World War One In Incredible Photographs: Every One An Epic Story
WE asked the question: how will World War One be remembered? The answer: photographs. Oh, for sure they can lie. They can provide a half, stylized, self-conscious record. But if you see enough photographs, the truth outs.
We’ve compiled a gallery of quite simply outstanding photographs of the Great War. Ordering this big album of photos is an impossible job. We’ve tried but each time we look again, a few image captures our attention and stirs the imagination.
Images like the Moroccan soldiers of the French Army entertaining their chiefs with traditional music; a British soldier gazing out of a dug-out as the body of a dead German soldier lies nearby at Flers, during the battle of the Somme; the German football match behind enemy lines; the grim scene at the German trenches in front of Guillemont; Kaiser Wilhelm II dressed in his white uniform pointing the way ahead and watching the battle from a safe distance; The Queen’s own Oxfordshire Hussars snaking round the village as they march to war; the military funeral of Baron Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen, the ‘Red Baron’, shot down on the 21st of April, 1918; London’s welcome to Sergeant Michael O’Leary, VC, of the Irish Guards; a remarkable photograph of the Battle of Jutland; French troops throwing rocks at advancing German troops from their hillside trench in the Vosges; and the women doing the jobs of men back home in Britain.
Behind every photograph is a story. Any sensitive soul should be able to imagine them…
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A recruiting sergeant from the London Territorials Royal Army Medical Corps tries to entice two young men to join the ranks in 1915. The rosette he wears on his cap was the traditional one worn in their hats or caps by army recruiting sergeants from the 18th century to the end of the First World War.
Posted: 8th, May 2011 | In: Key Posts, Photojournalism Comments (4) | TrackBack | Permalink
