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

Stereocard

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

Stereocard

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

Stereocard

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

Stereocard

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.

GLC09584.038

1917

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: British Soldiers Gleaning in the Fields of War, Menin Road.

A British soldier uses a long plank to move a piece of wood aside on a ravaged battlefield at Menin Road, likely to pick up a valuable left behind by a fallen German.

GLC09584.039

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