Trench Collection (page 10)

Peat stack, County Donegal, north-west Ireland
Peat stack in County Donegal, north-west Ireland, with a trench in the foreground from which the peat has been dug. Date: circa 1900s

WW1 - Loading Trench-building materials - Krymne, Ukraine
WW1 - Austro-Hungarian troops loading trench-building materials onto railway wagons at Krymne Station, Krymne, Ukraine. Ukrainians could be found participating on both sides of the conflict during

Bruce Bairnsfather Fragments from France exhibition, 1916
Advertisement in The Graphic for an exhibition of drawings by the popular soldier cartoonist Bruce Bairnsfather. The pictures were exhibited at the Graphic Galleries, 190 Strand

Indian soldiers in trench, Gallipoli, 1915.Photograph by Reggie Savory, 1915.Sikh soldiers of 29th Indian Infantry Brigade rest in a trench, probably in the Cape Helles area

British raiding party await the word to go
Photograph: British raiding party await the word to go.From an album of 76 official photographs, 1916-1917.Associated with World War One

Trench interior near the Albert-Bapaume road on the Somme
Photograph of trench scene.From an album of 22 official photographs (and one newspaper cutting) showing scenes from the Western Front, 1916-1918 (c).Associated with World War One

?Welcome Coffee?, a coffee break, November 1916.Lantern slide from a box of 80 lantern slides associated with the Western Front, 1916 (c).Canadian soldiers, several of whom are wearing trench waders

Preparing trench mortars, East Africa, WW1
Preparing trench mortars for a push into Portuguese East Africa during WW1. 1917

Westende, Belgium -- defence works and ruins, WW1
Westende, Belgium -- defence works and ruins during WW1. Date: 1914-1918

Christmas goose in the trenches, WW1
Soldiers celebrate the arrival of the Christmas goose. Date: 1914

WW1 mascots: a trench cat
A trench cat sits on a soldiers knee. 1916

Dentist at work in a German trench
Dentist working on a soldiers tooth while he is in the trench. Date: 1915

Ghostly green cloud gas rolling towards the trench 1915
Heavy green gas clouds traveling slowly from the German lines rolled into the trenches. Soldiers choking from the fumes covering their faces with their hands and scarves. Date: 1915

Pour nos Soldats - French WW1 knitting postcard
First World War postcard, dated 31 January 1915, showing a woman knitting for our soldiers while in the background, a French soldier writes a letter in a trench on the Western Front. 1915

Algeria - Laghouat - Washing Basin / Trench / Pool
Laghouat, capital city of the Laghouat Province, Algeria - Wasing Trench. Date: circa 1910

Crimean War, inside a French rifle pit
Crimean War -- interior of a French rifle pit in the parallel before the Mamelon fort and White Tower. 1855

Crimean War, trenches and battery
Crimean War -- trenches and battery erected before the Mamelon and Flagstaff bastion. 1855

Digging Mud Turf in an Oul Bog Hole Co. Antrim - a view of a man and lady digging turf out of a trench. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim). Date: circa early 1900s

Cartoon, Hold On, Lets Go, WW1
Cartoon, Hold On, Lets Go. French soldiers in a trench and newly arrived American troops greet each other, ready to work together as Allies. Date: 1917

Swan Pen advertisement, WW1
First World War advertisement for Swan Pens featuring humorous cartoon. " We calls im The President. " Ows that

Skull of Bobila Madurell. Spain. End of the 3rd millennium B
Skull of Bobila Madurell. From Sant Quirze del Valles, Catalonia. Culture of Trench Graves. End of the 3rd millennium BC. Sabadell History Museum. Spain

Prehistory. Paleolithic. Spain. Archaeologcal site of Atapuerca. Railway Trench. It provides the oldest hominid fossils found so far on the Iberian Peninsula

Cartoon, The bastards! They re shooting down there WW1
Cartoon, The bastards! They re shooting down there... Perhaps these French soldiers expected an Easter ceasefire. Date: 1917

Austrian attack on Russian trenches, Carpathians, WW1
A night battle in the snow amidst the pines: the Russian advancing through the Carpathians. An Austrian force attacks the Russian entrenched position in the Carpathian mountains at night

