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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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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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A postcard of some of the last moments of the French battleship Léon-Gambetta, sunk by the Austro-Hungarian submarine U-5 under the command of Captain Georg von Trapp around midnight the night of April 26-27, 1915. The ship sunk in just nine minutes, taking 684 of its 821 men to their death. Captain von Trapp was later famous as head of the von Trapp Family Singers, immortalized on stage and screen in The Sound of Music. |
Le 'Léon-Gambetta' coulé le 26 Avril 1915
Croiseur cuirasse lancé en 1901 - Déplacement 12,512 tonnes - Puissance totale 28,715 chevaux - Vitesse 23 nœuds
The 'Léon Gambetta' sunk April 26, 1915
Armored cruiser launched in 1901 - displacement: 12,512 tons - Total horsepower 28,715 - speed 23 knots
Logo: ELD
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A message from a colonial soldier at the barracks in Toulon writing to his sister. |
Leon-Gambetta, von Trapp, 1915, April, 1915-04-26, 1915-04-27 |
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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 |