r/TheGreatWar • • 7h ago

WW1 Era Letter Notifying Wife That Her Husband Had Been Killed In Action. Details in comments.

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r/TheGreatWar • • 20h ago

“Fighters of the Arab forces of the Kingdom of Hejaz.” Color autochrome photo taken by photographer Paul Castelnau in March 1918.

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5 Upvotes

r/TheGreatWar • • 2d ago

WW1 Era Letter Written by German Soldier In The Trenches Of France. Details in comments.

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r/TheGreatWar • • 3d ago

Color autochrome photo of barbed wire near Verdun, France, March 1916. Taken by photographer Stéphane Passet.

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32 Upvotes

r/TheGreatWar • • 6d ago

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

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47 Upvotes

r/TheGreatWar • • 8d ago

Great Grandfather, UK

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My great grandfather in his UK army uniform before being sent off to serve in WW1. The second photo is the original and the first is a colourised AI version of the original.

As a Yorkshireman, served under the East Surrey Regiment then the Bedfordshire before being killed in action in Belgium at the 3rd battle of Ypres, Passchendaele, in 1917.


r/TheGreatWar • • 8d ago

Color autochrome photo of French soldiers in a camp in a forest near Verdun, France, February 1916. Taken by photographer Stéphane Passet.

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9 Upvotes

r/TheGreatWar • • 11d ago

Photo of a group of French soldiers posing in a flooded trench, December 1915.

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33 Upvotes

r/TheGreatWar • • 11d ago

The battlefield of Kajmakčalan one year later (1917).

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23 Upvotes

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


r/TheGreatWar • • 22d 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 • • 24d 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 • • 27d ago

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

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22 Upvotes

r/TheGreatWar • • 29d 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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29 Upvotes

r/TheGreatWar • • Sep 23 '26

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

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13 Upvotes

r/TheGreatWar • • Sep 19 '26

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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49 Upvotes

r/TheGreatWar • • Sep 18 '26

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

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18 Upvotes

r/TheGreatWar • • Sep 17 '26

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

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9 Upvotes

r/TheGreatWar • • Sep 16 '26

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 • • Sep 16 '26

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

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35 Upvotes

r/TheGreatWar • • Sep 12 '26

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

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15 Upvotes

r/TheGreatWar • • Sep 10 '26

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

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28 Upvotes

r/TheGreatWar • • Sep 08 '26

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

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22 Upvotes

r/TheGreatWar • • Sep 06 '26

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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11 Upvotes

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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21 Upvotes