Vintage Photographs - Sketches and Paintings
This section of the website contains archive photographs taken during, before and after the war. Specifically this sub-section contains copies of sketches and paintings relating to the war which were produced while the conflict was underway.
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 British
Army engaged in compulsory purchasing of horses
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 Sketch
of Frenchmen going to war in a motor bus
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 French
boy scouts at work
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 Sketch
of French troops before Altkirch in Alsace
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 Sketch
of the German Army marching through Belgium
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 Sketch
of British lines swept by searchlights and shrapnel
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 Sketch
of a pontoon bridge destroyed by British in face of Uhlans
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 Sketch
of Belgian defence at Battle of Tirlemont
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 Sketch
of pre-war Sarajevo
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 Canadians
fighting at Ypres
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 Sketch
of Uhlan patrol surprised by Belgian armoured car
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 Sketch
of an aerial duel within sight of Ypres
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 Germans
storming a British trench at Ypres wearing gas masks
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 Sketch
of German bases in Belgium raided by airmen
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 Company
of the British R. Engineers spent 3 weeks in a sandpit
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 Sketch:
'Wounded but still firing'
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 British
officer's achievement in downing Zeppelin near Ghent
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 Hurrying
the wounded away from a shell-swept hospital by F. Dodd
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 Sketch
of Red Cross Corps searching for wounded at night
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 Sketch
of a Great War battle as viewed from a Soissons housetop
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 Sketch
of Cossacks clashing with Austrian cavalry
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 Sketch
of a Russian regiment storming Josepovo
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 Sketch
of portion of the town of Kalvaria following German shelling
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 Sketch
of clash between German and Russian advance guards
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 Sketch
of German cruiser sinking while continuing to fire
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 Sketch
of Russian infantry advancing under fire
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 Sketch
of Russian infantry awaiting an Austrian attack
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 Sketch
of bayonet fighting in a Polish cemetery
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 Sketch
of General Popov watching the Battle of Prazasnysz
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 Sketch
of Zeppelin L-15 brought down off the coast of Kent
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 Sketch
of Cossacks raiding a German motor supply train
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 Sketch
of Russian troops waiting for a German attack
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 Sketch
of spies taken from a haystack by Cossack soldiers
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 Sketch
of German Taube brought to earth by Cossacks in Poland
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 Sketch
of Austrian troops fording a river as Russians withdraw
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 Sketch
of a Zeppelin over London spotted by a searchlight
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 Sketch
of a British destroyers sinking a German submarine
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 Shipwrecked
British sailors being picked up by an Allied submarine
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 Sketch
of the sinking of the 'Falaba'
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 German
cruiser Blucher torpedoed by the Meteor, 24 Jan 1915
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 Sketch
of the British display of naval power at Spithead in 1914
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 Scene
of the British success at Neuve Chapelle
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 Sketch
of a British Red Cross kitchen ambulance serving hot broth
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 Sketch
of Uhlan patrol ambushed by British machine gunners
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 Sketch
of fighting near Ypres
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 Sketch
of Alpine chasseurs charging German lines on skiis
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 Sketch
of the ascent of the Dolomites
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 Sketch
of the Alpini at the foot of the Dolomites
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 Sketch
of Russian cavalry retreating after defeat by Germans
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 Drawing
a battery of guns up the Alps during a storm
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 Italian
entrenchment in an alpine ravine
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 Sketch
of Mass for the Italian troops in the Alps
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 French
infantrymen at night in a roofless church near Verdun
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 A
Red Cross section advancing under fire to aid the wounded
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 British
and German troops fighting in Africa at Mount Kilimanjaro
(NW) |
 Indian
fighters with the British at the front
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 Sketch
of captured German submarine UC5
(MF) |
 British
and French fighting side by side
(NW) |
 Sketch
of explosion of a German 'Jack Johnson'
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 The
Grim Reaper
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 Painting
of alleged German brutalities at Senlis on 2 Sep 1914
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 British
troops charging German trenches in gas masks
(HW) |
 A
Zeppelin flying over a British submarine in a stormy sea
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 A
German battery trying to escape from the Flanders mud
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 Sketch
of a destroyer escaping a torpedo attack
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 Sketch
of a Cossack charge in the Carpathian mountains
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 Watching
gunfire from a ruin near the German lines
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 Sketch
of a fight in a cloud of gas between British and German troops
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 Torpedoing
of the British battleship "Aboukir"
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 An
Allied airman dropping a wreath at the site of a lost comrade
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 British
forces advancing over captured German Somme trenches
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 Women
working in a munitions factory in England
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 Italian
troops bringing guns into the Alps
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 Landing
of the "River Clyde" at Seddul Bahr in the Dardanelles
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 British
troops attacking German trenches in 1914
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 Sketch
of the struggle for Armentieres
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 An
aircraft about to attack a Zeppelin over England
(HW) |
 British
marines storming the mole at Zeebrugge, 1918
(HW) |
 The
eye of the blind submarine
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 An
armed duel at the Front
(GW) |
 Landing
of the BEF in France, August 1914
(GW) |
 Escorting
the British Expeditionary Force to France
(GW) |
 An
arrow attack by aircraft at the Front
(GW) |
 French
air scouts at work
(GW) |
 The
shadow of the sea-plane reveals a submarine below
(GW) |
 The
London Motor Bus on active service in Flanders
(GW) |
 Flinging
ammunition in belts from hand to hand
(GW) |
 The
British Army Service Corps carrying supplies to the trenches
(GW) |
 The
end of the 'Blucher' in the North Sea, 24 Jan 1915
(GW) |
 The
ladder of good progress: handling casualties
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 Alpine
Chasseurs advancing to the attack in the Vosges
(GW) |
 The
sinking of the 'Falaba', 28 March 1915
(GW) |
 British
air raid on Cuxhaven, Christmas Day 1914
(GW) |
 The
2nd Middlesex storming a blockhouse at Neuve Chapelle
(GW) |
 Sketch
of German position at Hill 60 in early April 1915
(GW) |
 The
sinking of the Lusitania
(GW) |
 Throwing
smoke-bombs to mask the wire-cutters
(GW) |
 Warning
British troops of a pending German gas attack
(GW) |
 Towing
a big gun ashore in the Dardanelles
(GW) |
 Tsar
Nicholas II and Grand Duke Nicholas
(GW) |
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