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BRITISH NAVY IN WARTIME during World War I

Beschrijving: .Airship starting off on patrol - they are always on the look-out for 'U' boats & enemy aircraft..De Britse marine in oorlogstijd. Het opstijgen van een verkennings luchtschip - zij kijken altijd ... More

Zeichnet 7. Kriegsanleihe / Alfred Offner.

Poster shows soldiers and their weapons behind a barricade of Austrian coins. Text: Subscribe to the 7th War Loan, Vienna Commercial Bank.

Arms and armor: Sallet, Germany, public domain image

Public domain photograph of armor, medieval or early renaissance, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Type of United States submarine that helped subdue the German U-Boats ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Zeichnet vierte österreichische Kriegsanleihe / A. Karpellus.

Poster shows a 16th century soldier holding up a flag with the Austro-Hungarian double-headed Imperial eagle on it. Text: Subscribe to the 4th Austrian War Loan. Forms part of: Rehse-Archiv für Zeitgeschichte u... More

Kaiser and his Generals - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows German Kaiser Wilhelm II with his generals during World War I: standing left to right: von Bulow, von Mackensen, von Molike, Crown Prince William of Prussia, von Francois, Ludendorff, von Falke... More

Autry in hands of Germans - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows German soldiers in Autry, France during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bai... More

Free coffee wagon, Lotzen - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows soldiers at a coffee wagon in Lotzen, East Prussia, (now Gizycko, Poland) during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the neg... More

AUDACIOUS. Warship photograph collection

Photograph shows the H.M.S. Audacious warship of the Royal Navy which was sunk by a German mine off the coast of Ireland on October 27, 1914 during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

General von Pluskow who took Lodz - Glass negative photogrpah. Public ...

Photograph shows German general Hermann Otto Hugo Ferdinand von Plüskow (1852-1925) who served during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Germans rebuild bridge at Lemberg

Photograph shows German soldiers on bridge at Lemberg, Austro-Hungarian Empire, (now Lviv, Ukraine), during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

[German soldiers firing artillery gun while other soldiers on horsebac...

No. 5025 appears on image. No. T5232 is stamped on back. Caption on back: 4232. Verfolgungsfeuer durch deutsche Artillerie. Forms part of the Rehse Archiv für Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik.

Part of the church at Bethune during World War I

British soldier surveying the ruined church at Bethune, France, during World War I. Standing underneath a doorway, this lone British soldier looks upon the devastation wrought on the church at Bethune, in Picar... More

[Artillery position showing guns, ammunition shells, sandbags, and lea...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to an industrial revolution, industry history, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Wilna-Minsk, Altertümer Kunstgewerbe, Ausstellung der Zeitung der 10. ...

Poster shows a vase of flowers drawn in a folk art style with two coats of arms on either side. Text announces an exhibit of antique arts and crafts from Vilna and Minsk presented by the 10th Army. Location in ... More

Athie Church partially destroyed by the Huns, Flanders

Athie Church after it had been bombed or shelled. All that appears to be left of the roof are the rafters. There is a large pile of rubble at the entrance to the church. Daylight can be seen through the door su... More

German Officers at entrance of dugout

Photograph shows German officers in dugout, during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

German Landsturm troops, Antwerp

Photograph shows German troops in Grote Markt plaza, Antwerp, Belgium during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Digging trench at Porte Maillot, Paris

Photograph shows a defensive trench being dug in Paris, France, probably in the summer of 1914 as German troops advanced through Belgium and France. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Germans in Lowicz - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows German soldiers on horseback in Lowicz, Poland during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

Germans destroy the beautiful Chatrau [sic] of Caulincourt and blew it...

Unblocking the Somme. On the left of the picture is the raised, man-made wall of the river with soldiers standing on top. The river cuts across the image with two soldiers standing in it. The men are dwarfed by... More

Degradation of Corp. Grualt - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain...

Photograph shows the great courtyard of the Ecole Militaire in Paris, France, when Gruault, a French reservist was degraded (stripped of his military insignia and paraded before troops) for attempting to sell a... More

German women doing men's work in orchard

Photograph shows German women working in an orchard, probably during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

British troops passing over the Hohenzollern Bridge at Cologne, German...

