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War Pictures - Our Choices

The Heritage of the Great War features a War Picture of the Week : an extraordinary photograph, painting or drawing from the First World War 1914-1918, showing unusual detail or an unorthodox viewpoint. Sometimes these pictures are very rare and shown here for the first time on the Internet.

Together these choices form an interesting overview of some of the most poignant photographs of the Great War.

   Click on one of the small photo's below - and you'll get the full picture. Or you can start a SLIDESHOW


 
Summer on the Beach
(Oostende, 1914)
 
Toilet
 
Gott Strafe England
 
Outlook
 
Surrounded by invisible
death
 
Trench with poilu's
 
Soldier's Lunch
 
Outdoor Cooking
 
Souvenir King
 
The real horror
of poison gas
 
Ambulance in the
mud
 
Mystery Fighter
 
The Hero
 
Camouflaging
 
Hands Up!
 
Le Déjeuner sur
l'Herbe
 
Fire Brigade
 
Famous, but
untrue
 
The trenches of
J.R.R. Tolkien
 
Transporting French
Prisoners-Of-War
 
Billets
 
Operating Room
 
Water
 
Besieged City
 
Killed In Action
 
Hungry for Food
 
Was it like this?
 
Verdun - Synonym
for Inhumanity
 
Cigar
 
Hungry for News
 
Bicycle
 
Pawn
 
Patrolling the
Murmansk Railway
 
Poison Gas
 
Canadian
foresters
near the front
 
Dogfight in the
streets of Paris
 
Dust to dust
 
The Adoration
of the Lamb
 
Happy New Year
 
Tyne Cot on a
foggy morning
 
Orphanage
 
Picking flowers
 
Sailors on the
Western Front
 
Poppies in a trench
near the Somme
 
Children's
War
 
Winter in Verdun
1917
 
Blind Survivors
 
A Trainload
of Soldiers
 
Not in the Navy
 
Goodbye
 
Army Truck
 
The Age of
Destruction
 
Surrender:
real or fake?
 
Shot at dawn in
Flemish dunes
 
Viewing the
Promised Land
 
Knocked Out
 
Stretcher bearers
in Flanders fields
 
Killed by
mustard gas
 
Poppies
 
Repair Shop
 
Shaving in the
trenches
 
Always someone's
father, always
someone's son
 
Let there
be music
 
Crippled
 
Blinded
 
Go this way
 
Blackberries
 
Friendly and
helpful
 
Buns for Boys
in Khaki
 
Field of Death
 
The Price of
Fierceness
 
Training and
Reality
 
Crucified
 
Unexpected
German Ally
 
No Escape
 
War Prayers
 
...in a bucket,
dear Heinrich,
in a bucket...
 
Auguste Lumière
and the locomotive
 
New Battles
 
Barber Shop in
warm sunshine
 
Unhappy soldiers
 
Delousing
 
Cigarette
 
How true is fake?
 
Bored
 
Hill 60
 
Windy outpost on
Westhoek Ridge
 
French children
seeking warmth
 
"If music be the food
of love… play on"
 
America's other war
 
Stuck
 
Meaningful victory
on the Vimy Ridge
 
Not Much Of
A Camouflage
 
Tending War Graves
in Abbeville
 
Soup in the
Champagne
 
Grey
 
Fragile
Air Force
 
Mediaeval Welcome
 
Front Railway
 
May 7, 1917, just
an ordinary day


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