WW1: Trenches, Death, Mayhem (1 Viewer)

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"2 Nov 1914: Russia declared war on Turkey


Because of the help given by Turkey to the German attack of Russia, Russia declared war on Turkey."
Set 20.

77. Body of Russian medic killed on the field.

78. Remains of a Russian soldier.

79. Russian soldiers dead in Poland, 1914.

80. Bodies of Russian soldiers killed during a German gas attack.

 

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Set 21.

81. Russian soldiers felled by German gas bombs. 1918.

82. Scottish highland soldier dead on the battlefield.

83. Bodies of Scottish highland soldiers killed by gunfire or artillery. 1917.

84. French soldiers dead after German artillery hit their position.

 

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Set 22.

85. Rotting remains of a dead soldier.

86. French soldier propping up body of a comrade killed by artillery fire.

87. Dead soldier seems to be in the protective position.

88. German soldier, probably killed by artillery, in a German trench. France, 1917.

 

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Set 23.

89. Soldiers killed by artillery fire.

90. Dead soldiers at Aisne.

91. No cover - dead soldiers at Meuse.

92. No mans land...littered with bodies and human remains.

 

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Set 24.

93. Carnage in 'no mans land.'

94. Desolate battlefield littered with dead bodies.

95. Dead soldiers in a trench.

96. Unknown bodies.

 

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"5 Nov 1914: Britain and France declared war on Turkey


Britain and France, Russia's allies, declared war on Turkey, because of the help given to the German attack on Russia."

Set 25.

97. German soldier moves among the corpses of dead soldiers. Verdun.

98. Body of a soldier killed at Verdun.

99. Bodies of dead US soldiers.

100. Body of a soldier recovered from a battlefield at Meuse.

 

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And shit, time for a break..."Tiffany, will you do the weather?"

 

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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.

Not much that I have. But there are a few threads with images of WW1 injuries and stuff. One is in this section and I have to find the other and move it here, lols.

And thanks. These WW1 images take alot of work to size and fix up and glad to hear you like 'em.

Cheers

(more to come)

 

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Set 26.

101. French soldiers advance. Vimy.

102. French burial grounds. Graves with crosses are middle left.

103. French unload their dead from a cart. 1914.

104. German artillery crew with blown out gun barrel.

 

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Set 27.

105. German infantry in a trench (posed or in training), Sept. 26, 1916.

106. Heavy german machine gun positioned in a trench.

107. German soldiers and officers inspect a downed British plane. Pilot lies dead beside the wreck.

108. British soldiers killed during a german gas attack. April 23, 1915.

 

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"late 1914: Early stages of the war

The German advance through Belgium to France did not go as smoothly as the Germans had hoped. The Belgians put up a good fight destroying railway lines to slow the transport of German supplies.

Despite a French counter-attack that saw the deaths of many Frenchmen on the battlefields at Ardennes, the Germans continued to march into France. They were eventually halted by the allies at the river Marne.

British troops had advanced from the northern coast of France to the Belgian town of Mons. Although they initially held off the Germans, they were soon forced to retreat.

The British lost a huge number of men at the first battle of Ypres.

By Christmas, all hopes that the war would be over had gone and the holiday saw men of both sides digging themselves into the trenches of the Western Front."

Set 28.

109. German soldier checks ID of fallen comrade.

110. German soldiers after burying a dead French soldier.

111. German soldiers ready to head into Flanders.

112. German officers pose with the wreck of a downed plane and charred pilot. May 1916.

 

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Set 29.

113. German soldiers show off their catch of 'trench rats'. Argonne, 1916.

114. Germans inspecting a knocked out British tank at Cambrai, 1917.

115. Young German soldier on the Western Front, 1916.

116. Germans make their post near a damaged British tank. Bullecourt, c 1918.

 

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"7 May 1915: Lusitania sunk
This created outraged protests from the United States at the German U-boat campaign, when the Lusitania, which had many American passengers aboard, was sank. The Germans moderated their U-boat campaign.

23 May 1915: Italy
Italy entered the war on the side of the Allies.

2 Apr 1915: Second Battle of Ypres
Poison gas was used for the first time during this battle. The gas, fired by the Germans claimed many British casualties.

Feb 1915: Zeppelin bombing
Zeppelin airships dropped bombs on Yarmouth.

Feb 1915: Dardenelles
The Russians appealed for help from Britain and France to beat off an attack by the Turkish. The British navy responded by attacking Turkish forts in the Dardenelles."

Set 30.

117. Group shot of german Wehrmann. May 13, 1917.

118. Knocked out British MKII tank. Bullecourt, March 1918.

119. British tank disabled and crew dead.

120. Bodies of dead Scottish highland soldiers heaped into a pile. April 20, 1918.

 

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Set 31.

121. In the mud, the decaying body of a German soldier. Somme.

122. Soldiers of the Irish Royal Rifles at the Somme, July 1916.

123. Scottish soldiers in their trench positions.

124. A shelter hit by German artillery in the valley at Col del Rosso, 1918.

 

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"1 June 1916Battle of Jutland
The British and German naval forces met again but the battle was inconclusive. The German ships did a great deal of damage to British ships before once again withdrawing and the British Admiral Jellicoe decided not to give chase.

Although British losses were heavier than the German, the battle had alarmed both the Kaiser and the German Admiral Scheer and they decided to keep their fleet consigned to harbour for the remainder of the war.

21 Feb - Nov 1916: Battle of Verdun
The Germans mounted an attack on the French at Verdun designed to 'bleed the French dry'. Although the fighting continued for nine months, the battle was inconclusive. Casualties were enormous on both sides with the Germans losing 430,000 men and the French 540,000.

