Mud Collection (page 7)

Quartermasters tent with shell hole in foreground, WW1
A Quartermasters tent on a transport field during the First World War, showing a hole in the foreground made by a shell which fell within twenty yards but did no damage. Date: 1916

German gunners moving 77mm field guns, WW1
German gunners moving 77mm field guns forward over rough ground using a combined horse and ox team on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: February 1918

Wheels of a plane in muddy field, WW1
The wheels of a plane partially submerged in a muddy field during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Austrian soldiers ready to fire, Galicia, WW1
Austro-Hungarian soldiers getting ready to fire from a shallow trench in Galicia on the Eastern Front, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1915

American troops on front line, Argonne, France, WW1
American troops of the 369th Infantry, 93rd Division, in front line trenches in Argonne, north eastern France, towards the end of the First World War. Date: 1918

German gunners with field gun, Champagne, France, WW1
German gunners, loading a field gun during action in the Champagne area of France during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Attending to wounded German prisoner, WW1
An Allied soldier attending to a wounded German prisoner in a muddy field during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Disabled tank near Premont, Battle of Cambrai, France, WW1
Men of the 20th Manchesters resting by a tank which has been disabled by side-slipping down a railway embankment, near Premont, during the Battle of Cambrai, France, First World War

American artillery in Fleville, France, WW1
Incoming and outgoing American artillery in Fleville, Argonne, north eastern France, towards the end of the First World War. Date: 5 November 1918

British pilot shot down by Germans, WW1
A British pilot shot down by Germans is led across a muddy field during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Belgian cavalry passing through Sommergem, WW1
Belgian cavalry passing through Sommergem (Somerghem), East Flanders, Belgium, during the First World War. Transport of the 2nd Scots Guards can be seen on the right

Fighting the weather on the Western Front 1916

Mud at the Gate
Mud at the gate of a field following a heavy downpour of rain. Date: 1939

Thames Estuary 1940S
The Thames estuary at Leigh- on-Sea, Essex, England. Date: 1940s

Devonshire Cottages
Lovely old thatched cottages, with their windows flung wide open during a summer heatwave, in the village of Branscombe, between Beer and Sidmouth, Devon, England. Date: 19th century

Muddy Cyclist

Muddy Cyclists
Have you tried mud-plugging? According to this photograph of muddy touring cyclists, its fun with a tandem! Date: 1930s

Dried Mud Country Lane
The road to the farm during a summmer drought; a study of dried or caked mud. Date: 1950s

Incident with an American tank, western front, WW1
An incident with an American tank on the western front during the First World War. The tank appears to be stuck in a ditch or trench. Date: 1917-1918

Serbian refugees during retreat, Macedonia, WW1
Serbian refugees during the retreat, in Macedonia during the First World War. Date: 1915

Serbian heavy batteries in action against Austrians, WW1
Serbian heavy batteries in action against the Austrians during the First World War. Date: circa 1916-1917

Two British soldiers working in a ditch, WW1
Two British soldiers working in a ditch full of water during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Austrio-Hungarian troops in Romania, Eastern Front, WW1
Austro-Hungarian troops trying to dislodge heavy equipment out of the mud during their advance through Romania, on the Eastern Front, during the First World War. Date: 1917

Russians passing through Augustowo, WW1
A transport group of Russians passing through Augustowo (Augustow, Poland) on the eastern front during the First World War. Among them is a Cossack general. Date: 1914-1917

British troops extricating water cart from shell hole, WW1
British troops extricating a water cart from a muddy shell hole during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

American troops near Montfaucon, France, WW1
American troops advancing near Montfaucon in the Argonne, eastern France, during the First World War. Date: 18 October 1918

Australian Signals laying cable near Albert, France, WW1
Australian Signals laying cable in a muddy area near Albert, northern France, during the First World War. Date: 21 September 1917

British troops working on light railway, WW1
British troops working on a light railway during the First World War. Date: 1916

German gunner with heavy artillery, France, WW1
A German gunner in action with heavy artillery near Verdun, north eastern France, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

German 21cm howitzers preparing to retire, WW1
German 21cm howitzers preparing to retire from a battlefield on the Western Front towards the end of the First World War. Date: October 1918

Scene behind the lines on the Western Front, WW1
Scene behind the lines on the Western Front during the First World War, showing a lorry and a horse-drawn cart silhouetted against the sky towards evening. Date: 1914-1918

Tractor stuck in mud while pulling heavy gun, France, WW1
A tractor made by John Fowler & Co of Leeds, stuck in the mud while pulling a heavy gun on the Western Front in France during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

British field hospital marquee, Salonika, WW1
Greek workmen spreading mud on a British field hospital marquee to camouflage it from enemy aircraft at Salonika (Salonica, Thessaloniki, Greece) during the First World War. Date: circa 1916-1917

American troops training with British tanks, France, WW1
American troops of B Company, 107th Regiment Infantry, 27th Division, training with British tanks near Beauquesne, Somme, northern France, during the First World War

Austro-Hungarian soldiers towing a vehicle, WW1
Austro-Hungarian soldiers towing a broken-down vehicle along a muddy road during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Conrad von Hotzendorf, Austro-Hungarian Army
Count Franz Conrad von Hotzendorf (1852-1925), Chief of the General Staff of the Austro-Hungarian Army at the outbreak of the First World War

Big gun and horses near Ypres, Western Front, WW1
A big gun with gunners and horses on a muddy road north of Ypres, Belgium, on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Captain Wilkins, photographer, near Roussoy, France, WW1
Captain George Hubert Wilkins (1888-1958), Australian official war photographer, setting up his camera and tripod on top of a tank near Roussoy, northern France

Artillery and gunners in action, Western Front, WW1
Artillery and gunners in action on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Removing a field gun, Flanders, Western Front, WW1
Men removing a field gun with the help of a team of horses on the Western Front in Flanders during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

British gunners loading a shell, Western Front, WW1
British gunners loading a shell into a field gun on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Moving a field gun stuck in mud, Western Front, WW1
Men moving a field gun stuck in the mud during bad weather on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

British guns on the Western Front, France, WW1
British guns being moved into position on the Western Front in France during the First World War. Shells and containers are stacked up in the foreground, between large puddles of rainwater

British soldiers and tanks in open country, WW1
British soldiers and tanks in open country on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: April 1917

Removing a field gun, Western Front, WW1
Men removing a field gun with the help of a team of horses on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Howitzer shells near Ypres, Belgium, WW1
A line of 15 inch Howitzer shells on the muddy ground near Ypres, Belgium, during the First World War. Written on them are painted the initials RMA [Royal Marine Artillery]

Landscape scene with stretch of water
A watercolour landscape scene showing a stretch of water and a few buildings on the horizon

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