Photos WW1 Germany and Their Allies

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Aug 2, 1917. Mounted cavalry with a gas mask

 

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Carinthian boys of Austria-Hungary's so-called Jung-Schützen (Young Rifles) company. Despite consisting exclusively of under-age volunteers, some of these formations did see front-line service

 

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German supply column moving up near Étricourt-Manancourt, 24 March 1918.

 

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Czech infantry regiment of the Austro-Hungarian Army (1914).

 

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Albatros D.III fighters of Jasta 11. The second aircraft from the camera (with the step ladder) was painted red, and was one of several flown by Manfred von Richthofen, March of 1917

 

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Two German soldiers and their mule wearing gas masks (c. 1917)

 

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German soldiers posing for a photograph in the trenches, c.1916.

German transport driver wearing a gas mask with his horses, who are using feeding sacks.

Two German soldiers and their mule wearing gas masks (c. 1917)

 

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Dead Rats from a trench occupied by the 111. Infanterie Division.

 

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German MG 08 anti-aircraft machine gun post set up in a shell hole. Flanders Front, September 1917.

 

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View from German submarine U-28 as a torpedo strikes British steamship RMS Falaba on March 28th 1915 during what became known as the "Thrasher Incident"

On 28 March, at 1140, the conning tower of U-28, commanded by Kapitänleutnant Georg-Günther von Forstner, was sighted by Chief Officer Walter Baxter. Captain Frederick Davies then ordered the Falaba to steer away at maximum speed. However, Davies then ordered them to stop and to send two wireless messages of their predicament, the result of the Germans warning the ship to "stop or I will fire." Forstner then ordered Davies to abandon the ship, as it was to be sunk. The evacuation was disorganized, which resulted in several casualties. A torpedo amidships sank the ship quickly.

One of the 104 persons to die in the incident was Leon Thrasher, who was the first American to die from the action of a German submarine.

 

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German soldiers are removing lice from their uniforms, c. 1916-18

 

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A German cavalryman on the eastern front, winter of 1914-15

 

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A German infantryman from a reserve unit on the eastern front, winter of 1915-16

 

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The Third Battle of the Aisne. A German field battery (7.7 cm Feldkanone 16) in action against the British IX Corps in the ruins of a village near Fismes, Marne in north-eastern France. May 1918.

 

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Verdun, 1916

 

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A German Mauser T-Gewehr anti-tank rifle team in position on the Western Front, 1918. The photo was likely taken during the Hundred Days Offensive, which pushed the German Army back to the battlefields of 1914.

 

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A German 17cm SLK L/40 railway gun firing near the Marne River, France, July 1917.

 

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German troops try to fend the attack of a tank Mark IV with a flamethrower. Near river Somme, probably August 1918, Battle of Amiens

 

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German sharpshooters move to a position near the front line, during the fighting near the Aisne River, circa 1914.

 

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The Third Battle of the Aisne. German infantry advancing over a captured trench during the attack between Montdidier and Noyon, June 1918.