Articles from 1915
An informative article from World War I concerning the doctors of all the combatant nations and how they dealt with the filthy conditions of stagnant warfare and all the different sorts of wounds that were created as a result of this very different war.
Trench Warfare and the Wounds That Were Inflicted (Harper’s Weekly, 1915) Read More »
The furniture made available for private purchase to British officers during World War One was a far cry from that which their Victorian father’s enjoyed; however, the thought of going off to war without camp furniture at all was foreign to them. The page illustrates the simple, collapsible furniture that was approved by the British War Office for use in the field.
British Military Campaign Furniture (Mappin and Webb, 1915) Read More »
Attached, you will find a mechanical drawing made by the industrious souls assigned to the Royal Engineers in order to placate those busy-body brass-hats situated so far in the rear and having little better to do than wonder aloud as to how the Hun tended to deal with his bowel movements.
The author of
The Western Front Companion
A British Drawing of a German Trench Latrine (Royal Engineers, 1915) Read More »
Attached, you will find a mechanical drawing made by the industrious souls assigned to the Royal Engineers in order to placate those busy-body brass-hats situated so far in the rear and having little better to do than wonder aloud as to how the Hun tended to deal with his bowel movements.
The author of
The Western Front Companion
A British Drawing of a German Trench Latrine (Royal Engineers, 1915) Read More »
A ghastly story from a 1914 front is told in this letter written by British trooper S. Cargill as he recalled a skirmish between German Lancers and British cavalry.
Tales of the Mounted German Corpse (New York Times, 1915) Read More »
Seven sketches from Soissons by the war artist Charles Huard (1875 – 1965) as they first appeared in a fashionable American society magazine.
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Charles Huard: War Artist in the 1914 Trenches (Vanity Fair, 1915) Read More »
At the time when the Entente powers were first exposed to poisonous gas in the spring of 1915, their respective quartermasters scrambled to secure suitable antidotes and precautionary measures that would save the men in the front line trenches. One of the earliest improvisations was a gauze face mask that covered both mouth and nose, drenched in urine. The attached commercial illustration is from the margins of the French news magazine, L’ILLUSTRATION which depicts one of these earlier attempts.
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An Early Gas Mask (Magazine Ad, 1915) Read More »
The French made Revolver Canon must have had some difficulties…
The Revolver-Canon (Sur Le Vif, 1915) Read More »
A collection of black and white drawings that illustrate the variety of items used along the Western Front to defend the German trench lines.
This article appears on this site by way of a special agreement with L’Illustration.
German Defense Accessories (L’Illustration, 1915) Read More »
A French photograph showing the entry way to one of the many subterranean shelters that dotted the Western front during the First World War; also included is another diagram of what one of the smaller German dugouts resembled that had such an entry.
This article appears on this site by way of a special agreement with L’Illustration.
Entry to a German Dugout (L’Illustration, 1915) Read More »
