Historical Military Life

Black and white images of soldiers in trenches and camps from historical conflicts, illustrating the hardships and realities of war.

German World war one soldiers under fire, in a trench

German World war one soldiers under fire, in a trench

Living in the section Podgora Süd.

Bosniak with support to the water supply Karst area, south of Görz

Loading a Mountain Haubitzenbattery A 7.5 centimeter M15 mountain headquarters of Skoda is loading

Open field kitchen Infantry regiment 1.III / b. .

Art.BOB.Stand at the height Z.O. At Bruss. .

Gun transport, Studynka. .

Stand. Observation of Türk.feldhaubitzbatt.n.L at Kocina in the Ditch of the Lir.31. .

Position at IR.54. .

Infantry contactor in fire position. .

Own base Ostrand Good Kotlice, beyond the enemy altitude position. .

Untitled (soldiers beside railway tracks), circa 1915, maker unknown.

Swidniky: Railway security. .

Flimsabal Piave 20.18. .

American soldiers in an Italian trench, Italy, World War I, from l'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLV, No 42, October 20, 1918.

South African infantry in South West Africa 1914

Mine launcher a.D. Sonzofront.

Photo collection First World War. Photographs from the somme. Preparing The Way For Bringing Out A Captured German HoWitzer. 1914-1918}. France, Somme

Drill at Sinkow.

World War 1 - The Battle of Champagne, French colonial forces push forward towards the German lines after leaving their positions in the trenches, 1915.

World War I 1914-1918: German machine gun battery defending their position at Darkehmen against the Russian Russian Tenth army annihilated in Battle of the Mazurian Lakes 7-16 February 1915. Military, Weapon, Automatic

Field marklututnant Hofmann at lir.19.

Fire Suppression: Special Crews - California. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Archduke Karl with the German General Hermann of Opole Bronikowski in an artillery observation status west of Halisz, 20.9.1916 Archduke Karl was from June 1916, upper-commander of a section of the Eastern Front and commanded several armies between Brody and the Carpathians. As part of this commander, Archduke Karl inspected his associated units.

battalion approaching the front, Mont Pertois, France, First World War, 20 April 1917

Photo collection First World War. Canadian Official Photographs. German prisonors captured by the Canadians at Courcelette. September 15, 1916. Courcelette, France

Photo collection First World War. The Western Front. Hard work in The Mud. Pulling a Lewis gun Carriage Along. 1914-1918}

Artillery observation of the K.U.W.Battery 1/38 at the Narajowka. .

Photo collection First World War. The Balkan Front. Just About to Fire a Heavy Trench Howputzer. 1914-1918}. Balkans

The robbers make their escape into the woods. The Great Train Robbery 1903

German Maschain Gun Department at the Beusch Archduke Karls in Halytsch (Halics) on 24.8.1916 Archduke Karl was apparently on the front in October to October 1916 on the front in Eastern Europe

Trenching at Honved Infantry Regiment 308 Kutozow.

Soldier in trench checking with periscope where grenades strike in the battlefield at Diksmuide in Flanders during WWI, Belgium, Europe

Photo collection First World War. The Front in France. A Halt On The Way From The Trenches. 1914-1918}. France

Russia. July 1942. Soldiers waiting for a Bolshevik attack. In their snowy trenches, the heroic Spanish volunteers await an enemy attack, with their machine guns ready.

Presumably a photo gallery of a honing unit with field of application in Galicia.

Zero hour! Prompt to the second, our men go over the top in a grand assault on Wytschaete Wood, Realistic Travels, 1914 - 1918 stereograph Flanders cardboard. photographic support gelatin silver print trenches. private soldier

Photo collection First World War. The Salonika Front. Wounded Being Sent to the Hospitals on the Light Railway. 1914-1918}. Greece, Saloniki

Japanese units bombing Russian communist Khabarovsk. 1920.

Photo collection First World War. The Front in France. Captured German prisoners in a trench waiting to be marched to a cage .. 1914-1918}. France

Confederate soldiers man cannon in an artillery battery near Charleston, SC in 1861. In April 1861, CSA forces besieged the Federal garrisoned Fort Sumter from several points around Charleston harbor at the beginning of the US Civil War (BSLOC_2018_6_106)

Photo collection First World War. The British Western Front in France. Attack on the Hindenburg line.troops advancing from trenches to support .. 1914-1918}. France

Fotocollectie Eerste Wereldoorlog. Official photograph of the British western front in France. British Troops collecting the debris of a house destroyed by shell-fire in order to use it for strengthening dug-outs (abris). 1914-1918}. Frankrijk

Photo collection First World War. The Front in France. Carrying a Wounded man down to an ambulance. 1914-1918}. France

Schützenregiment 33, Zarzece at the Stochod machine gun for aircraft department in position.

Defense cannon at Selo. .

Art.Bachter at Kostanjevica.26.8.17. .

Warehouse Turks.

Nationalist soldiers at a captured outpost during the Spanish Civil War

Encounter with a mountaineer patrol in the stalkelin north wall.

Flyer defense gun.

Visit Erzherzog's Karl at the 36th Infantry Division on 24.8.1916, troops Archduke Karl was from June 1916, upper-commander of a sub-section of the Eastern Front and commanded several armies between Brody and the Carpathians. As part of this commander, Archduke Karl inspected his associated units.

Construction of a machine rifle stand at INF. RGT. NGO.57. .

This photo shows homeless Allied families, with their belongings piled onto carts, which they must drag, as they try to escape from the path of invaders from the Central Powers.

