Vintage Photographs - Troops
This section of the website contains archive photographs taken during, before and after the war. Specifically this sub-section contains photos of servicemen and women.
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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.
 Cossacks
(NW) |
 German
volunteers
(NW) |
 British
marines disembarking at Ostend to a rousing reception
(NW) |
 Bavarian
corps passing Hercules Fountain in Augsburg, Germany
(NW) |
 A
Belgian sentry
(NW) |
 Indian
soldiers on their way to France
(NW) |
 Belgian
recruits parade London streets
(NW) |
 Making
friends with the Belgians
(NW) |
 Dutch
soldiers on their way to guard the frontier
(NW) |
 English
Sportsmens' Battalion on the march
(NW) |
 U.S.
members of the French Foreign Legion
(NW) |
 Circassian
troops in bivouac
(NW) |
 An
Egyptian camel corps on review
(NW) |
 French
standard bearer of the Turcos
(NW) |
 French
soldier
(NW) |
 Australian
troops taking a swim at Alexandria
(NW) |
 Serbian
volunteers who had no rifles
(NW) |
 Romanian
troops
(NW) |
 Heliograph
signallers with the Turkish Army
(NW) |
 Serbian
volunteers on roll call
(NW) |
 Romanian
cavalry
(NW) |
 Regiment
from Tunis fighting for France in the Argonne
(NW) |
 Cheerful
French soldiers
(NW) |
 U.S.
members of the Foreign Legion waiting for a train near Rheims
(NW) |
 An
Indian soldier in France
(NW) |
 French
soldiers wearing steel helmets
(NW) |
 French
poilus behind Verdun waiting to go into action
(NW) |
 South
African volunteers arriving at Cape Town
(NW) |
 Canadian
motorcycle corps
(NW) |
 Some
of the men who fought the Germans in Africa
(NW) |
 French
reserves on the way to the trenches
(NW) |
 Indian
soldiers on the way to the front lines in France
(NW) |
 British
soldiers outside a cattle truck
(MF) |
 British
signallers
(MF) |
 British
troops on parade
(MF) |
 French
Hindu troops
(MF) |
 British
troops
(MF) |
 British
trooper posing
(MF) |
 Hindus
eating, 1914
(MF) |
 South
African artillery embarking
(NW) |
 New
clothes for the fighting line
(NW) |
 German
infantryman leaving his billet for the Front
(NW) |
 German
soldiers' farewell as they leave their billet
(NW) |
 Arrival
of U.S. troops in Liverpool
(HW) |
 A
Lancer from Bengal
(GW) |
 Men
of Strathcona's Horse
(GW) |
 A
regiment of Indian Lancers preparing to charge
(GW) |
 Captain
Francis Octavus Grenfell, V.C.
(GW) |
 Japanese
infantry resting in the field
(GW) |
 Troops
from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa
(GW) |
 Wounded
French colonial troops returning to the Front
(GW) |
 German
Cavalry contingent in South-West Africa
(GW) |
 A
Russian Cossack
(GW) |
 Canadian
troops' first Sunday in Britain
(GW) |
 Serbian
soldier of 12 years old who fought in Belgrade
(GW) |
 A
group of loyalists during the South African revolt
(GW) |
 Syrian
troops in the Sinai Peninsula
(GW) |
 Indian
forces unloading baggage at Alexandra Dock, Bombay
(GW) |
 Indian
forces on the march in France
(GW) |
 King
Albert reviewing the Belgian 75th Regiment
(GW) |
 Gurkhas
in campaigning kit
(GW) |
 Men
of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in training
(GW) |
 Belgian
soldiers with their black helmets hidden in straw
(GW) |
 King
George V inspecting the Honourable Artillery Company
(GW) |
 The
London Scottish at rollcall after fighting at Ypres, 31 Oct 1914
(GW) |
 Indian
reinforcements who fought at Givenchy in December 1914
(GW) |
 Winter
kit among German troops
(GW) |
 Part
of the Sirhind Brigade which took part in fighting at Givenchy
(GW) |
 Members
of the Irregular Kurdish Cavalry fighting the Russians
(GW) |
 German
Colonial Horse in South-West Africa
(GW) |
 Turkish
forces in campaigning kit
(GW) |
 Princess
Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry
(GW) |
 Germany's
colonial allies: native infantry in East Africa
(GW) |
 Belgian
volunteer Mlle Leroy, 15 years old
(GW) |
 French
colonial reinforcements lining up with long bayonets fixed
(GW) |
 Bersaglieri
on the march
(GW) |
 French
troops in Egypt preparing to march past Sir Ian Hamilton
(GW) |
 Indian
forces on their way to the Front in Flanders
(GW) |
 Members
of the famed Foncorijski Regiment cheering King George V
(GW) |
 French
infantrymen in their new 'tricolour grey' uniform
(GW) |
 Algerians
on the Western Front
(GW) |
 Private
John Hamilton, V.C.
(GW) |
 Bulgaria's
Levies lined up for inspection
(GW) |
 Private
George Peachmont, V.C.
(GW) |
 The
first contingent of British troops for Serbia loading at Salonika
(GW) |
 Captain
A. M. Read, V.C.
(GW) |
 Lieutenant
Kent receiving the Military Cross
(GW) |
 Highlanders
in the Balkans
(GW) |
 Russian
troops mustering in Siberia
(GW) |
 French
soldiers being decorated for service in Champagne
(GW) |
 Russian
Cavalry column on the road on the Eastern Front
(GW) |
 Indian
troops on the march
(GW) |
 Canadian
2nd Division troops marching past King George V
(GW) |
 Officers
and men of the Northumberland Fusiliers, late March 1916
(GW) |
 French
Poilu wearing a steel helmet
(GW) |
 British
steel helmet
(GW) |
 Indian
Horse Transport for the Tigris Force
(GW) |
 Indian
Cavalry regiment on the march in Mesopotamia
(GW) |
 Anzac
troops being inspected by General Joffre on the Western Front
(GW) |
 British
10th Mule Corps on parade at Basra
(GWS) |
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