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WWI Military Portraits

Formal portraits of soldiers in World War I uniforms, showcasing various ranks and nationalities, capturing personal histories and bravery.

Man in military uniform of the 1st World War, 1915, Zweibruecken, Germany, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original from the 19th century, exact date unknown, Europe
Man in military uniform of the 1st World War, 1915, Zweibruecken, Germany, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original from the 19th century, exact date unknown, Europe
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World War I, German sergeant in uniform with his wife in the photo studio, Germany, Europe
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Portrait of an unidentified soldier and an unidentified woman inscribed Howe, 1914-1919, Wellington, by Berry & Co.
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Walter Camp
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Luftwaffe soldier. A luftwaffe soldier in an open, bushy area.
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A Milva poses in uniform on a bridge.
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HMS Thistle, 1st Class Gunboat at the China Station 1910 - 1912 General Li who commanded Republican troops at Wuchang and who for months was practically the leading Republican in China.
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Captain Mikhail Gordeevich Drozdovsky. Sevastopol Aviation School 1913.
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A military police Airedale dog at Aldershot, with his trainer. Date: early 20th century
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Charles Young was the third African American to graduate from West Point. He endured hazing, social isolation, and racial discrimination throughout his years at the military academy. After graduation, he was with the Ninth U.S. Cavalry and Tenth U.S. Cavalry, the 'Buffalo Soldiers' (BSLOC_2017_20_102)
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Capt. Fritz Duquesne
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Dr. Alexis Carrel
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Col. R.M. Thompson
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Anefo photo collection. Pea peas. July 9, 1947
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Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection
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The Belgian Royal Family at their villa in devastated Flanders (King Albert in uniform)
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Enoch Hooper Cook, Jr., Pvt, Co. H. 38th Alabama Infantry, C.S.A., half-length portrait, facing front holding rifle | Library of Congress
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Soldier shaving
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Historic photograph, soldier, around 1915
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60 Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force Pte Nash, of Victoria, Australia served with A Company. He died on 24 July 1916, aged 21, of wounds received in the Australian charge at Fleurbaix during 19 - 23 July 1916. In this action, which formed part of the Battle of the Somme, Australian troops attempted to advance but were pinned down by German forces located behind them as well as in front of them. Cut off, they charged the German lines in an attempt to return to their original point of advance. Faces of the First World War Find out more about this First World War Centenary project at www.1914.org/faces. This image is from IWM Collections.
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Capt. W.T. Turner
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Capt. B.H. Tillman - NEWPORT
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Maj. John W. Gullick , Military officers. The Massachusetts WPA Federal Art Project Photograph Collection
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FREDERICK SLEIGH 1st EARL ROBERTS British soldier in South Africa during the Boer War
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Photograph of Jack Soldier. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.
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Print.Pressure for photography, paper.Portrait of underoff.Kopral Sven Andersson, pressure in grayscale.Waist image;seen enface.Upholstery;Navy's uniform m /.Jacket, West, Blue Shirt, Rock Halsduk, Understood, Screen cap with mice mark M / 1878 for underoff.2gr.The man has a sharp cut-off beard and mustache (dark).Sven Andersson born 1856 worked in the machinist chamber on the shipyard, Börjesson's lap at Stumholm Bridge, Slip A Upper Verkö.Pressure after photography.
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Daniel J. Coakley, died 1918 , Soldiers, World War, 1914-1918
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Corporal Boekhoorn.
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The turbulent son of a turbulent father. During a period of great instability in South Africa, Dinuzlu was associated with Zulu anti-British fighting and was imprisoned and exiled in St Helena. Date: 1907
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. 10 Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles Rifleman Nicholson was reported missing on 1 July 1916 at the start of the Battle of the Somme. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. Faces of the First World War Find out more about this First World War Centenary project at www.1914.org/faces. This image is from IWM Collections.
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Occasional print showing a portrait of a Polish legionnaire; around 1914 1920 (1914-00-00-1939-00-00);
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Albert Ball, V.C. January 01, 1940.
