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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 British
troops charging through clouds created by smoke bombs
(GW) |
 French
infantry advancing in open order along exposed roadway
(GW) |
 Village
under Turkish control on the Tigris set on fire by British
(GW) |
 A
British officers' camp flooded out on the Tigris
(GW) |
 British
reinforcements for the Tigris relief force
(GW) |
 General
view of Kut-el-Amara from the River Tigris
(GW) |
 British
marines building entanglements outside Antwerp
(FF) |
 Belgian
army retreating through Lokoren, 1914
(FF) |
 Rearguard
of the retreating Antwerp garrison, 1914
(FF) |
 The
bombardment of Antwerp
(FF) |
 German
soldier killed at the battle of Alost
(FF) |
 Editor
of the Chicago Tribune filming at the battle of Waelhem
(FF) |
 A
Belgian village in flames, 1914
(FF) |
 Effect
of a Zeppelin bomb dropped in Antwerp, 1914
(FF) |
 Effect
of a Zeppelin bomb on a hospital in Antwerp, 1914
(FF) |
 Acres
of barbed wire entanglements encircling Antwerp
(FF) |
 The
Belgian army retreating through Antwerp
(FF) |
 Half
of the Marche aux Souliers was destroyed by fire from bombardment
(FF) |
 The
ruins of Aerschot
(FF) |
 Termonde,
destroyed by German fire post evacuation
(FF) |
 A
Belgian field kitchen
(FF) |
 Belgian
armoured motor car
(FF) |
 Destruction
at Louvain, 1914
(FF) |
 German
army at a crossroads on the Franco-Belgian frontier
(FF) |
 An
armoured train in action near Boom with a 4.7 naval gun
(FF) |
 Steel
bridge at Termonde detonated by the Belgians, 1914
(FF) |
 A
bridge at Termonde destroyed by shellfire
(FF) |
 A
bridge of boats across the Aisne
(GWS) |
 French
troops mending clothes and shoes between fighting
(GWS) |
 A
street in battle-scarred Carency
(GWS) |
 On
the roof of a British officers' bomb-proof shelter
(GWS) |
 The
scene of fierce fighting near Arras
(GWS) |
 Indian
soldiers in a native mule waggon in a French village
(GWS) |
 General
Joffre presenting decorations after the Battle of Arras
(GWS) |
 Wounded
British soldiers receiving tea at a French railway station
(GWS) |
 British
officials in Asia Minor enjoying a rest in the desert
(GWS) |
 A
French burial party on the Western Front
(GWS) |
 Effects
of a German shell dropping next to a British transport waggon
(GWS) |
 A
section of German barbed wire rushed by the British
(GWS) |
 French
staff-officers observing a mine explosion under a German trench
(GWS) |
 German
shell bursting over Ypres
(GWS) |
 A
street in shell-shattered Arras
(GWS) |
 View
of the Shat-el-Arab near Basra
(GWS) |
 British
position in Mesopotamia with the Euphrates over its banks
(GWS) |
 Kurna
following its capture by British forces
(GWS) |
 Indian
cavalry advancing under difficulties near Basra
(GWS) |
 British
army officers in front of their billets at Ypres
(GWS) |
 Dorsets
advancing near Basra through mostly flooded roads
(GWS) |
 Indian
cavalry on the march on the flooded Shaiba road
(GWS) |
 British/Belgian
forces fighting together during the Antwerp retreat
(GWS) |
 General
Botha's column awaiting orders to enter Windhoek
(GWS) |
 A
German barricade captured by the French at Neuville St Vaast
(GWS) |
 Abandoned
barricades at entrance to war-torn French village
(GWS) |
 A
by-way amid the ruins at Mont St Eloi
(GWS) |
 Interior
of the library at Ypres following German bombardment
(GWS) |
 Motor-mounted
searchlight/heliograph used by Botha's campaign
(GWS) |
 Armoured
cars at Windhoek
(GWS) |
 German
forces in Windhoek in German S.W. Africa
(GWS) |
 Rough
and ready Allied troop train in German S.W. Africa
(GWS) |
 The
captured German port of Swakopmund in German S.W. Africa
(GWS) |
 French
soldiers holding a German grenade
(GWS) |
 Italian
artillery in action on the Austro-Italian border
(GWS) |
 A
field kitchen presented by the city of Manchester to the Belgian
army
(GWS) |
 French
soldiers laying a mine
(GWS) |
 Officer
of French 4th Army Corps receiving a British decoration
(GWS) |
 French
outpost on alert behind a barricade in Alsace-Lorraine
(GWS) |
 British
soldiers after fighting at Festubert
(GWS) |
 French
colonial troops building a bomb-proof shelter
(GWS) |
 Italian
troops advancing to attack Monte Nero
(GWS) |
 Belgian
priest conducting soldiers to an ambulance at Ypres
(GWS) |
 Italian
artillery column taking a brief rest on the battlefront
(GWS) |
 Italian
cavalry making a halt for refreshment
(GWS) |
 Italian
infantry firing through the mist on the mountainside
(GWS) |
 A
detachment of Alpini entrenched behind snow barricade in Julian Alps
(GWS) |
 Alpini
on march through Austro-Italian border mountain pass
(GWS) |
 R.A.M.C.
stretcher party carrying wounded in Gallipoli
(GWS) |
 German
trenches on the Braunkopf Hill, Alsace, under fire
(GWS) |
 View
from outside Cairo railway station
(GWS) |
 Wounded
Allied soldiers waiting at Cairo's railway station
(GWS) |
 Wounded
Allied soldiers from Gallipoli attending Church at Cairo
(GWS) |
 The
Braunkopf, Alsace, stormed and taken by the French, 20 June 1915
(GWS) |
 German
trenches on Braunkopf Hill, Alsace, bombarded by French
(GWS) |
 French
gunners firing a German machine gun from a captured trench
(GWS) |
 Priest
blessing the graves of fallen soldiers in the Woevre
(GWS) |
 Joseph
Joffre addressing troops in Alsace
(GWS) |
 German
trench shattered by tornado of British shells
(GWS) |
 Official
French war artist M. Jonas in action in Flanders
(GWS) |
 Battleground
photo taken after a charge by French infantry
(GWS) |
 British
piano convert delivered amidst the rain
(GWS) |
 British
troops listening to a concert given in 1915
(GWS) |
 British
soldiers packed up for home at St Omer
(GWS) |
 British
soldiers stcking barbed wire for the Front
(GWS) |
 British
Royal Engineers hauling ammunitions waggons
(GWS) |
 Lutheran
pastor preaching to German soldiers near Soissons
(GWS) |
 French
Roman Catholic service in northern France
(GWS) |
 Shattered
German trench at Hill 125, among the ruins of Carency
(GWS) |
 View
from a street in bombarded Carency
(GWS) |
 Bombarded
town of Carency
(GWS) |
 French
Alpine infantry holding the cemetery at Souchez
(GWS) |
 French
railway engineers at work in the Argonne
(GWS) |
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