I requested from friends, near and far, for stories and images concerning the Great War. I was overwhelmed by the response. Below are images of the Great War that need no story. These are perhaps images that may never have been seen or published. Let us pray we have no need to post other images of recent wars!
German infantry troops during the Great War.
British soldiers struggle through mud with a wounded comrade during the Battle of Passchendaele in Belgium in 1917
Shelters in British trenches during the Battle of the Somme in France in 1916.
A woman in Berlin gave flowers to a Prussian soldier leaving for the front during the Great War.
American soldiers in New York after the United States declared war in 1917.
Algerian soldiers in Europe.
A munitions warehouse in Chilwell, England, in July 1917.
British soldiers in their trench in about 1916.
Soldiers of the 10th (Irish) Division wearing gas masks in the trenches near the Struma River, Greece, in August 1916.
A wounded German soldier lighting a cigarette for a wounded British soldier at a British field hospital in northern France in 1918.
A field hospital in a church in Neuvilly-en-Argonne, France, in September 1918.
Treating the wounded at the Gare du Nord, a train station in Paris, in 1914.
Soldiers wounded in the Great War learning to walk again at a hospital in Budapest.
The remains of a German soldier outside his dugout in Beaumont-Hamel, France, during the Battle of the Somme in November 1916.
German prisoners at the St.-Hilaire-au-Temple camp in France in April 1917.
Refugees in Le Mans, France.
The burial of Major Edward Lewin Knight of the Canadian Machine Gun Corps, who was killed on 26 September 1916.
Turkish soldiers took aim at Allied troops on the Gallipoli Peninsula in 1915.
Russian soldiers surrendering after their defeat by German forces in the Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes on the Eastern Front in 1915.
The ruins of a church and other buildings in Ypres, Belgium, in January 1915.
Soldiers on the Western Front celebrating the announcement of the armistice in 1918.