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Releasing a carrier pigeonVintage Photographs - Postcards
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 a selection of picture postcards produced within each of the belligerent nations during the wartime.

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.

British postcard, "Allied We Stand" (SR) French postcard, "The Poilu's Journey" (SR)
French postcard: "In the fog... who is it?" (SR) Austrian propaganda poster with Austrian and German monarchs (SR)
French propaganda postcard of Wilhelm as 'The Disciple' of Bismarck (SR) French propaganda postcard of Allied troops pushing back the Germans (SR)
Postcard showing the hardiness of men who fought in the Alpine war (SR) British postcard from "Sketches of Tommy's Life" series (SR)
Humorous British postcard depicting raw army recruits (SR) Humorous British postcard: "More German Atrocities!" (SR)
British postcard depicting Tommy's troubles (SR) Propaganda postcard of the treatment of a British prisoner of war (SR)
British postcard of Wilhelm II in a pulpit made from artillery shells (SR) French postcard: "Foch's army crashes the Prussian guards", 1914 (SR)
French propaganda postcard showing excess of German troops (SR) French postcard of German troops pillaging a church (SR)
Russian propaganda postcard showing Wilhelm II fleeing (SR) British propaganda postcard featuring the Kaiser: "Kill That Fly" (SR)
UK propaganda postcard: "Not Ashamed to Die" (SR) Victory in Salonika with Tommy declaring the war's end (SR)
French marines at Dixmude in 1914 (SR) French postcard, "A day in the life of the Poilu" (SR)
British postcard: "The German Navy Taking Root!" (SR) Lille (SR)
German postcard depicting the German Army in Paris (SR) U.S. postcard: "It's easier to say than to write" (MF)
U.S. postcard: "Down him Sammy" (MF) British postcard: "He seems much better" (MF)
British postcard: "Your King and Country Thank You" (MF) French postcard featuring a British trooper (MF)
Postcard of French and British navy ships (MF) Postcard of French Dragoon (MF)
British postcard: "Defenders of the Empire" (MF) British postcard featuring the Goeben: "All Bottled Up" (MF)
German postcard: "Heartfelt wishes of luck & blessings in the New Year" (RF) German postcard: "Never will Germany be defeated when we are united" (RF)
German postcard: "We Germans fear nothing in the World other than God!" (RF) German postcard: "...We will not be shaken..." (RF)
German postcard: "''Germany above, from victory to victory" (RF) German postcard: "'Forward will be the order!" (RF)
German postcard: ''The Saviour of the East" (RF) German postcard: ''With God for King and Fatherland" (RF)
German postcard: ''Dear Fatherland be at peace'' (RF) German postcard: ''Crown Prince Albert, the Victor of Beaumont'' (RF)
German postcard: "Iron Cross" (RF) German postcard: ''Peace and wellbeing in the New Year" (RF)
German postcard: "Germany, Germany over everything" (RF) German postcard: Lyrics to German National Anthem (RF)
German postcard: "Love-filled greetings from the Homeland" (RF) German postcard: ''God does not abandon what is'' (RF)
German postcard: ''Through Danger and Death to Victory!" (RF) German postcard: ''God be with us" (RF)
German postcard: ''Hail and Victory!" (RF) German postcard: ''I do not know political parties, I know only Germans" (RF)

A 'Toasting Fork' was a bayonet, often used for the named purpose.

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