Aisne Collection

Ww1 / Sep14 / Brewing Tea
British brew tea while under fire on the Aisne, meanwhile someone plays the bagpipes

HMS Aisne - Battle-class Destroyer - commissioned in 1947. Date: circa 1948

Gallic Wars (58 BC-50 BC). The battle of the Aisne (57 BC)
Gallic Wars (58 BC-50 BC). Caesar's campaign against the Belgae in 57 BC. The battle of the Aisne (57 BC). The Belgic tribes cross the Aisne River through the right

WW1 - The War in the West - The Allies Advance - 1914. The Battle of the Aisne. 1914

German machine gun position in France WWII
German twin MG34 machine guns on an a mounting in Aisne, France. Unit often attached to floor of a truck, or on a special two-wheeled trailer, towed by a truck. Manned at all times when on the march

German tanks WWII
German Panzerkampfwagen tank (Pz, Kpfw.III) column with Mercedes motorcycle escort in Aisne, France, during World War II Date: 1940

A Cave house / dwelling at Laon, France
A Reconstructed (Prehistoric?) Cave house / dwelling and occupant at Laon, Aisne department in Hauts-de-France, northern France. Date: circa 1905

Third Battle of the Aisne 1918
British and French soldiers waiting for the enemy in the open North of Courville at the Third Battle of the Aisne on the Western Front in France during World War I on 29th May 1918

Young lad in sailor suit with pet dog and model ship
St. Quentin, France (Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France) - smart young lad in spotless sailor suit, posing outside the elegant front door to his home with his pet dog

WW1 - French arrest a decrepit old woman (a German spy)
WW1 - The Germans gave the old woman a new white blanket and bribed her to walk behind any French battery that might take up a position near a certain village on the Aisne

French artillery, Battle of the Marne, France, WW1
French artillery in action with a 75 mm field gun during the Marne and Aisne campaigns, France, First World War. Date: September-October 1914

American troops near Bazoches-sur-Vesle, France, WW1
American troops occupying the line between the Vesle and the Aisne rivers, to the north of Bazoches-sur-Vesle, northern France, during the First World War. Date: 4 September 1918

Laon, Aisne, France - Porte d Arlon (or Ardon), a remaining section of the towns original defensive wall. It is a drawbridge gateway, situated where the armoury once stood. circa 1910s

Chauny, Aisne, France - River Oise
Chauny, France - locks and sluice valves in the River Oise, a tributary of the River Seine, with buildings ruined in wartime. 1914-1918

Soissons, Aisne - Cathedral interior
Soissons, Aisne - The St Gervais and St Protais Cathedral (Cath餲 ale Saint-Gervais-et-Saint-Protais) is an example of Gothic architecture

The Cathedral - Soissons, Aisne Department, Picardy, France
Soissons Cathedral Basilica (Basilique Cathedrale Saint-Gervais-et-Saint-Protais de Soissons) - Soissons, Aisne Department, Picardy, France circa 1910s

Hand axes of flint. Aisne Valley, France. Mousterian Culture. 100000-40000 BC. National Museum of Denmark. Copenhagen. Denmark

Lance-Corporal F. W. Dobson, Coldstream Guards VC
Frederick William Dobson, (9 November 1886 15 November 1935), who was awarded a VC for the First Battle of the Aisne Date: 1915

Panorama of Fighting on the Oise and the Aisne
A panorama of fighting on the Oise and the Aisne. A sketch by Frederic Villiers, special war artist for the Illustrated London News, showing a view from a point near the town of Ribecourt Date: 1914

WW1 - Western Front - Attack on the Hindenburg Line, 1917
WW1 - Western Front - The Hindenbug Line (Siegfriedstellung), was a German defensive position of World War I, built during the winter of 1916 - 1917 on the Western Front, from Arras to Laffaux

WW1 - Military tank and soldiers in Aisne, France, 1918
WW1 - A military tank crosses through the remains and ruins of a village in the Aisne Front, France, 1918. A soldier with a horse drawn artillery carriage