1 July - Nov 1916: Battle of the Somme
The battle was preceded by a week long artillery bombardment of the German line which was supposed to destroy the barbed wire defences placed along the German line but only actually succeeded in making no mans land a mess of mud and craters.

The five month long battle saw the deaths of 420,000 British soldiers (60,000 on the first day), 200,000 French soldiers and 500,000 German soldiers all for a total land gain of just 25 miles."

Set 32.

125. Artillery devastation.

126. More artillery mayhem.

127. Staged photo of a German soldier with a grenade in hand. 1917.

128. Staged photo of German soldiers manning two heavy machine guns. Oct. 1916.

 

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DH i wish I had a collecion like yours, you're the best one for sharing <3

 

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DH i wish I had a collecion like yours, you're the best one for sharing <3

Thanks mayhem, glad you like. Just right click and save the images and you'll have the collection : ) Cheers.

Set 33.

129. The destruction and desolation on a battlefield at Passchendaele.

130. A Belgian soldier known for his ferocity against the Germans and then looting the belongings of the dead. He became known as the "Souvenir Collector". This soldier eventually had a bounty price put on his head by the German Chancellor.

131. Devastation in a trench after an artillery strike.

132. Same as above, but closer view of the mangled bodies.

 

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Set 34.

133.
Illustration of the 73rd Hanoverian (German) Infantry Regiment 'Stormtroopers' assault on a trench held by the British 13th Battalion Essex Regiment (6h Brigade, 2nd Div) at Canal du Nord (North Canal). The German assault began at 0730 hrs on Dec. 1, 1917. (Description of the assault below image).

This detailed illustration was re-created with the assistance of a German commander who was part of the assault.

"Instead of fighting from perpendicular opposing trenches, the combatants duelled and scrapped up the old Siegfried Stellung support line parallel to Gruppe Arras' axis. This created an environment well suited to the aggressive and dynamic 'infiltration' tactics being applied by the spearheading Stosstruppen.

The basic grouping within assault companies was the 18-man section, divided into two squads of nine - the assault Gruppe.

The primary weapon for close-quarter combat was the grenade, carried in Hessian sacks under the arms (1).

Sections were also scaled for a Maxim 08/15 light machine gun, which provided intimate suppressive fire (2).

Orchestration was the essence of it. Such small units were able to make headway because their attacks were coordinated with judicious application of firepower. Inherent limitations in communication were overcome by making support assets organic- Sturmbateiltone were equipped with flamethrowers, mortars, stubby direct-fire assault guns and twice the usual allocation of Maxim medium machine guns.

Field artillery perfected the 'lightning barrage', firing few accurate unregistered shells but with the aim of simply suppressing rather than destroying enemy positions.

The Stosstruppen are carrying just enough equipment to sustain them without undue encumbrance. Shovels are universal; reflecting the imperative for consolidation once the advance had culminated.

Here the first squad is working its way down the barricaded (3) trench system.

A flurry of grenades will cover the rush by men armed with bayonets and sharpened entrenching tools (4).

Meanwhile, the second squad is attempting to bypass the point of resistance protected by the battalion's integral mortars (5).

The British Lewis gun that poses the greatest threat to that manoeuvre is being neutralized by first squad's Maxim 03/15 (6).

Such dynamic synchronization was achieved by perilous training that majored on teaching troops to anticipate; hence extra ammunition is being offered to the gun group before they have called for it (7).

Nevertheless, the narrow battlefield levelled the odds. In his memoir, Storm of Steel, 73rd Hanoverian Regiment Sturmkompanie commander Ernst Jünger describes his experience of this attack: 'The British resisted manfully. Every traverse had to be fought for. The black balls of Mills bombs crossed in the air with our own long-handled grenades. Behind every traverse we captured we found corpses or bodies still twitching ... We too suffered losses. A piece of iron crashed to the ground, which a fellow was unable to avoid; and he collapsed to the ground, while his blood issued on to the clay from his many wounds.'"

 

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Set 35.

133. British artillery popping off a shell. I have always seen this pic titled as, "Artillery gunner hit by German sniper fire." Obviously the cannon has just fired and the gunner is still holding what looks like the Lanyard (pull cord to fire the gun) but it looks as though the cord has broken. I'd think that it more likely that the gunner has been knocked off balance (he's on very little ground to begin with) by the gun's recoil and/or the breaking of the firing cord. No one else in the pic seems concerned about possible sniper fire. Others, more knowledgeable with artillery might have better insight into this one.

134. British Lewis gunner and mates decimated in their trench.

135. Early British 'Lancaster' armored car.

136. British troops taking up positions infront of a MarkII Brit tank.

 

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"early 1917: German U-boat campaign
In Germany, orders were given to step up the U-boat campaign. All allied or neutral ships were to be sunk on sight and in one month almost a million tons of shipping was sunk. Neutral countries became reluctant to ship goods to Britain and Lloyd George ordered all ships carrying provisions to Britain to be given a convoy.

6 April 1917: USA declares war on Germany
The United States of America declared war on Germany in response to the sinking, by German U boats, of US ships.

Nov 1917: W. Front Cambrai
The British took a large force of tanks across the barbed wire and machine gun posts at Cambrai."

Set 36.

137. British soldiers at the frontline (colourized version) and not looking very impressed.

138. British soldiers arrive to inspect remains of destroyed convoy at Ypres.

139. A British 'Whippet' tank, in this case called a "Beute", that either failed or was knocked out. The Germans salvaged many British tanks and then re-used them, hence the German Iron Cross painted on the side of the tank.

140. A French aircraft that landed in a tree. Men can be seen scaling the tree to rescue the pilot.