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Pencil sketch of a German soldier on the firing step peering through what may be a sniper plate. Pencil on blank field postcard, signed, Alois Gruber 1915. |
Signed, Alois Gruber 1915.
Geschrieben den .............1915 |
German soldier, German, soldier, trench, trench art, pencil, drawing, original, signed, Alois Gruber, 1915, 1915-11-21 |
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Bulgarian machine-gunners laying out ammunition belts on the Salonica Front. |
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machine-gun, Bulgaria, Salonica, Salonica Front, Balkan Front, Bulgarian Army, Bulgarian soldier, Bulgarian machine gun crew, Bulgarian machine gun squad |
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The shell of the 'Throne of Chosroes' on the site of ancient Ctesiphon, Mesopotamia. Turkish forces stopped an Indo-British army advancing towards Baghdad in November, 1915 with both sides suffering heavy losses. The British retreated to Kut-el-Amara. |
Modern Fighting Amid Ruins of Ancient Empires
The massive brick shell of the 'Throne of Chosroes' on the site of ancient Ctesiphon, where in 1915 the British were engaged in a series of battles with the Turks.
(© British official photo, from Underwood & Underwood) |
Ctesiphon, Battle of Ctesiphon, 1915, November, 1915, 1915-11-22, 1915-11-23, 1915-11-24, War of the Nations, Portfolio, War of the Nations Portfolio, New York Times, NY Times |
