



German soldiers exiting a tunnel, 1915

Prussian lancer. Horsemen Uhlan

Stosstrupp


A despatch dog brings food to two German soldiers in an advanced trench, somewhere on the Western Front. The dog is wearing a special harness on its back which can hold mess tins. In the background, a third soldier can be seen pointing his rifle over the top of the trench



Medical staff of sanitary train № 14 and Princess Z. N. Yusupova, sitting 2nd from left

Prayer before sending sanitary train №14 at the front

Operating room in sanitary train №14


British soldiers playing leapfrog on the beach at Boulogne, 16 May 1918

Germans before taking Rostov

Germans in Rostov






Caught up in the patriotic spirit of 1916, a German boy from Brandenburg, showed up on his horse wanting to volunteer for the Eastern Front



21cm Mörser m.10


Ottoman Machine Gun Corps

British soldier delivering pigeons to trenches of the Western Front, c.1916

French soldiers pose with the medals they were awarded at the Battle of the Somme in 1916

group of 11 American WWI soldiers, some holding human skulls and cross bones, by Vernon C. Perkins, and Thomas Jay Perkins, taken 1918.


Christmas mail is delivered to the front


French troops with bomb-throwing ballista and basket of ammo

The simultaneous demise of two German balloons shot down near Boyelles, France is captured in this remarkable photograph. Attacking airplanes fired incendiary bullets to ignite the highly flammable gasbags, which would commonly disintegrate in 20 seconds or less
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