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Sunday, January 17, 2016

WORLD WAR I IN COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS - Images of French soldiers and civilians on the Western Front - Scenes of normal life, war, and destruction

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  • Rare colour photos capture what life was like for soldiers away from the fighting on the Western Front
  • Remarkable set of pictures was taken in France in 1917, the fourth year of fighting in the First World War 

  • A French soldier has lunch in front of a damaged library in a square in Reims, in north-eastern France on 1 April 1917
    A French soldier has lunch in front of a damaged library in a square in Reims, in north-eastern France on 1 April 1917

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    French soldiers in front of a grocery store, with signs advertising liquor and wine in the windows, in the market square in Reims in 1917
    French soldiers in front of a grocery store, with signs advertising liquor and wine in the windows, in the market square in Reims in 1917

    A French observation post with three soldiers in a trench reinforced with wooden beams and sand bags close to the German lines, taken at Hirtzbach, Department Haut-Rhin, Region Alsace, on 16 June 1917
    A French observation post with three soldiers in a trench reinforced with wooden beams and sand bags close to the German lines, taken at Hirtzbach, Department Haut-Rhin, Region Alsace, on 16 June 1917

    A little girl is seen holding her doll as she sits next to two guns and a military knapsack on a street in Reims, northern France, in 1917
    A little girl is seen holding her doll as she sits next to two guns and a military knapsack on a street in Reims, northern France, in 1917

    Two French soldiers assigned to a telephone station wash their laundry in a trough of a fountain, in Largitzen, France on 18 June 1917
    Two French soldiers assigned to a telephone station wash their laundry in a trough of a fountain, in Largitzen, France on 18 June 1917

    A French section of machine gunners takes position in the ruins during the battle of the Aisne, on the Western Front in 1917
    A French section of machine gunners takes position in the ruins during the battle of the Aisne, on the Western Front in 1917

    French fire fighters, military and civilians try to prevent fires from spreading after the bombings of September 2 and 3 in Dunkirk
    French fire fighters, military and civilians try to prevent fires from spreading after the bombings of September 2 and 3 in Dunkirk

    A woman with a cart filled with milk cans and a man with another cart in Rue de Talleyrand, Reims, France on 3 March 1917
    A woman with a cart filled with milk cans and a man with another cart in Rue de Talleyrand, Reims, France on 3 March 1917

    The towers of the Cathedral Notre-Dame de Reims  can be seen through the damaged windows of a building in the city in 3 April 1917
    The towers of the Cathedral Notre-Dame de Reims can be seen through the damaged windows of a building in the city in 3 April 1917

    A horse cart is loaded with furniture and personal belongings in front of a leather goods shop on 4 May 1917 as residents prepared to to leave Reims during the Second Battle of the Aisne which ended in defeat for the French forces
    A horse cart is loaded with furniture and personal belongings in front of a leather goods shop on 4 May 1917 as residents prepared to to leave Reims during the Second Battle of the Aisne which ended in defeat for the French forces

     Uniformed doctors and nurses stand in front of field hospital 55 in Bourbourg, northern France on 1 September 1917
    Uniformed doctors and nurses stand in front of field hospital 55 in Bourbourg, northern France on 1 September 1917
     
    French soldiers dressed in their blue military uniforms camouflage a 370 mm railway gun in Noyon, Region Oise, on 5 September 1917
    French soldiers dressed in their blue military uniforms camouflage a 370 mm railway gun in Noyon, Region Oise, on 5 September 1917

    Two French soldiers and horses in the cloister of the abbey de Saint-Jean-des-Vignes, which was heavily damaged by artillery fire
    Two French soldiers and horses in the cloister of the abbey de Saint-Jean-des-Vignes, which was heavily damaged by artillery fire

    French soldiers of the 370th Infantry Regiment are eating soup during the battle of the Aisne, on the Western Front in 1917
    French soldiers of the 370th Infantry Regiment are eating soup during the battle of the Aisne, on the Western Front in 1917

    Damaged buildings after the bombings of September 10 and 11 in the town of RosendaÎl, near Dunkirk, on 11 September 1917









     Damaged buildings after the bombings of September 10 and 11 in the town of RosendaÎl, near Dunkirk, on 11 September 1917

    A group of Swiss border guards behind a fence between Switzerland and France, in the Department Haut-Rhin, on 19 June 1917
    A group of Swiss border guards behind a fence between Switzerland and France, in the Department Haut-Rhin, on 19 June 1917

    Three Swiss border guards, left, stand opposite a French guard at the border between the two countries in Beurnevesin on 19 June 1917
    Three Swiss border guards, left, stand opposite a French guard at the border between the two countries in Beurnevesin on 19 June 1917

    Two ambulance vehicles in front of a building near the village of Boezinge, north of the city of Ypres, that was devastated by artillery fire
    Two ambulance vehicles in front of a building near the village of Boezinge, north of the city of Ypres, that was devastated by artillery fire

    This dramatic photograph shows soldiers standing on a ridge above a crater 45m deep created by mines placed by British forces underneath German positions near Messines in West Flanders on 7 June 1917. Some 10,000 soldiers died in the bla
    This dramatic photograph shows soldiers standing on a ridge above a crater 45m deep created by mines placed by British forces underneath German positions near Messines in West Flanders on 7 June 1917.
    Some 10,000 soldiers died in the blast

    French military doctors and nurses are photographed in front of Saint-Paul Hospital in Soissons, Aisne, in northern France
    French military doctors and nurses are photographed in front of Saint-Paul Hospital in Soissons, Aisne, in northern France

    A French officer inspects the barbed wire around French positions in Soissons, which was heavily damaged by artillery fire during the war
    A French officer inspects the barbed wire around French positions in Soissons, which was heavily damaged by artillery fire during the war

    Five French soldiers are clearing the rubble in the ruins of Reims, which was almost 60 per cent destroyed by German artillery and air raids
    Five French soldiers are clearing the rubble in the ruins of Reims, which was almost 60 per cent destroyed by German artillery and air raids

    Four French guards and Swiss guards at the border between Switzerland and France in Pfetterhouse,  Region Alsace on 19 June 1917
    Four French guards and Swiss guards at the border between Switzerland and France in Pfetterhouse, Region Alsace on 19 June 1917

    Two French soldiers at a narrow railroad track near the French near the village of Boezinge, north of the city of Ypres on 10 September 1917
    Two French soldiers at a narrow railroad track near the French near the village of Boezinge, north of the city of Ypres on 10 September 1917

    A group of Senegalese soldiers serving in the French Army as infantryman have lunch in Saint-Ulrich, Region Alsace on 16 June 1917
    A group of Senegalese soldiers serving in the French Army as infantryman have lunch in Saint-Ulrich, Region Alsace on 16 June 1917

    Two French soldiers are taking care of their laundry using boards set up on the trough of a fountain near a farm house in the town of Gildwiller, Department Haut-Rhin, Region Alsace on 21 June 1917
    Two French soldiers are taking care of their laundry using boards set up on the trough of a fountain near a farm house in the town of Gildwiller, Department Haut-Rhin, Region Alsace on 21 June 1917

    In a frontline trench in Hirtzbach on 16 June 1917
    French soldiers in a trench on the frontline in Hirtzbach on 16 June 1917

    A French soldier observes the scene from a lookout point in Eglingen, France
    A French soldier at a lookout in Eglingen, France on 26 June 1917
     
    French soldiers buy newspapers in Rexpoede on 6 September
    French soldiers buy newspapers in Rexpoede on 6 September

    Source
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3403612/All-quiet-Western-Rare-colour-photographs-capture-daily-lives-French-soldiers-away-battlefields-WW1.html


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