Building Underground
Building the London Underground, using the cut- and-cover method whereby a trench is turned into a tunnel Date: 1860s

Cartoon, British troops at the Front, WW1
Cartoon, British troops at the Front. Rumour has it that British troops on the Western Front are living in idle luxury, leaving it to the French to do any nasty fighting that has to be done

WW1 / 1915 / GAS HELMET
British Officer in anti-gas helmet (gas mask) in trench on Western Front. Date: 1915

Slide pack of archival photographs from the IWM
35 mm. transparencies of IWM photographs contained in a booklet. Trench Warfare - this educational slide pack contains 24 black

Russian soldiers in trench on eastern front, Russia, WW1
Russian soldiers in a shallow trench on the eastern front during the First World War -- a shell bursts nearby, and they duck down for cover. Date: circa 1917

Russian soldiers in action on the eastern front, Russia, WW1
Russian soldiers in action in " no mans land" on the eastern front during the First World War -- a shock battalion taking German trenches

Cartoon, Nostalgia, WW1
Cartoon, Nostalgia. A sailor in a trench tells his commander that he is unable to go on the attack this morning because hes suffering from land sickness (presumably the opposite of sea sickness)

Cartoon, The little English knife, WW1
Cartoon, The little English knife. A French soldier in a trench on the Western Front tells his English colleague that he is faithful to his Rosalie (the name for his bayonet)

Cartoon, In the trench, WW1
Cartoon, In the trench, showing four French soldiers in a trench on the Western Front at night, sharing pieces of a New Year cake, or Galette. Date: 1916

Cartoon, Soldier returning from leave, WW1
Cartoon, a French soldier returning from leave tells his colleague what it was like. At every point someone pointed to the Keep Quiet notice, although what he had said was entirely innocent

Cartoon, Between two attacks, WW1
Cartoon, Between two attacks. French soldiers in a trench relax, eat, drink and play cards in a quiet moment on the Western Front. Date: 1916

Cartoon, Childhood memories, WW1
Cartoon, Childhood memories. An old soldier says he feels young again, invigorated by the fresh air of the Western Front. Another man says its more to do with the lice. Date: 1916

Cartoon, Christmas preparations, WW1
Cartoon, Christmas preparations on the Western Front. French soldiers gather everything together for their Christmas feast, including a bird, some cheese, and some bottles of wine. Date: 1915

Cartoon, The soldier back from leave, WW1
Cartoon, The soldier back from leave. His colleague asks him if he told his wife all about their battles. He replies that he didn t have chance, she was talking all the time! Date: 1915

Captain tasting the mens dinner on Christmas day
Cooking the plum pudding in a German steel helmet - A Christmas Scene in a British dug-out at the front. 1916

Archaeological Discoveries at Kish - Cylinder seals, stone bowls, the deep excavation trench a copper rein-guide, jewellery and a whole four-wheeled chariot. Date: 1928

The Domestic Side of War: Menage in Billet and Dug-Out A page from The Illustrated London News, 27 January 1917 with three drawings by A.Forestier based on eye-witness descriptions

WW1 British Royal Artillery officer wearing knitted scarf
Photograph of an unidentified officer in the Royal Artillery wearing a great coat and what looks like a hand knitted scarf or muffler. Date: c.1917

Oxo advertisement, WWI
Advertisement for Oxo, an inestimable boon to the fighting forces at this time of the year. Advert is illustrated by two scenes showing British soldiers manning a machine gun on the front line

Suggestion for Utilising Enemy Trench Mortars, WW1
Suggestion for Utilising Enemy Trench Mortars Captured in France drawn by William Heath Robinson in The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News

Winston Churchill (Journalist)
Mr Winston Churchill (Journalist) gives the Hun another shock A cartoon by Leonard Raven Hill in Punchs Almanack for 1917, depicting Churchill in civilian dress in a trench

Playing the Game 1905 and 1915
Cartoon contrasting a schoolboy aiming snowballs with his older self, ten years later, transferring his skills in the trenches and readying himself to show some grenades

Abandoned trench on the Western Front, WW1
An abandoned trench on the Western Front, WW1. Date: 1914-1918

WW1 - Firing a mortar
WW1 - Three soldiers positioned in a dug-out trench, aiming and firing a mortar at its target. Date: circa 1915

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