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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.

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

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.

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)

British troops entering Peronne, France after evacuation by the 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

English prisoners at work near Doberitz

Photograph shows English prisoners of war working in fields near the prisoner of war camp at Döberitz (now Dallgow-Döberitz), Germany during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Abandoned German front line trench on the Flanders field, Flanders

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

Eight inch German gun captured by Highlanders during the Cambrai offen...

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 trench running through Gommecourt, France. March 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

Type of German prisoner captured by British soldiers. 6-8-1917

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

Machinery in Lille linen mill which was completely wrecked by the Germ...

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 Battle Cruiser "Seidlitz"

British Photographs of World War I Public domain photograph of warship, battleship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

German fortifications at Ostend, Belgium

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 pill box captured by British troops

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German Field service - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows German soldiers at a service during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Germans in trenches in Argonne Forest

Photograph shows German soldiers in the Argonne Forest, France, during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons Project, 2012)

Neuve Eglise church, Flanders during World War I

This photograph shows the church in the village of Neuve Eglise. It has been badly damaged and stands roofless and windowless. The church, which had been an earlier foundation, had been remodelled in the 18th c... More

Germans in Ostend, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows German soldiers passing the Cafe Rubens as they march in the streets of Ostend, Belgium during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012) Title from data provided by the Bain News Serv... More

How a Boche truck arrived at Clery Station, helped by our artillery

An upended carriage is shown next to the remains of a brick wall or building. Although the original caption mentions a truck, it is actually an open-topped railway carriage. This photograph is one of a series s... More

Germans destroy all bridges as they are driven back, but our troops qu...

Cavalrymen crossing a bridge, France, during World War I. This image shows a long line of cavalrymen travelling across a temporary bridge. They are all laden down with equipment. Their load includes food for th... More

Framed in the ruins of Villers Carbonne, Flanders

Ruins in Villers Carbonnel, Ancre region, France, during World War I. An Allied soldier looking out through the empty window frame of a shattered house. The building had been constructed of clay daub on a frame... More

Kaiser, Crown Prince, & P'ce i.e., Prince Oscar at Crown Prince's Hdqr...

Photograph shows Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941) with two of his sons Crown Prince Frederick William Victor Augustus Ernest (1882-1951) and Prince Oskar of Prussia (1888-1958) during World War I. (Source: Flickr ... More

German Army field Hdqrs. near Ostend

Photograph shows German soldiers seated and standing outside of a sod building near Ostend, Belgium, during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Arrival of gifts for German soldiers

Photograph shows arrival of gifts for German soldiers during World War I, possibly at Christmas. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

View of Ostend, Belgium, after being taken from Germans

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 prisoners bringing in wounded under escort of British and Frenc...

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

Germans prisoners at lunch, Querrieu, France. July 1916

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

British troops waiting for Germans to appear. Robecq, Belgium. 4-12-19...

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

Déclaration des dépudoets d'Alsace-Lorraine lue á l'Assemblée National...

An Alsatian woman with her hand chained to a brick wall. Alsace and Lorraine were lost to Germany in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-1871. Translation of title: A statement from the representatives of Alsace-L... More

German light engine destroyed by British artillery fire. Combles, Fran...

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 French chateau, close to the Canadian lines which was wrecked by Ger...

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

Loaf of bread sent to German prisoner was found to contain a message h...

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

American Sailors prepare to bombard the Germans

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 of British ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph of German ship, free to use, no copyrigh... More

German prisoner cleaning captured guns and trench mortars. Querrieu, F...

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View of Arras Cathedral taken from the top of one of its walls

Originally built between 1030 and 1396, the medieval cathedral at Arras suffered terrible bomb damage during the Great War. When the rapid German advance into France took place in the autumn of 1914 (part of th... More

German ammunition abandoned at Battle of the Marne, 10/29/14

Photograph shows a man and woman looking at artillery shells on the ground in France, after the First Battle of the Marne which took place during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

View of the village of Courcelles

This photograph of Courcelles, near Bapaume, shows shattered buildings on either side of the village street. This photograph is likely to have been taken in the autumn of 1918, after the Allies had recaptured m... More

Monument erected by Germans, Beaumont Hamel, France. 11-26-1916

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

American troops passing in review before General Plummer, British Army...

