Vintage Photographs - Battlegrounds
This section of the website contains archive photographs taken during, before and after the war. Specifically this sub-section contains battleground photography.
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 Observation
shelter near Memel, Prussia
(CPE) |
 Italian
scouts approaching Austrian lines in the tall grass
(CPE) |
 French
infantry in a bayonet charge
(CPE) |
 A
German telescoping searchlight in France
(CPE) |
 Fleeing
the Russian invasion from Silesia, 1914
(CPE) |
 Effects
of a Zeppelin bomb in Antwerp
(NW) |
 Stragglers
from the Russian line of march
(NW) |
 Peasant's
shelter in East Prussia
(CPE) |
 Results
of a single shell at the Battle of Haelen
(CPE) |
 In
the forest of Mesnel after the fight
(CPE) |
 A
barricade among ruins in France
(CPE) |
 Russian
Ammunition train destroyed by shells near Warsaw
(CPE) |
 The
dead in heaps at Belgrade
(CPE) |
 A
town swept by the Russians
(CPE) |
 Gurkhas
defending the Suez Canal
(CPE) |
 Russian
Poles searching the ashes
(CPE) |
 Destruction
of a forest overlooking the Meuse by shell-fire
(CPE) |
 German
riflemen in Russian Poland
(CPE) |
 Burning
the bodies of war dead in Russia
(NW) |
 A
difficult homecoming for Russian women near the Baltic
(CPE) |
 Landing
French and English troops at the Dardanelles
(CPE) |
 Making
16,000 daily loaves for German Army consumption
(NW) |
 Scene
after battle with German Uhlans
(MF) |
 Russian
infantry and civilians evacuating Przemysl
(NW) |
 The
horror of war - one of the Austrian dead
(NW) |
 A
battleground in Galicia
(CPE) |
 A
charge by French African Chausseurs
(CPE) |
 Storing
explosives in a cave near the Aisne
(CPE) |
 Execution
of Serbian spies by the Austrians
(CPE) |
 An
Austrian field watch on the Tyrolese border
(CPE) |
 Defending
the Masurian Lake country, East Prussia
(CPE) |
 French
and German dead in Champagne, France
(CPE) |
 Carting
the dead off the battlefield
(CPE) |
 Sentry
on guard for the Allies in a ruined chateau
(CPE) |
 A
Russian armoured car in Poland
(CPE) |
 The
orderly Russian retreat from Poland
(CPE) |
 A
mine explosion on the Western Front
(CPE) |
 A
bridge on the Kalesch-Warsaw line
(CPE) |
 Bursting
shell which killed the photographer (visible at bottom)
(CPE) |
 French
sapper mine laying under the enemy lines
(CPE) |
 A
ruined fort at the Dardanelles
(CPE) |
 An
Austrian field priest and a wounded soldier, May 1916
(CPE) |
 After
a house-to-house battle in Champagne
(CPE) |
 Lowering
a wounded Austrian soldier on the Austro-Italian border
(CPE) |
 View
of the banks of the River San in Przemysl
(NW) |
 A
barrier of spikes protecting the battleground
(CPE) |
 A
forest entanglement
(CPE) |
 Meuse
heights under bombardment during the Battle of Verdun
(CPE) |
 Panorama
of Lemberg
(CPE) |
 A
movable telephone on the Western Front
(CPE) |
 The
trees of Hurlus forest, Perthes
(CPE) |
 Bulgarian
convoy near the border of Serbia
(CPE) |
 A
glimpse of Uskub (Skopje), Serbia
(CPE) |
 A
shallow grave somewhere in France
(CPE) |
 British
cycle corps near the Greek border
(CPE) |
 Retreat
of the Serbian Army
(CPE) |
 A
British searchlight on the coast of Flanders
(CPE) |
 Cross-marked
Allied graves at Gallipoli
(CPE) |
 Broken
hills of the Gallipoli peninsula
(CPE) |
 Serbian
advance in the face of bursting shells
(CPE) |
 Austrian
portable disinfecting apparatus
(NW) |
 Turkish
camps at Gallipoli
(CPE) |
 Battered
helmet of a French soldier, penetrated in 22 places
(CPE) |
 Clearing
a battlefield
(NW) |
 German
military supplies at Belgrade
(CPE) |
 Undermining
the enemy: entry to underground mine passages
(CPE) |
 An
observer's station
(CPE) |
 German
transport passing through a destroyed Polish town fire
(CPE) |
 Lancashire
landing and harbour at the Dardanelles
(CPE) |
 British
troops landing at Salonika
(CPE) |
 British
South African troops in German East Africa
(CPE) |
 French
colonial soldiers at Mudros
(CPE) |
 Winter
uniforms worn by German soldiers on the Austrian frontier
(CPE) |
 Shells
bursting on German positions near the Somme
(CPE) |
 Russian
troops in Prussia, 1914
(SR) |
 French
infantry move up to positions in a captured village
(SR) |
 French
troops marching to the Somme front past colonial troops
(SR) |
 French
kitchens behind the front lines
(SR) |
 Serbian
soldiers crossing snow mountain terrain
(SR) |
 Photo
taken from a balloon showing battlefield devastation
(SR) |
 Ruins
of Ypres
(SR) |
 Belgian
postcard showing the German Army's November 1918 retreat
(SR) |
 Dugouts
at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli
(SR) |
 Aerial
photo of Verdun under German bombardment
(SR) |
 Lieut-Col.
Boeger arriving as German Commandant of Dinant
(WW) |
 Belgian
field guns in the Battle of Hofstade
(WW) |
 Austrian
atrocities in Serbia
(WW) |
 A
Serbian supply depot behind Serbian lines
(WW) |
 Pont
des Arches bridge in Liege wrecked by Belgians
(WW) |
 Ruins
of Louvain
(WW) |
 Belgian
militia attacking Uhlans near Ypres
(WW) |
 Ruins
of Louvain along Rue de Station
(WW) |
 German
troops passing through Louvain
(WW) |
 Before
the ruins of Termonde
(WW) |
 Germans
camped in the ballroom of an estate near Aerschot
(WW) |
 Beersheba
when the British entered it
(WW) |
 British
camelry resting in the dried-up bed of the river Wadi
(WW) |
 Allied
leaders in Jerusalem, General Allenby saluting
(WW) |
 Priest
reading the proclamation of Military Law in Jerusalem
(WW) |
 British
infantry visiting Solomon's Pools in Jerusalem
(WW) |
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