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World War I Trenches and Warfare

Historical images of soldiers in trenches, constructing defenses, and navigating battlefields during World War I, revealing the harsh conditions of war.

Life in the trenches on the Italian front, World War I, photo by A Merchants from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLIII, No 11, March 12, 1916.
Life in the trenches on the Italian front, World War I, photo by A Merchants from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLIII, No 11, March 12, 1916.
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British ophthalmic hospital, Jerusalem, 1918 Israel
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Observation from German Trenches
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British army supplies are taken with great difficulty over the muddy fields of Flanders in Belgium in 1915; during world war one. Flanders (and Belgium as a whole) saw some of the greatest loss of life on the Western Front of the First World War; in particular from the three battles of Ypres. Due to the hundreds of thousands of casualties at Ypres
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LEW AYRES in ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930), directed by LEWIS MILESTONE.
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Val Cesilla. Italian soldier's eyes. .
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WASTER RATHERS A.D.IANCE LOCAL. .
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Photo collection Government information service. High Veluwe Conference concerning Indonesia on hunting lodge St. Hubertus. Soldiers guard the area. April 9, 1946. Hoge Veluwe, Otterlo
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Leaners at Piavedamm.
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A break at work along the line between Ulricehamn and Jönköping.
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Indian soldiers taking part in World War One as part of the British forces in Belgium and france. 1915
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12/31/1949. Giving Haughty Guard To Cuenca, The Mogotes Engallados Abound.
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French soldiers in front of a trench in 1917.
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King George in the act of shooting a charging rhinoceros, in the Nepalese jungle. Tense moment during his big-game hunting expedition as the guest for ten days of the Prime Minister and virtual ruler, the Maharajah Sir Cahndra Shamsher Jang of Nepal, during Durbar celebrations. Date: 1911
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Grave digger. 1898. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Funeral rites & ceremonies, Coffins, Lifting & carrying, Gravedigging
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Capture of Messines Ridge; King George V, with Canadian General Currie on his left, on ground conquered at Vimy and Messines', 1917. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" L'Illustration, Paris, 1924 .
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Military engineers repairing dikes along the river Yser, IJzer at Nieuwpoort in Flanders during the First World War, Belgium, Europe
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Bucy-le-Long, Aisne, France Four soldiers of a section of machine gunners in shooting with a Saint-Etienne machine gun , 1917 - Aisne - Fernand Cuville (photographic section of the army) - (May -July) (French - Bucy-le-Long , Aisne , France Quatre soldats d' une section de mitrailleurs en situation de tir avec une mitrailleuse de type Saint-Etienne). Military uniform, exists in high definition, group portrait, ruins, front, weapon, hairy, man, army, Clothing, HD, human beings, First World War, Society, France, Bucy-le-Long, section of machine gunners
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KaverNeausTatch des i.r.30 II.
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Members of the Touring Club Italiano in the Segesta Amphitheater. 1924
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Mareuil-la-Motte, Oise, Picardie, France Piece of artillery of 75 arranged to shoot planes, and its staff , 1915 - Picardie - Stéphane Passet (French - Mareuil-la-Motte , Oise , Picardie , France Pièce d' artillerie de 75 disposée pour tirer sur avions , et son personnel). Military uniform, group portrait, cannon, front, hairy, artillery, man, army, Clothing, human beings, First World War, society, France, 75 piece arranged to shoot aircraft, and its staff
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Death Bed on Leyte Island. Casualties were reported as light on this stretch of the Leyte beach, but Japanese 37mm guns collected a toll of American life. A Coast Guard combat photographer found this dead soldier, who came in with the fourth wave, laid out carefully of a folding army cot by a pair of his saddened buddies.
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Storm course.30 cm spotlight. .
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Photo collection First World War. The Front in France. The German Offensive. Tank Moving to Assist in Holding The German Offensive .. 1914-1918}. France
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Princess Royal Visits Troop Station -- The Princess Royal, leaving The Air Raid shelter after her inspection. H.R.H. The Princess Royal, paid a visit to a Troop station, "Somewhere in the North", for a Tour of inspection during which she inspected Red Cross Nurses, and an Army Air Raid Shelter. April 27, 1940. (Photo by Keystone)
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A dead rebel soldier, inside the Union picket lines, US, USA, America, Vintage photography
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Photo collection First World War. The Salonica Front. Dova Tepe Fort (Greek). 1914-1918}. Dova Tepe, Greece
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The Italian flag on Monte Santo. Circa 1917.
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Shabs, storm exercises: inspecting the storm course exercise by Feldmarschall Freiherr Conrad von Hötzendorf. .
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Serbs flee as refugees before the advance of Austrian forces into Serbia in World war One
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Homemade Cima.Heldengrab. .
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Excerpt from the Leipziger Illustrated Zeitung -, Austrian-Hungarian position gun on the southwest front, Unknown
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French Lafer from 20.2cm gun. Recorded at the street at Isonzo, Görz. (End of March 1918.).
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Miechow, funnel of a flyer bomb.
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Fotocollectie Eerste Wereldoorlog. Earling snowmelt 1917. Cleaning of a castle trench of I.R. 74 at Stochod. 1917. Rusland, Stochod
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First World War, Austrian soldiers charging down on an Italian patrol.
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Soldiers, probably crew of the work Cima di Vezzena.
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The Italian Army's dogs at the ammunition service, World War I, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLIII, No 45, November 5, 1916.
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Photograph of King Albert I of Belgium vesting his troops in the trenches during World War One. Dated 1914
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Soldier Aiming Rifle. Artist: Unknown (French). Date: 1880s-90s. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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Bucy-le-Long, Aisne, France Four soldiers of a section of machine gunners in shooting with a Saint-Etienne machine gun , 1917 - Aisne - Fernand Cuville (photographic section of the army) - (May -July) (French - Bucy-le-Long , Aisne , France Quatre soldats d' une section de mitrailleurs en situation de tir avec une mitrailleuse de type Saint-Etienne). Military uniform, exists in high definition, group portrait, ruins, front, weapon, hairy, man, army, Clothing, HD, human beings, First World War, Society, France, Bucy-le-Long, section of machine gunners
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War yard at Passariano 4.11.17. .
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Conchy-les-Pots, France The battery on plane of Lieutenant Brownstein , 1915 - Picardie - Stéphane Passet (French - Conchy-les-Pots , France La batterie sur avion du lieutenant Brownstein). Military uniform, work scene, exists in high definition, canon, forehead, bombing, shells, hairy, artillery, man, Clothing, daily life, HD, First World War, human beings
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Two Soldiers Packing Gear 1890s Unknown. Two Soldiers Packing Gear 269545
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BROWNING American inventor John Moses Browning with one of his machine guns Date: 1918
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Second World War. After the fighting. Ukraine. Cemetery of Wischnivzy. Relatives of the German Wehrmacht at the exit of graves and the burial of fallen. View with grave crosses and buildings in the background
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'One Night's Rations for a Bombing Squadron', (1919). Creator: Unknown.
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Officer Ringing Alarm Bell in Trench, Florina Front Line, Balkans, WWI, Chicago Sunday Tribune, August 26, 1917
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The US Army on the Western Front 1917-1918 The Popham panel-system of visual signalling to aircraft, Beauval.
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English nurses tending to wounded soldiers close to the front during World War One Date: 1914
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Canadian soldier wearing gas mask in 1915 From The War Illustrated Album deLuxe published London 1916