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Vintage Photographs - Home Front

Bolshevist demonstration against the Kerenski government This section of the website contains archive photographs taken during, before and after the war.  Specifically this sub-section contains photos of service on the various home fronts of the war.

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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vintage photoHouse damaged by shellfire at Lowestoft (GW) vintage photoFrench crowds welcome decorated Anzac troops at Marseille (GW)
vintage photoWrecked convalescent home at Lowestoft - the Matron's Room (GW) vintage photo5,000 women waiting for bread at the Hotel de Ville at Malines (FF)
vintage photoMotor-transport waggon passing the Colosseum in Rome (GWS) vintage photoProtective measures for the statue of Bartolommeo Colleoni (GWS)
vintage photoEffects of an anti-German demonstration in Milan, 1915 (GWS) vintage photo"The Horses of St. Mark" moved from Venice to a place of safety (GWS)
vintage photoPalace of the Doges, Venice, protected by sandbags (GWS) vintage photoPalace of the Doges, Venice, protected by sandbags (GWS)
vintage photoDoges' Palace in Venice strengthened by solid pillars of brickwork (GWS) vintage photoInitial mobilisation in an Italian town, April 1915 (GWS)
vintage photoWounded German soldiers receiving money from the Berlin army pay office (GWS) vintage photoGerman soldiers receiving Russian language training in Berlin (GWS)
vintage photoThe new cathedral and the royal palace, Berlin (GWS) vintage photoRemoving the Imperial Insignia from the German Embassy, London, 1914 (GWS)
vintage photoBerlin crowds witnessing a parade of captured Allied weaponry (GWS) vintage photoChildren with metal kitchen instruments to a Berlin collection depot (GWS)
vintage photoGerman high-explosive shells being packed in wicker baskets (GWS) vintage photoMaimed German soldiers learning to write with their left hand (GWS)
vintage photoBerlin children being cared for while their parents are off on service (GWS) vintage photoRed Cross nurses distributing gifts to German soldiers off to the Front (GWS)
vintage photoGerman civilians donating gold rings to government officials (GWS) vintage photoBerlin govt staff sifting through donated gold and silver jewellery (GWS)
vintage photoPiles of plate and jewellery donated by Berlin civilians to the govt (GWS) vintage photoGuard at a bombarded French village with their Mayor (GWS)
vintage photoWounded French soldiers at the national fete day, 14 July 1915 (GWS) vintage photoThe British Houses of Parliament viewed from the Embankment (GWS)
vintage photoBritish New Army recruits in trench training in Aldershot (GWS) vintage photoMembers of the British National Guard in training (GWS)
vintage photoBritish New Army recruits in trench training in Aldershot (GWS) vintage photoLord Kitchener calling for more British recruits, London, 9 July 1915 (GWS)
vintage photoHighland officers in training north of the Tweed (GWS) vintage photoNewley decorated V.C.'s leaving Buckingham Palace (GWS)
vintage photoGrenadiers at sniping practice on Wimbledon Common (GWS) vintage photoMembers of the British Inns of Courts Officers Training Corps (GWS)
vintage photoTroops assisting in the harvest fields in Kent (GWS) vintage photoHaymaking in France (GWS)
vintage photoHaymaking in France (GWS) vintage photoThe Lord-Provost of Edinburgh at an inspection (GWS)
vintage photoTroops assisting in the harvest fields in Kent (GWS) vintage photoKing George V and his staff on Salisbury Plain at Stonehenge (GWS)
vintage photoA Paris anti-aircraft gun and its crew (GWS) vintage photoGeneral view of Moscow (GWS)
vintage photoThe Nevsky Prospect, Petrograd (GWS) vintage photoYorkshire light infantry guarding a Dublin railway in 1914 (GWS)
vintage photoBritish Territorials guarding the railway at Rochester (GWS) vintage photoGerman civilians cheering Kaiser Wilhelm II in August 1914 (GWS)
vintage photoShop bearing German and Austrian names destroyed in Paris (GWS) vintage photoCrowds gathering outside the Bank of England at the start of the war (GWS)
vintage photoA run on a Paris savings bank at the start of the war (GWS)  

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