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WWI photographs of British Commander General William Birdwood up for auction cctv.co :: 2009-06-05
A large photograph collection of battle scenes from the First World War has come up for auction. The collection once belonged to British Commander General William Birdwood, who had a distinguished military career and commanded the Australian and New Zealand forces at the Battle of Gallipoli in Turkey in 1915. Birdwood accumulated a collection of 600 war photos from the various fronts and campaigns of the war. Many of the pictures show ANZAC troops in action, while tracking the war's industrial revolution illustrating the motorbikes, battle tanks, and planes used in the fighting. [Photographs, Pictures & Images]

Photographs, rescued from dump, reveal black British Tommy at the Somme independent.co.uk :: 2009-05-24
At first sight, there may seem to be nothing unusual about this photo, saved from a rubbish skip in France. Look, though, at the British soldier on the left. He is black: a very rare example of an image of a black "Tommy" from World War I. The picture is one of nearly 400 snaps of British soldiers on the eve of, and during, the Battle of the Somme in 1916. The photographs, all preserved on glass plates, lay forgotten in the attic of a barn 10 miles behind the Somme battlefields for 90 years. When the barn changed owners in 2007, they were tossed away. Passers-by collected a few and eventually the historical value of the plates was recognized. [Battle of the Somme]

Unique set of First World War photos goes on display at Prague Castle radio.cz :: 2009-04-16
An exhibit at Prague Castle reveals never before seen collection of photographs from World War I. Taken by an anonymous Czech soldier 1916-1917, the set is a rare and touching portrayal of one of the bloodiest conflicts in military history. "World War One on Foot" -exhibition presents some 150 digitally processed photos, selected and blown up from 500 original glass negatives. All of them were taken by an unknown Czech officer of the Austro-Hungarian army. The WW1 photos show everyday scenes of life on the battlefield: troops in training, at rest and on the march - military equipment and machinery and many other moments. [Photographs, Pictures & Images]

Frank Hurley's photograph reveals trench horrors theage.com.au :: 2008-11-13
Two rare WWI photos went on show for the first time at the National Gallery of Victoria. The photographs, by Australian adventurer and war artist Frank Hurley, reveal the horrors of trench warfare, and were acquired by the NGV from a Sydney collector. One image, An episode after the Battle of Zonnebeke (1917), is a good example of early photographic innovation. To create the image, Hurley overlaid 3-4 negatives. The photo shows a battle scene with soldiers charging out of trenches, bombs exploding and biplanes flying overhead. The soldiers in the foreground are from one negative, the bomb blast from another, and the planes from a third. [Photographs, Pictures & Images]

Behind enemy lines: the German view of the First World War timesonline.co.uk :: 2008-11-11
I never took much interest in the photo album full of pics of the World War I that I inherited - even though, strangely, the photos were taken by a German. The album belonged to Brigadier-General John Gordon Geddes, my great uncle, who served in the Royal Artillery. In late March 1919, Geddes went to Nideggen, a village near Düren. He'd been told that a war photographer lived in a cottage there and he went there and, as he put it, "ordered a lot as they were intensely interesting - they were taken this time last year, when the Boche attacked us." He had never seen anything like them. Nor had the photography experts at the Imperial War Museum. [Photographs, Pictures & Images]

Rare photographs of Lancashire World War I soldiers on display prestoncitizen.co.uk :: 2008-08-10
Photographs showing Lancashire's Territorial Army soldiers in the First World War are on display for the first time. Pictures discovered deep in the archives at the Queen's Lancashire Regiment Museum in Preston, show territorial soldiers from across Lancashire in Western Front trenches. The never before seen photographs are taking centre stage at an exhibition marking 100 years of the Territorial Army. As well as highlighting such stories of bravery, curator Jane Davies said the pictures told, as no words could, the atmosphere of the trenches and the conditions that had to be tolerated. [Photographs, Pictures & Images]

Riddle over 500 First World War pictures found in Kent mirror.co.uk :: 2008-08-04
500 WWI photos, found at a former photographic studio in Kent after being "lost" 80 years, are being placed on display to solve the mystery behind them. Historians struggled to id the soldiers but assumed they were local troops, but research revealed they showed soldiers from 58 regiments. The pictures were all taken by Charles and Henry Essenhigh Corke at their studio. During the Great War, the town had several hospitals treating troops and it's thought soldiers might have had their photos taken while recovering. A number of the portraits have been id'd, including Military Cross winner William Blackmore. [Photographs, Pictures & Images]