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Commander Thurber, C. E., U.S. Navy. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.
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Students, private school Mekteb-i Hamidi-yi / Abdullah Frères, photographes de SMI le Sultan
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British Prisoners Of War In North Korea -- Kenneth J. Smith, (22530098) of 51 Denbigh Street, Victoria, London S.W.1. England, in a POW camp in North Korea. July 11, 1952. (Photo by Camera Press).
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Frederick J. Fallon, died 1919 , Soldiers, World War, 1914-1918
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The late Mark Foy founder, first commodore and later patron of the Sydney Flying Squadron. November 16, 1950.
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A card celebrating the brave members of the territorial army as they answer the call to war. Date: circa 1914
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Location Guard Maria Karlsson (b. 1891) at stop later Östertälje
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. 4th Battalion, Alexandra Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment) Captain J V Nancarrow trained as a solicitor. He joined the Yorkshire Regiment as a lieutenant and was promoted to captain in December 1913. He was killed in action, aged 29, at Fortuin on 24 April 1915. At the time of his death, Captain Nancarrow was engaged to be married to a Miss Elsie Harkess. Faces of the First World War Find out more about this First World War Centenary project at www.1914.org/faces. This image is from IWM Collections.
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Captain Gustav Baurer v. Markaszeg allocated to the Genral Staff, fortress artillery regiment 6 The photos served as a basis for WK1_alb003_00886, an overview of the officers and military officials, which appeared for Christmas 1916
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Cook HE 12, circa 1920, Wellington, by Berry & Co.
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Tartarenkopf ("Alfandakis the robbers of the mountains.") March.1918. .
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The Allies in the First World War, America, Infantry NCO, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated
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China: Yang Chengwu (1914-2004), Commander of the Eighth Route Army Division 115 during the Sino-Japanese War, c. 1937
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Iosif Rodionovich Apanasenko (1890 - 1943) Soviet division commander. fought in the Imperial Russian Army in World War I before going over to the Bolsheviks in the subsequent civil war. He commanded forces in both Central Asia and the Russian Far East. In June 1943, I.R. Apanasenko, after numerous requests to be sent to the front, was appointed deputy commander of the Voronezh Front. He visited units on the frontline and led them during the fighting. He was killed by an airstrike during the Soviet counteroffensive at Kursk.
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J. Edgar Hoover was hired to head the General Intelligence Unit within the Department of Justice. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer met the young Hoover in the Enemy Alien Bureau in 1918. (BSLOC_2015_15_181)
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Jericho button. 1917 Middle East
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Col. Roosevelt on S.S. VANDYCK
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12/31/1934. After thirty years wandering through the jungle of the Lubang Islands, in the Philippine archipelago, Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda, of the Japanese army, has surrendered at the express order of his boss who had moved to the place where the soldier had been located. In the image, Onoda, standing with his brother, when they were both officers in the Imperial Japanese Army.
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The Allies in the First World War, America, Infantry soldier, Wa Davis, from Indianapolis, Historically, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century template, Record Date Not Stated 1f-4913461
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Photograph of Petty Officer Edgar Evans, one of the members of Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated expedition to the South Pole of 1910-12. Date: 1913
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Lieutenant C. W. Bosworth and Lieutenant A. W. Bosworth, twin brothers who were tragically killed in action on the same day. 1916
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Juan Perea Capulino (1890 - 1967) a Republican colonel in the Spanish Civil War with Cipriano Mera Sanz (1897 ñ 1975) a Spanish military and political figure during the Second Spanish Republic. in the battle of Brunete (July 1937). Mera replaced Juan Perea Capulino in command of the IV Army Corps of the Center.
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Capt. Reynolds, Hvd. i.e., Harvard
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Mao Zedong in Northern Shaanxi Province after the Long March. 1935.
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. Cover "Marschlied of the December 7 division". 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies
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'His Country Called' Plaque for soldier who died in 1st World War.
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04/30/1912. The tragedy of Nogent-Sur-Marne. The bandit Vallet.