Vintage
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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 Torpedoing
of the White Star Liner 'Arabic', 19 Aug 1915
(GW) |
 The
Battle of Lone Pine Plateau, 6 August 1915
(GW) |
 Suffering
a German bombardment by night
(GW) |
 German
flamethrower as used at Hooge, 30 July 1915
(GW) |
 British
troops in a captured German trench near Hulluch
(GW) |
 British
troops passing through Strumnitza, October 1915
(GW) |
 A
daybreak charge on the British Front
(GW) |
 Sinking
of the British hospital ship 'Anglia', 17 Nov 1915
(GW) |
 Joffre
and Kitchener leaving the British War Office, 29 Oct 1915
(GW) |
 Inside
an Australian trench in Gallipoli
(GW) |
 Cheering
removal of General Marchand from the Champagne battlefield
(GW) |
 A
duel in mid-air, drawn by a French aviator
(GW) |
 Memorial
service for Edith Cavell at St Paul's Cathedral, 29 Oct 15
(GW) |
 The
British Merchantman 'Clan MacTavish', sunk by the 'Moewe'
(GW) |
 British
Naval Auxiliaries in the North Sea
(GW) |
 The
Prince of Wales at an inspection of Anzacs in Egypt
(GW) |
 British
aeroplanes bombing a Senussi camel convoy
(GW) |
 The
smile of victory
(GWS) |
 Sketches
of equine life at the Front by a British officer
(GWS) |
 Sketch
of General Cadorna
(GWS) |
 The
moment when a British battery received telephone orders
(GWS) |
 British
troops running along a communication trench in France
(GWS) |
 British
soldiers at afternoon tea in the Ypres salient
(GWS) |
 Commencement
of a mine: the gallery entrance
(GWS) |
 R.A.M.C.
orderlies giving first-aid to the wounded
(GWS) |
 Relief
party advancing through Ploegsteert Wood, near Ypres
(GWS) |
 Watching
the effect of British shellfire from a sand-bagged ruin
(GWS) |
 French
grenade-throwers in action in the Calonne trench, 1915
(GWS) |
 Storming
of the castle of Count von Schieminski, Jaroslav, 16 May 1915
(GWS) |
 Keeping
watch - a British destroyer talking with mine-sweepers
(GWS) |
 Tsar
Nicholas II with Grand Duke Nikolai at the Front
(GWS) |
 The
Russian retreat from Poland
(GWS) |
 First
V.C. won a Territorial, on Hill 60, G. H. Woolley
(GWS) |
 An
early stage in the manufacture of a shrapnel shell-case
(GWS) |
 Former
soldiers from Flanders working in a munitions factory
(GWS) |
 Women
at work in a munitions factory
(GWS) |
 'Nosing'
shells at the British Vickers factory
(GWS) |
 A
British charge at Hooge, recapturing trenches lost to flamethrowers
(GWS) |
 Tsar
Nicholas II and Grand Duke Nikolai at the Front
(GWS) |
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