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Armoured train - South Africa - 1914 - Project Gutenberg eText 18334

Armoured train - South Africa - 1914 - Project Gutenberg eText 18334

Armoured train - South Africa - 1914 - Project Gutenberg eText 18334 MUCH USED AGAINST SOUTH AFRICAN REBELS: A TRUCK OF AN ARMOURED TRAIN, AT BLOEMFONTEIN. Armoured trains worked by the South African Engineer... More

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I002 401x600 - Public domain portrait print

Image from A Minor War History (1916) with the caption: The Girl I Left Behind Me

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I023 600x362 - Public domain book illustration

Image from A Minor War History (1916) with the caption: The Old Rope Walk Barracks, Camp Constitution, Portsmouth

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I049 600x359 - Public domain book illustration

Image from A Minor War History (1916) with the caption: Camp Sullivan, Washington

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I075 442x600 - Public domain book illustration

Image from A Minor War History (1916) with the caption: Bill Ramsdell

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Illo 001 - Public domain book illustration

Native Market at Mersa Matruh.

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Illo 002 - Public domain book illustration

Sunday Morning in the Gulf of Suez.

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Illo 005 - Public domain book illustration

Camouflaging a Tent with Desert Scrub

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Illo 011 - Public domain book illustration

The Valley of Chaos—after the Bombing Raid

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Image002h - Public domain book illustration

Audsurade Belgium Nov. 11/1918 Public domain reproduction of World War One propaganda poster, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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Image005h - Public domain book illustration

Warming up the "corned willy" over the "corned heat" (solidified alcohol)Rain overhead and mud underfoot Baldridge Near Montfaucon / 18

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Life in WW1 Public domain photograph related to the history of France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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Image008h - Public domain book illustration

Seicheprey. America's old home sector—first trenches entirely under their own command.

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Image009h - Public domain book illustration

The lids we wear— Dungeree style... The tin derby with winter knitted helmet... Old "rain-in-the-face"... The charming red-and-white effect... Fuzzy-wuzzy... The tank helmet... Some managed to hang on to the ol... More

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He used to hunt rabbits in Kentucky

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Image012h - Public domain dedication image

The job that's never ended—Cleaning up for inspection

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First time in two weeks! Montmeuril

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The Ration Detail—a job which no one relishes. Each day the other fellow's artillery tries to lay down a fire which will keep these boys from getting back. They travel to where their supply company has dumped t... More

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The Headquarters Company of the Reserve Mallet taking its bath at Chavigeny Farm. The tub is a tin-lined cigarette box used by the Y.M.C.A. Water is heated in the old farm fire-place.

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Image017h - Public domain book illustration

"I know a girl at home who looks just like you." 6 June

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Image018h - Public domain book illustration

"Johnny Redlegs"—guardian of the "Soixant-quinze." (the famous French "75") ...and the doughboy who tries to keep just the right distance from the covering barrage fire.

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Image019h - Public domain book illustration

"The Bugs"—Two men, French style tanks

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Image020h - Public domain book illustration

An Indian M.P.—"A Chance to get even"

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Image021h - Public domain book illustration

A Survival of the old regular army

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Image022h - Public domain book illustration

Among the first sent across They served with the French in '17

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Image025h - Public domain book illustration

American and French field artillery gun crews camped together in a wood near Charsoney. The canvas overhead keeps the fire from being observed by aeroplanes at night.

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Image026h - Public domain book illustration

The linesman at the front—Same old job with just a couple percent more risk than usual Using a shell-shocked tree for a telegraph pole. St. Mihiel 1918

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Image027h - Public domain dedication image

Dumb Beasts: In the Missouri draft Wagon train bucks: "Maud" and "Mud" Former refugee—now mascot and the only man in the outfit who likes monkey meat

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{English: anks with French Type of Anti-Aircraft

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The roofs of Vaux after a few minutes of Yank barrage lifted—

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"The Germans have gone!"—St. Mihiel

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The family with whom I lived in Soissons In 1870 Grandpère was taken as a prisoner to Coblenz Madam Framary who sewed on my buttons and who transformed miserable French army rations into marvelous dishes Erasem... More

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Awaiting the signal to attack. The sergeant is ready to blow the whistle for his squad to follow him out through a path in the barbed wire. In another minute they will advance close behind the bursting shells o... More

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"American Field Service" drivers at Longpont/1917 Public domain photograph of World War One military equipment, vehicle, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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Image039h - Public domain book illustration

The "Territorial"—the name given French poilu between the ages of 34 and 40. Vailly—1917

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Image040h - Public domain book illustration

Noyon, 1918 The Paris Bus—many kilometers from the Place de l'Opèra—used for transporting troops, horses, and fresh meat to the front

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Built for speed... Built for speed and with light pack to match R.B.—Belleau Wood 1918 A Marine

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"Steady, buddy!" Baldridge Paris 1919

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Image044h - Public domain book illustration

Never too far gone for a smoke But he wears the Legion of Honor and the "Croix de Guerre"

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Image045h - Public domain book illustration

