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WWI Belgium Pictures

Vintage pictures about Belgium during WWI.

*** WARNING: some pictures can depict (very) graphic scenes! ***

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  1. Jocks 
 
Scottish soldiers sitting on the mud of Flanders. A posctard in my possession. 
 
by fulvue (Flickr)
  2. Highlanders killed near Ypres 
 
Nothing on reverse. Front states "Gefallene Schottland vor Ypern". 
 
The Germans nick-named the kilt-wearing...
  3. Commercial postcard depicting Landsturm Feldgendarmerie interrogating a "Belgian spy" 
 
Letter on reverse (below) addressed to a Fräulein Rosa Dold...
  4. Work's over, the lice hunt begins (Passendaele) 
 
Nothing on reverse. 
 
Saxon soldiers strip off their tunics and begin the hunt for lice. Men...
  5. "Unser kameradschaftlich Feuerstellung in Flandern 6.4.1918" 
 
Our comradely firing position ...
  6. "11.11.14. Verwundete u. gefangene französ. Alpenjäger im Schnee auf der Verband Station Brüssel - Etterbeek" 
 
Note on reverse (below) translated...
  7. Erinnerung an Gent in Belgien Weihnachten 1914
  8. Gibraltar cuff title, Ghent 1914 
 
Letter on reverse (below) translated by uwing50: dated 29.10.1914 at Gent (or Ghent, Belgium). 
 
An interesting...
  9. A group of Belgian prisoners and their Landsturm guards 
 
Nothing on reverse. 
 
A group of Belgian prisoners and their westfälisch Landsturm...
  10. A pair of sailors from Marinekorps Flandern with a docile looking French Moroccan prisoner 
 
Letter on reverse dated simply "1916". 
 
A pair of...
  11. Feldzug 1914 - 1915 West Flandern
  12. Memories from Iper Belgium 1914 - 15
  13. Eisenbahn-Betriebs-Kompagnie No.8, Malmedy August 1914 
 
Letter on reverse (below) authored at Troi-Ponts on 19.8.1914 - 15 days after Germany...
  14. Company cooks from Landsturm Infantry Battalion 'Gera' and a week's worth of Rindfleisch 
 
Letter on reverse (below) translated by Immanuel84:...
  15. A pair of Belgian soldiers circa 1915, armed with 'Belgian Mausers' 
 
Nothing on reverse. 
 
Something a little different. A pair of Belgian...
  16. An exquisite photograph of Gefrieter Ernst Kämper standing outside a Pepinster photographer's studio in 1914 
 
Note on reverse: "Weltkrieg 1914 -...
  17. A Landsturmmann from Landsturm Infanterie Bataillon 'Barmen' takes advantage of an ornate garden for a picturesque memento photograph of his time in...
  18. Frohe Ostern! Men (and dog) of Reserve Feldartillerie Regt. 43 on the Western Front (Belgium), April 1915 
 
Letter on reverse (below) dated 7.4....
  19. Recruits from 9. Rheinisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr.160, Malmedy 1915 
 
Letter on reverse (below) translated by uwing50: addressed to Familie Kneip,...
  20. A Bavarian infantryman from the 10th Landsturm Brigade stands at attention for photographer Hubert Dardenne, Lüttich (Liège) 1914 
 
Nothing on...
  21. Feldzug 1914 Lüttich 
 
by Drakegoodman
  22. Tombe macabre 
 
Note on reverse: "Visé - Route de Mouland, Août 1914". 
 
by DrakeGoodman
  23. Beverloo 
 
by DrakeGoodman
  24. Beverloo 
 
by DrakeGoodman
  25. Belgian 1889 'Mausers', Wünsdorf Kr.Teltow, July 1915 
 
Letter on reverse (below) authored in Wünsdorf on 25.7.1915 and addressed to the family of...
  26. Lüttich 20 November 1914 
 
by DrakeGoodman
  27. Christmas in Belgium for men of Landsturm Infanterie Bataillon 'Weisbaden' XVIII 4 (41st Landsturm Brigade) 
 
Note on reverse: "Weihnachten 1914 in...
  28. Gruss aus Ostende / M.D. (Marine-Division) Überzug 
 
Letter on reverse (below) authored in Ostende on 18.12.1914 with admin stamp from Leichte...
  29. Landsturm Infanterie Bataillon 'Worms' (XVIII. 18) (maybe) 
 
Nothing on reverse. 
 
