World War One in Colour - Part 1 - Everyday Life During Wartime

CityNoise ^ | July 2, 2010 | Franny Wentzel

[Islander7]

Images collected from the French National Archives of soldiers and civilians on or near the Western Front. One must presume these were taken during a lull in the fighting due to the long exposure times required by colour film.

[Islander7]

There are dozens more at the link. Enjoy!

[gitmo]

The War to End All Wars.

[Hardastarboard]

That stupid, senseless, nightmare of a war set us on the road to world socialism.

[workerbee]

Fascinating — wonderful— thank you!

[Navy Patriot]

Very interesting.

[Viennacon]

The first photograph there looks like a picture of miniatures. haha

[TheZMan]

Incredible. Thanks for the post.

[rktman]

Awesome. Thanks. Back when killing each other was much more civilized.

[wally_bert]

I thought the same thing at first glance.

[Gay State Conservative]

One of the photos,of a couple of soldiers,is captioned “Yanks?” when they're obviously Aussies.

[workerbee]

If you haven't yet read 1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War by Charles Emmerson, I highly recommend it. While a bit lefist in his take on some things, it's a fascinating (and for me, very enlightening) catalog of what was going on at that time.

[workerbee]

"While a bit lefist"

SHOULD BE

"While a bit leftist"

[Rockpile]

This is a super find. Ought to be reposted in 11 days.

I wonder how many of these men survived the war-——France suffered enormous casualties fighting off the invading squareheads.

BTW, the sgt. with the table full of munitions might be a post-war ordnance disposal guy. They are still dealing with unexploded stuff from the World Wars today. IIRC, a French or Belgian farmer found a buried British tank from WW 1 on his place a few years ago.

The two pictures with sailors may be crew from the battleship gun on the rail cars.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Islander7.