British Photographs of World War I Public domain photograph - British army, military forces, during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Havoc caused by our guns at Serre, Flanders

The devastated remains of a factory. The damage was most likely caused by shellfire. Unfortunately the original caption does not tell us exactly what this building once housed. It does, however, admit that the ... More

[Crowd of German civilians, including children, surrounding a cannon w...

Stamped on back: Photo J.P. Böhm, Müchen, Karlstrasse Nr. 35. Forms part of the Rehse Archiv für Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik.

Cross roads blown up by the Germans near Tincourt, Flanders

A large water-filled crater where, according to the existing caption, there was once a crossroads. Next to the crater a group of soldiers stand and look at the devastation caused...Scenes such as this were comm... More

German machine gun, World War One 1914-1918

British Photographs of World War I Public domain photograph - British army, military forces, during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Miss Mielke - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows Henry Mielke (b. 1871) his daughter Henrietta (b. 1897) and another man. Henry Mielke was a store owner and member of the "Gold for Iron" (Gold fur Eisen) organization which gave iron rings to... More

Ludendorff-Spende. German postcard

Postcard is a reproduction of Ludwig Hohlwein poster showing an injured soldier holding tools in one hand and a crutch in the other. Printed on back: Künstlerpostkarte nr.2 von Prof. Ludw. Hohlwein, München.

At Gare De L'Est -- Restaurant wrecked by mob

Photograph shows restaurant in Paris, France that was attacked by a mob during the anti-German violence at the beginning of World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

View of Quant where we broke the Hindenburg Line, Flanders

The village of Quant, France: the road that runs through the village is bordered on both sides by ruined buildings. Any walls that remain standing are being supported by wooden logs. Most of the damage, however... More

Woodrow Wilson and American Flags

Local Accession Number: PC 140..Description: Patriotic postcard from World War I...Photographer: Unknown..Source: Carole Nelson..Size: 3x5..Medium: Print, Color..Date: c. 1918

Burning of Vise - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows ruins in Visé, Belgium, after destruction of town by German forces during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

German Commandant's Hdqtrs., Antwerp

Photograph shows German headquarters in Antwerp, Belgium during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Troops of the 29th British Division crossing Hohenzollerm Bridge at Co...

British Photographs of World War I Public domain photograph - British army, military forces, during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mine blown by the Germans under a roadway through a newly captured vil...

The devastation caused by an exploded mine. Perched on the edge of a vast crater are the ruined remains of a church. A few soldiers pick through the debris. Apart from a few buildings that have survived the exp... More

Portuguese at the Instructional School

Troops marching in formation down the curve of a short slope to meet their colleagues at the bottom. These troops are lined up in neat rows in the flat basin at the bottom of the hill. In front of the rows a wa... More

British troops entering Cologne, Germany. 12-14-1918

British Photographs of World War I Public domain photograph - British army, military forces, during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A statue which sprang up in one night. Elle Arreta Le Flot. The Spirit...

British Photographs of World War I Public domain photograph - British army, military forces, during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

German cranes and Barges destroyed near Peronne, France. 1917

British Photographs of World War I Public domain photograph - British army, military forces, during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ruins of a former German stronghold. Near Arras, France. 10-17-1917

British Photographs of World War I Public domain photograph - British army, military forces, during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Surrender of the German Fleet, World War One 1914-1918

British Photographs of World War I Public domain photograph - British army, military forces, during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Manufacturing limbs for British soldiers

British Photographs of World War I Public domain photograph - British army, military forces, during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Zeichnet 8te Kriegsanleihe bei Eurer Sparkasse / T. Sieber.

Poster shows a biplane dropping signs "Zeichnet 8te Kriegsanleihe". On ground are trains, the one on bottom of poster, with sign Odessa-Kiev-Vienna, is crossing a bridge. Text: Subscribe to the 8th War Loan at ... More

German gun emplacement destroyed by British artillery fire. Near Zonne...

British Photographs of World War I Public domain photograph - British army, military forces, during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

General V. Winterfeldt, Chief of the German Armistice Commission in Sp...

British Photographs of World War I Public domain photograph - British army, military forces, during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Former German observation post now used by the British. ST. Eloi

British Photographs of World War I Public domain photograph of a post office building, postal service, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Distant view of Mametz showing battered German trenches in foreground

German trenches near Mametz, France, during World War I. The picture is dominated by a snaking trench and its surrounding barricades. The trench is a scene of chaos. In the distance the rest of the battlefield ... More

German army in WWI - Hogs for the German army

Photograph shows a line of butchers standing behind a table covered with dead hogs. J208952 U.S. Copyright Office. Inscribed on negative: c. 1003. Copyright Dec. 1, 1915.

