1914

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Where Hell Was Loosed; War's Indescribable Desolation and Unburied Victims, Lens.

A desolate, ravaged battlefield with the bodies of dead soldiers in Lens, France.

GLC09584.040

1914

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: No Man's Land near Lens, France.

A scene of torn up countryside, dead soldiers, and destroyed trees outside of Lens, France.

GLC09584.041

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: A Family Living in Their Ruined House Lens

A woman and a young boy stand amongst the ruins of their home in Lens, a city in northern France that was occupied by the Germans for most of the war. Just behind them is an entrance to the basement of their home, where they are still living.

GLC09584.042

1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Temporary Homes in Devestated Lens, Long Occupied by the Germans, France

Two families stand amongst the hastily constructed homes where they now live after returning to the city of Lens, in Northern France, occupied by Germans for most of the war.

GLC09584.043

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Proud Men of the North Who Fought on Flander's Fields.

Two dead Scottish soldiers lie on the battlefield.

GLC09584.044

1917

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: "Down in a Shell Crater, We Fought Like Kilkeeny Cats"--Battle of Cambrai.

Four German soldiers in a trench at the end of the Battle of Cambrai. In the background is the ruins of a tank, which were used for the first time on a large scale during this battle.

GLC09584.045

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Steel-helmeted Scots Entrenched and Cheerily Awaiting a Counterattack

A line of Scottish soldiers man a trench waiting for battle.

GLC09584.046

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Turks Eager for War--Germany's Most Distant Ally Mobilizing Her Army.

A parade of Turks (possibly soldiers) march through the streets holding flags.

GLC09584.047

1915

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Historic First Landing of Allied Troops at Dardanelles.

A fleet of boats bringing British soldiers to storm the beaches of Turkey in an ultimately unsuccesful attempt to re-open the Dardanelles. This would have once again allowed the transportation of food and munitions between Russia and Great Britain.

GLC09584.048

1914

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: The 48th Highlanders of Toronto

Parade of uniformed Canadian soldiers marching in ranks on a field.

GLC09584.006

1914

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Vise, Belgium, Scene of the First Conflict of the War

View of buildings and their reflections in the Meuse River after the first clash of World War I.

GLC09584.007

1914

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: 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.

GLC09584.008

1914

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: 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.

GLC09584.009

1914

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: 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.

GLC09584.010

February 10, 1916

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: 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.

GLC09584.011

1914

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: "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.

GLC09584.012

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: 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.

GLC09584.013

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

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.

GLC09584.014

1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

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

Stereocard

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

Stereocard

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

Stereocard

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

Stereocard

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

Stereocard

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

Stereocard

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