Most
of my World War One material is either by H. D. Girdwood, an English company,
who sold their views under the trade name 'Realistic Travels' and concentrated
on the British troops and UK market, or Keystone which concentrated on
US troops, the U.S. market, and entered the war with the U.S. in 1917.
Due to the high gloss and exaggerated curve, the Keystone views do not
scan very well. They will therefore almost all be of far higher quality
than they appear on the screen. The Keystone views all have a full text
description on the back - the Realistic Travels views do not.
Please
click here for a high quality
scan which gives a true indication of the quality.
Girdwood's
views have more immediacy and action. They were issued in sets of
between 50 and 500 views so the numbering sequence is pretty muddled. Customers
could also pick out the views they required and so a box or collection
may have non-sequential numbering. They come on Underwood-type mounts
or on lighter mounts with curved or beveled edges. These are interchangeable
and most views appear on both types of mount.
These
are ALL condition 8, 9 or 10 and priced at $8 each unless otherwise mentioned.
'Where
the Anzacs dug themselves in on shelterless slopes of hills exposed to
enemy fire'.
Order
#9381.
'Protected
by the Navy's big guns; Australian camp of Anzac 'neath bleak commanding
hills'.
Order
#9382.
'Sappers
& miners drive a tunnel under Hill 60, obliterated by our mine fired
Apr. 1915, Ypres'.
Order
#9383.
'R. Engineers
mine Messines Ridge which dominated Ypres. Blown up & stormed June
7th '17'.
Order
#9384.
'Dugouts
and shelters - Cantonment in the Race Course at Flirey, France'.
Order
#9385.
'Setting
up large searchlight in advance lines, Vosges Sector'.
Order
#9386.
'Sharpshooters
in protected position near enemy lines'.
Order
#9387.
'French
soldiers resting in the trenches'.
Order
#9388.
'Creeping
on the enemy over the sand dunes. British contingent in Belgium'.
Condition.
Light stains in sky and some production creases.
Order
#9389.
Price.
$3.
'Polius
preparing barbed wire for Front Line - Lempire, Meuse, France'.
Order
#9390.
'Fire
spray captured from the Austrians in the District of Capitello in Italy'.
Order
#9391.
'View
in a trench kitchen underground on the Salonika Front'.
Order
#9392.
'Loading
a trench mortar in a hillside dugout on the Serbian Front'.
Order
#9393.
'Camouflaged
trenches in Chemin des Dames sector'.
Condition.
Slight split at bottom of right image.
Order
#9394.
Price
$6.
'Tatoi
trenches in the Croisettes Wood showing officers in consultation just half
an hour before an attack on the Somme Line'.
Order
#9395.
'Soldiers
about to enter tear-gas trench, Camp Dix, N.J.'.
Order
#9396.
'Strong
dugouts in holes under huge rocks in Belleau Woods, France'.
Order
#9397.
'Setting
the stage for the Devil's play - French Front'.
Order
#9398.
'Building
barbed wire entanglements - Reserve officers in training camp, Ft. Sheridan,
Ill.'.
Order
#9399.
'Ready
for the great Somme push, officer and signallers keep a sharp look-out
over the Sausage valley'.
Order
#9400.
'Artillery
observation officer in forward post regulates our barrage during the advance
on Woncourt'.
Order
#9401.
'In desperate
fighting throughout the night we valiantly resist the furious enemy onslaught
at Mory'.
Order
#9402.
'Our
troops leaving by a sap on a night operation to cut off the Huns holding
on to Villers-Bretonneux'.
Order
#9403.
'Zero
hour ! Prompt to the second our men go over the top in an assault on Wytschaere
Wood'.
Order
#9404.
'The
icy grip of winter settles down on the Belgian trenches between Nieuport
& the Yser'.
Order
#9405.
'An enemy
blockhouse seized at Poelecappelle is quickly converted into a machine-gun
nest'.
Order
#9407.
'Our
troops make use of a Jerry dugout captured in the Great Allied Advance
at Bapaume, Aug. 1918'.
Order
#9408.
'Engineers
repair light railway near Hangard, damaged by shell-fire during the struggle
for Amiens'.
Order
#9409.
'Light
railway pushed forward by ROD through old canal at Lens, to bring up supplies
for front line'.
Order
#9410.
'Repairing
field telephone lines during a gas attack at the Front'.
Order
#9412.
'Heliograph
signal section of a cavalry brigade at work in France'.
Order
#9416.
'A listening
post waiting in the open for an opportunity to advance'.
Order
#9417.
'An American
field radio outfit at the Front in France'.
Order
#9418.
'Artillery
observers telephoning headquarters from the Front, on the Marne'.
Order
#9419.
'The
life line of the army - army telegraphists at work at the Ramscapelle hut,
Flanders'.
Order
#9420.
'Busy
field telephone during an engagement'.
Order
#9421.
'A German
concrete stronghold and its victims after storming by British troops at
Ghelnvelt'.
Condition.
Creased corner.
Order
#9422.
Price
$5.
'British
"Tommies" in their dugout in the battle area in France'.
Order
#9423.
'"And
the trench was a reeking shambles, not a Boche to be seen alive", La Basse
area'.
Order
#9424.
'Constructing
wire entanglement defences before Bois Carre Anocourt, on the Meuse'.
Order
#9425.
'In a
French trench - shells bursting in the distance'.
Condition.
Light stain on right image.
Price
$5.
Order
#9426.
'French
artillery in the village of Perthes Hurlus'.
