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Celebrating the Gorlice-Tarnow Offensive that ultimately pushed Russian forces from Polish Russia and Galicia. German, Habsburg, and Hungarian flags fly over portraits of German General August von Mackensen and Austro-Hungarian General Archduke Friedrich, commanders of the Central Power campaign. Beneath them German and Austro-Hungarian artillery are at work. The offensive began with a four-hour hurricane bombardment by 950 guns along a 30-mile front. |
Generaloberst von Mackensen, Erzherzog Friedrich
General von Mackensen, Archduke Friedrich
Zum großen Karpathensieg, Anfangs Mai 1915
To the great Carpathian victory, begun May 1915
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Feldpost, field postmark, Feldpostbrief 9/222, message dated November 30, 1915 |
Gorlice-Tarnow Offensive, Karpathen, Carpathians, Carpathian Mountains, Mai, 1915, Archduke Friedrich, Friedrich, 1915-05-02, May, flag, flags, Zweibund, Dual Alliance, |
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Landing troops and horses at the Dardanelles |
Landing Troops and Horses at The Dardanelles
Exclusive Post Card Edition
Active Service, No. 47
Daily Mail Copyright
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Published by Photochrom Co. Ltd. London & Tunbridge Wells
"On Active Service" by Air Land and Sea.
From Copyright Photo taken at the front. |
Dardanelles, Gallipolli, horses, 1915, 1915-05-03, Gallipoli Campaign |
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The headstone of Private R. Stewart, of the Black Watch, who died May 4, 1915, age 19, and is buried in Le Trou Aid Post Cemetery in Fleurbaix, Pas-de-Calais, France. It is inscribed To memory ever dear From Father and Mother Sisters and Brothers |
2459 Private R. Stewart
The Black Watch
4th May 1915 Age 19
To memory ever dear
From Father and Mother
Sisters and Brothers |
1915-05-04, 1915, May, Le Trou Aid Post, , Le Trou Aid Post Cemetery, Stewart, Black Watch, R. Stewart |
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Map of the Ypres Salient on April 30, 1915 after the German gas attack of April 22, and prior to the British withdrawal to a more defensible line. |
Ypres, 1915.
The Salient, on the 30th April, as it was established before the withdrawal. |
1915-04-30, 1915, April, Second Battle of Ypres |
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Russia soldiers digging trenches in Russian Poland under the command of an officer posing for the camera. The Russians would be driven from Poland in the 1915 Gorlice-Tarnow Offensive. |
La Guerre 1914-1915
En Pologne - Etablissement d'une tranchée par les soldats Russes.
In Polande - Trench establishment by the Russian soldiers
200 R.P.-J.C. Paris
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A note to little Paul from his father |
1915, Russian Poland, Poland, Russian Army, Russian soldier, trench, 1915-05-01, May |