/r/WWIpics
A place to share World War I photographs.
A place to share World War I photographs
/r/WWIpics
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A French soldier using a rifle with a periscopic attachment fitted to the riflebutt in the trench near Pont-Arcy, 29 August 1916.
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2025/02/02
12:25 UTC
12:25 UTC
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An observer at the section of the 3rd Grenadier Company of the 9th Grenadier Siberian Regiment with its lieutenant A.I. Stukan at a trench berm. 2 June 1917
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2025/02/01
14:27 UTC
14:27 UTC
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Manfred von Richthofen, known as the Red Baron, with his father Major Albrecht Philipp Karl Julius Freiherr von Richthofen. July 1917.
Manfred had suffered a serious head injury on July 6, 1917 near Wervik, Belgium while fighting against a formation of F.E.2d two-seat fighters of No. 20 Squadron RFC. Against his doctors orders he returned to the front on July 25th.
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2025/02/01
13:00 UTC
13:00 UTC
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A 9.2-inch Howitzer of 91st Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery in position under camouflage netting in readiness for the opening barrage of the Battle of Arras. April 1, 1917. The battle would begin 8 days later.
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2025/01/31
13:11 UTC
13:11 UTC
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Men of the American 30th Division at rest with German prisoners following the capture of Bellicourt. In the background are British Mark V tanks (with 'cribs' for crossing trenches) of the 8th Battalion. September 29, 1918
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2025/01/30
13:16 UTC
13:16 UTC
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Wounded men are tended by medical staff as they lie on stretchers on the grass at an advanced dressing station near Boesinghe, a village in the municipality of Ypres, during the Battle of Pilckem Ridge. The battle lasted from July 31 to August 2, 1917
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2025/01/29
13:17 UTC
13:17 UTC
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Corporal John Henry Pruitt, posthumous Medal of Honor recipient for gallantry in action, October 3, 1918
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2025/01/28
21:27 UTC
21:27 UTC
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At the dugout of the regiment headquarters. Unknown photographer. 1915
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2025/01/28
21:02 UTC
21:02 UTC
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Troops of the 57th and 59th Divisions (probably of the 8th Battalion, Liverpool Regiment), swarmed by local children, entering Lille, France. October 18, 1918
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2025/01/27
13:16 UTC
13:16 UTC
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A Russian officer in a trench. Unknown photographer. 1914-1917
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2025/01/26
23:04 UTC
23:04 UTC
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Russian soldier, holder of the St. George Cross, with a bird
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2025/01/26
21:26 UTC
21:26 UTC
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Two traffic control men rolling a large 'dud' shell off the road. Near Estaminet Corner, Wytschaete. August 11, 1917
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2025/01/26
11:34 UTC
11:34 UTC
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Training English recruits in Hyde Park, London. Unknown photographer. 1916-1917
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2025/01/25
21:35 UTC
21:35 UTC
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A group of military personnel near the wreckage of an airplane. Unknown photographer. 1914-1917
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2025/01/25
20:46 UTC
20:46 UTC
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Sotnik (Cossack lieutenant) of the 1st Ekaterinodarsky ataman Chepegi Regiment of the Kuban Cossack Army, 1915
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2025/01/25
19:30 UTC
19:30 UTC
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Russian officers at map study. Unknown photographer. 1914-1917
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2025/01/25
17:36 UTC
17:36 UTC
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Soldiers of the German Baltic Sea Division after they had taken the Smolna Building, which was the Red Guard (communist) headquarters in Helsinki, Finland, April 1918.
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2025/01/25
13:53 UTC
13:53 UTC
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Taken during an action in the area around Hooge on Bellewaerde Ridge, this photo shows the men of the King's Regiment (Liverpool). The flag/banner in the background is an artillery marker, planted atop the parapet as signal to the artillery that the line had been secured. June 16, 1915
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2025/01/24
13:21 UTC
13:21 UTC
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The 5,225 ton American tanker "Illinois," photographed as she sank by a photographer on the German U-boat SM UC-21 on March 18, 1917. UC-21 was a Type UC II U-boat and was credited with sinking 98 ships before she herself disappeared in September 1917.
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2025/01/23
13:23 UTC
13:23 UTC
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A photo of my great grandfather, a Russian immigrant, serving for the United States.
We found this in a box of old photos, no one had seen it before. He committed suicide shortly after returning from the war. His son, my grandfather, would go on to serve in bother World War II and Korea.
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2025/01/23
02:55 UTC
02:55 UTC
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American and British capital ships anchored in the Firth of Forth, September 20, 1918
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2025/01/21
21:47 UTC
21:47 UTC
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This photo was taken moments after the execution of Belgian soldier 2é Grenadiers Aloïs Walput on June 3, 1918. The 21 year old had killed his corporal two weeks before, and was one of 13 Belgian soldiers executed during World War I.
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2025/01/21
12:24 UTC
12:24 UTC
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A signals section of the 13th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, equipped with telescopes, field telephone and signalling lamps, await news of the progress of the unit's attack towards Veldhoek during the Battle of Menin Road. September 1917.
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2025/01/20
11:36 UTC
11:36 UTC
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12 cm Minimalschartenkanone M. 80 in the cavern of Batterie Kal on the slopes of Svinjak above Bovec [1916]
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2025/01/19
19:30 UTC
19:30 UTC
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A heavy Italian shell hits an Austro-Hungarian artillery position (Batterie Kal) on the slopes of Svinjak [23. 9. 1915]
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2025/01/19
19:28 UTC
19:28 UTC
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8 cm Feldkanone M. 5/8 from the Feldkanonenregiment 40 on the slopes of Svinjak above Bovec [1915]
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2025/01/19
19:26 UTC
19:26 UTC
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Assault battalion exercises in Levico in March 1917. Levico was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire when the war began, but was ceded to Italy after the war as part of the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
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2025/01/19
13:31 UTC
13:31 UTC
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Austro-Hungarian Aviation Troops (Luftfahrtruppen) of Flight squadron 26. In the middle row, second from left is Roman Schmidt who would finish the war as an ace with 6 kills. 1916
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2025/01/18
11:42 UTC
11:42 UTC