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Russian soldiers abandoning their lines in GaliciaVintage Photographs - Troops
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 servicemen and women.

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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Cossacks (NW) German volunteers (NW)
British marines disembarking at Ostend to a rousing reception (NW) Bavarian corps passing Hercules Fountain in Augsburg, Germany (NW)
A Belgian sentry (NW) Indian soldiers on their way to France (NW)
Belgian recruits parade London streets (NW) Making friends with the Belgians (NW)
Dutch soldiers on their way to guard the frontier (NW) English Sportsmens' Battalion on the march (NW)
U.S. members of the French Foreign Legion (NW) Circassian troops in bivouac (NW)
An Egyptian camel corps on review (NW) French standard bearer of the Turcos (NW)
French soldier (NW) Australian troops taking a swim at Alexandria (NW)
Serbian volunteers who had no rifles (NW) Romanian troops (NW)
Heliograph signallers with the Turkish Army (NW) Serbian volunteers on roll call (NW)
Romanian cavalry (NW) Regiment from Tunis fighting for France in the Argonne (NW)
Cheerful French soldiers (NW) U.S. members of the Foreign Legion waiting for a train near Rheims (NW)
An Indian soldier in France (NW) French soldiers wearing steel helmets (NW)
French poilus behind Verdun waiting to go into action (NW) South African volunteers arriving at Cape Town (NW)
Canadian motorcycle corps (NW) Some of the men who fought the Germans in Africa (NW)
French reserves on the way to the trenches (NW) Indian soldiers on the way to the front lines in France (NW)
British soldiers outside a cattle truck (MF) British signallers (MF)
British troops on parade (MF) French Hindu troops (MF)
British troops (MF) British trooper posing (MF)
Hindus eating, 1914 (MF) South African artillery embarking (NW)
New clothes for the fighting line (NW) German infantryman leaving his billet for the Front (NW)
German soldiers' farewell as they leave their billet (NW) Arrival of U.S. troops in Liverpool (HW)
A Lancer from Bengal (GW) Men of Strathcona's Horse (GW)
A regiment of Indian Lancers preparing to charge (GW) Captain Francis Octavus Grenfell, V.C. (GW)
Japanese infantry resting in the field (GW) Troops from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa (GW)
Wounded French colonial troops returning to the Front (GW) German Cavalry contingent in South-West Africa (GW)
A Russian Cossack (GW) Canadian troops' first Sunday in Britain (GW)
Serbian soldier of 12 years old who fought in Belgrade (GW) A group of loyalists during the South African revolt (GW)
Syrian troops in the Sinai Peninsula (GW) Indian forces unloading baggage at Alexandra Dock, Bombay (GW)
Indian forces on the march in France (GW) King Albert reviewing the Belgian 75th Regiment (GW)
Gurkhas in campaigning kit (GW) Men of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in training (GW)
Belgian soldiers with their black helmets hidden in straw (GW) King George V inspecting the Honourable Artillery Company (GW)
The London Scottish at rollcall after fighting at Ypres, 31 Oct 1914 (GW) Indian reinforcements who fought at Givenchy in December 1914 (GW)
Winter kit among German troops (GW) Part of the Sirhind Brigade which took part in fighting at Givenchy (GW)
Members of the Irregular Kurdish Cavalry fighting the Russians (GW) German Colonial Horse in South-West Africa (GW)
Turkish forces in campaigning kit (GW) Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (GW)
Germany's colonial allies: native infantry in East Africa (GW) Belgian volunteer Mlle Leroy, 15 years old (GW)
French colonial reinforcements lining up with long bayonets fixed (GW) Bersaglieri on the march (GW)
French troops in Egypt preparing to march past Sir Ian Hamilton (GW) Indian forces on their way to the Front in Flanders (GW)
Members of the famed Foncorijski Regiment cheering King George V (GW) French infantrymen in their new 'tricolour grey' uniform (GW)
Algerians on the Western Front (GW) Private John Hamilton, V.C. (GW)
Bulgaria's Levies lined up for inspection (GW) Private George Peachmont, V.C. (GW)
The first contingent of British troops for Serbia loading at Salonika (GW) Captain A. M. Read, V.C. (GW)
Lieutenant Kent receiving the Military Cross (GW) Highlanders in the Balkans (GW)
Russian troops mustering in Siberia (GW) French soldiers being decorated for service in Champagne (GW)
Russian Cavalry column on the road on the Eastern Front (GW) Indian troops on the march (GW)
Canadian 2nd Division troops marching past King George V (GW) Officers and men of the Northumberland Fusiliers, late March 1916 (GW)
French Poilu wearing a steel helmet (GW) British steel helmet (GW)
Indian Horse Transport for the Tigris Force (GW) Indian Cavalry regiment on the march in Mesopotamia (GW)
Anzac troops being inspected by General Joffre on the Western Front (GW) British 10th Mule Corps on parade at Basra (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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