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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.

Click here to read introductory notes relating to this section, including information on photograph sources.  Use the sidebar to the right to select other categories of photos available within this section.

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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Filtered water stored in cans and petrol tins for troops in Gallipoli (GWS) Allied troops filling sandbags in Gallipoli (GWS)
The defence of Van (GWS) The defence of Van (GWS)
British troops returning from trenches in Gallipoli (GWS) 'L' Beach at Gallipoli (GWS)
Blindfolded Turkish soldier among Allied lines with a flag of truce (GWS) French staff officers in a rock shelter in Gallipoli (GWS)
Activity in Mudros Bay, Lemnos, with French troops in the foreground (GWS) Achi Baba, Gallipoli, seen from a point near the French lines (GWS)
Anzac and Indian troops in Gallipoli (GWS) Pile-driving on one of the beach on the Gallipoli peninsula (GWS)
Allied commandant's office of the advanced base at Suvla Bay (GWS) Two Turkish shells fired from Dardanelles Strait over Allied positions (GWS)
Turkish shells bursting among New Zealand troops in Gallipoli (GWS) Train of donkeys laden with water supplies on a Gallipoli beach (GWS)
Battery of artillery on the Gallipoli shore (GWS) 'W' Beach at Gallipoli (GWS)
French officers within the fort at Seddul Bahr (GWS)  

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"Bellied" was a term used to describe when a tank's underside was caught upon an obstacle such that its tracks were unable to grip the earth.

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