/r/TheGreatWar
Subreddit for World War One Photography and Other Images
See rare and incredible photographs and other images that will give you a new perspective of the destruction, horror, humanity, diversity, and technology of the First World War using hundreds of high-resolution images.
Subreddit For World War One Photography And More
Documentaries, photograph collections, and sources:
University of British Columbia British press photograph collection
American Civil War photography subreddit at /r/WarBetweenTheStates.
The early history of photography subreddit at /r/Daguerreotypes.
List of history-related subreddits maintained by the History Network.
The Other World War 1 subreddits at /r/wwi and /r/thegreatwarchannel.
/r/TheGreatWar
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“Army Boot Repair Shop in Calais, 24 June 1918.” By John Warwick Brooke.
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2024/05/06
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"The First Snow, from the NS8 Airship over the Lammermuirs." Oil painting by Alfred Egerton Cooper, 1918.
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2024/05/03
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"Company cook-house." Photo of a British Army field kitchen in Katerini, Greece.
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2024/05/02
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An old photo of my great great grandfather. Can someone identify what war he served in and what his role was?
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2024/05/01
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“Army Boot Repair Shop in Calais, 24 June 1918.” By John Warwick Brooke.
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2024/05/01
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“The Battle of the Lys. Outpost manned by men of the 11th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on a road beside the Lys Canal near Saint-Floris, 9 May 1918.” By John Warwick Brooke.
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2024/04/29
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“World War I bayonet and scabbard was used by Leslie Graves a soldier with the African American 92nd Division.”
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2024/04/28
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Austro-Hungarian soldiers take a rest from marching. In the back, a wayside shrine can be seen in a tree trunk, eastern Front, 1915.
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2024/04/25
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“‘A serious case ward. 1916-17.’ From an album of photographs of 34 (1/1 West Lancashire) Casualty Clearing Hospital, RAMC Territorial Force, on the Western Front 1914-1919.”
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2024/04/24
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“A poor, old and wounded war veteran watched in sympathy by a young Russian family - a Russian war fund poster. Halftone after S. Vinogradoff, 1914.”
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2024/04/22
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A group of Serbs from Bosnia and Herzegovina, interned in the Arad Fortress concentration camp, 1914/15.
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2024/04/22
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“World War I Naval Aviator Uniform Cap of Montague Lyon, Jr.” Said to have been issued in 1918.
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2024/04/21
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“Postcard showing King George greeting wounded officers at a field hospital.”
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2024/04/19
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“King George V riding through Hesdin Forest on a light railway while visiting a company of the Forestry Corps working there, 7 August 1918.” By David McLellan.
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2024/04/17
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Government Troops in Berlin During the German Revolution, March 1919.
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2024/04/14
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“World War I French Uniform heavy weight pants of Joseph Desloge. Desloge volunteered for World War I service in January 1917 and was attached to the French Army as an ambulance driver. He later enlisted in the French Army and served as an artillery liaison officer with the 11th Artillery Regiment.”
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2024/04/13
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Meuse-Argonne Offensive (1918) 77th Division WWI
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2024/04/13
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“Collecting box, metal, for wounded soldiers. French, 1914 - 1918.”
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2024/04/13
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“Pair of men's short boots made of canvas, leather and wood. Soles are solid wood and have a 1 1/2 inch heel. Eyelets on sides for laces. Taken from a German Army material dump in Wolsfeld, Germany by James Marsh Douglas during World War I.”
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2024/04/11
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“In this Western Union telegram, Dr. Esther E. Leonard was directed to report to the United States Army General Hospital No. 1 in New York.” Telegram from 1917-1918.
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2024/04/08
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WWI British Royal Artillery Combat Footage (1918)
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2024/04/06
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Grim compilation of footage from the Italian Battlefields of World War 1 in Italy. Footage likely captured in 1917-1918 and depicting the aftermaths of various large battles.
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2024/04/05
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“The 5th Royal Scots disembarking from HM Hospital ship 'Dongola' at Helles during the Dardanelles campaign, 25th April, 1915.”
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2024/04/04
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“Gray's Inn Garden - 'The London Welsh' - At Physical Drill in 1915.” By Henry Dixon.
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2024/04/03
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