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 flags received at Invalides, Paris

Photograph shows German flags being paraded by French soldiers at the L'Hôtel National des Invalides in Paris, France, during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Kaiser in field, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), the last German Emperor and King of Prussia, with troops during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012) Title from data provided by the Bain News Serv... More

Training women for street R.R. [i.e., railroad] service - Berlin

Photograph shows German women training to become street car drivers in Berlin during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

Prison camp, Zossen -- exercise

Photograph shows prisoners exercising at Zossen prisoner of war camp, Wünsdorf, Zossen, Germany, during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on t... More

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

Canadian captives marching through a town

Captives marching through a town, during World War I. Prisoners taken captive by Canadian soldiers march through a small town. Soldiers and civilians watch from the roadside, as the captives are escorted throug... More

German Sanitary sign near Lodz - Glass negative photogrpah. Public dom...

Photograph shows a sign in German "Trinkwasser" (drinking water) next to a pump in Lodz, Poland during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Civilians killed by German artillery fire buried in their own gardens ...

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

Scene from George Kleine's "European armies in action" A German field ...

Photograph showing German soldiers firing cannons. J195901 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of World War One military equipment, vehicle, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hier zeichnet man die Kriegsanleihe / Bernhard.

Text: You can subscribe to War Loan here. Closing: Oct. 18, 1 pm.

In front of the main guard in Unter den Linden

Unter den Linden, Berlin, Germany, 1918. Part of Unter den Linden, a large main street in Berlin which held many of the important palaces and buildings of early twentieth-century Berlin. The crowds in this pho... More

Cyclists crossing Cologne during World War I

A detachment of troops with bicycles which they are wheeling, heavily laden with kit, through the streets of Cologne. Women and children are standing on the pavement watching them and waving white papers or clo... More

German machine guns and minnenwerfers captured at Gheluvelt, Belgium

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 Red Cross dogs - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain photograph of German troops during World War One, army, military, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Prisoners, bringing in wood, Zossen

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

Satyrische Europa Karte Weltkrieg 1914 / Zeichnung v. Entwurf, E. Zim...

Print shows a map of Europe at the outbreak of the first World War with each country depicted as a human figure representative of the particular state of affairs or attitudes of the country, for instance, Germa... More

Prisoners coming in, Flanders during World War I

German prisoners, during World War I. German prisoners being taken. One of the soldiers escorting them is armed with a large rifle and bayonet. Despite the armed soldier, they appear to be walking through the f... More

Dead German Between Villeroy & Neufmontiers, Villeroy porcelain

Photograph shows a dead German lying near a haystack, during World War I in France. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

German Veterinary at work - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows a German veterinary with a horse during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Hans von Minning, 15 years, mascot of German Reg't

Photograph possibly shows Hans von Mining, a mascot with the German Army during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Scene in Amiens near the Cathedral

A street in Amiens, France. A number of the buildings have been badly damaged by bombing or shelling. In fact one of the buildings on the right has been completely destroyed. There are mounds of rubble on both... More

Bridge over the canal at Nesle which the Germans destroyed

Women salvaging chairs, Nesle, France, during World War I. The ruins of the canal bridge at Nesle with two elderly French women hurrying over a makeshift plank bridge. They are both carrying chairs, possibly sa... More

Loading German Red Cross supplies

Photograph shows people putting Red Cross supplies into automobiles during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Troops clambering on to the roofs, buffers and foot-boards of railway ...

German demobilisation, Western Front, 1918. Scenes as German soldiers cling on to the roofs and doors of a train already full of other troops. The caption indicates that these were demobilised German troops des... More

View in the Grand Place, Bethune

Shell damage in the Grand Place, Bethune, France, during World War I. The severity of the damage that French towns near the front lines suffered from bombing and artillery fire. Not one of the buildings picture... More

Kaiserin's farewell to Red Cross Sisters

Photograph shows Kaiserin Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858-1921), wife of Wilhelm II of Germany, at a train station with nuns during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012) Title from da... More

Where bomb fell in Rue Des Recollets

Photograph shows bomb damage from German aircraft, in Paris, France at the begining of World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Pho... More

German U.C. 5, captured by British

British Photographs of World War I Public domain photograph of a steamboat ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

German submarine 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

Captured German trench mortar, 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

Captured German guns at Albert, France. September 1916

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

The Grenadier guards crossing the Rhine River after a route march. Col...

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

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

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)

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...

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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

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