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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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Arrival of Anglo-Indian convoy at Shaiba (GWS) Indian troops in the Persian Gulf (GWS)
Royal Engineers laying a field telegraph (GWS) Scottish Rifles returning tired from the trenches (GWS)
South African Mounted Rifles behind barricades of stone and scrub (GWS) 2nd Battalion of Transvaal Scottish in Pretoria (GWS)
1st South African Mounted Rifles at Cape Town (GWS) Wireless outfit used in General Botha's campaign (GWS)
Officers of the Rand Light Infantry (GWS) Bureau of the General Staff of the French 11th Division (GWS)
Belgian soldiers in Khaki uniforms (GWS) French 206th Regiment with their colours as they advance (GWS)
Mobilisation of Italian infantry, 1915 (GWS) In the Isonzo region: bringing up Italian relief sections (GWS)
A Bersaglieri officer (GWS) Italian infantry in action (GWS)
With the 81st Italian Regiment, one of the first to cross the Isonzo (GWS) French troops celebrating St Crispin's Day in France (GWS)
German soldiers drawing their rations at Spandau (GWS) French soldiers returning from a day in the fields (GWS)
French machine-gun crew's organised sports meeting (GWS) Newfoundlanders getting used to foreign service kit (GWS)
Newfoundlanders at an inspection parade (GWS) Section of a Newfoundlanders ammunition column (GWS)
Serving rifles to Newfoundlanders in the ranks (GWS) Signalling staff of the Newfoundlers training in England (GWS)
The Volunteer Reserves in Essex (GWS) British Yeomanry in training (GWS)
British and French soldiers wearing new steel helmets (GWS) French infantry wearing new steel helmets (GWS)
A soldier from Moscow (GWS) Scottish relief troops en route to the Front line (GWS)
British soldiers leaving their billets in France (GWS) British soldier wearing a steel helmet (GWS)
A regiment of Indian cavalry on the march in northern France (GWS) British troops returning from trenches in Gallipoli (GWS)
Cossacks (GWS) Armenian troops near Van (GWS)
Russian troops in Poland enjoying tea in the open (GWS) The Royal Naval Division on Gallipoli (GWS)
Group of Anatolians recruited by Turk forces in Gallipoli (GWS) Wounded British soldiers in Gallipoli embarking for hospital (GWS)
Sengalese soldiers who fought in the Dardanelles campaign (GWS) French troops on their way to the Dardanelles (GWS)
German infantry on the march in 1914 (GWS) Men of an Indian mountain battery on Walker's Ridge, Gallipoli (GWS)
London Territorials in 1914 (GWS) German marines in Turkish uniforms at Gallipoli (GWS)

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