The Great War in Color - 8

Walk

Two French soldiers walking through a deserted village.
Autochrome Color picture made in 1917.

Hospital Staff

Doctors, nurses and soldiers posing in front of an French Army Hospital.
Picture made in 1917.

Train

Train, riddled by bullits.
French Army picture made in 1917.

Time Off

French and British soldiers strolling through the old city of Bergues, Northern France.
Picture made in 1917.

Time Off (2)

Another picture of French and British soldiers in the city of Bergues, Northern France.
Picture made in 1917.

Railway

French Engineering Corps working on a railway.
This railway is meant for the artillery, to transport ammunition and guns.
Picture made in the vicinity of Soissons, Northern France, 1917.

Heavy Gun

A French 370 mm gun, camouflaged and mounted on a sort of bogie.
Picture made near Steenkerke, in Flanders (Belgium), 1917.

Sailors

These French sailors are navy gunners.
Armies often made use of heavy ships artillery, mounted on train undercarriages.
To handle these guns the navy had specialised gunners.

Provisioning

French soldier getting provisions.
Picture made in the French city of Reims, 1917.

Hole

A shell hole in the tower of the church of Saint-Jean des Vignes, in Soissons, Northern France.
Picture made in 1917.

More Holes

A French soldier looks through a hole in the wall of a building.
Note the destroyed advertising for Michelin tyres. Picture made in the Belgian village of Woesten, 1917.

French line

The French line near Het Sas (the lock) in the Belgian village of Boesinghe.
Picture made in 1917.

Oriental

An Indo-Chinese soldier of the French army.

Red Cross

Ambulances with red crosses near the village of Boesinghe in Flanders (Belgium).
Picture made in 1917.

Photographer

An official French army photographer looking for a place to install his apparatus.
Picture made in the ruins of Reims, Northern France, 1917.

Bar

A barge with an estaminet (bar, café), moored on a bank of the river Yser.
There is soldier holding a fishing rod, near the entrance to the barge.
Picture made near Rexpoede, Northern France, 1917.

Toilet

A French soldier makes his toilet at a public fountain in a street in Reims, Northern France.
Picture made in spring 1917.

The General's Tent

In a wood in Northern France, safely away front the frontline, the general has his billets in a tent. A soldier stands guard.
Picture made in 1917.

MP's

A Belgian military policeman (left) and a French collegue.
Picture made in a French military camp near the Belgian village of Woesten, 1917.

Debris

Debris in the half destroyed cathedral of Soissons, Northern France.
Picture made in 1917.

Hospital Camp

A French hospital camp on the banks of the river Yser.
Picture made near the village of Roesbrugge, Northern France, 1917.

Healing Sun

Convalescing French soldiers brought into the sun. They have umbrella's.
Picture made near the villae of Roesbrugge, Northern France, 1917.

Truck

French truck, 1917.

Constructing a Bridge

French engineers contructing a bridge.
Picture made near the village of Boezinghe in Flanders (Belgium), 1917.

Repairing a Bridge

French soldiers repairing a bridge near the battlefields of Flanders.
Picture made in 1917.

Floating Bridge

Floating bridge over the river Aisne, Northern France.
Picture made in 1917.

Mailman

A French military postman.
Picture made in the city of Reims, 1917.