Neufmentier [i.e., Chauconin-Neufmontiers] -- German wounded prisoner...

Photograph shows German prisoners at Chauconin-Neufmontiers, France during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011).

Germans fixing barbed wire tangle

Photograph shows German soldiers fixing a barbed wire entanglement during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: Ge... More

Highlanders having a rest on their way from the trenches

This photograph shows a group of kilted soldiers from one of the Highland Regiments. The men are resting, leaning against the wall of a large shell-damaged building. Their relief at getting away from the trench... More

Digging trench at Porte Maillot, Paris

Photograph shows a defensive trench being dug in Paris, France, probably in the summer of 1914 as German troops advanced through Belgium and France. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011) Title from data provid... More

Berlin -- knitting for soldiers

Photograph shows women in Berlin, Germany, knitting for soldiers during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Sentry in the front line in the Ypres salient, Flanders

This photograph shows a solitary sentry in a trench, beside a ruined corrugated iron Nissen hut. The original caption places this in the Ypres Salient, a bulge in the Allied front line around the town of Ypres.... More

[Neufmont]iers, [F.] -- looking at battlefield booty

Photograph shows German or French soldiers looking at war booty at Chauconin-Neufmontiers, France during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

At Gare De L'Est -- Restaurant wrecked by mob

Photograph shows restaurant in Paris, France that was attacked by a mob during the anti-German violence at the beginning of World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011) Title from data provided by the Ba... More

Street in Amiens during World War I

Immediate aftermath of shelling in Amiens, France, during World War I. This shot captures some of the impact that shelling had on the towns of France and their people. Thick smoke rising in the background sugg... More

Bell in a German trench near Grande Bois, Flanders

There is a large engraved bell lying on its side, surrounded by the wooden structure that once supported it. It is decorated with classical figures and some text, which unfortunately is not legible in this phot... More

Germany -- English prisoners returning from work to Doberitz

Photograph shows English prisoners, walking in a road with tools, near a prisoner of war camp at Döberitz (now Dallgow-Döberitz), Germany, during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011) Title from d... More

[German soldiers marching toward Albert, France]

No. 7992 appears on photograph. Label on back: Die Grosse Schlacht im Westen. In den Kampf ziehende deutsche Reserven auf der Strasse nach Albert. (177). Stamped: BUFA. Forms part of the Rehse Archiv für Zeitg... More

Russian Church at Suwalki in German hands

Photograph shows German soldiers outside a Russian church in Suwalki, Poland during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Captured German dugout, Flanders

A huge mound of earth and branches held up by supporting stakes. There is a gap in the centre of the mound which is roofed over with pieces of corrugated scrap. In this space three dwarfed soldiers are visible.... More

German dead in a captured trench

Dead German soldier, during World War I. The trench is vividly portrayed in the front of this photograph with no-man's land in the distance. The trench is a scene of chaos and debris. In the middle of the pictu... More

Georges Clemenceau and General Sir H. Rawlinson walking through the ma...

French President, Georges Clemenceau, and General Sir Henry Rawlinson, France. Three rows of troops are lined up for inspection beside a row of blown out and collapsed houses. In front of them walk a line of of... More

German prisoners in France - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows German prisoners, possibly recieving food or supplies from camp staff in France during World War I.

Type of German prisoner captured in the new push, Flanders

German prisoner, during World War I. He is wearing a cloth or wool cap and a tunic style jacket. His spectacles, held on by 'ear-bands', reflect the scene in front of him. The closeness of the subject forces on... More

British Admiral greeting American officers at the Admiralty House. Eng...

British Photographs of World War I Public domain photograph - British army, military forces, during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Although the Germans shell this area every day it does not dissuade th...

French farmer ploughing, Western Front, Spring 1918. This photograph is an evocative symbol of hope. Framed in the doorway of a ruined building, a British soldier is watching a French farmer as he breaks up a ... More

German & Austrian prisoners in Russia

Photograph shows German and Austrian prisoners in Russia during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Grande Place in Bethune showing the clock tower in the foreground and ...

Bethune town centre with its clock tower and shell-damaged buildings, France, during World War I. The shell damage that was caused to the Picardie town of Bethune, during the fighting that took place as part of... More

Large British gun enroute to position. Scene during the Somme and Ancr...

