Vintage Photographs - Battlegrounds

Russian soldiers abandoning their lines in Galicia 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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British troops marching through Baghdad (WW)	Turkish observation nest (WW)
Stone bridge at Liege destroyed; new pontoon bridge in distance (NW)	Indian troops laying telephone wires over desert in Mesopotamia (WW)
British troopers marching on the sands of Mesopotamia (WW)	Pontoon bridge across the Diala River built by British Engineers (WW)
Bridge destroyed by the Russian Army at Przemysl (NW)	British heliograph post at Kara Tepe in Mesopotamia (WW)
British armoured car ploughing through Diala River in Mesopotamia (WW)	Armenians in the defence of city of Van (WW)
Armenians holding a strongpoint at Van (WW)	Corpses found by Serbian troops on entering Kumanovo (WW)
Aviator's photo of St Quentin in German hands in 1918 (WW)	Aerial view of Fort Troyon (WW)
Aerial view of Rheims in flames (WW)	Italian aerial trolley swung across opposite high peaks (WW)
Italian aerial ferry transports food and wine (WW)	Wrecked village on the Salonika Front (WW)
Building roads of approach to Mt. Tonale Pass (WW)	A Przemysl fort after bombardment by Krupp howitzers (NW)
Mountain front where Italy fought Austria-Hungary (WW)	Inhabitants of Przemysl compelled to use boats over the San (WW)
Russian infantry in flight (WW)	A German masked battery (NW)
German troops driving through Galicia (WW)	Russians blow up village in Galicia (WW)
Blowing up a bridge in Galicia during the Russian retreat (WW)	A camouflaged road in France, prepared by U.S. 42nd Division (WW)
Huts of U.S. Marines in training behind the lines in France (WW)	Artillery barrage provides cover for French grenade attack (WW)
U.S. troops encamped on the Aisne (WW)	British and French infantry in open fighting in Picardy (WW)
German ammunition dump destroyed by retreating German forces (WW)	Americans charging through barbed wire entanglements (WW)
U.S. troops working through German barbed wire (WW)	Shopkeeper waiting for customers in a shell-shattered shop (WW)
Wrecked German observation post after the Battle of Messines (WW)	British wounded passing French line during German 1918 drive (WW)
French drive back German raiders with grenades (WW)	French cantonment in the Oise District (WW)
Member of U.S. Field Battalion carrying a Frenchwoman into a cellar (WW)	German ammunition wagons destroyed by British gunnery (WW)
U.S. liberation of Chateau-Thierry (WW)	A British cavalryman waits under shell fire to advance (WW)
French soldiers in the Vosges mountains hurling stones at the Germans (WW)	French camouflage road erected on the Marne (WW)
Building a temporary bridge while pursuing German forces in Picardy (WW)	Making a charge on the Chemin des Dames (WW)
Explosion of ammunition stored in a French house (WW)	German redoubt 30 feet underground exploded by the Canadians (WW)
British ammunition dump in a village exploded by the Germans (WW)	52 and a half tons of German shells detonated by the Allies (WW)
French troops storming Monkey Mountain north of the Aisne (WW)	British troops going up the French line along a shell-swept road (WW)
German soldier killed during the Allied drive in 1918 (WW)	Bringing in the wounded via a light railway on the Western Front (WW)
German-made trenches occupied by French forces (WW)	German concrete gun pits captured by Canadian forces (WW)
German concrete gun pits captured by Canadian forces (WW)	British soldiers at home in captured German dugouts (WW)
A German headquarters (WW)	Civilians preparing to leave Warsaw as the Germans approach (NW)
Belgian infantry defending Antwerp from German siege (NW)	Looking down on Namur from the fortifications (NW)
French infantry awaiting the order to advance (NW)	Bridge at Amiens repaired by the Germans (NW)
German scouts keeping watch in Flanders (NW)	British cavalry in Peronne (WW)
The Marne in 1918 (WW)	An Allied raft on the Yser river used to reconnaissance enemy lines (WW)
The Cantigny battlefield (WW)	U.S. soldiers on a hill in Lorraine (WW)
U.S. soldiers going into combat toward the Rhine in an Alsace wood (WW)	Louvain laid waste (NW)
The ancient city of Louvain, wrecked by war (NW)	Bridge at Termonde blown up to halt the German advance (NW)
U.S. Signal Corps running a telephone cable through a French town (WW)	French soldiers replanting a ruined orchard (WW)
U.S. soldiers embarking on reconstruction work in Montdidier (WW)	Canadian engineers rebuilding a detonated bridge (WW)
Defending the Belgian swamps (NW)	British ammunition train halting for lunch (NW)
German officers lunching in Liege following its fall (NW)	House in Antwerp smashed by a German shell (NW)
Bridge over the Scheldt over which thousands escaped from Antwerp (NW)	Panic-stricken mobs escaping from Antwerp (NW)
Belgian infantry defending a village near Liege (NW)	A ruined Liege fort (NW)
Belgian hospital wrecked by shellfire (NW)	Hole torn in a pavement in Antwerp by a German shell (NW)
Hungry women and children waiting in a bread line in Malines (NW)	Crater of a Zeppelin bomb in Paris (NW)
Shooting grenades from a gas pipe (NW)	Behind the French lines in the Vosges (NW)
Trench adaptation of the old crossbow (NW)	Graves marked with bottles (NW)
British troops landing at the Dardanelles (NW)	A short rest at Suvla Bay (NW)
Anzac troops charge a Turkish trench near Gallipoli (NW)	Stores at the Lancashire landing, near Sedd-el-Bahr (NW)