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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 Union
troops plodding through the desert in South-West Africa
(GW) |
 Germans
awaiting a Russian attack among marshes of East Prussia
(GW) |
 With
the Austrians in the Carpathians
(GW) |
 Turkish
port of Smyrna
(GW) |
 Pontooning
a Union engine over the Orange River at Upington
(GW) |
 Union
troops entering German territory near Raman's Drift
(GW) |
 Ruins
of the village of Mezera
(GW) |
 The
battlefield of St Eloi, March 1915
(GW) |
 Fall
of Przemysl, March 1915: Russian supply columns in the town
(GW) |
 An
Austrian outpost on the road to Lemberg
(GW) |
 Children
playing among the ruins of Mont St Eloi
(GW) |
 Inspection
of Union Troops by General Botha (marked with an x)
(GW) |
 General
Botha arranging surrender of Windhuk with the Burgomaster
(GW) |
 General
Kusmanek and Prince Charles Franz Joseph at Przemysl
(GW) |
 The
ruins of Langemarck following the Second Battle of Ypres
(GW) |
 Belgian
and British marksmen covering an enemy advanced post
(GW) |
 Mounted
infantry in action at Gallipoli
(GW) |
 In
Gallipoli: an Australian giving a drink to a wounded Turk
(GW) |
 Charge
of Italian Lancers through artillery lines
(GW) |
 Indian
troops bringing up fodder for mules in Gallipoli
(GW) |
 Russian
troops passing through a Galician village
(GW) |
 An
armoured motor bike on the Western Front
(GW) |
 Ypres
with the famed Cloth Hall in ruins
(GW) |
 The
batteries of Sedd-el-Bahr following British bombardment
(GW) |
 German
forces advancing against the King's (Liverpool) Regiment
(GW) |
 Holding
one of the fortified houses along the British Front
(GW) |
 A
ruined house converted into a fortified post
(GW) |
 View
of V Beach at Gallipoli in Allied hands
(GW) |
 British
marksman's position in the middle of a cornfield
(GW) |
 British
troops moving to their positions behind a firing-line
(GW) |
 A
landing force leaving the transports for the Gallipoli shore
(GW) |
 Admiral
Nicholson leaving Naval Observation Station in Gallipoli
(GW) |
 The
Germans entering Warsaw, 4 August 1915
(GW) |
 Road
bridge over the Vistula wrecked by retreating Russian forces
(GW) |
 Retreat
of Russian troops defending Warsaw, August 1915
(GW) |
 French
troops practicing an advance at Mudros
(GW) |
 Destruction
of a Polish village
(GW) |
 The
Fall of Kovno, 17 Aug 1915
(GW) |
 Galician
peasants returning to their homes following fighting
(GW) |
 French
anti-aircraft listening post
(GW) |
 German
officers talk to peasants in the Galician countryside
(GW) |
 Polish
farmhouse destroyed by German shellfire, 1915
(GW) |
 French
soldiers hunting for German snipers in a farmhouse
(GW) |
 A
ruined street at Loos looking towards the 'Crystal Palace'
(GW) |
 Barricade
captured from the Germans at Neuvill St. Vaast
(GW) |
 French
troops on guard along the German Frontier
(GW) |
 British
reserves on the beach between Cape Suvla and Salt Lake
(GW) |
 French
artillery-fire on German trenches on the Braunkopf, Vosges
(GW) |
 French
Colonel conferring Croix de Guerre on a soldier
(GW) |
 Allied
troops mustering after landing on the Suvla Bay beaches
(GW) |
 British
infantry from Suvla Bay attacking the Anafarta Hills
(GW) |
 British
attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt, 25 Sep 1915
(GW) |
 Quarries
near Hulluch in German control
(GW) |
 Shrapnel
shell bursting near the Allied trenches on the Western Front
(GW) |
 Street
scene in Belgrade, October 1915
(GW) |
 Land-locked
harbour of Cattaro as viewed from Mount Lovchen
(GW) |
 The
stricken battlefield on the road to Loos
(GW) |
 King
Peter of Serbia on an ammunition wagon during the Great Retreat
(GW) |
 British
guns in position in Mesopotamia
(GW) |
 British
troops cheering King George V's arrival at the Front
(GW) |
 Chasseurs
a Pied examining a captured German trench at Souchez
(GW) |
 9th
Corps removing wounded at Suvla Bay
(GW) |
 Anzac
Cove, August 1915
(GW) |
 Australian
giving a drink of water to a Turkish woman above Anzac Cove
(GW) |
 View
across the country towards Suvla Bay from the Anzac heights
(GW) |
 View
showing German forces in possession of Hulluch quarries
(GW) |
 Wrecked
village of Lizerne
(GW) |
 Wrecked
village of Lizerne
(GW) |
 Mine
crater on the Western Front
(GW) |
 Hoisting
of the Union Flag at Qurna
(GW) |
 Kitchener
returns to Anzac Cove beach after viewing firing line
(GW) |
 View
of Kut-el-Amara from the River Tigris
(GW) |
 The
devastated city of Van
(GW) |
 French
troops taking a rest in Champagne behind the firing line
(GW) |
 Montenegro's
captured capital: general view of Cettinje
(GW) |
 French
troops entraining at Salonika
(GW) |
 Australian
soldiers visiting graves prior to evacuation of Gallipoli
(GW) |
 Revolving
steel gun-turret captured by the French in Champagne
(GW) |
 Allied
troops guarding the road between Duala and Yaunde
(GW) |
 Allied
Nigerian troops in the Cameroons campaign, at Garua
(GW) |
 Saluting
the Tricolour and Union Flag at Garua, 11 June 1915
(GW) |
 Saluting
the Tricolour and Union Flag at Garua, 11 June 1915
(GW) |
 Northern
Cameroon Railway reconstructed following German demolition
(GW) |
 Stores
burning ashore at Suvla Bay following evacuation, 19 Dec 15
(GW) |
 Heroes
of Verdun paraded before General Gouraud
(GW) |
 Ruins
of Douaumont, photographed between attacks of Feb-Mar 1916
(GW) |
 Verdun
city street ruined by German bombardment kept clear for troops
(GW) |
 Huge
shell reserve behind French lines at Verdun
(GW) |
 The
first - Russian - armoured car seen in Tehran
(GW) |
 Salonika
during the Allies' occupation: view along the Quay
(GW) |
 Effects
of Russian artillery fire outside Turkish fort at Erzerum
(GW) |
 Russian
Cossacks on guard in Erzerum
(GW) |
 Last
stage of the Russian advance on Erzerum: the final assault
(GW) |
 4th
Division of Chasseurs on the Kargabazar Plateau, Jan 1916
(GW) |
 Erzerum
(GW) |
 The
defences of Scutari: the Citadel overlooking the lake
(GW) |
 The
road from Lovchen into King Nicholas's kingdom of Montenegro
(GW) |
 Canadian
infantry in a wood on the Western Front
(GW) |
 Irish
troops preparing to attack on the Western Front
(GW) |
 Ruins
of the Hotel de Ville in Arras
(GW) |
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