Early WW1 trenches in the Aisne district, October 1914
Interior view of a trench constructed by the British in the Aisne district, an early example of the trench system which would come to dominate warfare on the Western Front during the First World War

Canine Devotion in War Time, WW1 dog guarding home
A dog still seeking to defend its former home during the entry of the Germans into Vailly, a small town lying on the Aisne

Maintaining lines of communication (roads) - on Aisne Front
WW1 - Maintaining lines of communication (roads) - on Aisne Front Date: 1918

Ideal homes near the Aisne, WW1
Some very rustic but well made huts constructed by artillery men from Landes, near the Aisne. The buildings were in the style of those from their own locality in South West France. Date: 1915

A curved stem pipe, finely hand carved - WWI
A curved stem pipe, finely hand carved by and belonging to Driver P. S. Wilson, a lorry driver with the Army Service Corps. during the First World War

Letter opener Engraved Aisne and Marne
Letter opener. Engraved Aisne and Marne. Trench Art

Quintagonal WWI photo frame
Quintagonal photo frame containing round swivel frame engraved in brass with the names and dates - Mons 1914 : Marne 1914 : La Basse 1915 : Ypres 1914/15 : Arras 1915 : Vimy 1917

German battery under a searchlight, 1914
The searchlight in operation - a German battery thrown into relief by a searchlight of the Allied armies in the Aisne region of France. They make frantic efforts to escape the ghostly beam. Date: 1914

British troops in one of the Aisne quarries, 1914
British troops resting in a disused quarry cave in the Aisne district of France. Most of the men when not actually in the trenches sleep

Siege trenches in the Aisne district, 1914
Interior view of a trench constructed by the British in the Aisne district of France, showing the head cover made of straw and earth

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

Chateau de Mondemont, France, in ruins during WW1
The Chateau de Mondemont, near the river Aisne in north eastern France, in ruins after the Battle of the Marne in the early stages of the First World War

A football match played by troops during the battle of the A
" Our Happy Tommies" A typical upbeat choice of subject for The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, Sutcliffes illustration

French soldiers in trench, Vailly, France, WW1
French soldiers in a trench near Vailly-sur-Aisne, northern France, during the First World War. Painted by a member of the French Foreign Legion. Date: March 1915

France Soissons
The abbaye de Saint-Crepain, at Soissons on the Aisne river in northern France. Date: late 18th century

Stairway up to the Railway Station at Laon, France
Stairway up to the Railway Station at Laon, Aisne department in Picardy, France. A beggar sits at the foot of the long stair, holding out his hat in hope of a charitable donation

La Fert-Milon, France
La Fert-Milon, in the Aisne department in Picardy in northern France. Four huge blanks for millstones sit by a crane on the banks of a small river or canal. Date: circa 1916

American and French ammunition, France, WW1
American and French ammunition being transported to the front at the start of the Aisne-Marne Offensive in northern France, towards the end of the First World War. Date: 18 July 1918

German 15cm gun on a barge, Aisne Canal, France, WW1
A German 15cm gun mounted on a barge, in action on the Aisne Canal, northern, France, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Generaloberst Max von Boehn
General Max von Boehn, in command of the German 7th Army at the Second Battle of the Aisne in spring 1917 during World War One. Date: 1917

Aisne Canal WWI
Stone quarry by the Aisne Canal near Berry-au-Bac in France during World War I

Pont Arcy WWI
German soldiers in Pont Arcy in Aisne, France during World War I

German transport WWI
German transport drivers and horses wearing gas masks during the advance on Soissons at the Third Battle of the Aisne during World War I

Soissons ruins WWI
Smouldering ruins in Soissons, which was captured by the Germans on the 29 May 1918 during the Battle of Soissons and Rheims at the Third battle of Aisne on the Western Front during World War I

Retiring German cavalry WWI
Bavarian cavalry retreating during the rearguard actions near Chauny which the French took on the 19th March 1917 during World War I

German trench WWI
German trench on the Aisne during World War I

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