Vintage
Photographs - Refugees
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 photography representative of the many hundreds of thousands of refugees created by the violent upheavals of 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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 Armenian
refugees
(WW) |
 Refugees
from the great Halifax disaster at the armoury
(CNP) |
 Belgian
refugees at the port of Ostend
(CNP) |
 Armenian
refugees
(CPE) |
 Little
French refugees
(WW) |
 French
refugees return home after the end of the war
(WW) |
 French
refugees return to what was once a home and restaurant
(WW) |
 French
family reclaim buried valuables after the war
(WW) |
 Roads
in Belgium filled with homeless wanderers
(NW) |
 Belgian
refugees flee from outlying villages to Brussels
(NW) |
 Belgian
refugees flee with a dog cart and its contents
(NW) |
 Refugees
from Antwerp write on a fence to tell of their whereabouts
(NW) |
 Dogs
used instead of horses by Belgian refugees
(NW) |
 Belgian
refugees resting on their way out of Antwerp
(NW) |
 Thousands
of Belgian refugees reaching Holland
(NW) |
 Refugees
in a church in France
(NW) |
 A
widow who has lost both husband and home
(NW) |
 Polish
refugees
(NW) |
 French
refugees
(NW) |
 Belgian
refugees
(MF) |
 Serbian
refugees fleeing to Greece by train
(CPE) |
 Refugees
fleeing to Brussels for safety
(CPE) |
 Three
female refugees whose husbands were killed
(CPE) |
 Refugees
in Serbia
(CPE) |
 Russian
refugees from Poland on the way home
(CPE) |
 Children
whose parents were lost during the Great Retreat
(NW) |
 Serbian
refugees on the road
(NW) |
 Serbian
refugees bound for Corsica
(NW) |
 Serbian
refugees arriving at Salonika on Christmas morning
(NW) |
 Serbian
women driven from their homes by German forces
(NW) |
 Serbian
refugees en route to Corsica
(NW) |
 Armenian
refugee armed with a Browning revolver
(GW) |
 French
sailors embarking Armenian refugees
(GW) |
 17-year-old
Belgian girl who had lost her entire family and home
(FF) |
 A
Polish refugee
(GWS) |
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A Town Major was a staff officer responsible for billeting arrangements in a town or village behind the lines. |
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