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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The photos reproduced below are in thumbnail format - simply click a given photograph to view a larger copy within a separate window.
Click here to read introductory notes relating to this section, including information on photograph sources. Use the sidebar to the right to select other categories of photos available within this section.
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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 Destroyed
railway from Landen to St Choud to slow the German advance
(GW) |
 Belgian
residents of Vise under arrest by German forces
(GW) |
 Ruins
of historic French town of Longwys
(GW) |
 Wounded
belgian artillerymen returning to the Front
(GW) |
 Ruins
of the Hotel de Ville in Louvain
(GW) |
 German
forces passing through a village set on fire
(GW) |
 German
Lancers approaching Mouland, Belgium
(GW) |
 French
villager collecting shells from abandoned trench
(GW) |
 Grave
of one of the Highland 'Seaforths' killed at La Ferte
(GW) |
 French
troops passing through destroyed Soiry aux Bois
(GW) |
 Fate
of a Red Cross train at the First Battle of the Marne
(GW) |
 Bridge
blown up by retreating Germans at the First Battle of the Marne
(GW) |
 German
troops passing through the wreckage of Louvain
(GW) |
 Louvain
after shelling by German forces
(GW) |
 Remains
of German motor convoy wrecked by shell-fire
(GW) |
 Belgian
forces bringing up machine guns
(GW) |
 Serbian
veterans of the Balkan wars on the march to Nish
(GW) |
 British
Sudanese troops on the Nile
(GW) |
 Look-out
men on a naval armoured train in Belgium
(GW) |
 Remains
of Neidenberg, East Prussia, destroyed by Russian forces
(GW) |
 German
sailors sifting through belongings of refugees from Antwerp
(GW) |
 A
British Navy armoured train at the Front
(GW) |
 Russians
at prayer before going into battle
(GW) |
 Loyalist
forces crushing the rebellion in South Africa
(GW) |
 Kurdish
cavalry in Armenia
(GW) |
 Ypres
Cloth Hall before the war
(GW) |
 Indian
troops embarking horses at Bombay
(GW) |
 Turkish
troops carried across the Euphrates in a 'cufa'
(GW) |
 Russian
transports travel over snow in the Caucasus
(GW) |
 Burning
of the old town and market-hall at Ypres
(GW) |
 Ruined
tower of Ypres market-hall
(GW) |
 Russian
soldiers marching along a railway line to the Front
(GW) |
 The
Allied flight from Antwerp in 1914: taking a baby aboard a Tug
(GW) |
 Effect
of German shells during the bombardment of Antwerp
(GW) |
 German
battery commander at an artillery observation post
(GW) |
 Telephoning
observation information to a German battery
(GW) |
 Belgian
town of Dixmude following German bombardment
(GW) |
 Last
scenes at Antwerp before its fall to German forces
(GW) |
 Belgian
armoured car on the Western Front
(GW) |
 Indian
Army ammunition columns bringing supplies to the Front
(GW) |
 German
infantry attack a village on the Belgian frontier
(GW) |
 George
V presents bravery medals on the Western Front
(GW) |
 A
street in Nieuport following a German bombardment in 1914
(GW) |
 A
mule column halts to permit French troops to pass by
(GW) |
 Dixmude
at the point of bombardment
(GW) |
 German
houses destroyed by Russian forces at Nochenstein
(GW) |
 Breaking
ice to transport Austrian troops across the river
(GW) |
 A
Serbian infantry regiment going into battle
(GW) |
 German
trenches used as a grave for the killed
(GW) |
 Winter
kit for the British Army on the Western Front
(GW) |
 Austrian
troops in dug-outs on the crest of the Carpathian mountains
(GW) |
 The
Serbian retreat from Gauchevo
(GW) |
 German
foraging party's return
(GW) |
 Remains
of the British Embassy in Belgrade in Austrian hands
(GW) |
 Serbian
reservists on their way to the Front
(GW) |
 A
Cossack patrol occupying a Polish village
(GW) |
 Italian
infantry on the attack
(GW) |
 Italian
dead on Mt. Faiti
(GW) |
 Dead
soldiers at Caporetto
(GW) |
 An
Italian patrol during the attack on Mt. Kuk
(GW) |
 Italian
infantry charging on the Carso
(GW) |
 An
Austrian counter-attack
(GW) |
 The
Italian retreat after Caporetto
(GW) |
 The
Italian retreat after Caporetto
(GW) |
 German
Staff Officers reconnoitring the Masurian Lakes
(GW) |
 The
British Army Service Corps - a breakdown in the road
(GW) |
 The
ruins of Termonde in Belgium
(GW) |
 British
military posts guarding the banks of the Suez Canal
(GW) |
 View
of Tabriz
(GW) |
 Winter
campaign in Poland: Russian infantry leaving for the Front
(GW) |
 Gurkhas
entering Givenchy
(GW) |
 Russian
infantry on snow-bound battlefront
(GW) |
 Wrecked
railway on the main Russian line between Kalisz Lodz/Warsaw
(GW) |
 Cheerful
British officer off duty in Flanders
(GW) |
 Destruction
of a trench in Flanders
(GW) |
 Observation
Post along the French front
(GW) |
 Presentation
to children in Alsace of a captured German flag
(GW) |
 French
soldiers with a captured German 49th Regiment flag in Alsace
(GW) |
 Wrecked
German motor cars captured on the Western Front
(GW) |
 New
Zealand Expeditionary Force with captured German flag from Samoa
(GW) |
 Two
German field-guns wrecked by Allied airmen
(GW) |
 A
Calvary that survived the Battle of Neuve Chapelle
(GW) |
 British
cavalry on the march in Flanders, winter 1914-15
(GW) |
 Wire
entanglements and other defences at Craonne on the Aisne
(GW) |
 French
troops using a windmill for observation work
(GW) |
 The
ruins of Clermont in the Argonne following shelling
(GW) |
 On
the Belgian frontier: French troops cross a street under fire
(GW) |
 Stubborn
fighting in Alsace: Steinbach and Cernay in flames in 1915
(GW) |
 The
ancient Hotel de Ville at Arras prior to German bombardment
(GW) |
 Lombartzyde
during the defence of the village
(GW) |
 Zouaves
called up for an advance of their defence-works
(GW) |
 The
ancient Hotel de Ville at Arras after German bombardment
(GW) |
 President
Poincare's home in Lorraine destroyed by shellfire
(GW) |
 King
George V at an Indian hospital camp on the Western Front
(GW) |
 Russian
guns trained on Przemysl fortifications, winter 1914-15
(GW) |
 British
Army Transport Section on the road to the East African Front
(GW) |
 A
wrecked French railway bridge, destroyed by the Germans
(GW) |
 In
the Camp Kitchen of the British Expeditionary Force at Qurna
(GW) |
 The
North Sea end of the Allies' line: Belgian officers on sand dunes
(GW) |
 Bringing
a captured German Standard to French Headquarters
(GW) |
Click here to read introductory notes relating to this section, including information on photograph sources. Use the sidebar to the right to select other categories of photos available within this section.
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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A 'Baby's Head' was a meat pudding which comprised part of the British Army field ration.
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