Vintage Photographs - Trenches
This section of the website contains archive photographs taken during, before and after the war. Specifically this sub-section contains photos of trench scenes or trench-related photography.
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 Trenches
at League Island, Philadelphia
(CNP) |
 Lunch
in the trenches at Fort Oglethorpe
(CNP) |
 U.S.
marines constructing a trench at Quantico
(CNP) |
 Comfortable
German entrenchments on the Aisne
(CNP) |
 Engineers
learning trench construction
(CNP) |
 The
Red Cross on duty in the trenches
(CNP) |
 How
to build trenches under fire
(CNP) |
 Trelliswork
camouflage for a trench
(CNP) |
 Periscope
rifle in a trench on the Somme
(CNP) |
 Aviator's
photograph of men filling the German trenches
(CNP) |
 Early
French trenches from 1914
(MF) |
 Winter
trenches in the Bois-le-Pretre
(CNP) |
 Explosion
of a mined trench
(CPE) |
 A
hillside trench in Galicia
(CPE) |
 Royal
Scots Fusiliers entrenching through cellar walls at St Eloi
(CPE) |
 A
trench periscope used by French soldiers
(CPE) |
 Hurling
a grenade from a trench
(CPE) |
 Soldiers
killed in a barbed wire entanglement
(CPE) |
 Dead
of the Russian rear-guard in a shallow trench in Poland
(CPE) |
 Spoils
of war from captured German trenches in Champagne
(CPE) |
 New
Austrian trench constructed while under heavy fire
(CPE) |
 A
German shelter trench in Central Africa
(CPE) |
 French
trenches captured by the Germans near Verdun
(CPE) |
 Turkish
trenches and artillery around Trebizond, Black Sea port
(CPE) |
 A
French connecting trench near the Meuse
(CPE) |
 A
captured German trench on the Verdun front
(CPE) |
 German
trenches of Combles, captured by the French
(CPE) |
 A
shell bursting on an Italian entrenchment
(CPE) |
 Russians
entrenched in Galicia
(CPE) |
 A
Canadian trench on the Western Front
(CPE) |
 A
bomb bursting over a British trench
(CPE) |
 Clearing
captured trenches
(CNP) |
 Highlanders
pipe themselves back from the trenches
(MF) |
 French
troops preparing barbed wire coils
(CPE) |
 Grenadiers
in the French trenches
(CNP) |
 Loading
a trench mortar
(MF) |
 German
troops cutting barbed wire entanglements prior to an advance
(CPE) |
 Observation
post in the Champagne-Artois Battle
(CNP) |
 Canadian
soldiers going up to the first line in Winter
(CNP) |
 A
Highlander as sentry at a gas post
(CNP) |
 Digging
in under fire
(CNP) |
 German
observation post
(CPE) |
 French
soldiers firing over their own dead
(CPE) |
 Belgian
trenches in flooded land
(WW) |
 Mountain
fighting during the Serbian's Great Retreat
(WW) |
 Communication
trenches on Mt. Asolone overlooking the Brenta
(WW) |
 Barracks
on the back slopes of Mt. Asolone
(WW) |
 Italian
second line barracks on the Asiago plateau
(WW) |
 Advanced
outpost on Col del Rosso, newly conquered by the Italians
(WW) |
 A
low position on Col del Rosso
(WW) |
 Italian
reserve troops waiting in second line trenches on Montello line
(WW) |
 Reinforcements
arriving at second line positions back of Mt. Grappa
(WW) |
 A
newly taken Austrian trench on Col del Rosso
(WW) |
 An
Italian outlook on Col del Rosso
(WW) |
 Aerial
view of U.S. servicemen undergoing trench training
(WW) |
 Mess
time in the trenches
(WW) |
 U.S.
Army canteen in France
(WW) |
 U.S.
troops digging trenches while receiving Y.M.C.A. refreshments
(WW) |
 Americans
throwing hand grenades into the German lines
(WW) |
 Dogs
in the trenches
(WW) |
 Belgian
cavalry bringing straw to sleep on in trenches
(NW) |
 British
boys play-acting at trench warfare
(NW) |
 Photo
taken while shells were bursting in this Belgian trench
(NW) |
 Belgians
in their rifle pits
(NW) |
 Trench
warfare - waiting for the German Army
(NW) |
 Sodding
a dugout
(NW) |
 Russian
commissary officers determine soldiers' food portions
(NW) |
 The
barber in the French trenches
(NW) |
 A
French outpost in advance of front-line trenches
(NW) |
 A
roadblock at Belgian trenches near Ghent
(NW) |
 French
soldier reading a newspaper in a front-line trench
(NW) |
 French
soldier wearing a respirator
(NW) |
 Serbian
reinforcements for a hard-pressed line
(NW) |
 Company
of Serbians at Lone Tree Hill, Halinchi, near Prilip
(NW) |
 British
troops at Salonika being served the beer ration
(NW) |
 Serbians
in the trenches
(NW) |
 Corpses
of French grenade throwers who died during the initial attack
(NW) |
 Soldiers
digging trenches while protected against gas attacks
(NW) |
 View
through a trench periscope
(NW) |
 View
through a trench periscope
(NW) |
 A
big grenade of the rocket type
(NW) |
 Germans
collecting booty from a captured Russian trench
(NW) |
 The
skeleton work of an underground bomb-proof shelter
(NW) |
 A
German setting a 'star light' for use at night
(NW) |
 Officers'
quarters in an underground bomb-proof dugout
(NW) |
 A
busy scene in a trench dugout before Verdun
(NW) |
 French
device for breaking through wire entanglements
(NW) |
 Corner
of a trench showing sandbags and steel shield defences
(NW) |
 Remains
of a trench following a curtain of fire
(NW) |
 Dismounted
German Hussars hold the first line trenches
(NW) |
 French
soldiers hastily constructing a trench
(NW) |
 Scottish
soldiers making barbed wire entanglements
(NW) |
 Sleeping
under a rain of shrapnel
(NW) |
 Belgian
troops resting in a Liege trench
(GW) |
 Japanese
troops in the trenches
(GW) |
 Russian
troops in camp
(GW) |
 Maxim
Gun squad in action at Antwerp during the German bombardment
(GW) |
 Formation
of German infantry in the trenches
(GW) |
 Belgian
soldiers in the trenches at Ypres in winter
(GW) |
 British
Naval Volunteer Reservists in the Antwerp trenches
(GW) |
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A respirator was a gas mask in which air was inhaled through a metal box of chemicals.
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