War Photography

The Cell · Aug 7, 2012

Ancientgeezer said:
British troops at Magdala, Ethiopia 1868

Russo-Japanese War

Sevastapol 1856 after the siege.

Dutch Colonial troops Aceh war 1878

Bosnia-Hetzogovinian soldiers 1914

Self captioned

Hiding the evidence at Wounded Knee 1891

Not bothering to hide the evidence in Libya 1911

American Tourists in Cuba 1898

The Light Brigade

Gatling Gun detatchment Zulu War 1879

Can you please repost these images

, I can't see them...

Tuor · Aug 7, 2012

Entrenched French soldiers

British soldiers smoking and cleaning a Lewis gun, WWI

Gebirgsjäger. Nikopol, Ukraine, December 1943

Republican soldiers during an offensive on the Rio Segre near Fraga, Spain - 7 November 1938

Ancientgeezer · Aug 7, 2012

The "Allies" Boxer Rebellion Peking 1900

Elephant Artllery Battalion,Peshwar 1886

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The North West Frontier 1878

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Kabul, Afghanistan (are we still there?)

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Jocks in the Sudan 1898

Ancientgeezer · Aug 7, 2012

The Cell said:
Can you please repost these images, I can't see them...

I checked these in another browser, so maybe re-posting will not help and it is your browser settings.
Suggestion. If using Firefox, right click and select "View image info" that will give you the URL of the original image. If using Google Chrome, right click and select "Inspect element" that will open a window with a link to the original image.
As for IE, I haven't used it for ten years, so I can't remember.

The Cell · Aug 7, 2012

Ancientgeezer said:
I checked these in another browser, so maybe re-posting will not help and it is your browser settings.
Suggestion. If using Firefox, right click and select "View image info" that will give you the URL of the original image. If using Google Chrome, right click and select "Inspect element" that will open a window with a link to the original image.
As for IE, I haven't used it for ten years, so I can't remember.

Thank you

irishcrusader95 · Aug 7, 2012

The Cell said:
Here's a few more pics;

cool jeeps!, were is it that they are carrying out the peace keeping?

Tairusiano said:
Photo from WWII General Otto Fretter-Pico , surrendering the german 146° Infantry division to the Brazilian troops

German POWs from the 146° division

Brazillian troops from 11°Regiment moving to attack Montese Italy

Montese after the battle

Braziliian trench

those are awesome and its always amazing to see war photos from 19th century wars because of how few of them there are for each war.

Ancientgeezer said:
The Light Brigade

amazing

, was this just as they were making their fatal charge. unfortunately i also could not see the other photos of which they do sound interesting to see, its IE i have as a browser.

The Cell · Aug 7, 2012

irishcrusader95 said:
cool jeeps!, were is it that they are carrying out the peace keeping?

The "Jeeps" are not as comfortable as they look, when you are inside them

... It was in the DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo)

...

Fire_Raven · Aug 8, 2012

That photo of the Light Brigade Charge looks like a still from the 1936 movie. I don't think cameras at the time were able to take action photos.

Here is a link to Fenton's pictures taken during the Crimean War.Search Results: "" - Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (Library of Congress)

ktisis · Aug 8, 2012

From the Anhar Kochneva's lj-blog:

irishcrusader95 · Aug 8, 2012

Fire_Raven said:
That photo of the Light Brigade Charge looks like a still from the 1936 movie. I don't think cameras at the time were able to take action photos.

Here is a link to Fenton's pictures taken during the Crimean War.Search Results: "" - Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (Library of Congress)

that could be possible, it seems almost too good to be true that such a perfect shot of it was taken.

Tuor · Aug 10, 2012

A Canadian sailor shows off a bullet hole in his life jacket received during action off the coast of France, 1944

Two snipers of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion wear their ghillie suits during an inspection by King George VI, Queen Elizabeth and Princess Elizabeth in Salisbury Plain, England. May 17, 1944.

nfantrymen of the Royal Winnipeg Rifles en route from Niel to Keeken, Germany as a part of Operation Veritable, February 9, 1945.

