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Bolshevist demonstration against the Kerenski governmentVintage Photographs - Home Front
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 service on the various home fronts of the war.

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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House damaged by shellfire at Lowestoft (GW) French crowds welcome decorated Anzac troops at Marseille (GW)
Wrecked convalescent home at Lowestoft - the Matron's Room (GW) 5,000 women waiting for bread at the Hotel de Ville at Malines (FF)
Motor-transport waggon passing the Colosseum in Rome (GWS) Protective measures for the statue of Bartolommeo Colleoni (GWS)
Effects of an anti-German demonstration in Milan, 1915 (GWS) "The Horses of St. Mark" moved from Venice to a place of safety (GWS)
Palace of the Doges, Venice, protected by sandbags (GWS) Palace of the Doges, Venice, protected by sandbags (GWS)
Doges' Palace in Venice strengthened by solid pillars of brickwork (GWS) Initial mobilisation in an Italian town, April 1915 (GWS)
Wounded German soldiers receiving money from the Berlin army pay office (GWS) German soldiers receiving Russian language training in Berlin (GWS)
The new cathedral and the royal palace, Berlin (GWS) Removing the Imperial Insignia from the German Embassy, London, 1914 (GWS)
Berlin crowds witnessing a parade of captured Allied weaponry (GWS) Children with metal kitchen instruments to a Berlin collection depot (GWS)
German high-explosive shells being packed in wicker baskets (GWS) Maimed German soldiers learning to write with their left hand (GWS)
Berlin children being cared for while their parents are off on service (GWS) Red Cross nurses distributing gifts to German soldiers off to the Front (GWS)
German civilians donating gold rings to government officials (GWS) Berlin govt staff sifting through donated gold and silver jewellery (GWS)
Piles of plate and jewellery donated by Berlin civilians to the govt (GWS) Guard at a bombarded French village with their Mayor (GWS)
Wounded French soldiers at the national fete day, 14 July 1915 (GWS) The British Houses of Parliament viewed from the Embankment (GWS)
British New Army recruits in trench training in Aldershot (GWS) Members of the British National Guard in training (GWS)
British New Army recruits in trench training in Aldershot (GWS) Lord Kitchener calling for more British recruits, London, 9 July 1915 (GWS)
Highland officers in training north of the Tweed (GWS) Newley decorated V.C.'s leaving Buckingham Palace (GWS)
Grenadiers at sniping practice on Wimbledon Common (GWS) Members of the British Inns of Courts Officers Training Corps (GWS)
Troops assisting in the harvest fields in Kent (GWS) Haymaking in France (GWS)
Haymaking in France (GWS) The Lord-Provost of Edinburgh at an inspection (GWS)
Troops assisting in the harvest fields in Kent (GWS) King George V and his staff on Salisbury Plain at Stonehenge (GWS)
A Paris anti-aircraft gun and its crew (GWS) General view of Moscow (GWS)
The Nevsky Prospect, Petrograd (GWS) Yorkshire light infantry guarding a Dublin railway in 1914 (GWS)
British Territorials guarding the railway at Rochester (GWS) German civilians cheering Kaiser Wilhelm II in August 1914 (GWS)
Shop bearing German and Austrian names destroyed in Paris (GWS) Crowds gathering outside the Bank of England at the start of the war (GWS)
A run on a Paris savings bank at the start of the war (GWS)  

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