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Typical U.S. National Army cantonment when nearly completed Vintage Photographs - Camp Life and Training
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 photos of life at camp and training exercises.

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Typical U.S. National Army cantonment when nearly completed (CNP)

Physical training for the naval recruits at Norfolk, Va. (CNP)

Dental ambulance (CNP)

Observation post at Camp Lewis (CNP)

Relny Race at the Presidio, San Fancisco, Calif. (CNP)

Camp Custer cantonment at Battle Creek, Mich. (CNP)

Training camp for American aviators in France (CNP)

U.S. marines constructing a trench at Quantico (CNP)

U.S. telephone squad at Camp Devens (CNP)

Way to lift a wounded man (CNP)

Training in horsemanship at Fort Ethan Allan, Vermont (CNP)

Californian guardsmen unloading at Camp Mills (CNP)

Barracks at Camp Upton, Yaphank, Long Island, N.Y. (CNP)

Trenches at League Island, Philadelphia (CNP)

Panorama of Camp Taylor, near Louisville, Ky. (CNP)

Physical training at one of the great U.S. National Army cantonments (CNP)

Soldiers at the National Army at Camp Lee, Petersburg, Va. (CNP)

Banner of the Rainbow Division (CNP)

American base hospital at Fordham, N.Y. (CNP)

Spreading balloon canvas at Fort Omaha, Nebraska (CNP)

Service flag (CNP)

Captain's inspection at Newport, R.I. (CNP)

Gunners at Fort Sheridan, Illinois (CNP)

Artillery at the Officers' Training Camp, Plattsburg, N.Y. (CNP)

National guardsmen at Camp Kearney, Linda Vista, Cal. (CNP)

National Army men at Camp Upton off for a hike (CNP)

Sport at Fort Oglethorpe (CNP)

National Army men assembling at Camp Funston (CNP)

U.S. engineers in training near Washington, D.C. (CNP)

Rainbow Division on parade at Camp Mills, Mineola (CNP)

Bomb practice at Spartanburg, S.C. (CNP)

Lunch in the trenches at Fort Oglethorpe (CNP)

Motorcycle men at Camp Upton (CNP)

Game of baseball at Camp Travis, San Antonio, Tex. (CNP)

Knights of Columbus Hall at a National Army cantonment (CNP)

Y.M.C.A. building of the National Army at Camp Dix (CNP)

Jewish welfare building at Camp Dix (CNP)

Drilling with hydrogen trucks at the U.S. Balloon School, Fort Omaha (CNP)

Mounted Service School, Fort Riley, Kansas (CNP)	Soldiers, tents and kits ready for camp inspection (CNP)
American soldiers scaling a wall (CNP)	Soldiers at Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Ga. (CNP)
Class in grenade throwing at an American camp (CNP)	U.S. instructor showing how a grenade is thrown (CNP)
American soldiers returning to camp (CNP)	A Franco-Serbian camp (SR)
Former Texas cattlemem now enlisted with the National Army (WW)	Soldiers of 56th U.S. Infantry cleaning their clothes at Camp McArthur (WW)
Two men at Princeton Officers' Camp using Canadian equipment (WW)	Former boxing champing Willie Ritchie training at Camp Lewis (WW)
Members of U.S. Signal Corps on an armoured vehicle (WW)	'Blue Devils' of France reviewing cadets at West Point (WW)
U.S. Signal Corps men in training (WW)	U.S. Army wireless operators in San Antonio, Texas (WW)
Barbed wire entanglements at Camp Dix, N.J. (WW)	U.S. soldiers learning to dig in while under fire (WW)
Training in the use of hand grenades (WW)	U.S. camouflage squad in training (WW)
British volunteers arriving at Aldershot for training (NW)	Boot inspection at Aldershot training camp (NW)
Signal training at Aldershot camp (NW)	British recruits on skirmish work (NW)
Teaching British recruits to use the bayonet (NW)	Examining the recruits' equipment (NW)
British recruits getting their first instruction in rifle sighting (NW)	Explaining the rifle to British recruits (NW)
Making British recruits physically fit (NW)	British rookies' first taste of wartime training (NW)
Canadians crossing a newly constructed pontoon bridge at training camp (NW)	Annanite troops on their way to Camp Gallieni, near Versailles (NW)
French troops practicing with rifles (NW)	Training Kitchener's 'mob' to rush the Germans (NW)
U.S. solders undergoing an inspection (HW)	New Zealand troops at Chelsea barracks, 7 Nov 1914 (GW)
Canadian forces in Britain preparing for dinner (GW)	Canadian Highlanders in camp (GW)
10th Battalion of the Northumberland Fusiliers marching in Pirbright (GW)	Firing exercises at Winton, Bournemouth (GW)
British Officers instructing recruits in bridge-building (GW)	Drilling recruits on the sands at Llandudno (GW)
An inspection of Australasian troops by Sir George Reid in Egypt (GW)	Australian troops amongst the monuments of ancient Egypt (GW)
New Zealand troops undergoing training (GW)	Austrian recruits at the Vienna Military Academy receive benediction (GW)
Australians in Egypt finish their training (GW)	King George V reviewing 1st Canadian Division on Salisbury Plain (GW)
Lord Kitchener inspecting artillery in Chelmsford (GW)	Khaki-clad troops of Belgium's new army in training (GW)
British Queen reviewing Irish Cavalry at Aldershot (GW)	German schoolboys, the 'Boy Recruits', arriving at Doberitz for training (GWS)
French infantry practising an advance at Mudros (GWS)

'White Star' was a German mixture of chlorine and phosgene gas, so-named on account of the identification marking painted on the delivery shell casing.