A Free Syrian Army fighter runs for cover during clashes with Syrian Army soldiers in the Salah al-Din neighborhood of central Aleppo, Syria, August 5, 2012.

Ancientgeezer · Aug 10, 2012

Fire_Raven said:
That photo of the Light Brigade Charge looks like a still from the 1936 movie. I don't think cameras at the time were able to take action photos.

Here is a link to Fenton's pictures taken during the Crimean War.Search Results: "" - Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (Library of Congress)

Unfortunately you are right. I lifted it from a blurb on a Crimean war history book, normally stills from that film are too high quality. I am familiar with Fenton's pix, there are facsimilies at the Army Museum in Chelsea. Sorry to mislead.

Fire_Raven · Aug 10, 2012

Ancientgeezer said:
Unfortunately you are right. I lifted it from a blurb on a Crimean war history book, normally stills from that film are too high quality. I am familiar with Fenton's pix, there are facsimilies at the Army Museum in Chelsea. Sorry to mislead.

No big deal. It seems to happen frequently on the photo site listed previously on the thread.

It can be really hard to tell the difference in B&W photos between real and reproductions without being either an expert on the era to pick out minor flaws (wrong insignia, equipment that didn't exist) or a movie expert.

I only noticed it from being a fan of Errol Flynn movies and the scene looked familiar that "common sense" kicked in. (the odds of a photographer being in the right spot and abilities of cameras at the time)

irishcrusader95 · Aug 10, 2012

Tuor said:
Two snipers of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion wear their ghillie suits during an inspection by King George VI, Queen Elizabeth and Princess Elizabeth in Salisbury Plain, England. May 17, 1944.

nice one, i wasn't aware ghillie suits `had even been devised at that time.

A Free Syrian Army fighter runs for cover during clashes with Syrian Army soldiers in the Salah al-Din neighborhood of central Aleppo, Syria, August 5, 2012.

now that's an interesting one, and only taken 5 days ago as well.

Bish · Aug 10, 2012

irishcrusader95 said:
nice one, i wasn't aware ghillie suits `had even been devised at that time.
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The Ghillie suit was invented by Scottish game keepers. The first military use was during the Boer war.

irishcrusader95 · Aug 10, 2012

Bish said:
The Ghillie suit was invented by Scottish game keepers. The first military use was during the Boer war.

interesting, i had thought sniper techniques were not developed until after WW2 as its only after then that they start being recognised for their military value.

Bish · Aug 10, 2012

i would have thought the same. The Lovat Scouts were the Scottish unit that used them in the Boer war. And in 1916 they formed the firts sniper unit. I assume befpre that it was just individuals. Snipers were very much recignboised in WW2. I would not have expected it so much in the trenches of WW1.

Nemowork · Aug 10, 2012

If you consider that for most of the time people were mainly living in trenches and the only thing to shoot at was the head of an occassional sentry then the snipers got very good.

The Lovat scouts were brought in to counter marksmen in the German line regiments. One German development was a movable steel screen so the sniper could advance into no mans land and shoot with invulnerability or setting up armoured sniper positions in ther trenches, the British countered forst with mortaring the heck out of anywhere they thought a sniper was then by developing armour piercing bullets.

It was still early days though and were still generally seen as slightly creepy people, useful to have on your side but you didnt really mix with them.

Bish · Aug 10, 2012

Nemowork said:
were still generally seen as slightly creepy people, useful to have on your side but you didnt really mix with them.

They are creepy people. Anyone who goes through the sniper course is not all there.

Ancientgeezer · Aug 10, 2012

The expression "Sniper" originated amongst British Indian Army sports shooters in the late 18th/early 19th C for an exceptional marksman who was successful in bagging Snipe on the wing.
The expression only came into use in the US after the Civil War, prior to that te equivalent was "sharpshooter".

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