Most
of my World War One material is either by H. D. Girdwood, an English company,
who sold their views under the trade name 'Realistic Travels' and concentrated
on the British troops and UK market, or Keystone which concentrated on
US troops, the U.S. market, and entered the war with the U.S. in 1917.
Due to the high gloss and exaggerated curve, the Keystone views do not
scan very well. They will therefore almost all be of far higher quality
than they appear on the screen. The Keystone views all have a full text
description on the back - the Realistic Travels views do not.
Please
click here for a high quality
scan which gives a true indication of the quality.
Girdwood's
views have more immediacy and action. They were issued in sets of
between 50 and 500 views so the numbering sequence is pretty muddled. Customers
could also pick out the views they required and so a box or collection
may have non-sequential numbering. They come on Underwood-type mounts
or on lighter mounts with curved or beveled edges. These are interchangeable
and most views appear on both types of mount.
These
are ALL condition 8, 9 or 10 and priced at $8 each unless otherwise mentioned.
'"Where
the dewy star of evening shone in tears" - battlefield of Menin Road, France'.
Order
#9301.
Price
$18.
'Huge
armoured tank making its way through a smoke screen'.
Order
#9303.
Price
$18.
'Tank
disabled in our breakthrough near Moeuvres during our surprise attack on
the Cambrai front'.
Order
#9304.
Price
$15.
'Our
whippet tanks dash thro the mud-caked battle fields and penetrate the German
lines at Morcourt'.
Order
#9306.
Price
$18.
'French
Tanks which saw service. Parading Paris streets'.
Order
#9307.
Price
$18.
'How
France aided her fighters - Renault tanks going to the Front'.
Order
#9308.
Price
$18.
'Casualties
coming back from the line pass tanks worsted on battle of the tanks, Villers-Bretonneux'.
Order
#9309.
'Sappers
remove a derelict tank obstructing the "corduroy" road built over the mud,
near Peronne'.
Order
#9310.
Price
$15.
'Operating
Lewis machine-guns, Naval Training Station, Wakefield, Mass.'.
Order
#9312.
'Gunners,
suspicious of an approaching "Taube" don masks as protection against German
gas shells'.
Order
#9313.
'Shells
bursting in ruined French village'.
Order
#9314.
'Our
rapid advance near Cambrai compelled the Germans to abandon large quantities
of ammunition'.
Order
#9315.
'11-inch
shells abandoned by the Germans in their headlong flight across the Rhine'.
Order
#9316.
'Spoils
of war, hundreds of captured German guns in a gun park at Brussels'.
Order
#9317.
'Hundreds
of guns captured by the Australians and Canadians at Couralette in Battle
of Somme'.
Order
#9318.
'Examining
the remains of a howitzer destroyed by a direct hit'.
Order
#9319.
'In action.
Shelling the German lines at 1700 yards'.
Order
#9320.
'Our
guns returning with compliments the German "Evening Hate" - gun in recoil'.
Order
#9321.
'How
Italian guns are carried up the steep, narrow paths of the Alpine front'.
Order
#9322.
'Artillery
hooking up and moving off'.
Order
#9323.
'Sudden
alarm to a battery of Artillery resting in a wood'.
Order
#9324.
'Off
at the gallop to help stem the Hun onslaught at Ploegsteert during the
dogged defence of Ypres'.
Order
#9325.
'Feeding
"Grannie" - shell hoisted into position'.
Order
#9326.
'Firing
"Grannie" - one of the great British howitzers'.
Order
#9327.
'A British
"Archie" in action - note range finders'.
Order
#9328.
'Off
for Berlin ! - High power autotruck delivering large cannon to the firing
line in France'.
Order
#9329.
'Skoda
Works, Pilsen, Bohemia, where the famous Skoda Mortars were made'.
Order
#9330.
'A British
60 lb. shell gun under camouflage'.
Order
#9331.
'An anti-aircraft
gun being worked in a trench'.
Order
#9332.
'Naval
gun landed at Waldfisch Bay; a valuable asset to our invading forces'.
Order
#9333.
'French
"75" gun in action against battle planes'.
Order
#9334.
Price
$12.
