The Great War in Colour

See the war through a different lens

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A Belgian woman, who was a forced labourer in Germany, returns home in November 1918.

Original image source: Library and Archives of Canada

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An Austrian soldier walks into a ruined church on the Isonzo Front, 1916.

Original image source: Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek

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Portrait of a French soldier wearing a gas mask, taken 1915.

Original image source: National Library of Denmark

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Portrait of a Zuoave, photographed next to his stiletto knife.

Original image source:  Archives départementales de Seine-Maritime

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Australian Captain JD Cramb has a portrait taken with a gas mask. 

Original image source: Australian War Memorial

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A child sharing grapes with two Australian soldiers (Captain John Dougal Cramb and Lieutenant Smyth) on a beach in Jaffa, Ottoman Empire (part of modern-day Israel). Taken August 1918. Original image source: Australian War Memorial

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Russian prisoners of war on their way home, 1917. Photo taken in Volhynia - an area which straddles modern day Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine.

Original image source: Austrian National Library

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A Serbian soldier in Cukojevac, Serbia in 1915. 

Original image source: Austrian National Library

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Mairi Chisholm (and Elsie Knocker, right) at the window of their British Women's Emergency Corps billet in Flanders, Belgium on July 30, 1917. Original image source: Library of Congress

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A Belgian baby whose mother was killed by a shell. The child’s father is the standing on the right. Photo taken in Mons, in November 1918.

Original image source: Canadian Library and Archives

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A member of the Royal Hungarian Landsturm Battalion has his hair cut in a trench. Photo taken in Czernowitz (which is in modern-day Ukraine), in 1915.

Original image source: Austrian National Library

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A Canadian prisoner of war who was captured for nine months.

Original image source: Canadian Library and Archives

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A medic attends to an injured soldier in a German trench. Circa 1914, location unknown. Source: Nationaal Archief

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Two soldiers release a pigeon with a message from their trench. Taken May 1917. Original image source: Library and Archives Canada

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A father helps his son draw a French flag. Taken March, 1917. Source: Canadian Library and Archives

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A Canadian soldier demonstrates a German gas mask found in Lens. September, 1917. Original image source: Library and Archives Canada

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“Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.” Otto von Bismarck, posing for an official portrait. Original Image Source:  German Federal Archive/Deutsches Bundesarchiv Signature:  Bild 146-1990-023-06A