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Cemetery at Dead Man's Hill

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: Hundreds of graves for fallen soldiers at Dead Man's Hill. Captioned: "Cemetery at foot of Mort Homme (Dead Man's Hill). Notice the 'communication trenches...
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Repairing Telephone Wires

Date: 1915
Description: Repairing telephone wires in the Uzsok Pass, Galicia, which had been destroyed by the Russians.
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Folgaria Hotel

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Description: Soldiers relaxing in front of the Folgaria Hotel in Italy. The men are standing around horse-drawn wagons and carts, and other men are walking down a stree...
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Panorama of Ismid

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Description: Panorama of Ismid.
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Rachel's Tomb

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Description: Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem.
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Oulun-Kichla

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Description: Oulon-Kichla an ancient Tartar city on the edge of the Taurus Mountains.
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Oxen

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Description: Requisitioned French oxen. Behind a gate in the background are railroad tracks, and on the far right is a railroad car. There is a steep, wooded hill in th...
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Austrian Field Kitchens

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Description: Austrian field kitchens and bakeries preparing to march out.
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Train and Depot Guards

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Description: Duties of the Turkish Landsturm (reservists). Train and depot guards.
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Breaking Camp in the Mountains

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Description: Turkish soldiers breaking camp to head to the front.
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Horse Grooming

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Description: Farrier shoeing a horse in the Taurus Mountains.
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Beef Cattle

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Description: Beef cattle passing through an opening in barbed wire on the Lavarone plateau which is located along the pre-war boundary between Austria-Hungary and Italy...
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Fighting Against the Italians

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Description: A descendant of Andreas Hofer fighting against the "Welschen" in the south. Captain Simon Hofer of the Tirol Standesshuetzen Battalion, whose civilian occu...
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The Highest Battlefield in Europe

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Description: Austrian Alpine soldiers passing through barbed wire entanglements on the highest battlefield in Europe — 3400 meters.
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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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In the Mountains

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Description: Tiroler Standschützen in the mountains.
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The Spirit of Andreas Hofer

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Description: Tiroler Standschützen firing from atop a cliff against the hated Welschen.
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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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Resupplying Troops at High Altitude

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Description: Provisioning supplies and munitions to soldiers fighting against the enemy and nature at over 3000 meters in elevation can only be accomplished through hum...
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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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