9. Soldiers of the Black Watch (The Royal Highland Regiment) patrol the south coast of England on bicycles during World War I, on the lookout
for enemy parachutists, circa 1916.
10. Soldados
Buster Keaton served with the 40th Division in
France during World War One.
Australian soldiers during World War I
11. Soldados
Mr. Winston Churchill photographed in 1916 during
the First World War. He served as a major with the
Grenadiers and later commanded the 6th Battalion
Royal Scots Fusiliers.
Ernest Hemingway recuperates from wounds in Milan, 1918
12. Soldados
A young Erwin Rommel. Serving in the Argonne in January, 1915
Hermann Goering stands in a map room, during World War I.
14. Soldados
Child soldiers of the Great War
Pupils of Eton college exercising in suit and
high hat, rifle over the shoulder. England,
1915.
15. Soldados
Members of the first Women’s Battalion of Death - they sacrificed
their hair in an accepted act to reduce sexual encounters with
male battalions and to give them equality. Russia c. 1914
Members of the Russian WWI women's
Battalion
17. Una Guerra “mundial”
These British Dominions would eventually contribute more than
1.4 million service personnel to the British war effort from 1914 to
1918.
“Many Australian units brought kangaroos and
other Australian animals with them to Egypt, and
some were given to the Cairo Zoological Gardens
when the units went to Gallipoli." December 1914
35. Trincheras
An aerial view of the WWI Loos-Hulluch trench
system in France. 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. July 22,
1917
38. Trincheras
All was mercifully quiet on the eastern front for Russian
officers guarding the Carpathians, the mountains
between their motherland and Hungary. Manpower was
not an issue - in 1914, after 125,000 Russians were
capture by the Germans at Tannenberg, Czar Nicholas
II just ordered more serfs drafted - but firepower was:
1/3 of the men lacked guns. By the end of the war,
Russian's dead, wounded or captured exceeded nine
million troops.
39. Trincheras
Men of a Canadian machine-gun company huddle in shell holes at Passchendaele, November 1917. Now I really like
this photo. It looks nothing ...
48. La batalla
The 9th British Lancers charging German artillery in France, 1916. || The Most Powerful
49. La batalla
During the battle around Verdun in
1916, three German soldiers help a
Frenchman out of the bottomless
mud.
Colonel Robertson (Cameronians). Bois Grenier front. January 1915
55. El gas
A French soldier at the Battle of Verdun,
wearing a gas mask. (Photo by Keystone/Getty
Images). 1916
56. El gas
WWI German medic in an early gas mask
A French corpsman holds upright the dead body of a German soldier
asphyxiated by poison gas during a search of a conquered enemy trench.
The German's mask was obviously of no defense against the gas.
57. El gas
Soldier and Horse wearing a gas mask during the Battle of Verdun, 1916
71. La muerte
Australian WW1 soldier, still holding his rifle, wearing his helmet, have his bullets, his water canteen and other,
uncovered in Belgium battlefields.
72. Tras la batalla
German dead after a mine explosion at the Battle of Messines on 7 June 1917.
78. Vuelta a casa
British soldiers using parallel bars to help them learn to walk with their artificial legs.
79. Vuelta a casa
An artificial limb maker at work in Berlin in 1919. Prosthetics were perhaps Berlin's busiest industry after the carnage
of the Great War.