The Experience of Battle

Battlefield in the Great WarSource:http://www.geocities.com/~worldwar1/default.html

Two British soldiers are cooking on a 'scrounged' stove in a trench near Ovillers, in July 1916. Source:http://www.geocities.com/~worldwar1/default.html

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Irish SoldiersSource:http://www.geocities.com/~worldwar1/default.html

The Experience of Battle

German soldiers saying farewell to their families.Source:http://www.geocities.com/~worldwar1/default.html

The Experience of Battle

Gruesome stereographic picture of a trench taken by French photographers.Source:http://www.geocities.com/~worldwar1/default.html

The Experience of Battle

A French Soldier is killed on the battlefield. Picture by a German war photographer.Source:http://www.geocities.com/~worldwar1/default.html

The Experience of Battle

British Expeditionary Force.Source: www.shinycapstar.com/ firstww.htm

The Experience of Battle

After weeks of long marches, the German advance on Paris comes to a standstill.Source:http://www.geocities.com/~worldwar1/default.html

The Experience of Battle

After the Battle of Marne, German soldiers retreat to the river Aisne.Source:http://www.geocities.com/~worldwar1/default.html

The Experience of Battle

German army unit of bicycles invading Poland.Source:http://www.geocities.com/~worldwar1/default.html

The Experience of Battle

German trench on the Eastern Front in the swamp area near the Mazuric Lakes, February 1915.Source:http://www.geocities.com/~worldwar1/default.html

The Experience of Battle

German soldiers resting in a trench near Ypres, picture taken near beginning of trench warfare.Source:http://www.geocities.com/~worldwar1/default.html

The Experience of Battle

German shock troops conquering a French position.Source:http://www.geocities.com/~worldwar1/default.html

The Experience of Battle

Belgian soldiers, April 1916.Source:http://users.skynet.be/fonck/

The Experience of Battle

Soldiers in trenches during Battle of the Somme.Source:http://home.planet.nl/~cosse001/eng/home.htm

The Experience of Battle

German officers inspecting a French trench that began on a farm.Source:http://www.geocities.com/~worldwar1/default.html

The Experience of Battle

Abandoned British tank.Source:http://www.geocities.com/~worldwar1/default.html

The Experience of Battle

As there were often more wounded men than expected, frontline doctors often had to improvise under primitive conditions.Source:http://www.geocities.com/~worldwar1/default.html

The Experience of Battle

German soldiers help bandage a British prisoner-of-war near St. Quentin France.Source:http://www.geocities.com/~worldwar1/default.html

The Experience of Battle

German soldiers paying respects to a killed comrade.Source:http://www.geocities.com/~worldwar1/default.html

The Experience of Battle

On April 22, 1915 the Germans used poison gas for the first time. German infantry men follow the cloud, protected by only a small mouthcap.Source:http://www.geocities.com/~worldwar1/default.html

The Experience of Battle

The Experience of Battle

John Singer Sargent’s painting “Gassed”.Depicts Soldiers blinded by gas being led in lines back to the hospital tents and the dressing stations; the men lie on the ground and near the tents waiting for treatment.Source:http://www.english.emory.edu/LostPoets/Sargent.html