DEATH & DESTRUCTION PHOTOS

DEATH
  • Field of French and German dead in Champagne
  • Austrian hussars collecting their dead in Galicia
  • The funeral of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
  • Armenian Christians massacred by Turks
  • Burial of victims from the Lusitania at Queenstown, Ireland, 10 May 1915
  • German cemetery at Bethune
  • British dead in a captured trench - contributed by Walter Maier
  • German dead near Moislains
  • Russian mass-grave
  • Serbian peasants burying their dead
  • Dead Americans of the 38th Infantry at Mezy, 21 Jul 1918
  • Americans burying their dead, Bois de Consenvoye, France, 8 Nov 1918
  • Death of a French regiment near Peronne
  • Grave of first AEF soldier killed in combat
  • German dead, Flanders, 1917
  • German remains at Verdun
  • Russian soldier dead on the wire
  • French soldier executed as a spy near Rheims
  • Dead French soldiers in the Argonne
  • German dead in frontline trench on the Somme, 1916
  • Graves of British aviators
  • French cemetery near Verdun
  • Grave of US aviator Lt Quentin Roosevelt , buried by the Germans
  • Funeral of Pvt Dyer J. Byrd, US 166th Infantry, Domjevin, 3 Mar 1918
  • US transport horses lying dead in harness, Cantigny, 28 May 1918

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    DESTRUCTION
  • Ruins of Vaux - Stan Parry
  • London air raid damage
  • Ruined church at Montfaucon
  • Shattered cupola of a Liege fort - work of German siege howitzers
  • A view of the ruins of Avocourt, France, October 6, 1918
  • Effects of French shellfire on German positions
  • The ruined Church of Ablaire St-Nazaire in Artois
  • Shell torn pavement in Antwerp
  • Effects of Zeppelin attack on Antwerp
  • Destruction caused by the Halifax explosion
  • Shell-torn forest at the peak of Mt. Grappa
  • Area near Albert follwing German evacuation
  • Results of Zeppelin raid, White Swan Alley, London, 9 Sep 1915
  • Destruction of Grodno, East Prussia
  • Ruins of Cantigny after American occupation, 30 May 1918
  • German shelling of the American rear at Chateau Thierry to prevent reinforcement, 20 Jul 1918
  • Ruined church at Lucey-le-Bocage
  • Ruined bridge on the Vesle River
  • Ruins of Fismes
  • Destruction of US 89th Division ammunition dump at Lucey
  • Ruins of Montfaucon
  • Crown Prince Wilhelm's observatory at Montfaucon
  • German shells bursting in the remains of Nantillois
  • Overturned US 155mm howitzer
  • Ruins of St Quentin
  • Ruins of La Bassee
  • Ruins of Lens
  • Ruins of the marketplace at Rheims
  • Valenciennes burning after German evacuation
  • Ruined gun turret of Namur fort, 1914
  • Destroyed German motor convoy in the Bois de Villiers-Cotteret
  • Verdun burning during bombardment with incendiary shells, 1916
  • Fortress Dryhoek near Antwerp after destruction by its commander - Robert Carlson
  • A destroyed house in Mechelen near Antwerp - Robert Carlson
  • Peronne during the Battle of the Somme 1916 - Robert Carlson
  • Damage done by German 420 mm guns, Fort St. Catherine near Antwerp - Robert Carlson
  • Ruins of the De Ville Hotel at Arras
  • Germans in Bapaume ruins during the Battle of the Somme - Robert Carlson
  • Ruins of Lens
  • German artillery in the moment of death - Robert Carlson
  • Ruined bridge at St. Mihiel
  • Ruins of Cambria
  • Ruins of Ypres seen from the air
  • Destruction of Longwy
  • Ruins of Arras cathedral
  • Ruined church at Westoutre, a few miles west of Kemmel Hill
  • Ruins of Cantigny
  • First artillery hit on Rheims cathedral
  • Destruction of the Russian Church at St. Stefano
  • Ruins of Malines
  • Fort Loncin, near Liege, following bombardment
  • French firefighters at Verdun

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