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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 Russian
soldiers abandoning their lines in Galicia
(CNP) |
 Riga,
the Baltic port occupied by the Germans
(CNP) |
 General
von Emmich at Liege, August 1914
(CNP) |
 Famous
City Hall of Louvain
(CNP) |
 Belgian
refugees at the port of Ostend
(CNP) |
 Pontoon
bridge from Antwerp over the Scheldt, 1914
(CNP) |
 German
telephone post on the Western Front
(CNP) |
 Bringing
up a Belgian field gun, 1914
(CNP) |
 French
on the firing line at the First Battle of the Marne
(CNP) |
 Austrian
field works on the Galician Front
(CNP) |
 Women
of Shavli, Kovno, returning to their burned homes
(CNP) |
 French
officers on Hartmannsweilerkopf in the Vosges
(CNP) |
 Repairing
a railway bridge over the Dunajec
(CNP) |
 Russian
Cossacks passing through a village in Galicia
(CNP) |
 Russian
officers and peasants watching an Austrian bombardment
(CPE) |
 A
French military kitchen not far from the battlefront
(CPE) |
 Barrage
fire at night
(CNP) |
 Reinforcements
and supplies for the French troops near Verdun
(CPE) |
 Canadian
soldiers enjoying a holiday behind the Western Front
(CNP) |
 British
troops advancing by auto
(CNP) |
 Russian
cavalry crossing the Danube River into Romania
(CNP) |
 Old
fortifications of Verdun
(CNP) |
 Romanian
red hussars on the firing line
(CNP) |
 Road
to Cumieres through the Bois de Corbeau
(CNP) |
 Challenging
an automobile at night on the Marne
(CNP) |
 A
tunnel on Dead Man Hill, Verdun, filled with German dead
(CNP) |
 On
Dead Man Hill (Le Mort Homme), near Verdun
(CNP) |
 British
Lewis gunners hunting aeroplanes in the Balkans
(CNP) |
 Italian
advance in difficult conditions
(CNP) |
 Firing
a rocket alarm
(CNP) |
 Turkish
flags captured by Russian forces at Erzerum, February 1916
(CPE) |
 Italian
soldiers crossing a stream under fire
(CPE) |
|
On
Dead Man Hill (Le Mort Homme), near Verdun
(CNP) |
British
Lewis gunners hunting aeroplanes in the Balkans
(CNP) |
 Old
German lines on Messines Ridge, Belgium
(CNP) |
 Occupying
shell holes on the British front
(CNP) |
 Revolver
practice for American soldiers abroad
(CNP) |
 Removing
wounded men from the battle front
(CNP) |
 Field
drill for American soldiers in France
(CNP) |
 Australian
soldiers in Belgium studying a model of Messines Ridge
(CNP) |
 American
field artillery resting after march
(CNP) |
 Moving
a French gun on the Somme battle front
(CNP) |
 Camouflaged
soldier
(CNP) |
 Serbian
lines after victory over the Bulgarians
(CPE) |
 American
dispensary on Grecourt on the Somme
(CNP) |
 American
engineers behind the British lines
(CNP) |
 A
view of Baghdad from the left bank of the Tigris
(CPE) |
 British
soldiers sent to relieve Kut-el-Amara at a religious ceremony
(CPE) |
 Armoured
cars on the British Indian border
(CPE) |
 British
Tommies pulling a field gun out of the mud
(CNP) |
 Ypres
in the autumn of 1917
(CNP) |
 French
and American officers reviewing American troops
(CNP) |
 French
artillery regiment reviewed by French and U.S. officers
(CNP) |
 Remarkable
German periscope
(CNP) |
 British
engineers bridging flooded ground in Flanders
(CNP) |
 French
position near Steenstraete on the Yser under bombardment
(CNP) |
 Camouflaged
road through a ruined town
(CNP) |
 French
snipers sheltered in the ruins of a village
(CNP) |
 A
view of Thiepval on the Somme, captured by the British
(CPE) |
 American
congressmen visiting the citadel of Verdun
(CNP) |
 Beginning
barrage fire in Champagne
(CNP) |
 The
Vardar valley, highway between Salonika and Nish
(CPE) |
 Oil
wells destroyed in the Romanian retreat
(CPE) |
 Consolidating
a captured position on the Aisne front
(CNP) |
 French
soldiers going into a curtain of fire
(CPE) |
 Damascus
Gate, Jerusalem
(CNP) |
 Jerusalem,
taken by British troops, December 1917
(CNP) |
 The
Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem
(CNP) |
 Bombardment
in the mountains of the Austro-Italian frontier
(CNP) |
 German
concrete pill-box
(CNP) |
 An
Austrian mountain corps
(CPE) |
 The
city of Verdun from the canal
(CPE) |
 Centre
of German resistance on the Western Front
(CNP) |
 Difficult
Austrian advance in the Tyrol
(CNP) |
 French
charge on the farm of Mennejeav, region of Chemin des Dames
(CNP) |
 Charge
in the region of the Chemin des Dames
(CNP) |
 French
ski runners in the Vosges mountains
(CNP) |
 Americans
at field drill in France
(CNP) |
 Italian
sentry in the snow
(CNP) |
 General
Allenby entering Jerusalem through the Jaffa Gate
(CNP) |
 Allenby
receiving the notables of Jerusalem in barrack square
(CNP) |
 Allenby
reading the proclamation of Military Law in Jerusalem
(CNP) |
 French
pontoon bridges across the Meuse
(CPE) |
 The
village of Vaux after bombardment
(CPE) |
 Cossacks
entering the captured fortress of Przemysl
(NW) |
 Japanaese
bombardment at Tsing-tau
(CPE) |
 German
battery in the snows of Poland
(CPE) |
 Austrians
laying a field telephone across a stream
(NW) |
 Ruins
of Louvain
(CPE) |
 French
military car picking up the dead
(CPE) |
 Ruins
at Longwy
(CPE) |
 German
sappers wrecking Allied train line
(CPE) |
 German
signal corps cutting enemy telegraph wires
(CPE) |
 Belgian
armoured train used in defence of Antwerp
(CPE) |
 Bombardment
of Antwerp
(CPE) |
 German
observers in the Argonne
(CPE) |
 Cross
marked graves of soldiers in northern France
(CPE) |
 German
watch on the Yser
(CPE) |
 Winter
in Flanders
(CPE) |
 After
a snowstorm in France
(CPE) |
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