Gary Nelson logs almost 700,000 photos of veterans' graves for Web site gazette.net :: 2008-07-05
Not everyone finds the Gary Nelson's photographs uplifting, but he thinks they are needed to remind people of the cost of war. Over the last 3 years he has taken almost 700,000 photos of veterans' graves or monuments for the "findagrave.com" site. Touring the world on his own dime, he has visited over 250 cemeteries to photograph the graves of soldiers from all over the world who fought in many wars. For the last several years his photos have been posted on Findagrave.com's International Wargraves Photography Project, but now Nelson plans to get his own site "thefallenremembered.org", up and running by the end of the year. [Photographs, Pictures & Images]

The amazing pictures of Britain in colour for the very first time dailymail :: 2008-04-28
Seeing the world captured in colour is something most take for granted. But it was not until 1907 that autochrome (the process through which colour photographs were first produced) was invented in Paris. --- Photo #1: Returning heroes: The Union Jack and the French Tricolour flutter above the lines of troops marching through Kinghtsbridge during the First World War victory parade in 1919. --- Photo #4: Party time: A crowd gathers near Big Ben during the 1919 victory celebrations. [Photographs, Pictures & Images]

Hundreds of Australian WW1 film negatives discovered news.com.au :: 2008-04-17
A goldmine of Australian military history has been discovered. The material includes hundreds of film negatives, kept in a biscuit tin in a garage since the end of the Great War. The photos, by Jack Grinton, include shots from the Somme and Villers-Bretonneux. The collection includes the camera used by Sgt Grinton to record his war - against all regulations. There is also a wallet and postcards he had in battledress pocket that show the hole left by a chunk of German shrapnel that wounded him. The wallet and postcards saved his life - and the shrapnel is still tucked into the wallet. [Photographs, Pictures & Images]

Anzac Day - Multimedia Showcase including rare historical photos news.com.au :: 2008-04-11
Take a look at rare photographs from the First World War showing the fighting and aftermath of Anzac battles, and see the Gallipoli campaign through the eyes of the Anzac forces as they invaded the Turkish peninsula in 1915 meeting fierce resistance. [Anzacs and Anzac Day]

Photographic memories from the Land of Israel in World War I ynetnews :: 2008-02-23
Photo album obtained by late archeologist Pesach Bar-Adon holds images from the Land of Israel 90 years ago, when the First World War I had a huge effect on the area. --- (Pic #4) Jamal Pasha, commander of the Syria district and commander of the Ottoman Fourth Army during WWI, at a reception. (Pic #5) In January 1915, a large Turkish force made its way with camel and horse units towards the Suez Canal, carrying rafts. They got the boats to the water, before an Anglo-Indian force caused them to escape, leading to the failure of the first Turkish offensive on the British army. [Photographs, Pictures & Images]

Soldier's Great War cartoons on display at Treasure House driffieldtoday :: 2007-11-27
A collection of WW1 cartoons and drawings by Lieutenant Edward Moore Robson, who was granted the Military Cross for his bravery during the Battle of the Somme in 1916, have gone on show at the East Riding Treasure House in Beverley. Robson drew the pictures during the time he spent with the 5th Battalion Alexandra, Princess of Wales' Own (Yorkshire Regiment), aka the Green Howards, 1915-1918. Collections officer Sam Bartle said; "These cartoons are of extremely good quality and would not look out of place in a comic book. ...it shows that soldiers were still able to keep their spirits up, despite the awful situation they were in."

First World War in colour pictures javno :: 2007-10-25
During World War I only the French photograph masters used the Lumiere brother's autochrome technique offering a rare "painted view" of the life during the First World War. The French army is the primary source of these photographs from the war we are used to perceiving in "black and white". [Photographs, Pictures & Images]

Never before seen colour photographs of the battle of Passchendaele dailymail :: 2007-07-12
Never seen before, these photographs, hand-touched in colour to bring to life the nightmare of Passchendaele, were released in book "Passchendaele 1917: The Story Of The Fallen" by Frank Bostyn and Jan Van Der Fraeden to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the battle that, between July and November 1917, claimed 2,121 lives a day and in total some quarter of a million Allied soldiers. What was once pretty countryside around the village that gave the battlefield its name was reduced to an infernal swamp where the ground oozed with mustard gas that blistered the skin and made the lungs bleed. [Photographs, Pictures & Images]

Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945 - Vintage glory washingtonpost :: 2007-06-17
People who love photography know that Germans, Czechs and Hungarians took some of the greatest pictures of the 1920s and 1930s. Henri Cartier-Bresson was developing his "decisive moment" brand of candid photography in France, Central Europe was abuzz with talents who opened up unexplored territories of photographic expression. The works of several dozen photographers from between the world wars are gathered in the National Gallery's exhibition, "Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945," which includes more than 150 prints, photomontages and reproductions. [Photographs, Pictures & Images]

146 Photos from the First World War Eastern Front flickr :: 2007-05-03
Private and military archive fotos of a German officer during World War 1. A lot of them unpublished yet. Some background information from Cambridge Catalogue, about one of the few books on the Eastern Front: 'War Land on the Eastern Front' is a study of a hidden legacy of WWI: the experience of German soldiers on the Eastern front and the long-term effects of their encounter with Eastern Europe. [Photographs, Pictures & Images]

In pictures: 'Elephant stable' rare World War I bomber bbc :: 2007-04-22
In pictures - A rare World War One bomber that was discovered in a maharaja's elephant stable in India has been restored on behalf of the UK's Imperial War Museum. The remains of the de Havilland DH9, were discovered near the Palace of Bikaner in the state of Rajasthan. Much of the plane, built in 1918 and the first British plane to contain bombs in its fuselage, had been devoured by termites and most of its fabric was missing. Because no original drawings existed, restoring it was a lengthy task. [Photographs, Pictures & Images]

We need your photos: Appeal for copies of historic WWI photographs scoop :: 2007-04-13
HarperCollins Publishers, with the Queen Elizabeth II Army Memorial Museum and Professor Glyn Harper, are appealing to the public for copies of historic WWI photographs to be reproduced in the definitive photographic record of Kiwi involvement in the Great War. Images of War will showcase unique images from the Museum's collection from the WW1 period. Glyn Harper, military historian and author of many books, including "In the Face of the Enemy: the complete history of the Victoria Cross and New Zealand," is the mastermind behind the project. To extend its collection for the book, the Museum is calling for war photographs from the New Zealand public. [Photographs, Pictures & Images]

War treasures uncovered - Australia's earliest official war artists theaustralian :: 2007-04-09
The Australian War Memorial has an exhibition of works by one of Australia's earliest official war artists George Lambert. The 80 paintings on display, chosen from the memorial's 32,000-piece collection, have rarely been seen by the public and never as part of a single exhibition. During World War I, 16 Australian artists were appointed to travel to the battlefields where their countrymen fought. However, Lambert was the only artist sent to Palestine to cover that campaign. He was also the only official war artist at Gallipoli in 1919: the war had made earlier access impossible. [Photographs, Pictures & Images]

In pictures: Camouflage exhibition - See also the related story bbc :: 2007-03-24
A major London exhibition on the history of military camouflage: London's Imperial War Museum is paying tribute to the camofleurs and their successors around the world with the largest-ever such exhibition. Back in Napoleonic times, high-visibility uniforms were the battle order of the day. "It was basically a way of identifying soldiers but it was also about the camaraderie that comes from wearing the same kit." Military camouflage really started in the middle of the 19th Century with the introduction of khaki, but what we think of camouflage now evolved in World War I to counter the new menaces of aircraft and submarines. [Photographs, Pictures & Images]

Photographer races the clock to document remaining WWI Vets earthtimes :: 2007-03-13
Born in 1900 World War 1 veteran John Babcock will be 107 in July and is the only surviving WWI combat veteran. Photographer David DeJonge hopes to photograph him this Thursday. In Dec he began strategizing a permanent and lasting documentary of the remaining 12 WWI veterans left in the United States of America. By the time he secured funding, four had died. "It is crushing to photograph a veteran from World War I only to have him pass on two weeks later." Two of the veterans that he has photographed have died within days of his sessions. [Photographs, Pictures & Images]

World War One Sketchbook from 1917-1918 trenches uvic :: 2007-01-12
The images presented on this site are from a set of two World War 1 sketchbooks archived in the University of Victoria's Special Collections Library. They contain 130 water-colour and pen and ink images which were produced by a British soldier based in France and Belgium 1917-1918. Artist was a member of the Royal Horse and Royal Field Artillery (the regimental crest and motto appear at the top of the page) and he was based in France and Belgium (around Ypres and Menin) between 1917-1918. [Photographs, Pictures & Images]

