Trenches Collection (page 9)

The Irrespressibles by J. H. Thorpe
Xmas 1913 - and 1914, but still smiling. The irrepressible spirit of the British Tommy illustrated by J. H. Thorpe in December 1914. Date: 1914

Sphere cover - French War Dog on Guard
Front cover of The Sphere magazine showing a French war dog in a trench keeping watch for enemy snipers or patrols wandering too close to the French lines. Date: 1916

Monkey mascot steals enemy flag, WW1
The exploits of Bebe, the pet monkey of an Italian officer who brought back the Austrian flag from the enemy trenches, snatching it

WW1 - American Troops at the front, carrying a large pot of stew through the trenches. Date: 1918

WW1 - Waiting to attack between Ypres and Menin
WW1 - British troops waiting to attack between Ypres and Menin - 30th October 1917 - note the early use of camouflage fabric covering the helmets. 1917

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

WW2 - Students digging trenches - Munich crisis Date: 1938

The latest warfare, bomb thrower in action, WW1
Stopping a counter attack after carrying the first line of enemy trenches. A British bomb thrower, backed up by support, hurls a bomb or grenade towards German reinforcements. Date: 1915

Major Borrett duelling a German Officer at Zillebeke
The dual between Major Borrett (2nd Btn. Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment) and the German Officer in the trenches at Zillebeke - 18th February 1915. Major Borrett was awarded the DSO

WW1 - Between Ypres and Menin - Waiting to attack - 30th October 1917 1917

WW1 - Russian soldiers brew tea - Galicia (once a small kingdom that currently straddles the border between Poland and Ukraine) - 1916 Date: 1916

WW1 - Russian Dukhovischensky Regiment soldiers in dug-out
WW1 - Russian Dukhovischensky (Dukhovshchina?) Regiment soldiers in dug-out Date: 1916

WW1 - Russian trench scene - Eastern Front Date: 1916

WW1 - Eastern Front - Russian troops blessed by priest
WW1 - Eastern Front - Russian troops in the trenches blessed by an Orthodox priest, who distributed holy water and is accompanied by a holy ikon. Date: 1917

WW1 - Russian Troops in the trenches - Eastern Front - June 1917 Date: 1917

Russian Soldiers on the Eastern Front at Tusov Date: 1917

Soldier carrying hot soup to trenches, World War One
The hot soup man. Ensuring the food supply under fire: a British soldier carries a container of hot soup strapped to his back to the trenches in 1917 during the First World War

Cartoon, The bad cloud, WW1
Cartoon, The bad cloud, showing a cloud of gas billowing across the battlefield, just as the French soldiers are preparing to charge

British bombing party clear trenches near Roeux
" Forward the Bombers!" - British bombing party clear Germans from their trenches near Roeux. The attacks on the village of Roeux were part of the Battle of Arras (9th April - 17th May 1917)

Cartoon, German Culture, after Ardnt, WW1
Cartoon, German Culture, after Ardnt, showing Germans in various satirical scenes, with idealistic captions about the superiority of their nation and people. Date: 1915

Bruce Bairnsfather, The Professional Instinct Again
Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon, The Professional Instinct Again, published in The Bystander, 1916. A juggler in civilian life practises with hand grenades. Date: 1916

WWI Poster, Feed a Fighter
Design by W. Morgan, Feed a Fighter. Eat only what you need -- Waste nothing -- That he and his family may have enough. United States Food Administration poster

Entanglements, by Bairnsfather
Entanglements " Come on, Bert, its safer in the trenches" A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather (with apologies to Raphael Kirchner) in The Bystander

Those Tubular Trenches, by Bairnsfather
Those Tubular Trenches " Is this right for eadquarters?" " Yes, change at Oxford Circus" A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander 1916

We Look Before -, by Bairnsfather
We Look Before - - And after A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander 1916

BELTRAME, Achille (1871-1945). Second Boer War. 1899-1902. The Boers defended in trenches along the Tugela river during the British offensive of 1900. Engraving

