Vintage Photographs - Home Front
This section of the website contains archive photographs taken during, before and after the war. Specifically this sub-section contains photos of service on the various home fronts of the war.
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 House
damaged by shellfire at Lowestoft
(GW) |
 French
crowds welcome decorated Anzac troops at Marseille
(GW) |
 Wrecked
convalescent home at Lowestoft - the Matron's Room
(GW) |
 5,000
women waiting for bread at the Hotel de Ville at Malines
(FF) |
 Motor-transport
waggon passing the Colosseum in Rome
(GWS) |
 Protective
measures for the statue of Bartolommeo Colleoni
(GWS) |
 Effects
of an anti-German demonstration in Milan, 1915
(GWS) |
 "The
Horses of St. Mark" moved from Venice to a place of safety
(GWS) |
 Palace
of the Doges, Venice, protected by sandbags
(GWS) |
 Palace
of the Doges, Venice, protected by sandbags
(GWS) |
 Doges'
Palace in Venice strengthened by solid pillars of brickwork
(GWS) |
 Initial
mobilisation in an Italian town, April 1915
(GWS) |
 Wounded
German soldiers receiving money from the Berlin army pay office
(GWS) |
 German
soldiers receiving Russian language training in Berlin
(GWS) |
 The
new cathedral and the royal palace, Berlin
(GWS) |
 Removing
the Imperial Insignia from the German Embassy, London, 1914
(GWS) |
 Berlin
crowds witnessing a parade of captured Allied weaponry
(GWS) |
 Children
with metal kitchen instruments to a Berlin collection depot
(GWS) |
 German
high-explosive shells being packed in wicker baskets
(GWS) |
 Maimed
German soldiers learning to write with their left hand
(GWS) |
 Berlin
children being cared for while their parents are off on service
(GWS) |
 Red
Cross nurses distributing gifts to German soldiers off to the Front
(GWS) |
 German
civilians donating gold rings to government officials
(GWS) |
 Berlin
govt staff sifting through donated gold and silver jewellery
(GWS) |
 Piles
of plate and jewellery donated by Berlin civilians to the govt
(GWS) |
 Guard
at a bombarded French village with their Mayor
(GWS) |
 Wounded
French soldiers at the national fete day, 14 July 1915
(GWS) |
 The
British Houses of Parliament viewed from the Embankment
(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) |
 Lord
Kitchener calling for more British recruits, London, 9 July 1915
(GWS) |
 Highland
officers in training north of the Tweed
(GWS) |
 Newley
decorated V.C.'s leaving Buckingham Palace
(GWS) |
 Grenadiers
at sniping practice on Wimbledon Common
(GWS) |
 Members
of the British Inns of Courts Officers Training Corps
(GWS) |
 Troops
assisting in the harvest fields in Kent
(GWS) |
 Haymaking
in France
(GWS) |
 Haymaking
in France
(GWS) |
 The
Lord-Provost of Edinburgh at an inspection
(GWS) |
 Troops
assisting in the harvest fields in Kent
(GWS) |
 King
George V and his staff on Salisbury Plain at Stonehenge
(GWS) |
 A
Paris anti-aircraft gun and its crew
(GWS) |
 General
view of Moscow
(GWS) |
 The
Nevsky Prospect, Petrograd
(GWS) |
 Yorkshire
light infantry guarding a Dublin railway in 1914
(GWS) |
 British
Territorials guarding the railway at Rochester
(GWS) |
 German
civilians cheering Kaiser Wilhelm II in August 1914
(GWS) |
 Shop
bearing German and Austrian names destroyed in Paris
(GWS) |
 Crowds
gathering outside the Bank of England at the start of the war
(GWS) |
 A
run on a Paris savings bank at the start of the war
(GWS) |
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