World War I

 

Canadian Artillery Laving a 4’7 Gun, 1914.

The Canadian War Pictorial: a Photographic Record: [No. 1]

 

Canadian officer inspects a recently captured German gun, April 1917.

George Metcalf Archival Collection

 

Wounded Canadian Soldier #1
Carried on a stretcher in muddy terrain to an aid post during the Battle of Passchendaele, November 1917.

Library and Archives Canada

 
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Wounded Canadian Soldier #2
Carried on a stretcher, Passchendaele, November 1917.

George Metcalf Archival Collection

 

German plane brought down in the Argonne by American machine gunners, between Montfaucon and Cierges, France. Red Cross painted on the wings and the main body of the plane, 1918.

National Archives Catalog/ U.S. Army Still Photographic Library

 

American snipers aiming for Germans on the outer edge of town in Villers-sur-Fère, France, 1918.

National Archives Catalogue

 

A Victim of the influenza virus in the Autumn of 1918, Alberta, Canada.

Library and Archives Canada/ O.S. Finnie

 

Canadian soldiers write on 15-inch artillery shells before firing them at the Germans, WW1 (year unknown).

George Metcalf Archival Collection

 

Gas Mask Drill, WW1, year unknown.

National Archives Catalog

 

American advance northwest of Verdun. The ruined church on the crest of the captured height of Montfaucon. This was the condition of the site after the Americans finally drove the Germans out from it. France, 1918.

National Archives Catalogue/ Photographs of American Military Activities, ca. 1918-ca. 1981

 
Catherine Heard