The Great War

Image: IWM (Q 114172) Captain Eddie Rickenbacker in the cockpit of his Spad aircraft.

U.S. soldiers in France holding Model 1917 Enfield rifles. The 1903 Springfield was the official issue, but the Americans didn’t have enough, and three quarters of their soldiers in Europe fought with the Enfield.

Italian Alpini manning a Vickers machine gun somewhere in the Carnic Alps, WWI

Really great photo showing Australian numbers late in the war. This particular unit first saw action on the Somme, at Fromelles, then Polygon Wood the following year, and, finally, here on the Hindenburg Line. Casualties were not replaced and the unit became smaller and smaller. This is a whole company! Shortly after this photo, the 29 Battalion was disbanded and the members moved to other battalions of the 8th Australian Brigade.

I think this is the first time in my life I've drawn horses, so... well, I don't think they turned out too badly, but it was really dificult.

Austrian trench raiders with clubs in hand, WWI

U.S. Marines in France, ca. 1917. The first U.S. Marines arrived in France on June 26, 1917. The 5th Marine Regiment landed at the port of Saint-Nazaire alongside the first convoy of American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) troops.

French soldiers watch a curtain of smoke over Fort Vaux, Verdun, 1916

Gordon Highlanders resting by the roadside, near Meaulte, July 1916

Image: IWM (HU 92319) Surgical Ward C. in R. lines. Wounded men of the 27th and 30th divisions. Winchester, England.

A quiet moment in German trenches.

Image: IWM (Q 65854) Lieutant Allan F. Winslow of the American 94th Aero Squadron, who brought down German planes on 14 April 1918, in front of his Nieuport aircraft.

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Dazzle camo in use during WWI.

US Army WWI demonstration simulating an ambush of German troops by a soldier concealed in a seemingly abandoned trench

A smiling American soldier.

Austro-Hungarian soldier in a trench on Rombon mountain, WWI