British Photographs of World War I Public domain photograph - British army, military forces, during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

German trenches near Langemarck, Belgium. 6-11-1917

British Photographs of World War I Public domain photograph - British army, military forces, during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[German officers in an automobile on the road with a convoy of wagons;...

Public domain photograph of military forces, army, artillery, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

British troops playing hockey on the ice at Cologne

British Photographs of World War I Public domain photograph - British army, military forces, during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ruins of Antwerp after German bombardment

Photograph shows destroyed buildings in Antwerp. J197573 U.S. Copyright Office. Photograph by Donald Thompson, New York (Source: Catalogue of Copyright Entries ...: Works of arts, etc., Volume 9, p. 562).

Weihnachten im Feld! 1914. Spendet Liebesgaben für unsere Krieger! / A...

Poster shows a Christmas tree decorated with candles in front of a red cross. Text: Christmas in the field! 1914. Donate gift packages for our warriors! Purchase; Galerie XX; DLC/PP-1972:179. Signed with the ar... More

Portuguese drawn up for inspection

Portuguese troops lined up for inspection. They are standing at the edge of a dry and dusty road, bordered by lush fields. All of the men are standing to attention, with their rifles positioned over their left ... More

German prisoners, some of whom are carrying wounded comrade

Wounded German prisoners, Western Front, during World War I. This photograph of a group of German prisoners gives an impression that they are exhausted to the point of indifference at their circumstances. They ... More

How Boche blew up the houses before he left Boyelles

A row of three terraced houses is shown in ruins. The house in the centre has been reduced to rubble, to the left there is the shell of the back walls, still showing the wallpaper inside. Only the house on the ... More

Ruins of bridge at La Bassee blown up by the Germans during their retr...

British Photographs of World War I Public domain photograph - British army, military forces, during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

German prisoner being used as strecher bearers. Arras, France

British Photographs of World War I Public domain photograph - British army, military forces, during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Captured Russian Aeroplane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows pieces of a Russian airplane which was captured by German forces during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Germans cooking near firing line, North Sea Coast

Photograph shows German soldiers seated on ground, with man at a camp fire in the foreground during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

German light railway, Fampoux, France

British Photographs of World War I Public domain photograph - British army, military forces, during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Austrian siege gun in Belg. [i.e., Belgium]

Photograph shows the barrel segment of a Skoda 305 mm Model 1911 howitzer gun. The Austro-Hungarian Army loaned 8 of these guns to the German army in August, 1914 and they were used in destroying Belgian fortif... More

Two German dug-outs in their support line at Gommecourt

German trenches, Western Front, during World War I. The entrances of two German dugouts. Both entrances are well-framed with timber and there is a good depth of earth over the top of the dugouts. The sides of t... More

Captured German 10 C.M. Gun, World War One 1914-1918

British Photographs of World War I Public domain photograph - British army, military forces, during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Prison camp, Zossen - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows prisoners outside a building at Zossen prisoner of war camp, Wünsdorf, Zossen, Germany, during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Germans in Belgium -- on the way to the front

Photograph shows German soldiers in road in Belgium during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Type of German U-boat at Harwich, England

British Photographs of World War I Public domain photograph - British army, military forces, during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

German soldier's Christmas - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows German soldiers gathered around a Christmas tree, outside during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Submarine "U-10" at full speed - Glass negative photogrpah. Public dom...

Photograph shows the German U-10 submarine which served in World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Belgian Gunners before Antwerp - Glass negative photogrpah. Public dom...

Photograph shows Belgian soldiers with large field gun, during the Siege of Antwerp by the German Army during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Dead German outside dug-out during World War I

Dead German soldier, near Arras, France, during World War I. A dead German soldier lying outside the entrance to a dugout. Abandoned rifles and stick grenades lie in the trench beside him. This photograph was p... More

Submarine "U-14" - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows the German U-14 submarine which served in World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

German wounded, recovered, returning singing to the front

Photograph shows German soldiers marching and singing in the street during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

German Army press bureau in the East

Photograph shows German soldiers at a large table in a press office during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Tapiau, East Prussia, wrecked by Russians

Photograph shows buildings damaged in Tapiau, East Prussia (now Gvardeysk, Russia) during World War I. Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Coll... More

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