WW1: Trenches, Death, Mayhem (1 Viewer)

[DeathHand]

There was a previous thread that I had posted these pics in but we've lost it to the forum thread gobblers.

This will be a rather lengthy thread because I have so many danged images from this war.

All image filenames contain the details of the image, if I was able to get the date, location, etc.

Background:
"28 June 1914: Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
The Balkan states of Bosnia and Herzegovina, had been annexed from Turkey and taken into the Austro-Hungarian Empire. This was strongly resented by many Serbs and Croats and a nationalist group, The Black Hand, was formed.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, and his wife, had decided to inspect Austro-Hungarian troops in Bosnia. The date chosen for the inspection was a national day in Bosnia. The Black Hand supplied a group of students with weapons for an assassination attempt to mark the occasion.

A Serbian nationalist student, Gavrilo Princip, assassinated the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand and his wife, when their open car stopped at a corner on its way out of the town."

Set 1.

1. Two dead German soldiers.

2. Abondoned German machine gun.

3. Crater of human remains.

4. Dead British in their trench. Bullecourt, 1917.

 

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"28 July 1914: Austria declared war on Serbia


The Austrian government blamed the Serbian government for the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and his wife and declared war on Serbia.

Although Russia was allied with Serbia, Germany did not believe that she would mobilise and offered to support Austria if necessary.

However, Russia did mobilize and, through their alliance with France, called on the French to mobilize."

Set 2.

5. Brits go over the top.

6. Dead Brits lay in a trench. c 1918.

7. Dead French soldier. Somme, France, June 1916. Note the German helmet in lower right corner of pic.

8. Dead French soldier as he dropped when shot dead. Verdun.

 

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"1 Aug 1914: Germany declared war on Russia

Germany declared war on Russia.

3 Aug 1914: Germany declared war on France

Germany declared war on France. German troops poured into Belgium as directed under the Schleiffen Plan, drawn up in 1905. The British foreign secretary, Sir Edward Grey, sent an ultimatum to Germany demanding their withdrawal from the neutral Belgium.

4 Aug 1914: British declaration of war

Germany did not withdraw from Belgium and Britain declared war on Germany."

Set 3.

9. Decomposed German soldier.

10. Dead German soldier, likely taken out by artillery fire.

11. Dead German soldiers. The Somme, Oct. 10, 1916.

12. A soldier dead in his foxhole. Picardie, Aug., 1918.

 

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Set 4.

13. Bodies of dead French Soldiers. The Somme.

14. Dead in a foxhole - or a bomb crater.

15. French soldier holding a skull in the trenches.

16. Grave marker of a French soldier. Verdun, 1916.

 

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Set 5.

17. German soldiers killed along a railway track. 1918.

19. Remains of a German soldier. A good example of what artillery can do. Chery, France.

20. German soldier takes up position in a French trench beside remains of a dead French soldier. Fort Vaux, France, 1916.

21. Bodies of dead soldiers piled into an unfilled grave.

 

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Set 6.

22. Dead soldier.

23. After a German torpedo hit, French sailors abandon the Sontay. 1917.

24. Aerial photo of a Chlorine gas attack along the Eastern Front.

25. Allied soldier works to clear away dead Germans and comrades alike.

 

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Set 7.

26. Shot to the head kills an Allied soldier in his foxhole.

27. US soldiers fire at German positions. Argonne.

28. Small convoy hit by artillery fire. Alsne.

29. Body of an Austrian soldier unearthed in Belgium.

 

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"Aug 1914: Battle of Tannenberg

The Russian army marched into Prussia. However, because of the differences in railway gauge between Russia and Prussia it was difficult for the Russians to get supplies through to their men. The Germans, on the other hand, used their railway system to surround the Russian Second army at Tannenberg before it's commander could realise what was happening.

The ensuing battle was a heavy defeat for the Russians with thousands of men killed and 125,000 taken prisoner. Although the Germans won the battle, 13,000 men were killed.

13 Aug 1914: Japan declared war on Germany
Japan declared war on Germany through her alliance with Great Britain, signed in 1902"

Set 8.

30. German soldiers inspect an Austrian position that was knocked out. Col del Rosso, June 1918.

31. A Bavarian gunner crew poses for the camera.

32. Belgian soldiers taking cover. 1914-1915.

33. Bodies of dead Bulgarian soldiers.

 

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Set 9.

34. Soldier dead in a trench. Verdun.

35. Captured British Soldiers carry body of a dead German soldier.

36. Burial service for first US soldier killed in battle against the Germans. Nov. 3, 1917.

36. Passing a knocked out tank and a dead comrade, Canadian soldiers move forward. Vimy.

 

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Set 10.

37. Canadian soldiers with new armoured cars.

38. Canadian soldiers carry a fallen comrade through the muck. Passchendaele, August 1917.

39. Two airmen from a downed plane. Verdun.

40. Bodies of dead British soldiers in their trench. Zonnebeke.

 

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"Sept 1914: Battle of Masurian Lakes


Having defeated the Russian Second army, the Germans turned their attention to the Russian First army at Masurian Lakes. Although the Germans were unable to defeat the army completely, over 100,000 Russians were taken prisoner."
Set 11.

41. Dead British soldier in his bunker.

42. British soldier dead in his trench.

43. Location of the bodies of two dead British soldiers marked by a rifle.

44. Decayed remains of a Canadian soldier.

 

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Set 12.

45. Rare image: dead British tank crewman inside knocked out tank.

46. Dead French fighter pilot and his plane.

47. French soldier and an Allied soldier in a trench with a dead French soldier.

48. French soldier cut in half by artillery. Comrades continue to man their guns.

 

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Set 13.

49. Dead French soldier half buried in the dirt after artillery strike.

50. French convoy taken out by artillery fire. Courcelles, 1918.

51. Dead French soldiers caught up in barbed wire. Givenchy.

52. Trench full of dead French soldiers.

 

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Set 14.

53. French soldiers dead in their trench.

54. Bodies of fallen French soldiers on a battlefield.

55. Same as above.

56. Bodies of French soldiers. Picardy, France, June 1918.

 

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Set 15.

57. French soldiers as they fell at Verdun.

58. German convoy taken out by artillery.

59. British inspecting the body of a dead German soldier.

60. British soldier checking out the remains of a dead German gunner crew.

 

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"29 Oct 1914: Turkey
Turkey entered the war on the side of the central powers and gave help to a German naval bombardment of Russia."

Set 16.

61. German soldiers and a medic removing the dead from a crater marking a direct hit on their position.

62. Dead German sniper hangs in the tree he was shooting from.

63. French soldiers flushing out German soldiers. Dead German soldier foreground.

64. Dead German soldiers in their trench with French soldiers inspecting. France, April 1917.

 

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Set 17.

65. Dead German soldier. Marne, France.

66. Bodies of dead German soldiers. Alsne, 1917.

67. Dead German soldiers after artillery strike on their trench. Marne.

68. German soldiers dead in their foxhole or bunker entry. Flanders.

 

[volfmann]

Killer set DeathHand. Anymore on ww1, possibly sets on facial injures? Images from this war are what first brought me to forum such as this, and yours are some originals I haven't seen plastered everywhere else on the web.

 

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Set 18.

69. German soldiers killed in Marne.

70. Dead German soldiers.

71. Effects of artillery fire: bodies of German soldiers in 'no mans land.' Vimy.

72. German soldiers killed in battle.

 

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Set 19.

73. German soldier killed at Verdun.

74. Remains of a German 'Storm Trooper.'

75. Part of German convoy destroyed by artillery fire.

76. After artillery bombardment, the dead inside St. Peter & Paul church, Belgium.