In an abri waiting for the "Gothas" (big German planes) to go home

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Image046h - Public domain book illustration

The veteran of the Spanish-American war tells 'em how it ought to be done

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Image047h - Public domain book illustration

R. Lufbery—Sketched at the Lafayette Escadrille field near Longpont as the aviator was getting into his "union suit" preparatory to flying in a Chemin-des-Dames engagement

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Base port stevedores—Volunteers from the South who work eight hours a day for seven days a week Bordeaux/18

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A 26th Division Wagon Train moving toward Chasseurs wood—1918 Mule and Prairie Schooner in a country made desert by war

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Image050h - Public domain book illustration

The end of his service Public domain photograph - prisoners of war, military forces during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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Veterans of the Marne Public domain photograph related to the history of France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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American being taught by Frenchman to drive truck so that the latter may return to his farm. France/17

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Moving up— over a corduroy road hastily laid down by a gérre (engineer) regiment in war-wasted land. The piece of wall on the right is all that remains of a French village of five hundred inhabitants

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(Arabic script) Arabian Knight (Arabic script) Between drives he works on the railroad (Arabic script) On other days he rides a camel in Algeria

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Senegalaise types / voluneers used for the attack and for labor on roads Vailly 1917

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The aumônier—poilu priest who marches with the troops. Of the youngest class A father of the class of '89 Moulin Laffaux

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Un cannonier marin sur le front He handles a big naval gun mounted on railroad cars near Soissons

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Image059h - Public domain book illustration

French "corvée" laborers. In the war of 1870 he drove a team instead of a camion. Too old to serve in the active army and so assigned to the more unromatic, uninteresting but vital work of loading camions, ten... More

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A "walking case"—France, August -18

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Toul(?) sector days—Waiting for something to happen— France/17

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Un grand blessé A Medal for Valor A wounded Chasseur and "Fritz" who has the next cot. They get the same treatment and neither seems to mind the proximity

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Image063h - Public domain book illustration

An American ambulance at a poste de secours (first aid station) Ostel—1917

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Image064h - Public domain book illustration

An old trench in the Argonne near Montfaucon Public domain photograph of a cabin, small military dwelling, during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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The water wagon filled with red-hot coffee going to the ration dump via shell fire and not losing any time about it— Outside Belleau wood—June '18

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He's been on every front from Chateau-Thierry to the Rhine Coblenz—1919

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After the German Retreat Cleaning up old quarry used by Fritz as a barracks—Chemin-des-Dames

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"Wagon Soldiers" (nickname for artillerymen)

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Made in America—France Aug. 1918

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"Marraines" (Godmothers) "Marraines" (Godmothers) who kept their poilu godsons at the front in good cheer with letters and packages from home, and who took their Yank cousins to their hearts in the same kindly ... More

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"Papa Perrin" Soissons 1917 No one knows where the poilu slang word "Pinard" came from, but everyone knows what it means. It's half way between water and red wine, with the kick mostly in the taste. It is serv... More

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Image074h - Public domain book illustration

"We ain't no thin red 'eroes, Nor we aren't no blackguards too."

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One of the Agent-de-ville = M.P. teams of Paris patrolling the boulevard. They have authority over both Yank and poilu. Paris 1919

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Caught by a star shell at a listening post, and attempting to "freeze" like a rabbit with the hunter upon him, to look as much like a lump of mud as possible until the glare dies down.

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Image080h - Public domain book illustration

Americans quartered in the mediaeval monastary of Pont St. Maxence

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Image081h - Public domain book illustration

French Colonial Types: White, black, and half-way From Algeria A Zouave From Morocco

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"P.Gs" (prisonneurs de la guerre) who are keeping in physical trim by lumber work in a forest where once the kings of France took their morning walks Croix St. Ouen 1918

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Image083h - Public domain book illustration

A Yank going on leave having a midnight cup of "vin rouge" in a compartment of a Permissionnares' Train—with a soixante-quinze gunner, a sailor from a submarine, a chasseur, an aviation sergeant, and several in... More

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The barber shop quartette on the trip home— (no ocean rules about noise this time).

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Coming Out! dirty, tired and grinning! Chateau Theirry June—1918

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Image086h - Public domain book illustration

MAIL! Brought up to the front by the ration detail

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Forty feet underground in an old stone quarry formerly used by the Germans as barracks. Near Fort Malmaux

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This is the cellar of her home. The house above no longer exists. For her living she washes clothes for the soldiers. Her daughter with two young children is a prisoner in Belgium. A third grandchild lives in this cave

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Poulet "Lui" This one has won three army citations "la soupe" Liaison dog to carry messages Red Cross dog Jack - a yank volunteer

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French dogs loaned by private families and trained by the army for use as Red Cross aids, sentinels, and message carriers. Intelligence the only qualification—any breed goes Kénaro / S'aïd Two dogs who worked t... More

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The O.D. Circuit "Pull the shades down Mary Ann" A love song from The East— Our own jazz band

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Image092h - Public domain book illustration

"Coming out" after "The Washington Birthday Raid" Chemin des Dames 1918

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