Order
#9427.
'General
de Puydraguen coming out of a trench near Lac Blanc in the Vosges Section'.
Order
#9428.
'Black
Watch and Indians hold an important sector of the line near Fauquissart
Post guarding Calais'.
Order
#9429.
'Allied
soldiers firing from protective trenches and a periscope in use'.
Order
#9430.
'French
troops entrenching in the Argonne District, France'.
Order
#10351
'Entrenched
Highlanders on the lookout using mirror periscope'.
Order
#10352.
'Entrance
to dugout, Y.M.C.A. station at Badonville'.
Order
#10353.
'Steel-helmeted
Scots entrenched and cherrily awaiting a counterattack'. Yeah - I bet
they were ! As P.G. Wodehouse once said: "It is never difficult to distinguish
between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine."
Order
#10354.
'The
wreckage of battle - captured German trenches in France'.
Order
#10355.
'Troops
make use of a Jerry dug-out captured in the Great Allied Advance at Baupaume,
Aug. 1918'.
Order
#10356.
'Troops
going up thro' trench at Croiselles to support men holding out in advanced
positions'.
Order
#10357.
'Watching
through periscope the effects of bursting German shells'.
Order
#10359.
'A German
shell expected, bomb gun section of Seaforths taking cover'.
Order
#10360.
'Gas
alarm ! Ready with masks to repel Hun attack under cover of the deadly
cloud at Loos'.
Order
#10362.
'Over
the top mid bursting gas and tear shells to storm the fortified villages
on the Somme'.
Order
#10363.
'Down
in a shell crater, we fought like Kilkenny cats - Battle of Cambrai'.
Order
#10364.
'Down
in the trenches with the fighters on the Somme front'.
Order
#10365.
'How
the British soldiers dig themselves in on the defense line in France'.
Order
#10366.
'Sinews
of war at Sulva Bay, transported thousands of miles by our Merchant Marine'.
Order
#10368.
'Supplies
left by the Germans in their retreat from Soupier, Alane, France'.
Order
#10369.
'River
Clyde grounded on V Beach during our dramatic landing on the shell-swept
shores of Sedd-al-Bahr'.
Order
#10370.
'Beach
W, a Turkish death-trap rushed by indominitable Lancasters under a tornado
of fire, unloading stores'.
Order
#10371.
'Formidable
Hun "pill-box" at Bullecourt - scene of sanguinary fighting during the
battle of Arras'.
Order
#10372.
'Marchovlette
Fort, Namur, levelled by Hun howitzers in their ruthless smash through
Belgium, Aug. '14'.
Order
#10373.
'Smashed
by bombs from our aeroplanes, a German fortified redoubt protecting Ostend
from the sea'.
Order
#10374.
'Built
to guard against our naval raids on Ostend, the famous Tirpitz battery,
with Hun inscription'.
Order
#10375.
'"India-rubber"
house which resisted all bombardments in the Hun attempt to force the Yser
Canal'.
Order
#10376.
'A unique
sand blockhouse, the only means of fortification in the deserts of South-West
Africa'.
Order
#10377.
'German
dugouts, Nieuport'. Geo. Nightingale Battlefield Series on thin mount.
Order
#10378.
Price
$3.
'Dug-out
made of concrete and lined with corrugated iron'. Geo. Nightingale Battlefield
Series on thin mount.
Order
#10379.
Price
$3.
'German
pill box in the Blanc Mont Sector, Champagne'.
Order
#10380.
'Fort
Pompelle near Reims, France'.
Order
#10381.
'Looking
E. on Italian Front. Foreground, Italian trenches of resistence built after
territory was won from the enemy'.
Order
#10382.
'Inspecting
a nearly completed pontoon bridge in the French sector of the West Front'.
Order
#10383.
'Piling
up shells to fight the Germans. Glimpse in a British munitions factory'.
Order
#10384.
Price
$12.
'PExpert
munition makers at work in a British munition factory'.
Order
#10385.
Price
$12.
'Making
death dealing shells in a British munitions factory'.
Order
#10386.
Price
$12.
HAVE you
forgotten yet?...
For the
world's events have rumbled on since those gagged days,
Like traffic
checked while at the crossing of city-ways:
And the
haunted gap in your mind has filled with thoughts that flow
Like clouds
in the lit heaven of life; and you're a man reprieved to go,
Taking
your peaceful share of Time, with joy to spare.
But the
past is just the same--and War's a bloody game...
Have you
forgotten yet?...
Look down,
and swear by the slain of the War that you'll never forget.
Do
you remember the dark months you held the sector at Mametz--
The nights
you watched and wired and dug and piled sandbags on parapets?
Do you
remember the rats; and the stench
Of corpses
rotting in front of the front-line trench--
And dawn
coming, dirty-white, and chill with a hopeless rain?
Do you
ever stop and ask, 'Is it all going to happen again?'
Do
you remember that hour of din before the attack--
And the
anger, the blind compassion that seized and shook you then
As you
peered at the doomed and haggard faces of your men?
Do you
remember the stretcher-cases lurching back
With dying
eyes and lolling heads--those ashen-grey
Masks of
the lads who once were keen and kind and gay?
Have
you forgotten yet?...
Look up,
and swear by the green of the spring that you'll never forget.
Siegfried Sassoon. 1920
To page one - Troops on the move
To page four - Guns and gunners
To page seven - Battlefield landscapes, prisoners
To page eight - Miscellaneous and war damage
To page nine - The wounded, the fallen, war graves
