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A bomb bursting over a British trenchVintage Photographs - Trenches
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 photos of trench scenes or trench-related photography.

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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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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