Mobil ab 18.8.1914. Das Bataillon stellte die Bewachungstruppe...
  30. Landsturm in Soignies 1914 
 
by DrakeGoodman
  31. French and Belgian POWs are herded through the streets of Meschede enroute to the POW situated just outside the town 
 
Note on reverse "Meschede"...
  32. Landst. IX 10 Hamburg 
 
Note on reverse: "Herzl. Grüß aus Belgien" . Photogr. Atelier „Imperator“ Hamburg, Eimsbütteler Chaussee 118. 
 
by...
  33. Jnf.-Ers.-Truppe Beverloo / Stacks of pickelhaubes 
 
VII BAK Inf.-Ers.-Truppe Beverloo. 
 
by DrakeGoodman
  34. Jnf.-Ers.-Truppe Beverloo carpenters 
 
by DrakeGoodman
  35. Jnf.-Ers.-Truppe Beverloo dorm 
 
by DrakeGoodman
  36. British MkIV "Bear" abandoned in Inverness copse on 22 August 1917 
 
Letter on reverse (below) translated by Heinrich.Stürzl: dated 14.10.1917 with...
  37. Radfahrer from 8. Landsturm Infanterie Bataillon 'Münster' (VII. 70), Antwerp 1916 
 
Brief letter (below) on reverse kindly translated by...
  38. Landst. 1914, Liège 
 
Photogr. Theo Roba, Liège. 
 
by DrakeGoodman
  39. "Plaine de Dixmude 1915 - Boche ayant une jambe et un bras arrachés" 
 
French postcard. Note on reverse: "Plaine de Dixmude 1915 - Boche ayant une...
  40. "Wache Arsenal de Construktion Antwerpen 3 - 5 Juni 1915" 
 
Note on front (title). 
 
Landsturmmänner from the 42nd Landsturm Infanterie Brigade...
  41. British officers taken prisoner during the Third Battle of Ypres, July - November 1917 
 
Two small 55mm x 55mm photographs - nothing on reverse of...
  42. Aushifsseitengewehr ausschliesslich für das belgische (Beute) Mausergewehr M1889 
 
A rare ersatz bayonet manufactured exclusively for captured...
  43. Aushifsseitengewehr ausschliesslich für das belgische (Beute) Mausergewehr M1889 
 
A rare ersatz bayonet manufactured exclusively for captured...
  44. Aushifsseitengewehr ausschliesslich für das belgische (Beute) Mausergewehr M1889 
 
A rare ersatz bayonet manufactured exclusively for captured...
  45. Aushifsseitengewehr ausschliesslich für das belgische (Beute) Mausergewehr M1889 
 
A rare ersatz bayonet manufactured exclusively for captured...
  46. Foto Luftbild Wieltje (near Ypres) Belgien. 29.7.1915. FFA 41 
 
Aerial photograph of the trench systems at Wieltje on 29.7.1915. 
 
A Feldflieger...
  47. "Das brennend Ieperen am 23. April 1915" / Ypres ablaze 
 
By DrakeGoodman
  48. Landsturmleute am 9.11.1914 in Belgien / Landsturm Bataillon 'Minden' 
 
Letter on reverse (below) authored zur Zeit Belgien (temporarily in Belgium)...
  49. "Franktireur Überfall in Belgien" / Franktireur ambush in Belgium 
 
Letter on reverse (below) with freiwilliger Wohlfahrts Ausschuß Plauen...
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