Vintage Photographs - Refugees
This section of the website contains archive photographs taken during, before and after the war. Specifically this sub-section contains photography representative of the many hundreds of thousands of refugees created by the violent upheavals of war.
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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.
 Armenian
refugee camp at Port Said
(WW) |
 Armenian
refugees escape to Egypt
(WW) |
 Armenian
refugees
(WW) |
 Refugees
from the great Halifax disaster at the armoury
(CNP) |
 Belgian
refugees at the port of Ostend
(CNP) |
 Armenian
refugees
(CPE) |
 Little
French refugees
(WW) |
 French
refugees return home after the end of the war
(WW) |
 French
refugees return to what was once a home and restaurant
(WW) |
 French
family reclaim buried valuables after the war
(WW) |
 Roads
in Belgium filled with homeless wanderers
(NW) |
 Belgian
refugees flee from outlying villages to Brussels
(NW) |
 Belgian
refugees flee with a dog cart and its contents
(NW) |
 Refugees
from Antwerp write on a fence to tell of their whereabouts
(NW) |
 Dogs
used instead of horses by Belgian refugees
(NW) |
 Belgian
refugees resting on their way out of Antwerp
(NW) |
 Thousands
of Belgian refugees reaching Holland
(NW) |
 Refugees
in a church in France
(NW) |
 A
widow who has lost both husband and home
(NW) |
 Polish
refugees
(NW) |
 French
refugees
(NW) |
 Belgian
refugees
(MF) |
 Serbian
refugees fleeing to Greece by train
(CPE) |
 Refugees
fleeing to Brussels for safety
(CPE) |
 Three
female refugees whose husbands were killed
(CPE) |
 Refugees
in Serbia
(CPE) |
 Russian
refugees from Poland on the way home
(CPE) |
 Children
whose parents were lost during the Great Retreat
(NW) |
 Serbian
refugees on the road
(NW) |
 Serbian
refugees bound for Corsica
(NW) |
 Serbian
refugees arriving at Salonika on Christmas morning
(NW) |
 Serbian
women driven from their homes by German forces
(NW) |
 Serbian
refugees en route to Corsica
(NW) |
 Armenian
refugee armed with a Browning revolver
(GW) |
 French
sailors embarking Armenian refugees
(GW) |
 17-year-old
Belgian girl who had lost her entire family and home
(FF) |
 A
Polish refugee
(GWS) |
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A Town Major was a staff officer responsible for billeting arrangements in a town or village behind the lines.
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