Photos WW1 Germany and Their Allies

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"Hail, you merry month, you golden May. Bring peace to stormy Europe. In the evening the battalion music played. Were here on rest, until we're needed for the big offensive." - From the diary of an Austro-Hungarian soldier, 1 May 1916.

 

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Trench of the Austro-Hungarian Infantry Regiment No.76 near Panasowka, 9 February 1916. The Mannlicher M.1895 rifles are lined up and armored shields are at the ready.

 

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German cavalry patrol on the move in Volhynia on the Eastern Front, 1915.

 

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These Carinthian boys are members of Austria-Hungary's so-called Jung-Schützen (Young Rifles) company. Despite consisting exclusively of under-age volunteers, some formations did see front-line service, most notably in the days immediately following Italy's declaration of war.

 

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Fez-wearing Austro-Hungarian 'Bosniaken' guard a group of Italian prisoners of war in Trient/Trento

 

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An Austro-Hungarian officer inspects a Honvéd sentry in a trench on the Eastern Front.

 

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Austro-Hungarian medics offer a drink to a badly wounded Russian soldier on the Eastern Front

 

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German infantrymen in action on the Eastern Front, 1915.

 

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Officers of the 2nd Uhlan Regiment of the Polish Legions during training, Volhynia 1916.

Infantrymen of the Polish Legions enjoying a moment of rest in the woods, 1915

 

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German cavalryman on the Eastern Front, 1915

 

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German soldier on a small horse in Mladenovac in Serbia, 1915.

 

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German Stormtroopers in a frontline trench

 

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An Austro-Hungarian soldier of k.k. Landwehr Infantry Regiment No.35 in the regiment's positions east of Prokopiwna.

 

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A7V tank in Roye, Somme, 26 March 1918

 

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A German marine field artillery battery digging in outside Tsingtao, China, during the Japanese siege of the German colony, 1914.

 

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Legionnaires of the 1st Brigade of the Polish Legions crossing Wisła (Vistula) river on a pontoon bridge, 4 July 1915

 

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A German soldier of Infantry Regiment No.168 in a trench at Verdun, August 1916. Note that he's wearing his helmet front-to-back.

 

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Austro-Hungarian artillery officers on the Eastern Front

 

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German soldiers stand besides a British MkIV "Bear" tank, abandoned after fighting near Inverness Copse, the Battle of Passchendaele on August 22 , 1917.

 

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German soldiers and a horse mounted with a captured Russian Maxim machine gun, complete with its wheeled mount and ammunition box