Mr King Posted September 13, 2014 Posted September 13, 2014 Australian soldiers prior to departing Sydney 1914
Mr King Posted September 13, 2014 Posted September 13, 2014 German POW's being escorted through Jerusalem 1917
Yama Posted September 13, 2014 Posted September 13, 2014 (edited) Austro-Hungarian POWs in Russian Karelia, 1915: Edited October 10, 2014 by Yama
Mr King Posted September 15, 2014 Posted September 15, 2014 A7V captured by the British as Villers-Bretonneux 1918
Mr King Posted October 10, 2014 Posted October 10, 2014 gas blinded Belgian 55th division troops 1916
Adam_S Posted October 10, 2014 Posted October 10, 2014 Are those really dog drawn machine guns in the picture above?
T-44 Posted October 10, 2014 Posted October 10, 2014 Are those really dog drawn machine guns in the picture above?Yup, and why not (at least for transport)? Dogs were used for carrying similar loads (like milk cans etc.) quite alot in that time frame. PS: that was 5% of our total strength in machineguns in August 1914 you can see parading there...
L.V. Posted October 10, 2014 Posted October 10, 2014 http://edocs.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/volltexte/2002/8040303/
BillB Posted October 10, 2014 Posted October 10, 2014 gas blinded Belgian 55th division troops 1916 Belgian? I think they are Brits from the uniforms, headgear and epaulette titles. BillB
L.V. Posted October 10, 2014 Posted October 10, 2014 SMS Seydlitz after Jutland. http://www.europeana1914-1918.eu/de
MiloMorai Posted October 10, 2014 Posted October 10, 2014 OK a little before. Russian flagship TSAREVITCH passing HMS VICTORY, ca. 1915
Mr King Posted October 13, 2014 Posted October 13, 2014 gas blinded Belgian 55th division troops 1916 Belgian? I think they are Brits from the uniforms, headgear and epaulette titles. BillB Thanks for the correction BillB. Aerial view of a German gas attack.
MiloMorai Posted October 14, 2014 Posted October 14, 2014 Soldiers struggle to pull a huge piece of artillery through mud. The gun has been placed on a track created for a light railway. The soldiers are pushing a device, attached to the gun, that possibly slots into the tracks. Some of the men are in a ditch that runs alongside the track, the rest are on the track itself. A makeshift caterpillar tread has been fitted to the wheels of the gun, in an attempt to aid its movement through the mud. (National Library of Scotland)- See more at: http://coolgallery.pics/index.php/World-War-I-in-Photos-The-Western-Front/w_12#sthash.Sj1TWKXe.dpuf
L.V. Posted October 14, 2014 Posted October 14, 2014 A pair of Austro-Hungarian pneumatic mortars in position (8 cm M.15 Luftminenwerfer System Rocka Halasz) http://www.heeresgeschichten.at/
Dave Clark Posted October 17, 2014 Posted October 17, 2014 Are those really dog drawn machine guns in the picture above?Yup, and why not (at least for transport)? Dogs were used for carrying similar loads (like milk cans etc.) quite alot in that time frame. PS: that was 5% of our total strength in machineguns in August 1914 you can see parading there... I have a pictorial history of WW1 (published around 1930) which has this picture with the following caption: "Dogs were widely used as beasts of burden in Belgium, and the Belgian army made good use of this form of transport. The machine-guns of this battalion retreating in excellent order from Antwerp are mounted on pneumatic-tired wheels and are an easy load for a couple of dogs yoked together."
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