World War One, also known as the First World War or the Great War, was a global war centered in Europe from July of 1914 to November of 1918. More than nine million combatants and seven million civilians died as a result from the war, marking it one of the deadliest conflicts in history. Drawing in all the world’s economic great powers, the war assembled two opposing alliances: the Allies (based on the Triple Entente of the United Kingdom, France, and the Russian Empire) and the Central Powers of Germany and Austria-Hungary. Our memories of the war, documented by photo series and history books, show a world in black and white, a world we presume to be distant. But thanks to the colorization of old World War One photographs, we know that history has a way of repeating itself. Here are never before seen colored photographs from the Great War:
Royal Army Medical Corps stretcher-bearers carrying a wounded German prisoner down a road in Hermies (a town in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, approximately four kilometers south of the road from Bapaume to Cambrai) on 20 November 1917.
Lancashire Fusiliers in a flooded communication trench, showing wire, at St.Yves, near Ploegsteert Wood, January of 1917.
The Australian 12th Machine Gun Company, 45th Battalion, 12th Brigade, 4th Division, near Anzac Ridge at Polygon Wood in the Ypres sector, where very heavy casualties were sustained. Photo taken on 28 September 1917.
British Mk IV (Female) tank, Escapade (Nº2815) , broken down and captured by the Germans near Cambrai, France.
Troops carrying a stretcher-case back along a duck board track through a landscape of mud and shell-holes near Ypres, France on 15 February 1918.
A smiling artilleryman with the mail for his battery, near Aveluy on the Somme in September of 1916.
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