The Western Front

PowerPoint Show by Andrew

Nearly four years of deadly stalemate on the Western Front slowly came to an end in 1918, as Allied armies pushed into Germany at enormous cost, leading the Central Powers to finally seek an armistice.

A soldier just wounded, receiving first-aid treatment from a comrade.

London buses, shipped to France, being used to move up a division of Australian troops.

German soldiers (rear) offer to surrender to French troops, seen from a listening post in a trench at Massiges, northeastern France.

A series of trenches, structures on fire, in a French war zone.

A French soldier aiming an anti-aircraft machine gun from a trench at Perthes les Hurlus, eastern France.

British soldier in a flooded dug-out, on the front lines, France.

Lens, France, the devastated coal mining region of northern France.

Two Tanks knocked out of action near Ypres Salient, October 1917.

Near Ripent (Champagne). Beginning of construction of defensive measures in a newly-occupied mine crater by German soldiers.

A British firing squad prepares to execute a German spy.

Wounded British prisoner supported by two German soldiers.

German troops crossing an open field.

A scene at the French town of Barastre during World War I.

Two Englishmen killed by gas near Kemmel. In April 1918, German forces shelled Armentieres, 15 kilometers south of Kemmel, with mustard gas.

German trench position near Chemin des Dames, May 1918.

Royal Air Force planes being loaded with munitions in France.

Ruins in Reninghe, Belgium, 1916.

Scene in Mons, Belgium when the Canadian army arrived in 1917.

Dead horses and a broken cart on Menin Road, Ypres sector, Belgium.

A shattered church in the ruins of Neuvilly becomes a temporary shelter for American wounded.

A German machine gunner lies dead at his post in a trench near Hargicourt, in France on September 19th, 1918.

A French officer stands near a cemetery with recent graves of soldiers killed on the front lines of World War One, at Saint-Jean-sur-Tourbe.

Soldiers wave their helmets and cheer on Armistice Day, November 11, 1918.

The announcing of the armistice on November 11, 1918, was the occasion for a monster celebration in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

American soldiers march up New York's Fifth Avenue just past the Arch of Victory during spring of 1919.

An American soldier kisses a woman during a homecoming parade at the end of World War I, in 1919.