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"The Goodbye Kiss"

Date: 1914
Description: A German soldier is kissing a woman before boarding a train.
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Ruins of a Serbian Train Station

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian soldiers waiting along near railroad tracks in the ruins of a Serbian train station.
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Croatian Reservists Being Transported to the Front

Date: 1914
Description: Austrian soldiers from a Croatian "Landsturm" reservist unit posing in and around an open doorway of a railroad car during World War I. One of the men is p...
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Railway Station Guards in Ruma, Syrmien

Date: 1914
Description: Austrian Railway station guards standing next to a railroad car in the City of Ruma, Syrmien during World War I.
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Ruma Train Station

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian Soldiers detraining in the City of Ruma, located in the Province of Syrmien. These soldiers are massing for the invasion of Serbia in 1915.
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Wounded on a Train

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Description: Wounded German soldier leaning out a train window reaching for a drink being held up by an Austrian colleague standing on the ground near the railroad car.
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Buying Refreshments from a Young Girl

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Description: German soldiers standing on a platform near a stopped troop train buying refreshments from a young girl.
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Box Car Ride to the Front

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Description: Austrian troops riding in a box car on their way to the front.
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Wounded Austrians

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Description: Wounded Austrian soldiers being loaded onto train cars.
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Wounded Austrians

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Description: Wounded Austrian soldiers being loaded onto train cars.
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Hospital Train of Count Karolyi

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Description: The hospital train of Count Karolyi. The Austrian foundation supported hospital train of County Anton Karolyi is being inspected by Freiherr Scheffer-Boyad...
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Senior Surgical Advisor Professor Borchardt

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Description: The senior surgical advisor Professor Borchardt inspecting the hospital train.
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Hospital Train Inspection

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Description: The hospital train of Count Karolyi being inspected by Freiherr Scheffer-Boyadel while being accompanied by Count Anton Karolyi.
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Meat Delivery

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Description: Meat in abundance. Arrival of many hundred head of sheep destined for the provisioning of our brave troops in Russian Poland.
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Hospital Trains

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Description: A practical application for hospital trains. Tee vats. These vats are installed on hospital trains and can be used to supply wounded soldiers with tee. Eac...
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Meat in Abundance

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Description: Sheep being unloaded from a train car.
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Silly (Silli) in Syria

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Description: Elevated view of railroad cars waiting for supplies to be loaded on board.
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Baghdad Rail Line

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Description: A draisine, or speeder, on the Baghdad rail line.
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Railroad Station in Silly (Silli)

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Description: Rail station guard in Silly (Silli), which is an important supply point.
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Preparations for Crossing the Desert

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Description: Silly (Silli) the last supply point. Making preparations for the march across the desert.

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