#historical photos

misswallflower:

Bob Mazzer’s photos of London Underground from '70s and ‘80s.

fotojournalismus:

Iraq in the 1950s and 1960s. 

Photographs by Latif Al-Ani 

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Three wonderful people together.

British infantry on the Vaux road, 1916.

Battle of the Ancre. British soldiers washing the woodwork of their rifles in the Ancre at St. Pierre Divion in November 1916.

A statue of the Virgin of Montauban, almost the only thing left untouched by shell fire. 1916. 

Second Lieutenant Arthur Conway Young
Son of the late Robert Young, editor of the Japan Chronicle, and of Annie Crockett Young. One of three brothers who served. His uncle chose his inscription, as his father had been deceased. It reads: “Born At Kobe, Japan. 9th October 1890. Sacrificed To The Fallen. That War Can End War.”

Battle of Albert. Artillery observers watching the bombardment of Pozieres from Observation Post near Aveluy, 10th July 1916.

A Lance Naik (Lance Corporal) of the Indian 112th Infantry, 34th Brigade (17th Division), kneeling in a trench during the Battle of Sharqat, Mesopotamia 28-30 October 1918. Two days later the Turks surrendered and an armistice was declared.

Men of the 9th Hodson’s Horse, Indian Army charging directly towards the camera and armed with lances during training near Querrieu. 1916

A British mounted sentry outside Cafe Jordan, Mailly Maillet, 28th June 1916.

German soldiers posing in front of a dugout with rats they caught in their trench and with captured French business signs. “Assurance against Thirst”. 
Although shooting at rats was strictly prohibited – being regarded as a pointless waste of ammunition – many soldiers nevertheless took pot shots at nearby rats in this manner. Attacking rats with bayonets was also common.

Entrance to a German Officer’s dugout showing the protection over its doorway and its depth. 1916

Battle of Bazentin Ridge. Dressing the wounds of a German prisoner near Bernafay Wood, 19th July 1916.

A French horse-drawn battery of 155 mm short artillery guns going up to forward positions between Eclusier and Frise, 10 July 1916.

An observation balloon above the ruins of Ypres, Belgium, 27 October 1917.

A chaplain conducting a burial service on the battlefield near Ovillers, middle of July 1916.

French dugouts destroyed by German artillery fire on the Somme. 1916

Men of the 8th Battalion, Border Regiment, resting in shallow dugouts in a captured German trench to the south side of Ovillers-la-boisselle, ca. 4 July 1916.

British troops using their tin helmets as wash bowls at Ovillers, September 1916.

Battle of the Ancre. British wounded at a Dressing Station. Aveluy Wood, 13 November 1916.

Three wounded British soldiers, one drinking from a bowl, in a dressing station in a churchyard at Morlancourt, near Albert. 1916