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.
'14th
century ramparts and Lille Gate through which British troops entered during
defence of Ypres'.
Order
#10467.
'The
Hun vandal, French village set on fire wantonly by the Germans in their
retreat'.
Order
#10468.
'A comprehensive
view of the whole of the cruel salient of Ypres, as commanded from Kemmel
Hill'.
Order
#10469.
'Kemmel
Hill, for whose dominating heights British, French and Germans fell in
mortal combat, Ypres'.
Order
#10470.
'The
desolate rain-sodden battlefields where bursting bombs added to the terror
of darkness'.
Order
#10471.
'Under
frightful difficulties, our troops carry supplies over destroyed bridges
on Yser Canal'.
Order
#10472.
'In Bellean
Wood where Americans gave Germany her fatal check'.
Order
#10473.
'In Bellean
Wood where Americans gave Germany her fatal check'.
Order
#10474.
'No Man's
Land, sea of barbed wire in front of Bulgarian lines, Saloniki Front'.
Order
#10475.
'Chemin
de Dames - Barbed wire entanglement'.
Order
#10476.
'Ingenuous
camouflage used to conceal lines of communication and gun emplacements
from Hun aviators'.
Order
#10477.
The chalk
pits at Loos, seized and held by 2nd Brigade of Guards against furious
counter attacks'.
Order
#10478.
'Sanitary
work of the battle line - Disinfecting the ruins with patent spray'.
Order
#10479.
'Red
fields of slaughter sloping down to ruin's black abyss'.
Order
#10480.
'Desolate
waste on Chemin des Dames Battlefield, France'.
Order
#10481.
'Where
Hell was loosed. War's indescribable desolation and unburied victims, Lens'.
Order
#10482.
'Out
where the bombs are bursting and the cannons like Hell-doors slam'.
Order
#10483.
'The
terrible desolation of once fertile hills and valleys, France'.
Order
#10484.
'"On
all sides round a great furnace flamed". German attack, North Compiegne,
France'.
Order
#10485.
'When
the sluices were opened at Nieuport water and barbed wire brought disaster
to the Hun'.
Order
#10486.
'Delville
Wood shattered in fierce struggles by the S. Africans who heroically resisted
fierce attacks'.
Order
#10487.
'Dixmude
and the Yser Canal, inundated by the Belgians to baulk the enemy thrust
for Calais, Oct. 1914.
Condition
7 (marks and scratches).
Order
#10488.
Price
$5.
'The
battlefront along the Yser Canal, in the bitter winter of 1916, our heavy
guns shelling the enemy'.
Order
#10489.
'Hope
Dump, one of many at Ypres, which fed our guns in those obstinate battles
against appalling odds'.
Order
#10490.
'Wire
entanglements blocking the approaches to one of our defensive posts'.
Order
#10491.
'Dugouts
along the Yser Canal, near Nieuport, scene of our disaster on the dunes,
July 10th 1917'.
Order
#10492.
'Smashed
by bombs from our aeroplanes, a German fortified redoubt protecting Ostend
from the sea'.
Order
#10494.
George
Nightingale. The Battlefield Series, on thin white mount. 'Plug Street,
Le Vizey'.
Order
#10495.
Price
$3.
'Turkish
troops defeated by Allenby in the outlying hills, retreat through Jerusalem
by the Jaffa Gate'.
Order
#12496.
'Thousands
of German prisoners captured in the final rout of the German armies on
the Sambre'.
Order
#12497.
'French
75s returning to Chemin des Dames pass prisoners taken in our big drive
near St. Quentin'.
Order
#12498.
'Bringing
in 1900 German prisoners captured by American forces, France'.
Order
#12499.
'at the
bayonet's point our troops surprise Jerry machine gunner in his den at
Croiselles'.
Order
#10500.
'Boche
machine-gun captured and gunner taken prisoner by our advancing troops
at "Plug Street"'.
Order
#12701.
Violets
from Plug Street Wood -
Think
what they have meant to me -
Life
and Hope and Love and You
(And
you did not see them grow
Where
his mangled body lay,
Hiding
horror from the day;
Sweetest,
it was better so.)
Roland
Leighton (shot at Hébuterne and died in Louvencourt, 1915)
'Searching
German prisoners taken in our advance'.
Order
#12702.
'Examining
a Jerry prisoner to obtain information which enables us to anticipate an
enemy attack'.
Order
#12703.
'Kamerad
! Dazed Huns pour out of their firtified cellars at ??lken in answer to
our bombs'.
Order
#12704.
'Interrogating
a Boche prisoner taken in a block house in our assault on the Hohenzollern
Redoubt'.
Order
#12705.
'Boyish
German prisoners at a dressing station, Longpont'.
Order
#12706.
'German
prisoners, under guard of French soldiers, were humanely treated by the
Allies'.
Order
#12707.
'German
prisoners, well housed near Belleau Woods, France'.
Order
#12708.
'German
prisoner captured in a raid, pointing out to Staff Officer the disposition
of his units'.
Order
#12709.
'German
prisoners escorted by French troops in front of Albert Cathedral, wrecked
by shellfire'.
Order
#12710.
'German
prisoners compelled to carry our wounded during the strenuous battle for
Bourlon Wood'.
Order
#12711.
'Prisoners
coming in after the repulse at Hangard and Villers-Bretonneux in the "Kaiser's
Battle"'.
Order
#12712.
'Haughty
Prussians with machine-guns captured by "Old Contemptibles" in our advance
on Pozieres'.
Order
#12713.
'"Where
all is still and cold and dead". No Man's Land near Lens, France'.
Order
#12714.
'H.E.s
bursting in Mametz Wood, hotly contested with Prussian Guards, finally
taken, July 1916'.
Order
#12715.
'The
golden sun goes down in peace o'er desolate wastes of No Man's Land on
the Somme'.
Order
#12716.
To page one - Troops on the move
To page four - Guns and gunners
To page five - In the trenches, over the top, fixed defenses, communications, materiel
To page eight - Miscellaneous and war damage
To page nine - The wounded, the fallen, war graves
