1.Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, leave the Sarajevo Guildhall after reading a speech on June 28, 1914. Five minutes later, they were assassinated. Their assassination precipitated Austria-Hungary’s declaration of war against Serbia which later kicked off World War I.
2.The arrest of Gavrilo Princip, the 19-year-old who assassinated Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Princip and his accomplices were arrested as members of a Serbian nationalist secret society.
3.A regiment of famous alpine cyclists occupy a garrison during the Battle of the Somme.
4.A woman offers a flower to Indian soldiers fighting on behalf of the British Empire. Giving flowers to soldiers was a traditional sign of welcome and support.
5.Soldiers with anti-aircraft gun during a battle in the First World War.
6.This is one of the last photos of German pilot Richard Scholl before his death, which were collected and sent to his father. Scholl was reported missing in September 1918.
7.French soldiers on the battlefield during an offensive on the French fortress of Verdun. In total, more than 700,000 people were killed or injured on both the French and German sides during this battle, with casualties split almost evenly between them.
8.A French soldier at the Battle of Verdun wears a gas mask.
9.French soldiers launch gas and flame attacks against German troops in Flanders, Belgium.
10.The extent of the devastation caused by Zeppelin bombs could be extreme.
11.Flowers on the battlefield.
12.An Armenian woman kneels beside her dead child in Syria during the Battle of Aleppo in 1918 after Prince Feisal’s armed forces captured the city in the last days of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign in the First World War.
13.The French cavalry cross a swollen stream on the front lines of the Battle of the Somme which began on July 1, 1916.
14.The average soldier had to carry 66 pounds of equipment during the Battle of the Somme.
15.Gas-masked men of the British Machine Gun Corps with a Vickers machine gun during the first battle of the Somme.
16.Doctors would use masks to cover areas near the eye for those severely injured in the war.
17.French troops wearing an early form of gas masks in the trenches during the Second Battle of Ypres.
18.French soldiers take advantage of a peaceful moment on the Western Front to have a meal, complete with flowers and a bottle of wine.
19.A dead German soldier in Verdun.
20.Workers amid rows and rows of shells in a large warehouse at the National Filling Factory in the former village of Chilwell.
21.Canadian soldier with burns caused by mustard gas.
22.Soldiers playing football in no man’s land during The Christmas Truce, a series of unofficial ceasefires along the Western Front of World War I around Christmas 1914.
23.A unit of German soldiers during World War I with young Adolf Hitler supposedly on the left.
24.Soldiers of the Royal Irish Rifles, an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army, rest during the beginning hours of the Battle of the Somme.
25.A sentry in the trenches looking through an improvised periscope at the Somme.
26.British 55th Division troops blinded by tear gas await treatment at an advanced dressing station near Bethune during the Battle of Estaires on April 10, 1918.
27.A skull dubbed “The Crown Prince” serves as a nighttime point of reference for soldiers fighting in the Battle of Verdun.
28.Two U.S. soldiers wear gas masks while walking through plumes of smoke. While poison gas was responsible for less than one percent of deaths during the war, the new chemical warfare created a psychological terror that had never been known before.
29.War cinema crew working on the Western Front.
30.A Zeppelin crashing off the coast of Norway.
31.Soldiers from Senegal, serving in the French Army as infantrymen take in a rare moment of rest.
32.French soldiers work together to camouflage a 370mm railway gun before battle.
33.A group of Swiss border guard pose behind a fence separating Switzerland and France.
34.Wounded soldiers after the recapture of Fort Vaux during the Battle of Verdun. The battle lasted 303 days in 1916.
35.”This is a war to end all wars,” is one of the more famous quotes widely associated with the carnage of World War I.
36.Thousands of German soldiers arriving at a prisoner of war camp.
37.Delegates of Germany and the Allies sign the Treaty of Versailles in the former palace’s famous Hall of Mirrors. The treaty brought an end to World War I on June 28, 1919.
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