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Field Carpentry Shop

Date: 1914
Description: Two German soldiers shaping axe handles at a field carpentry shop.
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Portable Military Camp Forge

Date: 1914
Description: Two soldiers with a small forge during World War I. One of the men is smoking a pipe. There is a wagon in the background.
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Blacksmith Shop on the Front

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Description: Field blacksmith shop.
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Digging a Hole for a Telephone Pole

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Description: Digging in a telephone pole.
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Repairing Cannons at the "Cannon Hospital"

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Description: At a "cannon hospital" on the Carpathian front. Even the best constructed artillery pieces must be refurbished from time to time. That is why the introduc...
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Austrians Dig Trenches

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Description: Austrian sailors, who have completed their service and for whom no other military need was pressing, are being sent to dig trenches.
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Loading Supplies Onto Camels

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Description: Loading camels with provisions and entrenching tools.
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Loading Supplies Onto Camels

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Description: Loading camels with provisions and entrenching tools.
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Bavarian Troops in the Vosges

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Description: Our Bavarians in the Vosges. A farrier at work on a horse.
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Oxen

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Description: Requisitioned French oxen.
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Bavarians Collecting Fodder for Horses

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Description: Our Bavarians in the Vosges. Collecting grass for a horse.
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Bavarians Grilling Sausages

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Description: Our Bavarians in the Vosges. Grilling sausages over an open fire.
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Transporting Supplies Through the Taurus Mountains

Date: 1915
Description: Transporting entrenching tools through the Taurus Mountains.
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Horse Grooming

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Description: Farrier shoeing a horse in the Taurus Mountains.
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Serbian Roads

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Description: The bad roads in Serbia are damaging to wagons and wheels. As a result one finds temporary field smithy's set up everywhere in Serbia.
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Butchers at Work

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Description: Butchers slaughtering beef on the Tirolian battlefront.
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Repairing a Damaged Road

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Description: Repair work on a stone viaduct on a serpentine road on Mount Lovcen that had been damaged by the Montenegrins.
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Road Repair on Mount Lovcen

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Description: Repair work on Mount Lovcen to repair war damage. caused by the Montenegrans. Soldiers drilling into rock on the side of the mountains.
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Road Repair on Mount Lovcen

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Description: Repair work on Mount Lovcen to repair roads. Austrian troops using a rock crusher.
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On the Road to Antivari (Bar)

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Description: Civilians working on improving the railroad track bed.

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