WWI. Les tranch饳blanches (white trenches)
WWI. Les tranch饳 blanches (white trenches), 1917. Illustration by Georges Paul Leroux (1877-1957). Trenches of the French army in Champagne. Drawing

Baldwins knitting leaflet, WW1, winter at the front
Field & Hospital Comforts in Knitting and Crochet. Great War knitting booklet published by J & J Baldwins of Halifax featuring two British soldiers in a snowy trench on the Western Front

No Joke! by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather post- WW1 cartoon
The Censor has been most kind to me throughout the war. I have made the above drawing simply out of gratitude. I have also omitted the joke, thus ensuring complete approval

C3 (crossed out) CC, The Last Man by Bruce Bairnsfather
The silhouette of Charlie Chaplin appears on the horizon on the Western Front, watched in awe by two British soldiers on the Western Front. Date: 1918

Through Mud to Victory by Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon
Private 90045 Gerrard, after three-quarters of a mile of this, sincerely hopes it won t be a dud. A private British soldier struggles through the mud

A bulldog mascot of a Canadian regiment in France
Gibby, a massive bulldog, poses in a trench beside the commanding officer of a Canadian regiment in France. The dog was badly gassed several times but still continued to go into action with his men

Illustrated War News - Canadians on the Western Front
Front cover of The Illustrated War News featuring a photograph of Canadian soldiers having their lunch in a trench on the Western Front. Date: 1916

Illustrated War News - British soldier in captured dug-out
Front cover of The Illustrated War News featuring a photograph of a British soldier posing inside the entrance of a captured German dug-out. Date: 1916

Feeding troops in French trenches, WW1
Feeding the troops in the French trenches - a soldier brings up a donkey carrying supplies near Lihons. Date: 1918

British dug-out interior, WW1
A sketch of a dug-out billet behind the lines showing an officer comfortably curled up under the curved corrugated iron roof which forms the main structure of the dug-out

Advert for Turnbull & Asser, combined poncho & ground-sheet
The untearable combination poncho and ground-sheet. Light in weight, yet strong and thoroughly waterproof, the fabric does not tear, is durable, and yields long service. 1916

Sphere cover - British infantry waiting in trench to attack
Front cover of The Sphere with a photograph showing British infantry in a support trench waiting to attack during the preliminary bombardment preceding the attack on 1 July 1916

His Christmas Gift to Her by Fred Pegram, WW1
Illustration by Fred Pegram depicting a British officer in a dug-out somewhere on the Western Front, carefully crafting a ring by the light of a candle as he smokes a pipe

French officers in an underground shelter, WW1
French officers dining in an elaborately constructed underground shelter on the Western Front, somewhere in Northern France in the winter of 1915/16

French trench artillery in action by Matania, WW1
French gunners firing mortars and trench guns across " No Mans Land" to the German positions. The French used special artillery for use in the trenches

Sphere cover - His Xmas letter from the trenches, Matania
Front cover of The Sphere featuring an illustration by Fortunino Matania of a British soldier writing a letter home to his family at Christmas

Distribution of cigarettes at the front, WW1
A battery commander distributing the contents of a parcel of cigarettes amongst his men at the Front at Christmas time. According to The Sphere

Watch me make a fire-bucket of is elmet
Two British soldiers have a couple minutes to practise shooting

Soldier returning home from the trenches, WW1
A soldier returning home from the trenches, greeted at the door of his house by his wife and son. Date: 1916

WW1 cartoon - the water logged Western Front
Illustration originally reproduced in the trench newspaper, The Gasper, featuring soldiers wading waist deep through a water-logged landscape on the Western Front

A Misinterpretation by C. Frampton, WW1 cartoon
A potentially disastrous case of Chinese Whispers in a front line trench. A message of Sedn reinforcements - we are about to advance, changes to, Send three and fourpence - we are going to a dance

Made in the Trenches, Arf a Mo Kaiser, WW1 charity book
Front cover of Made in the Trenches, a book published to raise money for the Star and Garter Fund in aid of disabled soldiers and sailors during the war

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