You’re Gonna Have To Look At These 41 Unseen Photos From WWI For You To Understand The Past.. I’m Speechless!

Our world lies everything what we always belong for and history from the past is involved in it. For the many occurrences we experienced living here on Earth, conflicts and great wars are said to be the most influential and marked episode which brought huge impact to our lives until now. Different kinds of families are left broken and many lives have been lost surviving the tumult brought by the wars.

One of the most historical wars happened in the world is the WWI or deeply known as the Great War. It was also known as the First World War that lasted for about four years, dated back from July 8, 1914 until November 11, 1918. Many factors have causes the war to began- may it be political, territorial and economic conflict between the great European powers, but needless say of what caused them to lead the war, the many confusion has been done and we can no longer change what had happened before.

There are many accounts in the WWI that were documented because of the photos tracked record, but those photos aren’t enough to tell the whole story behind it, but in spite of it, photos are quite enough to answer what we want to know. 

And so to let the whole universe aware of what happened in WWI, unpublished photos that came from the Archive of Modern Conflict in London were revealed, flaunting the different faces of every day lives of the people during the said war. 

1. Italian heavy artillery on the Italian Front, 1918. 

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2. A German observation post is pictured on the Yser Front in Belgium, 1917.

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3. A German pigeon loft is pictured on the Western Front circa 1916.

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4. A German seaplane is pictured after crashing in an unknown location, circa 1916.

A German seaplane is pictured after crashing in an unknown location

 

5. US soldiers modelling international gas mask designs circa 1919. 

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6. An undated handout picture shows a British reconnaissance photograph showing an aerial view of the Western Front.

An undated handout picture shows a British reconnaissance photograph showing an aerial view of the Western Front

7. German U-boat sinks an Allied merchant vessel in the Atlantic Ocean, 1915.

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8. A German officer of Flieger Abteilung 280 reads a book in a chateau where he is stationed near the Western Front, 1918.

A German officer of Flieger Abteilung 280 reads a book in a chateau where he is stationed near the Western Front

9. A German Friedrichshafen seaplane crashed into a building in Germany 1918.

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 10. A view of German quarters behind the front line on the Western Front, circa 1916.

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11. German infantry are shown collecting water on the Western Front, circa 1916. 

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12. A British aerial photograph shows the front-line a giant crater and shell damage marking the land between the trenches on the Western Front, September 7, 1916.

A British aerial photograph shows the frontline a giant crater and shell damage marking the land between the trenches

13. Officer of the Imperial German Air Service compete at a squadron athletics meeting near the Western Front circa 1917. 

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14. British troops advancing. Battle of the Somme 1916.

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15. Morning exercises aboard a German Navy warship circa 1917. 

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16. German navy diver in 1917.

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17. German officers of Flieger Abteilung 280 unit outside a house, 1918. 

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18. British dead at a machine gun position on the Western Front 1918. 

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19. Long Island City, Field Training Section, showing general view of trench system and Long Island Railroad Yards in 1919.

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20.German officers of Flieger Abteilung 280 have a party at a house where they are stationed near the Western Front, in the summer of 1918. 

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21. French mobile anti-aircraft gun on the Western Front, 1918. 

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22. German observation balloon on the Western Front circa 1915.

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23. Officers at Air Training School 5, Hannover in 1918. 

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24. An Allied aircraft flies over the Western Front.

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25. German Air Force Officers and friends have a picnic in, 1918. 

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26. A German Air Force Officer sits on a dead wild boar outside a house where is stationed on the Western Front, 1918.

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 27. An aerial photograph taken from a British plane shows trenches carved into the land on the Western Front, June 17, 1917 .

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28. Observation balloon over the Western Front circa 1917.

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29. British delivering pigeons to the trenches on the Western Front circa 1916. 

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30. A horse wears a flannelette gas mask at a gas mask assembly plant in New York, 1919.

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31. Chemical Development Laboratory, Philadelphia, view of gas chamber showing subjects inside in 1919.

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32. Women at work in a munitions factory in France circa 1916.

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33. Women working machinery at the Brewery Road Works Munitions Factory circa 1916.

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34. German officers outside dugouts on the Yser Front in Belgium 1917. 

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35. Austro-Hungarian soldier in a bunker circa 1916. 

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36. British officers observing artillery fire. at the Battle of the Somme 1916.

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37. British troops on the Somme 1916.

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38. Austro-Hungarians burying the dead on the Eastern Front circa 1915.

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39. Captured German prisoners at Longueau, on the Western Front, August 1, 1916.

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40. A German Mobile pigeon loft is pictured on the Western Front, 1916.

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41. An aerial photograph taken from a British plane shows trenches carved into the land on the Western Front, June 17, 1917 .

An aerial photograph taken from a British plane shows trenches carved into the land on the Western Front

Images Credit: Reuters

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