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" 'Twas messy, that bit of a fight" - Dead Germans amidst wire entanglements
The painstaking care of the Germans is evidenced in this stone and steel defense which they erected to ward off the attacks of the Allies. Those horizontal lines on the sides of the wall are the marks of the boards with which the Germans built the…
"And they did not pass" - Main entrance and gate into city of Verdun, France
For generations Verdun (ver'dun’) will be to the French nation a synonym for the most heroic courage, the most devoted patriotism. For five months, under a deluge of shot and shell, poison gas and liquid fire, impossible of adequate description by…
"Carry on" carnival: Sports Ground, Glenferrie, 16th to 23rd Feb., 1918
Advertisement card for a morale boosting carnical. Five lines of patriotic verse on the back of the card reads
"On! On! You've got to carry on -
For the sake of every one of us who's gone
For the flag that flies above
And the country that we love,…
"On! On! You've got to carry on -
For the sake of every one of us who's gone
For the flag that flies above
And the country that we love,…
"Down in a shell crater. We fought like Kilkenny Cats" -Battle of Cambrai
This terrible war, started by Germany in her mad lust for empire, abounded in situations which tried men's souls to the limit and called for the exertion of every ounce of courage and resolution they possessed. This was one of those occasions. In the…
"Enemy airmen successfully bombed one of our supply trains" Official report
A scene such as this helps us to realize how disease and pestilence would naturally follow in the wake of an army unless the sanitary corps is sufficiently strong to clear the ground from day to day. Where this could not be done whole regions would…
"Grand place" of devastated Arras, section visited by peace conference delegates, France
This picture shows part of the most interesting section of Arras (a’ras’). Arras before the recent war was a city of about twenty thousand inhabitants. It had two spacious squares known as the Grande Place and the Petite Place. The houses facing…
"Mur tschoffen," wall in Dinant before which Germans shot many loyal Belgians
There is little in the peaceful scene before us to recall the terrible tragedy enacted on this very spot in August, 1914. Here, in that fateful month, 116 citizens of Dinant were pitilessly massacred by German soldiers acting under the command of…
"Out where the bombs are bursting and the cannons like Hell-doors slam"
The foreground looks peaceful enough in the bright sunshine of this July day, but in the woods beyond an inferno is roaring. Shells are tearing great craters in the brown earth, flinging showers of dirt and rock to every side ; trees are crashing to…
"The Rocks," Hayfield
Message on card reads "I pass these rocks every day. R."
12-inch disappearing coast defense gun elevated for firing, Fortress Monroe, Va.
Our coast fortifications are for the purpose of protecting coast cities, naval bases and other utilities from bombardment, of preventing the occupation of harbors by an enemy and of providing safe harbor for our fleet. For these purposes large…
31 views: the cities of our allies & our enemies
This souvenir of The Great War of 1914 is issued with the object of giving an artistic and true idea of the Beautiful Cities of the Nations who are now at war. The number of British Subjects who were resident in the various countries at the…
A bristling forest of bayonets. Russian troops on review
In this array of bayonetted rifles stretching as far as the eye can look, one sees the evidence of the spirit of militarism which animated all the imperialistic nations of Europe for many years before the World War. In this race for military…
A friendly bout among our boys, on transport returning from France
No ocean trip is so tiresome as that on which one returns from a foreign land. A certain novelty attends the outward voyage, but the return is all too slow. One longs for the familiar sights and the familiar comforts of home. For our boys, packed as…
A glimpse near shattered Verdun
This glimpse around shattered Verdun shows nothing but desolation. The cloud of smoke in the sky is the tell-tale of a shrapnel shell that has exploded over some point behind the lines, where the Germans thought there were troops. Verdun is a very…
A military service in the field with a gun carriage for an altar
Men face to face with death feel the need of religion as they feel it at no other time. The shadowy Beyond with its great uncertainties lies just around the corner. Soldiers on the battle field surrounded by the tremendous destructive agencies of…
A sailor's sewing day reminds him keenly of home and mother - Life on board a battleship
Each sailor is expected to keep his clothing in good repair. Perhaps when he is sewing up a rent in his trousers or darning his socks he appreciates more than ever before the nimble fingers and loving heart of mother at home. It is needless to say…
A village reduced to debris near Verdun, France
This is one of the hundreds of villages caught in the storm of war that swept over Northern France but a few years ago. The villagers returning to their homes after the deluge was over, found but the mass of ruins we see. What had once been home,…
Abbeville: Rue Saint-Vultran
Message on card reads "Jan 1st 1919. This town has been heavily bombed by the Germans and lot[s] of damage has been done. The market square or rather the central square shows many marks of bombs & several shops & house[s] have been quite destroyed"
Abbey Road, Rhos-on-Sea
Message on card reads "I have put cross at the house we are staying. I am writing this P.C. in the room with the cross on. We have a lovely view of the country in the front and the sea at the back. R. The first cross is wrong, the one in ink"
Adderley Street from S., Cape Town
The Valentine & Sons Publishing Co. Ltd., P.O. Box 1685, Cape Town
Adelaide, looking south from general post office
Message on card reads "Dear Winnie, just a line in haste to send my future address. c/o Mrs Byrnes, 6 Palm Place, Hackney, Adelaide. We are moving this weekend & everything is upside down so excuse the short notes. Will write a long letter next…
