Sunday is WW1 picture day! Recruits in Warwickshire practice deep breath exercises to try and expand their chests, fallen Russian soldiers who became caught on barbed wire, womens work - a gas meter inspector in uniform, a sweaty gun crew at work at Gallipoli, in Galicia these Austrians have used endless timber supplies and sandbags to begin defences instead of digging trenches, two french stowaways pose proudly after being discovered at Gallipoli, they then begged to serve in the ranks. Fallen German troops lie in the mud at Loos, Indian troops enjoy a good smoke during some downtime on the Western Front, Morrocan sentry in French trenches, a gun mounted on a revolving platform for use in the defence of Paris from aerial attack, the end of the Western Front - where trenches met the Swiss frontier, Samuel Beale of Egham in Surrey. By 1915, working huge amounts of overtime he had already produced more than 4000 horseshoes for the army, men work behind masks packing chloride of lime into tins for use against gas in the trenches, Serbian troops on the march, camels packed into barges at Egypt bound for the front, an Indian soldier wrestles a mule in Mesopotamia that has decided it doesnt want to walk any further in 120 degree heat, French troops work hard at making barbed wire entanglements, Glasgow recruits in training at home, sailors bathe at Gallipoli in the shadow of a liner - pretty sure its the Mauretania, Anzac men pose outside their intelligence office at Gallipoli, cavalrymen watchhingf an aeroplane in Flanders (although some would rather sleep), damage done to a block of flats in London by a Zeppelin raid, sick men queue for for transport to hospital ships at Gallipoli, a mountain battery in action at Salonika, Tommy adapts himself to Greek lager at Salonika, Russian troops try to sleep in the open near Riga, under occupation - two Frenchmen depart with bread from German soldiers tucked under their arms, captured French pets posed on the engine that would take them to Germany, the mascot on the Queen Elizabeth takes a stroll along her guns and gun carriages are slung aboard ships bound for Salonika
Posted on: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 10:35:30 +0000
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