Vintage Photographs - Trenches
This section of the website contains archive photographs taken during, before and after the war. Specifically this sub-section contains photos of trench scenes or trench-related photography.
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The photos reproduced below are in thumbnail format - simply click a given photograph to view a larger copy within a separate window.
 King's
Liverpool Regiment in the trenches at Festubert 1915
(GWS) |
 Austrian
Generals taking observations from a trench in Poland
(GWS) |
 A
shell bursting over a trench
(GWS) |
 A
periscope attachment for rifles for use in trenches
(GWS) |
 British
soldier wearing a steel helmet
(GWS) |
 A
French sapper preparing a mine
(GWS) |
 French
sapper listening for enemy sappers
(GWS) |
 French
sappers enjoying a welcome rest
(GWS) |
 French
sappers carrying away earth dug from a mine gallery
(GWS) |
 French
soldiers lighting the fuse of a battery of trench mortars
(GWS) |
 A
French battery of trench mortars
(GWS) |
 French
soldiers lighting the fuse of a battery of trench mortars
(GWS) |
 French
soldiers in a captured German trench near Arras
(GWS) |
 British
officers in a dugout awaiting the arrival of shells
(GWS) |
 An
English Red Cross worker visiting Belgian trenches
(GWS) |
 French
soldiers removing dead and wounded from an Argonne trench
(GWS) |
 Zouave
keeping watch in a Belgian trench by means of a periscope
(GWS) |
 A
machine-gun in position in the Belgian second line
(GWS) |
 The
defence of Van
(GWS) |
 The
defence of Van
(GWS) |
 Digging
trenches at Van
(GWS) |
 Line
of trenches in the breastwork of Fort 7 of the Kovno defences
(GWS) |
 Glimpse
of the German position through a loophole in a British trench
(GWS) |
 Terraced
and sandbagged Australian dugouts at Gaba Tepe
(GWS) |
 Cemented
trench in Fort 8 at Kovno
(GWS) |
 Allied
forces working a machine gun in Gallipoli
(GWS) |
 French
officers watching an attack on Seddul Bahr
(GWS) |
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