A lone British soldier stands up to his knees in spent shell cases. France, WWI.
Tom Aitken
(via lord-kitschener)
WWI facial prosthesis.
“Australian soldiers on camels in front of the Sphinx. Egypt, 1915.”
A French soldier at the Battle of Verdun, wearing a gas mask, 1916.
Keystone
Mr. Douglas Fairbanks selling war bonds in New York.
Allied soldier silhoutted by the glare of an exploding phosphorus bomb, 1917
An aerial view of the Loos-Hulluch trench system in France taken on July 22, 1917.
British trenches are situated on the left of the photo, and German trenches on the right - in the middle of the two is no man’s land.
“This was an early attempt to co-ordinate infantry, artillery and air attacks.
With no radios in aircraft, success depended on precise timing.”
Australian soldiers in Egypt, World War I
(Part 1)For ANZAC Day
