French cavalry during the opening campaigns of 1914.
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Lances. You gotta love it.
Good duty for those German border guards in 1917.
I dunno. I bet they had to spend a lot of time keeping those lance tips nice and sharp.
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An Austro-Hungarian field telephone outpost on Mount Rombon. 1917.
Mt. Rombon is a 2,208 metres high mountain and was among the highest-lying battlefields in the Julian Alps in WW1. Mt. Rombon was defended by Austro-Hungarian troops, its higher zones by the soldiers of the 2nd Mountain Rifle Regiment, and south of Mt. Mali Rombon (1,992 m) by the troops of the 4th Bosnian-Herzegovinian Regiment.
Mt. Rombon is a 2,208 metres high mountain and was among the highest-lying battlefields in the Julian Alps in WW1. Mt. Rombon was defended by Austro-Hungarian troops, its higher zones by the soldiers of the 2nd Mountain Rifle Regiment, and south of Mt. Mali Rombon (1,992 m) by the troops of the 4th Bosnian-Herzegovinian Regiment.
I did a search for the battle of Mount Rambon and found the below website.
What a beautiful area Slovenia’s SoÄa Valley is.
There still many remnants of WWI in and around the valley.
"It’s hard to imagine that Slovenia’s SoÄa Valley, a land of aquamarine river rapids and dense emerald forests, was once the site of WWI’s Isonzo Front, where 1.7 million soldiers died.
Looking at Slovenia’s SoÄa Valley today, with its aquamarine river rapids, waterfalls gently tumbling down steep cliffs and dense, overgrown emerald forests, I had a hard time imagining that the area once resembled the barren and grey SoÄa Valley of Ernest Hemingway's novel, A Farewell to Arms….
…..even more difficult to imagine is that the valley was once part of the Isonzo Front, one of the bloodiest frontlines in WWI. Approximately 1.7 million soldiers died or were mutilated for life fighting on the Isonzo Front, many losing their lives attempting to navigate the steep mountain slopes, fight through whiteout blizzards or traverse unsurpassable canyons."
A view of aquamarine river rapids and dense emerald forests. (Kirsten Amor)
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What a beautiful area Slovenia’s SoÄa Valley is.
There still many remnants of WWI in and around the valley.
"It’s hard to imagine that Slovenia’s SoÄa Valley, a land of aquamarine river rapids and dense emerald forests, was once the site of WWI’s Isonzo Front, where 1.7 million soldiers died.
Looking at Slovenia’s SoÄa Valley today, with its aquamarine river rapids, waterfalls gently tumbling down steep cliffs and dense, overgrown emerald forests, I had a hard time imagining that the area once resembled the barren and grey SoÄa Valley of Ernest Hemingway's novel, A Farewell to Arms….
…..even more difficult to imagine is that the valley was once part of the Isonzo Front, one of the bloodiest frontlines in WWI. Approximately 1.7 million soldiers died or were mutilated for life fighting on the Isonzo Front, many losing their lives attempting to navigate the steep mountain slopes, fight through whiteout blizzards or traverse unsurpassable canyons."
A view of aquamarine river rapids and dense emerald forests. (Kirsten Amor)
One of WWI's bloodiest frontlines
It’s hard to imagine that Slovenia’s SoÄa Valley, a land of aquamarine river rapids and dense emerald forests, was once the site of WWI’s Isonzo Front, where 1.7 million soldiers died.
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NZ nurses on the windows of their hut quarters at the #1 New Zealand Stationary Hospital at Wisques, France. Aug 1918.
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A Finnish White Guard and a German soldier, in front of a door to the Swedish theater located in Helsinki, April 19, 1918.
Both (German troops and the Finnish White Guard) battled between April 12 and 13 against the Red Guard in Helsinki, Finland.
Both (German troops and the Finnish White Guard) battled between April 12 and 13 against the Red Guard in Helsinki, Finland.
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Curious British observer inside a... "tree"?
"Wait a minute! Was that tree over there yesterday?" 
It’s an Ent.
Hoom!
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British soldier rescuing a comrade from a collapsed dug-out in Sept 1916. (colorized)
Looks pleased.
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Hilarious photo. Looks like he is laughing after being buried alive by high explosives.British soldier rescuing a comrade from a collapsed dug-out in Sept 1916. (colorized)
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German soldiers generate power to inflate an observation balloon. 1914.
Amazing photo German cavalryman on the Eastern Front, Winter 1915.
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German soldiers wearing Grabenpanzer body-armour acting out an assault in a trench. The armor plate weighed 24 pound.
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The SM U-25 was one of the 329 submarines serving in the Imperial German Navy in WW1.
Here with a Friedrichshafen FF.29 reconnaissance seaplane aboard.
Sources say FF.29 #412 was apparently based at German island Borkum and was recovered by the U-25 after experiencing engine trouble.
Note the personnel apparently sleeping under the deck gun.
On 23 Feb 1919 the SM U-25 surrendered to France.
Here with a Friedrichshafen FF.29 reconnaissance seaplane aboard.
Sources say FF.29 #412 was apparently based at German island Borkum and was recovered by the U-25 after experiencing engine trouble.
Note the personnel apparently sleeping under the deck gun.
On 23 Feb 1919 the SM U-25 surrendered to France.