Posters of the Russian Civil War, 1918-1922 digitalgallery :: 2006-10-31
Posters of the 1918-1922 Russian Civil War. [Photographs, Pictures & Images]

Digitised images and online record to reveal life in the trenches guardian :: 2006-07-23
Descendants of First World War soldiers will soon be able to find out about their relatives' physical appearance, wounds, battles, promotions and medals. Ancestry Website is working with the National Archives so that war documents containing digitised images and records of 2.5 million men who served in the war can be accessed on their site. The documents stored in 44,000 boxes and have been transferred to microfilm over the past five years. [Photographs, Pictures & Images]

Lost WW1 photographs expose truth of Great War timesonline :: 2006-06-30
A treasure trove of photographs from the Battle of the Somme has been found in a damp village attic, giving a rare insight into the German view of the First World War. Johann Kugler was attached to an army photography unit, and the 400 gritty pictures from Western Front convey the exhaustion of war. Some of them show German soldiers with flame-throwers or hurling grenades: heroic images snapped to order. A pilot grounded by German fire stands next to his aircraft, unsure what happens next. It was dangerous to set up the cameras during WWI, because the long exposure times meant that the photographer risked being shot. [Photographs, Pictures & Images]

Soldier's photos show everyday life of war courier-journal :: 2006-05-26
Photographs from war often focus on death and dying -- young soldiers crying over fallen friends, bodies scattered on the battlefield. André Jeunet, a French soldier, carried in his pocket a Kodak Vest camera and instead focused on everyday life in the military. He snapped 205 black-and-white images, 47 of which are on display for the first time publicly at The Frazier International History Museum. "They give you an idea of what day-to-day life was like for soldiers." Jeunet served on both the Eastern and Western fronts, and the images are a mix of both. [Photographs, Pictures & Images]

Canadian war treasures fading fast - First World War photos ottawacitizen :: 2006-05-23
Inside the National Research Council a chunk of Canada's proud military history is in danger of being lost. The building is home to the National Defence Image Library, which holds 1 million photographs and negatives that chronicle Canada's military operations over the past 90 years. Tremblay manages a small team that is trying to scan these photos onto compact discs. But lack of funding has hampered those efforts and the library loses 1-2% of its collection every year because they are not being stored properly. During the First World War, the 3 branches of the Canadian military each had their own image libraries but they were amalgamated after the WW2. [Films, Movies & Footage]

Project Launched Second DVD on Armenian Genocide panarmenian :: 2006-05-18
The Genocide Archive Project, Inc. launched its second educational DVD, titled "1915 Turkish Genocide of the Armenians," specifically to educate students, teachers, and lawmakers. The DVD consists of a powerful documentary and survivor accounts, detailing cause, implementation, German complicity, and aftermath of this World War I extermination. World indifference towards this progenitor of modern state-sponsored genocide led directly to its repetition by Nazi Germany against European Jews and other groups. This DVD is available to the general public. [Armenian genocide]

Forgotten WWI photographer set for revival abc :: 2006-04-26
When Australia's WWI historian, Charles Bean, employed photographers Frank Hurley and Hubert Wilkins to document on the Western Front, he did the nation a great service. These two men created one of the great photographic war archives. There's just one problem, though. Looking at the vast majority of photos taken during 1917 and 1918, no-one is sure who took which photos. Now, that didn't hurt Frank Hurley - he became famous anyway - but Hubert Wilkins has been almost forgotten. Now a new set of photos taken by Wilkins has been found in the US. They are images that both captivate and horrify, most of them taken at great risk to the photographer. [Photographs, Pictures & Images]

Doubts raised over who took WWI photographs aap :: 2006-04-15
Doubt has been cast over who took some of the key photographs of Australian troops fighting in the trenches in WWI. For 90 years Frank Hurley has been credited as being the man who took the images of the Anzacs living and fighting on the Western Front. But the discovery of a private collection of work by Australia's other official war photographer, Hubert Wilkins, cast doubt on who took which photos. Wilkins' biographer Simon Nasht said many of Wilkins' achievements, which include two Military Crosses, had been ignored and it was possible that many of the war photos were incorrectly credited to Hurley. [Photographs, Pictures & Images]

Vintage Photographs - Aviation firstworldwar.com :: 2006-04-10
archive photographs taken during, before and after the war. Specifically this sub-section contains photos of aircraft and aviators. -- Aeroplane in the Balkans watched by a group of Serbians. -- Painting the Iron Cross on an aeroplane. [Photographs, Pictures & Images]

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