Hidden World of WWI

Carving deep underground by German WWI soldiers accompanied by the words “Gott mit uhs” (God speaks to us)

Carving of Lord Kitchner was the British Secretary of State for War at the outbreak of WWI in 1914. He and 600 others drowned in 1916 when his ship struck a German mine in the Atlantic just off Scotland.

Plaque in French underground city with names of French officers

Carving of French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau who led France during the last few years of World War I

Carving by American WWI soldier in underground city memorializing the YMCA

Hand written inscriptions by American WWI soldiers…members of New England’s Yankee Division

Carving of Russian cossack created by WWI soldiers in an underground city.

Carving of ancient warriors carved at the entrance to a WWI underground city

Drawing of a woman in a small German WWI underground city

Ornate carving by German WWI soldiers which once adorned the entrance to a German WWI underground city

Classical carving of a face under a French sign which points to the “Post Telephonique”

Inscription by German soldier Peter Strophll from Cologne, Germany

German street sign in underground city

Soldier’s boots and bottles strewn about in an underground city continuously occupied through the war first by the French, then the Germans, then the Americans and finally by the French.

Horrifying carving by a French soldier of a human face with flesh eaten off. On the battlefield, this was not an uncommon sight.

Corp Louis Currier from Bangor, Maine. He created this on February 14, 1918 in a large underground city.

Plaque carved by mechanic A. Ardine, of South Brewer, Maine near Bangor. He was part of New England’s Yankee Division