Trenches Collection (page 7)

British soldier in trench with periscope, WW1
A British soldier in a trench, observing the enemy through a periscope on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British soldier standing sentry in a trench, WW1
A British soldier standing sentry in a trench on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British soldiers digging a trench, Western Front, WW1
British soldiers digging a communication trench through what was once Delville Wood on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Two British soldiers in a trench, WW1
Two British soldiers in a trench on the Western Front during World War One, waiting for the signal to attack. Date: circa 1916

German trench during night action, WW1
Artists impression of a German trench and battlefield during night action, somewhere on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

American soldiers at Watou, Flanders, Belgium, WW1
American soldiers in action in a shallow trench at Watou, West Flanders, Belgium, during the First World War. Date: 9 July 1918

Austrian troops in trenches, Eastern Front, WW1
Austrian troops in trenches in the snow, on the Eastern Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Australian troops building trenches, Fleurbaix, France, WW1
Australian troops building trenches at Fleurbaix, northern France, during the First World War. Date: May 1916

Excavating machine for digging trenches, France, WW1
An excavating machine used for digging trenches, at Mericourt in the Somme area of northern France, during the First World War. Date: 26 August 1916

Gurkha troops going over the top, Palestine, WW1
Men of the 3/3rd Gurkha Rifles, 75th Division, going over the top on the Palestine Front during the First World War. Date: December 1917

Scottish soldiers in their gas masks, Western Front, WW1
Four soldiers of the 2nd Batallion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 19th Brigade, 6th and 27th Divisions, Bois Grenier Sector

Aerial photograph of trenches and mine craters, WW1
Aerial photograph (British) of trenches, mine craters and shell pitted ground, somewhere on the western front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Trench Life in Silhouette by H. L. Oakley
First hand impressions, visualised on the spot of the daily and nightly routine of the firing line on the Western Front during World War I. Silhouettes cut by Second Lieutenant H. L

German stormtroopers WWI
German storm troopers avoiding the mud in the trenches during World War I in Romania

German sniper WWI
German sniper in a trench on the Western Front during World War I

Trench warfare WWI
During a lull in the Bolshevik artillery, German Grenadiers attack along a funnel in the trenches

Battle of Cambrai 1917
British soldiers of the 51st Division crossing a German communication trench moving forward to the attack near Ribecourt during the Battle of Cambrai on the Western Front in France during World War I

No Mans Land 1914
No Mans Land seen from the trenches of the 2nd Royal Scots Fusiliers, 7th Division, looking towards La Boutillerie during the first battle of Ypres on the Western Front in France during World War I

The Hohenzollern Redoubt
Craters formed by the blowing up of four mines on 2nd March 1916 under trenches in the Hohenzollern Redoubt, a German fortification on the Western Front, near Auchy-les-Mines, France

Vortex Gaudier-Brzeska (Written from the Trenches)
The vorticist sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska s(1891-1915) contribution to the second issue of Blast, written from the trenches of France during World War I

Battle of Morval 1916
A photograph of British soldiers climbing over the parapet of their trench during the Battle of Morval. The battle, which began on 25th September 1916

Frenchies in Trenches
Two French soldiers during a bombardment

Trench Rats
A greater trench-worry than the Germans were the rats, according to the caption to this photo

11th Sudanese Battalion
Battle of Omdurman; the 11th Soudanese in the trenches awaiting the Dervish attack Date: 2nd September 1898

When the War is Over, Maggie (3) WW1
When the War is Over, Maggie -- a British soldier on the Western Front thinks of his love as he takes part in combat alongside his colleagues. (3 of 3) Date: 1914-1918

Soldier in a trench, Western Front, WW1
Soldier in a trench on the Western Front during the First World War. He is Albert Auerbach of the Royal Fusiliers, who was killed in action on the Somme on 1 September 1918. 1918

Soldier in a communication trench, WW1
Soldier in a communication trench, possibly in the Middle East, during the First World War. He is Albert Auerbach of the Royal Fusiliers, who was killed in action on the Somme on 1 September 1918

British soldiers in captured German trench, WW1
British soldiers in captured German trench at Ovillers la Boiselle, Somme, France, WW1. 1914-1918

Crawling to the German trenches under fire, WW1. 1914-1918

British infantry practising an attack, WW1. 1914-1918

Gallant soldiers in the thick of the fight 1916
Scots at the thick of Battle of the Somme, holding a wrecked trench and dug-out during a critical moment. Date: 1916

Shooting Box to Let Furnished
Amusing illustration showing a sign which had genuinely been hung outside a dug-out in France. A photograph of it had been sent to its former tenant, a soldier in Llandudno Red Cross Hospital

Boots - Comforts for Campaginers advertisement, WWI
Advertisement for Boots the Chemists and their various suggestions for comforts - gifts to send to men fighting at the front during the First World War

Woman visiting the Western Front after the First World War, in September 1920. She is standing in a shallow trench just outside Bouchavesnes, Peronne, Somme, northern France

The War Budget - Christmas 1915
Front cover of The War Budget, Christmas 1915, showing a British soldier sitting in a trench next to a brazier as he opens a parcel of Christmas food sent from home. Date: 1915

British soldiers in a trench
Three British Tommies eat a basic meal in a trench, using a crate as a makeshift table, on the Western Front. Date: 1932

Tommy?s washing day in Flanders
Photograph: Tommy?s washing day in Flanders. Many a mere male civilian would prefer a day in the trenches, but the British soldier is quite a handy man

Jocks being piped back after being in the trenches
Photograph: Jocks being piped back after being in the trenches.Scottish soldiers being led by a band.One of 193 British and Allied Official photographs taken on the Western Front during World War

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

From the trenches to poultry pen: Fortunes from Eggs
A page from Fortunes from Eggs, a promotional publication by the Karswood Company, makers of Karswood Poultry Spice. Discharged soldier J.E Rogers, writing in October 1918

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

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

WW1 - French troops watch a German Taube Aircraft pass over their trench. Advertorial postcard for Dubonnet. Date: 1915

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

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

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