artillery officer observing the German lines
(GWS) |
 Belgian
officers' quarters in Flanders
(GWS) |
 French
monument erercted at Bercy to commemorate early battles in 1914
(GWS) |
 A
parade of London motor-buses ferrying British troops to the Front
(GWS) |
 Frenchwomen
watching British troops pass by
(GWS) |
 Destroyed
village of Zuydschoote, Flanders
(GWS) |
 Destroyed
church at village of Zuydschoote, Flanders
(GWS) |
 On
Gallipoli: capture of supplies from the British commissariat
(GWS) |
 A
group of the men who defended Van
(GWS) |
 British
supply column with native guides in Gallipoli
(GWS) |
 Lines
of British infantry advancing from Salt Lake in Gallipoli
(GWS) |
 British
troops bringing up supplies at Suvla Bay
(GWS) |
 Hill
stormed by Australian forces at Gaba Tepe
(GWS) |
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