1914-1918

Keystone View Company

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Title: 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 throughout the war.

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1918

Keystone View Company

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Title: 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

GLC09584.015

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

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Title: 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.

GLC09584.016

1914

Keystone View Company

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Title: Awaiting Enemy in French Trenches with Rifle and Mitrailleuse.

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

GLC09584.017

1914

Keystone View Company

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Title: French Cavalry Ready to Follow an Infantry Attack.

Mounted French soldiers brandishing swords gather, awaiting orders to follow an impending infantry attack.

GLC09584.018

1914

Keystone View Company

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Title: French Cavalry Horses Swimming River in Northern France

A group of French cavalry horses swim neck-deep across a river in Northern France while soldiers in the background are transported across on a simple ferry.

GLC09584.019

1914

Keystone View Company

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Title: Tangled Ruins of Marne Bridge Blown Up by Germans and Red Cross Train Wreck.

The battered remains of the Marne Bridge and railroad, including a wrecked Red Cross train. The Germans deployed this explosion to destroy as much as possible in the wake of their retreat.

GLC09584.020

1914

Keystone View Company

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Title: National Road Bridge over the Marne, Blown up to Prevent German Advance.

The ruins of a bridge in Lagny, France, extending over the Marne River on the national highway. The British destroyed this, and many bridges like it, to prevent the Germans from gaining ground.

GLC09584.021

1914

Keystone View Company

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Title: Cannon Abandoned by Germans in Retreat at Acy, France

Two men stand in a field on either side of an abandoned German 77-mm. field gun, left from the first battle of the Marne.

GLC09584.022

1914

Keystone View Company

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Title: French Reserves from U.S.A. -- Some of the Two Million Fighters in the Battle of the Marne

Many Frenchmen who had been residing in the United States returned to Europe to fight. Here, a group of them sit on a field looking at the camera.

GLC09584.023

1914

Keystone View Company

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Title: Inspecting a Nearly Completed Pontoon Bridge in the French Sector of the West Front

On a river in France, inspecting officers walk across a constructed pontoon bridge flanked by pontoon boats each carrying three soldiers.

GLC09584.024

1914

Keystone View Company

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Title: French Troops Crossing the Marne by Pontoon Bridge

French troops after their victory at the first battle of the Marne following the retreating Germans across a pontoon bridge, made by laying a series of floating barges, as the permanent bridge had been destroyed. Several onlookers watch from the near bank of the river.

GLC09584.025

1914

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Battle of the Aisne, French Infantry, Transferring to Left Wing

French troops, still wearing the pre-war French Army uniform, on the march to extend the French lines north from the Aisne River and turn the right flank of the German Army

GLC09584.026

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Battle of the Aisne--Ammunition Wagons Shifting to a New Position

A group of French soldiers, charged with bringing ammunitions to the front by wagon. A few soldiers sit atop horses or on the wagon itself, while the rest are standing beside it.

GLC09584.027

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Decorating, Medaille Militaire, adjt. Dambrine. Severely Wonded, at Ablain St. Nazaire, France.

A ceremony of decoration for a French soldier who lies wounded, but alert, in the foreground. Behind him, French troops with bayonets stand at attention.

GLC09584.028

1914

Keystone View Company

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Title: The Highland Regiment of the British Army Marching Through Boulogne

The British Highland Regiment, a regiment of Scotsman, marching through the city of Boulogne, on the first day that British troops arrived in France.

GLC09584.029

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Canadian Artillery Proceeding to the Front

A group of Canadian artillery soldiers manning cannons at the front.

GLC09584.030

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Marshal Haig and General Antoine at Review of French First Division

Sir Douglas Haig, Commander of the British armies in France during the war, stands left, speaking with General Antoine of the 1st Division of the French Army.

GLC09584.031

1914

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Ypres Cathedral in Ruins, British Lory in Foreground

The battered ruins of the Cathedral of St. Martin's in Ypres, Belgium from German artillery fire. Its conspicuous height made it a target.

GLC09584.032

1914

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Shell Bursting in the Grand' Place, Ypres, Belgium

An explosion goes off in the central plaza of destroyed Ypres, Belgium, surrounded by ruins of crumbling buildings.

GLC09584.033

1914

Keystone View Company

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Title: Trenches Bitterly Contested in Battle in Once Peaceful Village near Ypres

A deep trench runs through the village of Ypres amongst the battered and crumbling houses.

GLC09584.034

1914

Keystone View Company

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Title: Creeping on the Enemy Over the Sand Dumes, British Contingent in Belgium

Allied soldiers take advantage of natural cover provided by brush growing on sand dunes in coastal Belgium.

GLC09584.035

1914

Keystone View Company

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Title: British Royal Engineers Constructing Second Line Trenches in Flanders

British Royal Engineers, who were part of the army troops, dig trenches outside of Flanders, Belgium.

GLC09584.036

1914

Keystone View Company

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Title: "And the Trench Was a Reeking Shambles," German Dead in the La Bassee Area.

German soldiers lie dead and dying behind a trench in La Basse, part of the Battle of Flanders.

GLC09584.037

1917

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Strong Concrete German Position and Victims after the Battle of Menin Road

Dead German soldiers lie behind the damaged fortification of a trench in Flanders, Belgium at the Battle of Menin Road.

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