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Sketch of British Army engaged in compulsory purchasing of horsesVintage Photographs - Sketches and Paintings
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 copies of sketches and paintings relating to the war which were produced while the conflict was underway.

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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British Army engaged in compulsory purchasing of horses (NW) Sketch of Frenchmen going to war in a motor bus (NW)
French boy scouts at work (NW) Sketch of French troops before Altkirch in Alsace (NW)
Sketch of the German Army marching through Belgium (NW) Sketch of British lines swept by searchlights and shrapnel (NW)
Sketch of a pontoon bridge destroyed by British in face of Uhlans (NW) Sketch of Belgian defence at Battle of Tirlemont (NW)
Sketch of pre-war Sarajevo (NW) Canadians fighting at Ypres (NW)
Sketch of Uhlan patrol surprised by Belgian armoured car (NW) Sketch of an aerial duel within sight of Ypres (NW)
Germans storming a British trench at Ypres wearing gas masks (NW) Sketch of German bases in Belgium raided by airmen (NW)
Company of the British R. Engineers spent 3 weeks in a sandpit (NW) Sketch: 'Wounded but still firing' (NW)
British officer's  achievement in downing Zeppelin near Ghent (NW) Hurrying the wounded away from a shell-swept hospital by F. Dodd (NW)
Sketch of Red Cross Corps searching for wounded at night (NW) Sketch of a Great War battle as viewed from a Soissons housetop (NW)
Sketch of Cossacks clashing with Austrian cavalry (NW) Sketch of a Russian regiment storming Josepovo (NW)
Sketch of portion of the town of Kalvaria following German shelling (NW) Sketch of clash between German and Russian advance guards (NW)
Sketch of German cruiser sinking while continuing to fire (NW) Sketch of Russian infantry advancing under fire (NW)
Sketch of Russian infantry awaiting an Austrian attack (NW) Sketch of bayonet fighting in a Polish cemetery (NW)
Sketch of General Popov watching the Battle of Prazasnysz (NW) Sketch of Zeppelin L-15 brought down off the coast of Kent (NW)
Sketch of Cossacks raiding a German motor supply train (NW) Sketch of Russian troops waiting for a German attack (NW)
Sketch of spies taken from a haystack by Cossack soldiers (NW) Sketch of German Taube brought to earth by Cossacks in Poland (NW)
Sketch of Austrian troops fording a river as Russians withdraw (NW) Sketch of a Zeppelin over London spotted by a searchlight (NW)
Sketch of a British destroyers sinking a German submarine (NW) Shipwrecked British sailors being picked up by an Allied submarine (NW)
Sketch of the sinking of the 'Falaba' (NW) German cruiser Blucher torpedoed by the Meteor, 24 Jan 1915 (NW)
Sketch of the British display of naval power at Spithead in 1914 (NW) Scene of the British success at Neuve Chapelle (NW)
Sketch of a British Red Cross kitchen ambulance serving hot broth (NW) Sketch of Uhlan patrol ambushed by British machine gunners (NW)
Sketch of fighting near Ypres (NW) Sketch of Alpine chasseurs charging German lines on skiis (NW)
Sketch of the ascent of the Dolomites (NW) Sketch of the Alpini at the foot of the Dolomites (NW)
Sketch of Russian cavalry retreating after defeat by Germans (NW) Drawing a battery of guns up the Alps during a storm (NW)
Italian entrenchment in an alpine ravine (NW) Sketch of Mass for the Italian troops in the Alps (NW)
French infantrymen at night in a roofless church near Verdun (NW) A Red Cross section advancing under fire to aid the wounded (NW)
British and German troops fighting in Africa at Mount Kilimanjaro (NW) Indian fighters with the British at the front (NW)
Sketch of captured German submarine UC5 (MF) British and French fighting side by side (NW)
Sketch of explosion of a German 'Jack Johnson' (NW) The Grim Reaper (NW)
Painting of alleged German brutalities at Senlis on 2 Sep 1914 (HW) British troops charging German trenches in gas masks (HW)
A Zeppelin flying over a British submarine in a stormy sea (HW) A German battery trying to escape from the Flanders mud (HW)
Sketch of a destroyer escaping a torpedo attack (HW) Sketch of a Cossack charge in the Carpathian mountains (HW)
Watching gunfire from a ruin near the German lines (HW) Sketch of a fight in a cloud of gas between British and German troops (HW)
Torpedoing of the British battleship "Aboukir" (HW) An Allied airman dropping a wreath at the site of a lost comrade (HW)
British forces advancing over captured German Somme trenches (HW) Women working in a munitions factory in England (HW)
Italian troops bringing guns into the Alps (HW) Landing of the "River Clyde" at Seddul Bahr in the Dardanelles (HW)
British troops attacking German trenches in 1914 (HW) Sketch of the struggle for Armentieres (HW)
An aircraft about to attack a Zeppelin over England (HW) British marines storming the mole at Zeebrugge, 1918 (HW)
The eye of the blind submarine (HW) An armed duel at the Front (GW)
Landing of the BEF in France, August 1914 (GW) Escorting the British Expeditionary Force to France (GW)
An arrow attack by aircraft at the Front (GW) French air scouts at work (GW)
The shadow of the sea-plane reveals a submarine below (GW) The London Motor Bus on active service in Flanders (GW)
Flinging ammunition in belts from hand to hand (GW) The British Army Service Corps carrying supplies to the trenches (GW)
The end of the 'Blucher' in the North Sea, 24 Jan 1915 (GW) The ladder of good progress: handling casualties (HW)
Alpine Chasseurs advancing to the attack in the Vosges (GW) The sinking of the 'Falaba', 28 March 1915 (GW)
British air raid on Cuxhaven, Christmas Day 1914 (GW) The 2nd Middlesex storming a blockhouse at Neuve Chapelle (GW)
Sketch of German position at Hill 60 in early April 1915 (GW) The sinking of the Lusitania (GW)
Throwing smoke-bombs to mask the wire-cutters (GW) Warning British troops of a pending German gas attack (GW)
Towing a big gun ashore in the Dardanelles (GW) Tsar Nicholas II and Grand Duke Nicholas (GW)

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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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