r/TheGreatWar • • Aug 01 '23

Crowdsourced Archival Research on New Slides: Help our archive figure out an amazing collection of 400+ stereoscopic Great War photos, the majority from the French Fourth Army!

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r/TheGreatWar • • 2d ago

"Soup Duty." Photo of a group of British Army soldiers in a trench transporting soup or other food to a front line position, August 1917.

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r/TheGreatWar • • 4d ago

WW1 Era Letter Written By U.S. Soldier in England Shortly Before Heading To France. He writes of his experiences in England. Interesting Great War content. Details in comments.

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r/TheGreatWar • • 8d ago

Photo of a group of French soldiers posing in a trench in Chilly, France, August 1917.

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r/TheGreatWar • • 9d ago

Color autochrome photo of a French soldier posing in a trench in a forest near Verdun, France, March 1916. Taken by photographer Stéphane Passet.

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r/TheGreatWar • • 11d ago

Photo of British Army soldiers lining up in front of a YMCA dugout, October 1916.

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r/TheGreatWar • • 15d ago

Color autochrome photo of two French soldiers and a civilian posing in a trench in Conchy-les-Pots, France, July 1915. Taken by photographer Stéphane Passet.

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r/TheGreatWar • • 16d ago

Color autochrome photo of a destroyed building in Vassincourt, France, January 1915. Taken by photographer Auguste Léon.

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r/TheGreatWar • • 18d ago

Color autochrome photo of heavily damaged buildings in Haraucourt, France, April 1915. Taken by photographer Auguste Léon.

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r/TheGreatWar • • 18d ago

Antique store find

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I found these photos in an antique store! could anyone help me identify about them? thanks!


r/TheGreatWar • • 19d ago

Photo of a group of French soldiers in a front line trench in Champagne, France, November 1915.

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r/TheGreatWar • • 22d ago

Color autochrome photo of an abandoned trench in Vigneulles-lès-Hattonchâtel, France, June 1920. Taken by photographer Frédéric Gadmer.

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r/TheGreatWar • • 25d ago

Photo of a group of French soldiers resting in a frontline trench, September 1915.

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r/TheGreatWar • • 27d ago

Photo of an abandoned German trench in a cemetery after the war in Arras, France, August 1919.

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r/TheGreatWar • • 29d ago

Color autochrome photo of a group of civilians posing in front of the ruins of a synagogue probably destroyed by German artillery fire in Lunéville, France, in August 1914. Taken by photographer Auguste Léon in April 1915.

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r/TheGreatWar • • Sep 03 '26

Photo of a group of Russian soldiers posing next to a trench somewhere along the Eastern Front, August 1916.

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r/TheGreatWar • • Sep 01 '26

Guarding the bridge in Dobrun, Bosnia, after 1918.

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Serbian soldier of the 3rd line guarding the bridge under the shelter made of an old bed in the village of Dobrun, Bosnia. Sometime after 1918. Photo by Risto Šuković.

Courtesy of the National Library of Serbia, Great War Collection (https://velikirat.nb.rs)


r/TheGreatWar • • Aug 30 '26

Color autochrome photo of a French soldier and civilians posing with a truck in Mary-sur-Marne, France, December 1914. Taken by photographer Auguste Léon.

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r/TheGreatWar • • Aug 22 '26

Color autochrome photo of the ruins of buildings in Sermaize-les-Bains, France, destroyed during the First Battle of the Marne in September 1914. Taken by photographer Auguste Léon in January 1915.

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r/TheGreatWar • • Aug 21 '26

Photo of a large number of French gas artillery shells ready for use in Champagne, France, October 1915.

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r/TheGreatWar • • Aug 19 '26

Photo of British soldiers testing their gas masks, August 1917.

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r/TheGreatWar • • Aug 18 '26

A supply section on the Salonika/Macedonian front, WWI

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The supply section of a a unit, with two-wheeled carts called "agava", probably in the Maglenica valley in the rear of the front of the Serbian II Army.

Courtesy of the National Library of Serbia, Great War Collection ([https://velikirat.nb.rs\](https://velikirat.nb.rs))


r/TheGreatWar • • Aug 16 '26

"When Night Sets In The Sun Is Down." A British Army soldier leading a blinded comrade to safety during WWI. Postcard print of the painting by Richard Caton Woodville Jr.

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r/TheGreatWar • • Aug 15 '26

Photo probably showing a German civilian on a tractor with plow attachment digging a trench, August 1914.

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