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Barbed Wire Drill

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Description: Barbed wire training under Lt. Johnson. An unusual nighttime photograph from the Victor Morris album, at Camp Custer.
Poster

Ask for Cook's Programme of Tours to the Battlefields, Thiepval

Date: 1919
Description: Poster with an illustration of a British soldier sitting on a battlefield near a trench with barb wire among many destroyed trees at night. There are birds...
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Building Model Trenches

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Description: Convalescing German soldiers, in Berlin, building model trenches both for training and exhibition.
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Abandoned Dugout

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Description: A soldier is standing and looking into the distance in front of an abandoned dugout covered in snow.
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On Guard on Lake Garda

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Description: Keeping a close watch on the Gardasee (Lake Garda). There are obstacles on the water make to make it impossible to climb over the embankment.
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Lake Garda

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Description: Keeping a close watch on the Gardasee (Lake Garda).
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Tiroler Landesschuetzen

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Description: Tiroler Landesschuetzen (territorial troops from the Province of Tyrol) passing through a barricade in the mountains in preparation for a nighttime patrol...
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Soldiers Fortifying a Battleground

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Description: Soldiers are fortifying the banks of a river with barbed wire.
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Glacier Fortress Position

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Description: Fortified position on a glacier at high altitude, on the Tirolian-Italian front.
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Officers of Austrian Position in the High Mountains

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Description: The commander of a fort on the Tirolian front at an elevation of 3500 meters surrounded by his officers. 1. Major Hyza; 2. Lieutenant Joseph Aldon; 3. Lieu...
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Guarding a Glacier Fort

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Description: Guard in front of a fortified position on the glacier at an elevation of over 3500 meters.
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Glacier Fort

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Description: In front of a fortification on our highest battlefield.
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Resting in front of the Hut

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Description: Soldiers at rest in a fortified position on a mountain top.

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