Almost
all of my World War One material is by H. D. Girdwood, an English company,
who sold their views under the trade name 'Realistic Travels'. Most of
their views are of a higher quality than WWI views by Underwood although,
due to the high gloss, they do not scan very well. They will therefore
almost all be of far higher quality than they appear on the screen.
Please
click here for a high quality
scan which gives a true indication of the quality.
Underwood
photographers were not present on the battlefield sites between 1916 when
the Kaiser said he could not guarantee the safety of war photographers,
and the end of hostilities in 1918. Girdwood's views therefore 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.
Our
valued American customers may ask why there are practically no US troops
in these views. The reason is simple; despite Holywood rewriting history,
most of these views were taken between 1915 and 1917 when the USA was a
neutral country.
These
are ALL condition 8, 9 or 10 and priced at $8 each unless otherwise mentioned.
Size variations are caused by scanner settings.
'Belgian
stretcher-bearers carrying a wounded comrade through the trenches at Dixmunde'.
Order
#12786.
'German
prisoners compelled to carry our wounded during the strenuous struggle
for Bon????? Wood'.
Order
#12787.
'Casualties
receiving first aid at Monchy station'.'.
Order
#12788.
'The
British Red Cross in the field, ready for its errand of mercy'.
Order
#12790.
'Tenderly
lifting a serious case. Stretcher-bearers at work'.
Order
#12792.
'Receiving
first aid from his sergeant in a sap during the height of battle at Peronne'.
Order
#12793.
Keystone
'Taking away the wounded in motor ambulance (Somme)'. Long descriptive
text.
Order
#12796.
'Tenderly
lifting a wounded comrade into a hospital train during the East African
campaign'.
Order
#12797.
'Giving
water to a wounded pal beside a Hun block house shattered in our advance
at Hooge, Ypres'.
Order
#12798.
'A gallant
deed: A wounded officer is carried across the Aisne River to the safety
of a dugout'.
Order
#12799.
'Gallant
stretcher bearers rescue a hard hit comrade during the crossing of the
Lys'.
Order
#12800.
'Stretcher
bearers rescue a wounded lad hit in crossing of Ancre in attack on Thiepval
Ridge'.
Order
#12801.
'Attending
to wounded on the Menim Road, Ypres, during the stiff fighting around Zonnebeke'.
Order
#12802.
Keystone
'Red Cross dog and soldier for whom he got help'. Long descriptive text.
Order
#12803.
'Dogs
with first aid and stimulants off to search for wounded in inaccesible
parts of no-man's land'.
Order
#12804.
'Tenderly
carrying a "blighty" case to an aid post through the maze of trenches at
Passchendaele'.
Order
#12805.
'Courage
unsurpassed! Crawling through the wire to rescue fallen comrades, victims
of a deadly shell'.
Order
#12806.
'After
the storm and stress of battle, caring for the wounded'.
Order
#12807.
Keystone
'French field hospital - locating a bullet with X-ray machine'. Long descriptive
text.
Order
#12808.
'Motor
ambulances with wounded passing reserves on the way to the firing line'.
Order
#12809.
'Wards
of the R.N. hospital train waiting to receive casualties at a naval base'.
Order
#12811.
'Dear
Mother, this hospital is "tres bon" and the nurses are angels'.
Order
#12813.
Keystone
'The horror of war; ghastly glimpse of Belgian wounded, Antwerp Hospital'.
Descriptive text.
Order
#12815.
'Men
who fell contesting the mine-crater at Zouava Woods, Hooge, stormed by
the 6th Division'.
Condition.
Stained.
Order
#12816.
Price
$5.
'Men
who fell covering the retreat of the 5th Army at Albert during the Hun
offensive in 1918'.
Order
#12820.
'Uncovering
men who fell contesting the crater at Zouave Woods, stormed by the irresistible
6th Div.'
Order
#12821.
'Casualties
after the charge has swept over. Captured positions under German shell
fire'.
Order
#12822.
'Casualties
on the embankment after our assault of the formidable "Railway Triangle"
near Arras'.
Order
#12823.
'The
price of victory! - Brave lads who fell in an early morning raid on the
Hun lines'.
Order
#12824.
Keystone
'Proud men of the north who fought on Flanders Fields'. Long descriptive
text.
Order
#12825.
'Uncovering
men who fell contesting the crater at Zouave Woods, stormed by the irresistible
6th Div.'.
Condition.
Stains and marks.
Order
#12826.
Price
$5.
'Casualties
in our line after the deadly Bosche bombardment which forced us across
the Aisne'.
Order
#12827.
'Although
suffering heavily, they never faltered until they had taken the German
trenches'.
Order
#12828.
'Brave
lads who fell going over the top in a gallant attack'.
Order
#12829.
'After
the assault on Mouquet Farm, Thiepval Ridge, taken by our matchless infantry
at heavy cost'.
Condition.
Slightly darker on l/h image but scanner has struggled to reproduce.
Order
#12830.
'Knocked
out! A nest of Hun machine-guns which held up our advance at Monchy, Battle
of Arras'.
Order
#12831.
Keystone
'Body of a German aviator in wrecked machine. Back of the French lines'.
Descriptive text.
Order
#12832.
'Gun-carriage
bearing coffin of Sir George Farrar, leaving docks for Johannesburg'.
Order
#12833.
'With
our fighting forces on the Western Front'.
Order
#12834.
Keystone
'Internment of the fallen brave in the cemetery at Villers au Bois, France'.
Long descriptive text.
Order
#12836.
Keystone
'"And now we lie in Flanders' Fields". Vallee Foulon, France'. Long descriptive
text.
Order
#12837
'Where
the flower ???? Guards ?????'.
Condition.
Losses to mount.
Order
#12838.
Price
$5.
'Loos
Cemetery, where lie thousands of brave Highlanders who fell in the struggle
for Fosse 8, 1915'.
Order
#12839.
'Ablain
Church and Carency Cemetery, resting-place of gallant French who took Notre
Dame de Lorette'.
Order
#12840.
'Ground
hallowed by British blood, the Potijze Chateau Lawn Cemetery, near Ypres'.
Order
#12841.
Keystone.
'Grave of Lieut. Quentin Roosevelt, buried by Germans where he fell'. Long
descriptive text.
Order
#12842.
'La Targette
Cemetery, thickly sown with our brave allies who stormed the "White Works"
near Carency'.
Order
#12843.
To page one - Troops on the move
To page four - Guns and gunners
To page five - In the trenches, over the top, fixed defenses, communications, materiel
To page seven - Battlefield landscapes, prisoners
To page eight - Miscellaneous and war damage
