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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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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 Torpedoing
of the White Star Liner 'Arabic', 19 Aug 1915
(GW) |
 The
Battle of Lone Pine Plateau, 6 August 1915
(GW) |
 Suffering
a German bombardment by night
(GW) |
 German
flamethrower as used at Hooge, 30 July 1915
(GW) |
 British
troops in a captured German trench near Hulluch
(GW) |
 British
troops passing through Strumnitza, October 1915
(GW) |
 A
daybreak charge on the British Front
(GW) |
 Sinking
of the British hospital ship 'Anglia', 17 Nov 1915
(GW) |
 Joffre
and Kitchener leaving the British War Office, 29 Oct 1915
(GW) |
 Inside
an Australian trench in Gallipoli
(GW) |
 Cheering
removal of General Marchand from the Champagne battlefield
(GW) |
 A
duel in mid-air, drawn by a French aviator
(GW) |
 Memorial
service for Edith Cavell at St Paul's Cathedral, 29 Oct 15
(GW) |
 The
British Merchantman 'Clan MacTavish', sunk by the 'Moewe'
(GW) |
 British
Naval Auxiliaries in the North Sea
(GW) |
 The
Prince of Wales at an inspection of Anzacs in Egypt
(GW) |
 British
aeroplanes bombing a Senussi camel convoy
(GW) |
 The
smile of victory
(GWS) |
 Sketches
of equine life at the Front by a British officer
(GWS) |
 Sketch
of General Cadorna
(GWS) |
 The
moment when a British battery received telephone orders
(GWS) |
 British
troops running along a communication trench in France
(GWS) |
 British
soldiers at afternoon tea in the Ypres salient
(GWS) |
 Commencement
of a mine: the gallery entrance
(GWS) |
 R.A.M.C.
orderlies giving first-aid to the wounded
(GWS) |
 Relief
party advancing through Ploegsteert Wood, near Ypres
(GWS) |
 Watching
the effect of British shellfire from a sand-bagged ruin
(GWS) |
 French
grenade-throwers in action in the Calonne trench, 1915
(GWS) |
 Storming
of the castle of Count von Schieminski, Jaroslav, 16 May 1915
(GWS) |
 Keeping
watch - a British destroyer talking with mine-sweepers
(GWS) |
 Tsar
Nicholas II with Grand Duke Nikolai at the Front
(GWS) |
 The
Russian retreat from Poland
(GWS) |
 First
V.C. won a Territorial, on Hill 60, G. H. Woolley
(GWS) |
 An
early stage in the manufacture of a shrapnel shell-case
(GWS) |
 Former
soldiers from Flanders working in a munitions factory
(GWS) |
 Women
at work in a munitions factory
(GWS) |
 'Nosing'
shells at the British Vickers factory
(GWS) |
 A
British charge at Hooge, recapturing trenches lost to flamethrowers
(GWS) |
 Tsar
Nicholas II and Grand Duke Nikolai at the Front
(GWS) |
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'Case-Shot' was the name for a short-range artillery anti-personnel shell filled with pellets, chain-links, etc.
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