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Photographer:Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
Year:1915
Location:Kyappesel’ga, Russia
Description:Austro-Hungarian war captives pose with their Russian camp guards for a photograph in front of their wooden barrack at a prisoner of war camp in Kyappesel’ga, Russia. The prisoners are flanked on the left by two Russian soldiers, one of whom is shouldering a rifle, and on the right by a gendarme in a black uniform.
Source:Library of Congress/World Digital Library
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Photographer:Frank Hurley
Year:1918
Location:Belah, Palestine
Description:The campsite of the Australian 4th Light Horse Brigade situated amongst the sand hills in Belah, Palestine on February 1918.
Source:Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
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Two soldiers release a pigeon with a message from their trench. Taken May 1917.
Original image source: Library and Archives Canada
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A father helps his son draw a French flag. Taken March, 1917.
Source:Canadian Library and Archives
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Photographer:Unknown
Year:1919
Location: London, United Kingdom
Description: Large outdoor crowds and curious onlookers in flag-draped buildings watch as a procession of soldiers and tanks march and drive through the streets of Knightsbridge during the London Victory Parade on July 19th, 1919.
Source:Canadian Content/Mark Simner
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A young girl leads Canadian soldiers down Rue de Rempart in Valenciennes, France in November, 1918.
Original image source: Canadian Library and Archives
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Another Day at the Beach
The attached publicity photograph depicts a vertical envelopment training exercise from the Pacific Missile Range Naval Missile Facility. The full scene details Marine helicopters overhead, amphibious vehicles, theatrical explosions, and Marine infantry storming the beach.
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Portrait of French soldier Henri Pelissier, taken 1917.
Original image source: Bibliotheque nationale de France
GWICwill be posting one portrait each day until November 11th.
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This WWI portrait comes courtesy of @wherethepoppiesblow:
“It’s my grand uncle Michael L Ryan (right) who served with the 16th bn highland light infantry he was killed in action on the first day of the Somme attacking toward just south of Thiepval. He is with his brother William Patrick Ryan (left) my great grandfather who served in the merchant navy during both wars. He was also killed in action in WW2.”
Thank you for sharing your story and family history, @wherethepoppiesblow.
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Portrait of a Zuoave, photographed next to his stiletto knife.
Original image source: Archives départementales de Seine-Maritime
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Airsoft Portrait #calgary #alberta #canada #prairies #model #modeling #dude #dudebro #nikon #d7000 #sb900 #softbox #strobe #strobist #m4a1 #ptw #airsoft #6mm #magazine #military #army #infantry #fitness #camoflauge #multicam
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