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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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