World War I in Color: A Stark Look at Life and Death _ausg

The following colorized black and white photos capture haunting moments from World War I.

 

  1. At Ease Underground: Two Australian Soldiers in a Flanders Dugout, September 1917

Australian soldiers are blinded by a German gas attack in France in May 1918.
  1. Australia soldiers, eyes bandaged after a German gas attack in France, May 1918.

Exhausted Australian soldiers struggle to take this photograph in a captured Turkish trench in August 1915.
Exhausted Australian soldiers struggle to take this photograph in a captured Turkish trench in August 1915.

 

A British soldier sleeps in a frontline trench at the Somme in September 1916.
A British soldier sleeps in a frontline trench at the Somme in September 1916.

 

British soldiers with wounded German prisoners of war northeast of Amiens in July 1916.
British soldiers with wounded German prisoners of war northeast of Amiens in July 1916.

 

A soldier of the 5th Australian Division smokes a cigarette as he rests on the Montauban road near Mametz, France.
A soldier of the 5th Australian Division smokes a cigarette as he rests on the Montauban road near Mametz, France.

 

 

Four Australian soldiers walk to Flanders, Belgium in October 1917.
Four Australian soldiers walk to Flanders, Belgium in October 1917.

 

Scene from the movie “The Battle of the Somme”: A British soldier carries a wounded comrade back to the front.
Scene from the movie “The Battle of the Somme”: A British soldier carries a wounded comrade back to the front.

 

A German dog hospital treats dogs returning from the front in 1918.
A German dog hospital treats dogs returning from the front in 1918.

 

A machine gun company of the 4th Australian Division at Polygon Wood in the Ypres area where heavy casualties were suffered. Photograph taken on 28 September 1917.
A machine gun company of the 4th Australian Division at Polygon Wood in the Ypres area where heavy casualties were suffered. Photograph taken on 28 September 1917.

 

American medical personnel from the 103rd and 104th Infantry Companies tend to wounded German soldiers.
American medical personnel from the 103rd and 104th Infantry Companies tend to wounded German soldiers.

 

Weary Australian soldiers carry sandbags to the front as they pass through devastated areas near Pozieres in August 1916.
Weary Australian soldiers carry sandbags to the front as they pass through devastated areas near Pozieres in August 1916.

 

A wounded German soldier. He may have been from the 64th Infantry Regiment of the 6th Division. Photo taken in May 1915.
A wounded German soldier. He may have been from the 64th Infantry Regiment of the 6th Division. Photo taken in May 1915.

 

German soldiers carry a wounded British soldier, in 1917.
German soldiers carry a wounded British soldier, in 1917.

 

British 55th Division soldiers blinded by poison gas queue for treatment near Bethune during the Battle of Estaires in April 1918 in Flanders.
British 55th Division soldiers blinded by poison gas queue for treatment near Bethune during the Battle of Estaires in April 1918 in Flanders.

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Australian soldiers carry a wounded comrade to a medical station near Suvla on the coast of the Gallipoli peninsula in the Ottoman Empire, 1915.
Australian soldiers carry a wounded comrade to a medical station near Suvla on the coast of the Gallipoli peninsula in the Ottoman Empire, 1915.

 

An infantryman of Company A, 11th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment in the German-captured trenches during the Battle of the Somme in July 1916./.
An infantryman of Company A, 11th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment in the German-captured trenches during the Battle of the Somme in July 1916./.

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