Photos of the Great War / Index

WAR ALBUMS Photos from the collections of Great War veterans Clifford E. Bishop, US Army Ditlev Ditlevsen, German Army Gilbert Feiro, US Army Christian Maier, German Army Charles Muckensturm, US Army
Marion McCune Rice, American Red Cross

AVIATION "Those magnificent men in their flying machines"

Never since the Middle Ages and the invention of the longbow had the
battlefields of Europe seen this kind of single combat. When the champions of
either side met to fight spectacular duels in and out of the clouds, the rest of the
war seemed forgotten; even the man in the trenches paused to watch, as the
hosts of Greece and Troy stood by when Hector and Achilles fought.
Alistair Horne - The Price of Glory

Allied Aviators	Allied Aircraft & Equipment
Central Powers Aviators	Central Powers Aircraft & Equipment

TROOPS Units or groups of soldiers

We are soldiers. It is a great brotherhood, which adds something of
the good-fellowship of the folk-song, of the feeling of solidarity of convicts,
and of the desperate loyalty to one another of men condemned to death, to a
condition of life arising out of the midst of danger, out of the tension and
forlorness of death.
Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front

Annam	Australia	Austria	Belgian Congo
Belgium	Britain	Bulgaria	Canada
Czechoslovokia	France	Germany	Holland
Hungary	India	Italy	Japan
Morocco	Portugal	Roumania	Russia
Senegal	Serbia	South Africa	Turkey
United States			New Zealand

COMMANDERS The military men who ran the war - includes general and staff-grade officers

Confronted with this deadlock, military art remained dumb; the Commanders and their General Staffs had no plan except the frontal attack which all their experience and training had led them to reject; they had no policy except that of exhaustion.
Winston S. Churchill - The World Crisis

Austria	Britain	Canada
France	Germany	India
Italy	Russia	Serbia
South Africa	Turkey	United States

DEATH & DESTRUCTION The grim wages of warfare

We set to work to bury poeple. We pushed them into the sides of the trenches but bits of them kept getting uncovered and sticking out, like people in a badly made bed. Hands were the worst; they would escape from the sand, pointing, begging - even waving! There was one which we all shook when we passed, saying, "Good morning," in a posh voice. Everybody did it. The bottom of the trench was springy like a mattress because of all the bodies underneath...
Leonard Thompson - quoted in Ronald Blythe, Akenfield

Death

Destruction

Before & After

HEADS OF STATE Kings and princes, presidents and politicians

And all this madness, all this rage, all this flaming death of our civilization and
our hopes, has been brought about because a set of official gentlemen, living
luxurious lives, mostly stupid, and all without imagination or heart, have chosen
that it should occur rather than that any one of them should suffer
some infinitesimal rebuff to his country's pride.
-Bertrand Russell

	Australia
Austria	Belgium	Britain
Bulgaria	Canada	France
Germany	Greece	Hungary
Italy	Japan	Montenegro
Portugal	Roumania	Russia
Serbia	Turkey	United States

INDIVIDUALS Individual soldiers, sailors & relief workers Includes company-grade officers and enlisted men

LOCATIONS Shots of specific locales

But No Man's Land is a goblin sight
When patrols crawl over at dead o' night;
Boche or British, Belgian or French,
You dice with death when you cross the trench
James H. Knight-Adkin - No Man's Land

Battlefields	Camps	Towns
Cemeteries	Monuments	Hospitals
Home Front		Misc Locations

WEAPONS & EQUIPMENT "The tools of the trade"

Artillery was the great leveller. Nobody could stand more than three hours of sustained shelling before they start falling sleepy and numb. You're hammered after three hours and you're there for the picking when he comes over.
Martin Middlebrook - The Kaiser's Battle

Artillery	Gas	Machine Guns
Tanks & Armor	Misc. Weapons	Equipment
	Camouflage

WAR AT SEA Battleships, subs, & commanders

Allied Commanders	Allied Ships & Equipment
Central Powers Commanders	Central Powers Ships & Equipment

ANIMALS AT WAR The unsung heroes of the Great War

Diplomas, with the citations were issued and kept at the headquarters of
the French Pigeon Service, and because pigeons cannot wear medals on
their breasts, special bands with the colors of the decorations were made
for their legs.
Ernest Harold Baynes - Animal Heroes of the Great War

Camels	Cats	Dogs	Donkeys & Mules
Goats	Horses	Oxen	Pigeons

AUXILIARY ORGANIZATIONS "Home Away From Home"

I kneel behind the soldier's trench,
I walk ' mid shambles, smear and stench,
The dead I mourn;
I bear the stretcher and I bend
O'er Fritz and Pierre and Jack to mend
What shells have torn
John Finley - The Red Cross Spirit Speaks

Red Cross	Salvation Army	Y. M. C. A.
Jewish Welfare Board	Knights of Columbus	Other