Battlefield Collection (#9)

British military battlefield training 1917
Gas-mask route marching near London. Every imaginable detail of battlefield training forms part of the course of instruction through which reinforcing drafts

Royal Australian Heavy Battery, Western Front, WW1
Men of the Royal Australian Heavy Battery in action on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British soldiers salvaging near Bapaume, WW1
British soldiers salvaging materials on a battlefield near Bapaume, France, on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British troops caught in shelling, Western Front, WW1
British troops caught in shelling on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British bombarding German trenches, Western Front, WW1
British troops bombarding German trenches on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Old German trench near Pozieres, Western Front, WW1
An old German trench near Pozieres on the Western Front in France (Somme) during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Battlefield near La Boisselle, Western Front, WW1
A battlefield and trench near the village of La Boisselle on the Western Front in France (Somme) during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Rail-mounted gun in action, Western Front, WW1
A British rail-mounted gun in action on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British troops digging trench, Ovillers, Western Front, WW1
Men of a Worcestershire regiment digging a communication trench near Ovillers, on the Western Front in France (Somme) during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British trench near Ovillers, Western Front, WW1
A British fire trench near Ovillers, on the Western Front in France (Somme) during World War One. In the trench are men of a Worcestershire regiment. Date: circa 1916

King George V touring battlefield, Western Front, WW1
King George V touring a battlefield on the Western Front during World War One Date: circa 1916

British shell bursting on German trenches, WW1
A British shell bursting on German trenches on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Six-inch British howitzer in action, Western Front, WW1
A six-inch British howitzer in action in the dust and heat of the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British troops moving in to attack, Western Front, WW1
British troops moving in to attack on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British soldiers clearing road through battlefield, WW1
British soldiers clearing a road through a battlefield on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British gunners in action, Western Front, WW1
British gunners in action during the German offensive on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Clearing up a battlefield after an advance, WW1
Clearing up a battlefield after an advance during World War One. Rifles are stacked into neat pyramid shapes. Date: circa 1916

Mr Balfour on visit to Western Front, WW1
Arthur James Balfour on a visit to the Western Front during World War One. He served as British Foreign Secretary from 1916 to 1919. Date: circa 1916

British tank Mark VIB by G. H. Davis
British Tanks: No. 3. Light tank Mark VIB. A sectional drawing of a light British tank which proved its fighting ability on various fronts during the Second World War. Date: 1941

British tank Mark IVA by G. H. Davis
British Tanks: No. 2. Cruiser (medium) tank Mark IVA. A diagrammatic drawing showing medium cruiser tanks in action during the Second World War. Date: 1941

Mons 1914
Nighttime on the battlefield at Mons on 23 August. German searchlights seek out movement on the British lines, in order to guide their artillerys fire

Motor cyclist on the Western Front, WW1
A motor cyclist putting his enthusiasm to good use on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914

The Battlefield of Gettysburg. Photograph from Huidekopers relief map of the battlefield. As it was in 1863. Date: 1901

British soldiers going into action, Western Front, WW1
British soldiers going into action on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British soldiers advancing on Western Front, WW1
British soldiers advancing on the Western Front during World War One. They are spreading out to minimise the effects of hostile shelling. Date: circa 1916

British soldiers sheltering in shell hole, Western Front, WW
British soldiers sheltering in a shell hole on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British soldiers in action on battlefield, WW1
British soldiers in action on a battlefield on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Attack on German positions north of the Aisne, France, WW1
Attack on German positions north of the Aisne, northern France, during the First World War, at 6 in the morning. Date: 16 April 1917

Valley of the Somme near Clery, France, WW1
French soldiers in the valley of the Somme, near Clery, northern France, during the First World War. Date: September 1916

Poster, French liberation, WW1
French fundraising poster showing a tank on a battlefield, encouraging people to invest their money to help the war effort during the First World War. Date: 1918

Patriotic postcard, Czech Army in Russia, WW1
Patriotic postcard showing the Czech Army in Russia during the First World War, gun in hand, protecting their homeland against murderers. Date: 1914-1918

Mine crater on the Somme, France, WW1
Mine crater on the Somme, northern France, covered in snow during the First World War. Date: circa 1916-1918

American troops in action, WW1
American troops in action on a battlefield during the First World War. Date: 1917-1918

German army at Fort Douaumont, France, WW1
Artists impression of the German army by night at Fort Douaumont, north eastern France, during the First World War. The village of Douaumont was destroyed during the Battle of Verdun

British soldiers on the Somme, France, WW1
Two British soldiers on the Somme, France, during the First World War -- a greeting inside a wartime Christmas card. Date: November 1916

Chemical warfare, Livens bomb exploding, WW1
Chemical warfare, showing white smoke from a Livens bomb exploding during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Poison gas attack, aerial photograph, WW1
Aerial photograph of a poison gas attack during the First World War. Date: 1917

On the Somme Battlefield, with the French
A French soldier in a trench working a machine gun. Date: 1916

On the Somme Battlefield, with the French 1916
French artillerymen taking 240mm shells up to the firing guns. Date: 1916

William Jenkins Worth 2
WILLIAM JENKINS WORTH American military commander whose success on the battlefield was marred by political intrigues. Date: 1794 - 1849

Sir John Molesworth
SIR JOHN MOLESWORTH British military commander, depicted, not on a battlefield with guns and trumpets, but in a peaceful woodland setting... Date: 1730 - 1775

Waterloo Battlefield
This peaceful harvesting scene on a farm in Belgium is actually the battlefield of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Date: early 1930s

British church parade on battlefield, Western Front, WW1
British troops at church parade on the battlefield before heading for the trenches, on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

WW1 - Loos - Tower Bridge - pithead gear towers
WW1, Loos Tower Bridge - the name given to a pair of pithead gear towers here (also sometimes known as Crystal Palace ). Men from the Black Watch

WWI - The (German) Fox and the (Allied) Grapes
The Fox and the Grapes - A Hungry Fox, finding that he could not reach some tempting bunches of ripe grapes, declared that they were sour and that he did not want them

Kaiser Wilhelm II and General Von Moltke on field of Battle (possibly not too near the front!) - during WWI. A rather unusual scene in many respects... Date: 1915

British Bulldog Tank surprises Germans in a trench
A truly superb postcard showing a British Tank represented by an armour-plated Bulldog surprising three German soldiers in their trench. WWI era

Vasily Vereshchagin - Russian Artist
Vereshchagin, Vasily, (1842 - 1904) - Russian painter - famed for his depictions of Battle scenes. Date: circa 1900

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