Accommodation of a Baons Komage at Piave Dam 15.3.18. .

Photo collection First World War. The Front in France. German Machine Guns and Minissefers Captured at Gheluvelt in front of a German Pill-Box. 1914-1918}. Belgium, Geluveld

World war One: British troops taken to battle in France 1917

Photo collection First World War. Photograph of the 2nd Zeppelin Brought Down 24/9/1916. Lord French Spent A Considerable Time Examining Every Part. September 24, 1916. Great Britain

Hand -M.G. flyer defense Chapellenberg. .

Grenade cross-bow launcher, old and new French weapons, France, World War I, L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLII, 39 September 26, 1915.

Crossroads of the new one with an old road. Crossroads of the new road with an old road, Dutch and workers posing at a large tree stump. Stacked photo in an album with 107 photos about the construction of the Gajoegweg on North Sumatra between Bireuen and Takenuen between 1903-1914.

Photo collection First World War. German artillerists. 1914-1918}

Gebirgshaubitze Bamestaplateau.

30.5cm mortar tube crates in the Asticotal. .

Balons-Interkunff A.D. Piave 19.18. .

Inspecting by its excellence General of the Infantry Succovaty v. Vezza at the field hunter battalion 32 in the castle trench.

'Notre attaque du 24 octobre 1916; Dans le secteur du bois Fumin, a midi trente: un poste de commandement s'installe dans la Grande Carriere. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 1" L'Illustration, Paris, 1924.

Photo collection First World War. The British Advance in The West. Salvage. Bringing in Rifles and Equipment Fron "No Man's Land" .. 1914-1918}

War album 107, picture 32846.

1860s FEDERAL BATTERY WITH THREE 13 INCH SEACOAST MORTARS MODEL 1861 USED DURING THE SIEGE OF YORKTOWN VIRGINIA CIRCA 1862

Bombing at Svartälv's railway. Between the air strikes.

Russian soldiers dead after storming German defenses during World War I, circa 1917

Road against Mandrielle. Prisoner collection point. .

Europe: July 15, 1916 A German machine gun crew firing upon the enemy 200 meters away.The crew is under a bomb proof shelter and is firing 600 bullets a minute.

Battleground with hand grenade launcher Landwehrinfanterieregimentes 24.

Photograph Taken by the Germans in Praga, Poland. Original Caption in German: "Der Ring um Warschau ist geschlossen. LIG in Feuerstellung vor Praga. Bei Praga, nordostl. Vorort von Warschau. Polen." English Translation: "The ring around Warsaw is closed. LIG in firing position in front of Praga. At Praga, northeastern. Suburb of Warsaw. Poland." Original English Caption: "Warsaw is completely encircled by the German Army...Light Infantry gun in firing position at Praga.". Photographs taken by Propaganda Units of the German Armed Forces (Wehrmacht) and the Waffen-SS

In the fire battle, Royal Saxon Protection Regiment No. 108Dresden. In the fire battle, Schützenregiment No. 108

British & French artillery observers

Cost'alta (Lavarone Plateau) Artillery website in the infantry raven. .

Al Hoceima (Morocco), 09/08/1925. Cannon taken from the enemy when the Tercio forces landed on Cebadilla beach.

Sistiana-Monfalcone railway tunnel occupied by Italian troops, June 1, 1917, Italy, World War I, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLIV, No 25, June 24, 1917.

Italian line along the Piave. Circa 1918.

A rest day behind the front in Veneto 21.1.18. .

British soldiers with German prisoners of war, northern France, First World War, 1916, (c1920). 'Prisoners in British Hands: bringing in a batch of wounded during the Battle of the Somme'. From "The Great World War: A History", Volume VI, edited by Frank A Mumby. The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd, London, c1920

Photograph of the bog trenches troops in New Guinea had to endure. Dated 1941

Technical Course.Contream Machine. .

Grenade launcher at the 6th Comp. of Gren.reg.3.

'General Aylmer Hunter-Weston', (1919). Creator: Unknown.

Stalingrad, Russia December 9, 1942Red Army guardsmen firing at a sector of Stalingrad held by German automatic riflemen. Step by step, important sectors of the city are being cleared of enemy forces.

'Dragging the Guns to New Advance Positions', (1919). Creator: Unknown.

Infantry on the march in the trenches near Tieleng, Manchuria , Soldiers, Campaigns & battles, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905

French infantry rest during in a battle; World War One

A group of Siberian partisans at a makeshift gun, during the Russian Civil War. 1919.

Bivouac of Italian soldiers amongst the pinewoods of the Asiago plateau, Italy, World War I, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLIII, No 33, August 13, 1916.

Trenches at Honved Infantry Regiment 309, Sosnow.

French soldiers go into battle as they climb out of a trench, in eastern France, France, during world war one. 1916

Bridgehead Siemikowce, storm defense in the position.

1910s 1917 369th INFANTRY AFRICAN-AMERICAN REGIMENT HARLEM HELLFIGHTERS 15TH NEW YORK SOLDIERS IN TRENCHES DURING WORLD WAR 1

Photo collection First World War. The British Western Front. Pounding The German Lines With A Big Naval Gun. 1914-1918}

Photographs depicting military activities in France, May - June 1940. Included photographs of Rommel, Guderian, Dreuz, Bottcher, Italian General Garaboldi, Lucie Rommel, shots of Rommel with Hitler. Photographs of equipment and troops arriving and in action, from the personal collection of Rommel.

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