'Anti-aircraft
gun captured by our victorious troops, from the defeated Germans'.
Order
#9335.
Price
$12.
'A French
155-mm gun trained on the German trenches'.
Order
#9336.
'Off
for Berlin! High power autotruck delivering large cannon to the firing
line in France'.
Order
#9337.
'"Through
it all the horror runs the red resentment of the guns", Oise, France'.
Order
#9338.
'Great
naval gun and its protecting fort of sand bags on the Saloniki front'.
Order
#9339.
'Gunners
digging a gun-position for 4.5 howitzer, completely concealed by camouflage
from Hun airmen'.
Order
#9340.
'Gunners
digging a gun-position for 4.5 howitzer, completely concealed by camouflage
from Hun airmen'.
Order
#9341.
'Machine
gun section and infantry crossing a flooded river by pontoon bridge'.
Order
#9342.
'A battery
of Royal Artillery snatching a few minutes' rest'.
Order
#9344.
'A battery
of field artillery crossing a bridge at eventide'.
Order
#9346.
'Spoils
of war, guns captured from the Turks, Palestine'. I also have had a copy
of this view captioned '...guns captured from the Germans, East Africa'.
Order
#9347.
'A direct
hit from our monitors off the Belgian coast wipes out a Hun defence battery,
Mar?????'. Thanks to Bart who says that this must be the hamlet of Mariakerke
(Mariakerke-bad, near Ostend) Google maps: 51.218228,2.881322.
Order
#9348.
'Australian
limbers bringing up shells to the guns during the fury of the battle before
Le Transloy'.
Order
#9349.
'Flanders
mud hampers our artillery, removing a field gun from shell-pitted and flooded
position'.
Order
#9350.
'When
the thaw set in on the Somme our artillery ploughs its way thro' mud and
water to Gommecourt'.
Order
#9351.
'German
battery of 150 mm guns captured by American troops near Montfaucon'.
Order
#9352.
'Captured
German machine guns on road from Villers-Cotterets to Soissons'.
Order
#9353.
'Preparing
for the firing line - Loading a 3-inch field gun'.
Order
#9354.
'French
gunners charging huge 270 mm (Howitzer) in forest of Argonne'.
Order
#9355.
'A battery
of the famous 270 mortars (Howitzers). Mt. St. Eloi'.
Order
#9356.
'British
anti-aircraft gun in action on Balkan Front, camouflaged and mounted on
auto'.
Order
#9357.
'Camouflage
of the road - in the Asiago district, Italy'.
Order
#9358.
'Anti-aircraft
gun of the Allies being operated against enemy airships'.
Order
#9359.
'A British
9.2 in. howitzer under camouflage'.
Order
#9360.
'Artillerymen
who, between the Germans and the mud, are emplacing their guns with difficulty'.
Order
#9361.
'Canadian
artillery proceeding to the Front'.
Order
#9362.
'Cannon
abandoned by Germans in retreat at Acy, France'.
Order
#9363.
'French
18 millimeter guns in ambush near German Trenches'.
Order
#9364.
'French
mortar in its well-timbered chamber - View looking straight down'.
Order
#9365.
'French
gunners adjusting large cannon mounted on railway track - France'.
Order
#9366.
'Our
16-in. railway-guns demolish the Hun concrete emplacements and open the
way for the infantry'.
Order
#9367.
'French
"75" gun in action against battle planes'.
Order
#9368.
'A French
155-mm. gun trained on the German trenches'.
Order
#9369.
'German
gun guarding the Mole, Zeebrugge'.
Order
#9370.
'Projectile
weighing 1070 lbs. - Powder 325 lbs. One load for the 12-inch disappearing
gun, Fortress Monroe, Va.'.
Order
#9371.
'Our
Doughboys at work - Ordnance repair shop, Mehun-sur-Yevre, France'.
Order
#9372.
'One
of the buildings at the American ordnance repair shops at Mehun-sur-Yevre,
France'.
Order
#9373.
To page one - Troops on the move
To page five - In the trenches, over the top, fixed defenses, communications, materiel
To page seven - Battlefield landscapes, prisoners
To page eight - Miscellaneous and war damage
To page nine - The wounded, the fallen, war graves
