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Soldier Praying Over a Mass Grave

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Description: German soldier kneeling on the ground at a mass grave site to say a prayer in honor of his fallen comrades.
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Soldiers Awaiting Orders to Fire Artillery

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian artillerymen taking a break from the battle at a firing position on the southwestern battlefront in Tyrol. Some of the men are smoking. The troops...
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Building Barbed Wire Entanglements

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Description: Austrian officers are overseeing the building of a wall on the front. On the left side of the wall, soldiers are standing knee-deep in the water, construct...
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Soldiers in Front of Bunkers

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian soldiers post in front of the bunkers on the Italian front in the battle zone around Lavarone in South Tyrol. These are camouflaged artillery posi...
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Constructing Barbed Wire Entanglements

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian soldiers are building barbed wire entanglements in a lake reed bed on the southwestern battlefront in South Tyrol. One man holding a coil of wire ...
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Water Wheel in the Desert

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Description: Water wheel in the Syrian desert.
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Flour Supply

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Description: Flour supply wagons in a semi-desert region.
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Cactus Etching

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Description: Turkish officer etching his name into a cactus leaf as a remembrance.
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Arab Civilians Working in a Trench

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Description: Soldiers and children cleaning up rubble.
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Daycare

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Description: Daycare for the children of soldiers. Children are cared for and given food daily, without charge, by volunteer aids.
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Daycare

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Description: Daycare for the children of soldiers. Children are cared for and given food daily, without charge, by volunteer aids.
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Daycare

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Description: At a daycare facility for the children of soldiers.
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Red Cross Soup Kitchen

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Description: Red Cross soup kitchen in Berlin on the Moritzplatz.
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View of Garden

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Description: Slightly elevated view of the garden of the Red Cross soup kitchen.
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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 at Rest

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Description: Our Bavarians in the Vosges. Rest period.
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Patriotism on the Roof Veranda

Date: 1914
Description: Patriotism on the roof veranda. Employees of a large store in Berlin using their free time to knit socks for our brave fighters.
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Weekly Food Baskets for Needy Children in Berlin

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Description: Instead of free meals, needy children receive a basket weekly with enough food to last for a week.
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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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On Guard in the Beautiful South

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Description: A soldier on guard on the banks of a lake overlooking a small town in the South Tirol.

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