Vintage Photographs - Trenches
This section of the website contains archive photographs taken during, before and after the war. Specifically this sub-section contains photos of trench scenes or trench-related photography.
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 German
infantry in the trenches on the Belgian frontier
(GW) |
 British
troops in the trenches on the Western Front
(GW) |
 Italian
troops going over the top
(GW) |
 Italian
troops waiting to launch an attack
(GW) |
 Italian
troops resting in a conquered trench
(GW) |
 German
troops in bomb-proof shelters at the Front
(GW) |
 Pumping
out the British trenches in Flanders
(GW) |
 Destruction
of a trench in Flanders
(GW) |
 Constructing
a French trench in the winter of 1914-15
(GW) |
 The
Hyposcope in the trenches
(GW) |
 Campaign
in the Argonne Forest: French first-line trenches
(GW) |
 Entrance
to a Sap along the French Front
(GW) |
 Indian
troops firing from the trenches in Mesopotamia
(GW) |
 Austrian
trenches in the Carpathians
(GW) |
 A
Maxim gun in action on the British Front in Flanders
(GW) |
 Major-General
Sir A. G. Hunter-Weston near his dug-out
(GW) |
 Dugouts
for armoured cars in Gallipoli
(GW) |
 A
'sniperscope' in use in British trenches
(GW) |
 Behind
the firing-line at Anzac Cove: an Australian dug-out
(GW) |
 Royal
Irish Fusiliers in the trenches at Gallipoli
(GW) |
 French
soldiers in their trenches celebrating Italy's war entry
(GW) |
 Taking
the enemy's range with a Hyposcope: a masked Russian officer
(GW) |
 French
soldier writing a letter home in the doorway of his dug-out
(GW) |
 A
letter from home read in a dug-out
(GW) |
 In
the Advanced French front lines: snipers watching for a chance
(GW) |
 The
Royal Mail Service in Gallipoli: Wayside letter-box for troops
(GW) |
 A
German Hyposcope and field glass combined in the front lines
(GW) |
 First
Aid in the French front lines
(GW) |
 Barbed
wire entanglements in front of German trenches at Loos
(GW) |
 A
shattered German trench on the Western Front
(GW) |
 Serbian
infantry holding their trenches during the floods
(GW) |
 Shrapnel
shell bursting along the Allied line in France
(GW) |
 Lunch
in the Canadian trenches
(GW) |
 French
troops entering German trenches in Sabot Wood
(GW) |
 Canadian
infantry in the trenches
(GW) |
 British
infantry practising trench raids behind the firing line
(GW) |
 Armenians
defending Van against Kurd attack
(GW) |
 British
outpost on the lookout for a Bulgarian attack
(GW) |
 The
British line in the Balkans: digging new trenches
(GW) |
 Guarding
the approach to Kut: Turkish trenches at Es Sinn
(GW) |
 Turkish
entrenchments along the Tigris
(GW) |
 Belgian
infantry firing from the trenches at Vilvorde
(FF) |
 German
troops attacking a British trench, 1914
(GWS) |
 Firing
of a grenade from French trenches at Bois le Pretre
(GWS) |
 French
field kitchen in the vicinity of Neuvill St. Vaast
(GWS) |
 On
the alert in a French first-line trench
(GWS) |
 Barrier
of electrified wire in front a French trench
(GWS) |
 A
French communication trench
(GWS) |
 French
officers in possession of a mined German trench
(GWS) |
 Belgian
Viscount and companion in a trench wearing German helmets
(GWS) |
 In
a British trench at Ypres
(GWS) |
 French
machine gun crew in a twig-lined trench
(GWS) |
 Indian
troops firing from a trench in Mesopotamia
(GWS) |
 British
troops wearing sun helmets entrenched in the Persian Gulf
(GWS) |
 French
aerial torpedo about to be fired from a trench
(GWS) |
 French
soldiers using a machine gun in a trench at Neuville St Vaast
(GWS) |
 German
trench cut through a ruined farm
(GWS) |
 Weapon
used by German troops to fire projectiles from trenches
(GWS) |
 Germans
adapting a communication trench as a skittle alley
(GWS) |
 A
German hill trench
(GWS) |
 A
well-protected corner of the French firing line
(GWS) |
 French
officers watching the enemy through a trench periscope
(GWS) |
 Strongly
organised French trench over the Alsace border-line
(GWS) |
 French
soldiers leaving a trench for an attack on a German trench
(GWS) |
 French
gunners firing a German machine gun from a captured trench
(GWS) |
 German
trench under the Swiss frontier for storage purposes
(GWS) |
 French
sanitary officers examining captured German trench
(GWS) |
 German
trench shattered by tornado of British shells
(GWS) |
 German
prisoners of war being led through a French trench system
(GWS) |
 In
a control station: engineer officers in charge of mining operations
(GWS) |
 Boring
operations in an underground mine, somewhere in France
(GWS) |
 French
sappers at work underground: the making of a half-gallery
(GWS) |
 Interior
of a French trench in the Argonne
(GWS) |
 French
infantrymen throwing hand-grenade into a German trench
(GWS) |
 A
German trench in Arras
(GWS) |
 A
periscope field-glass in a German trench
(GWS) |
 Dismounted
cavalry defending a trench
(GWS) |
 Trench
towards the summit of Hartmannsweilerkopf in Alsace
(GWS) |
 French
soldier, overcome, being tended by his orderly under fire
(GWS) |
 French
War Minister Millerand in the trenches with General de Castelnau
(GWS) |
 French
War Minister Millerand touring the battlefront at Carency
(GWS) |
 French
War Minister Millerand touring the battlefront at Carency
(GWS) |
 French
War Minister Millerand passing through first line trenches
(GWS) |
 Firing
a French aerial torpedo
(GWS) |
 Adaptation
of a cross-bow for firing explosives in a French trench
(GWS) |
 Inspecting
a shelter found just behind the trenches of the first line
(GWS) |
 British
New Army recruits in trench training in Aldershot
(GWS) |
 Members
of the British National Guard in training
(GWS) |
 British
New Army recruits in trench training in Aldershot
(GWS) |
 A
street trench well barricaded, with ruins in the background
(GWS) |
 Kitchener,
Millerand and Joffre in north-eastern France
(GWS) |
 Lord
Kitchener, Joffre and Millerand in an advanced French trench
(GWS) |
 Lord
Kitchener watching the effect of French shellfire on German lines
(GWS) |
 Soldiers
of the Austrian Landsturm in the trenches in Russian Poland
(GWS) |
 Former
Durham miners preparing a practice sap
(GWS) |
 A
Yorkshire service battalion practicing trench digging and sapping
(GWS) |
 Former
Durham miners preparing a practice sap
(GWS) |
 A
Russian machine-gun in action in Poland
(GWS) |
 Austrian
trench view in the Carpathian Passes
(GWS) |
 A
British war dog used for trench sentry work in Flanders
(GWS) |
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