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Description: | Loose prints of various sizes depicting scenes of German activities on both Western and Eastern fronts during the First World War. Images include:
Training scenes, particularly trench warfare, rifle firing and grenade throwing; artillery positions notably a 210 mm howitzer position and a captured gun on display in Trafalgar Square, London; a series of images denoting ruined churches including Becelaeur and Zoonebeke Belgium and possibly; various views of German trenches on the Western Front including part of the system at Langemarck; also defensive positions posibly on the Eastern Front; German soldier posing with a spent 38.5mm shell; two imaged of reviews and parades, one in a square in an unidentified French town (circa 1914-1915) and the other in the field (circa 1918); Russian prisoners of war posing in a group and in a working party under German guard, German army stonemasons preparing headstones for he cemetaries marking the dead of the first days of the Second Battle of Ypres (May 1915); the bodies of British and German servicemen (the British, a Scot on the battlefield and the German an officer laid at rest); German troops posing in a village outside an air raid shelter; two distint types of machine gun post; a series of images depicting the excavation and recnstruction of a mine crater into a fortified position. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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