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Westende village, Volksbund archive: Gedenkbuch 75, p. 18.
taken on 22 March 1918 - one day after the beginning of the 1918 German Spring Offensive on the Somme.
First Lieutenant Sahode hands out the prizes at a sports event in Ruddervoorde, May 1916 - on the left Lieutenant Colonel Baron von Halkett.
British prisoners of war in Lens after the battle near Souchez - September 1915.
Machine gun at the Wytschaete emplacement - winter of 1915/16 - in the trenches.
Path in front of the hospice in Wytschaete - winter of 1915/16 - army doctor Captain Mylius sunning himself in the communication trench.
Russian prisoners of war being marched away at the Eastern Front, around 1915.
A dead Russian soldier lying in a trench. He fell during the advance, around 1915.
253 field hospital of the army of the German state of Württemberg in the church of Bantouzelle - Christmas 1916.
Digging a cable trench in the Champagne at the Poehlberg (east of Reims) in 1917.
The picture shows a digger, probably taken during the construction of the Siegfried Line in 1917.
A photograph of French tanks after the Second Battle of the Aisne near Ville-aux-Bois in the Champagne in 1917.
Langemarck is also the site of a German war cemetery where an above-average number of First World War casualties who had volunteered for service have been laid to rest.
This photograph, taken on 24 December 1917, shows a corps of signals on Christmas Eve in Milly-sur-Bradon near Dun-sur-Meuse.
A 21 cm Mörser howitzer belonging to the 9th Regiment of the Reserve Foot Artillery, aimed north towards Langemarck - February 1915.
Prisoners of war being rounded up in front of Roulers railway station in April 1915.
This photograph, taken in July 1915 in Bixschoote, shows the view from a loophole: in the right of the picture, the ruins of Steenstrate, with an assault bridge across the almost empty Yser canal in the foreground.
This photograph shows some members of the 8th Battery of the 7th Regiment of the Reserve Foot Artillery in the canteen at their billet in Stadenreke. May 1916
This picture, taken in May 2016, shows the farriers of the 8th Battery of the 7th Regiment of the Reserve Foot Artillery in front of their billet in Stadenreke.
Lieutenant Immelmann in front of his Fokker airplane. (Place and date: not known)
This postcard from the First World War shows the completely destroyed Houthulst forest. (Date: not known)
This First World War postcard shows people wearing gas masks during preparations for a gas attack. (Place and date: not known)
Children waiting in front of the 10th Company ('Knoll Company') office for leftovers from lunch. (Eastern Front, date: not known)
Photograph: Volksbund archive
This picture from the First World War shows the burial of casualties. (Place and date: not known)
on the left Gustav Watermann's younger brother, Ernst Watermann (Western Front, date: not known)
