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A Warm Reception Awaiting the Enemy, on Belgium's Defence Line Near Antwerp

Belgian soldiers in a turnip field crouch behind a trench fashioned from a log, aiming their rifles towards the off-camera German army.

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Trenches of the Allies Among the Dunes and Brambles on the Coast of Flanders

Allied soldiers position their weapons while crouching behind a trench next to the coast of Belgium.

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Skoda Works, Pilsen, Bohemia, Where the Famous Skoda Mortars Were Made.

Men and women stand next to a Skoda howitzer at an artillery factory in Bohemia.

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At Longwy, France--Ruins Around Main Gateway

Three German soldiers sit in front of piles of rubble with the remains of two bombed buildings behind them.

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"Mur Tschoffen" Wall in Dinant before which Germans Shot Many Loyal Belgians

A Belgian family stand in front of the memorial at the wall at Dinant where invading German soldiers executed a number of Belgian citizens after the invasion in August 1914.

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Altar of Malines Cathedral. Wrecked by German Shells.

A priest sits beside the destroyed altar at the Cathedral of St. Rombaut in Malines, Belgium, a town bombarded several times over the course of the war.

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Cardinal Mercier, Renowned Belgian Prelate, Speaking at Dinant, Belgium

Cardinal Mercier speaks to a crowd at the cathedral in Dinant, Belgium, a town that suffered a massacre of Belgian civilians when the Germans invaded in 1914. Mercier was known for speaking out passionately against German atocities in Beglium...

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French Refugees Fleeing Into Amines From the Somme District

A group of French refugees and their belongings piled onto a cart leading them into Amiens after the German invasion of the Somme District in 1918

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Belgian Refugees Housed in Alexandria Palace, London

A group of Belgian refugees, mostly women and children, sit amongst row of beds inside Alexandria Palace, on the outskirts of London.

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Awaiting Enemy in French Trenches with Rifle and Mitrailleuse.

French soldiers crouch behind a trench constructed of sandbags, brandishing rifles and machine guns.

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