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Passage for Attack

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Description: Dirt stairs through the trench wall. Captioned: "Passages up which troops rush for an attack."
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Route 44

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: View down center of road towards bunkers and trees. Captioned: "Route 44, a national road, hundreds of years old. It is too close to the Boche to be used i...
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Oven of Paris

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: Damaged roof and walls of a french bakery on a hill. Captioned: "'Le Four de Paris' (Oven of Paris), the quaint old bakery, after which this part of the Ar...
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Austrian Soldiers Shoot at an Airplane

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian soldiers shooting at an airplane somewhere in Galicia.
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

Date: 1914
Description: A view of model trenches, built in Berlin by convalescing German soldiers. These were used both for training and for exhibition.
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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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Austrian Soldiers in a Trench

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian soldiers in a trench line.
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Trench Warfare Against the Russians

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Description: In battle with the Russians.
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Austrians in the Trenches

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Description: The fighting in Galicia. Austrians in the trenches.
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Two Lines of Soldiers in Battle

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Description: Among the latest battles of our allies in Galicia. The troops in the foreground are the reserve line waiting to go forward. In the background Austrian infa...
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Bukowina Trenches

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Description: Snowy trenches in Bukowina.
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Bukowina Trenches

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Description: Snowy trenches in Bukowina.
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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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Camouflaged Mortar

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Description: Mortar camouflaged against aerial observation. The camouflage has been prepared so carefully that one could walk by the piece at a short distance without n...
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Bosnian Soldier and Obstacle

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Description: Bosnian soldier in front of a barbed wire obstacle, known as a Spanish Rider, on the southern battlefront.
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Lavarone Plateau

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Description: On the battlefield of the Lavarone plateau. Supplies for construction of a continuous belt of wire obstacles. The plateau of Lavarone was located along th...

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