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.
'Turks
who fell on scrub covered Chocolate Hill resisting surprise attack from
Suvla Bay'.
Order
#13001.
'Belgian
stretcher bearers carrying a wounded comrade through the trenches at Dixmude'.
Order
#13002.
'Tenderly
lifting a serious case. Stretcher-bearers at work'.
Order
#13003.
'French
field hospital - locating bullet with X-ray machine'.
Order
#13004.
'Taking
away the wounded in motor ambulance (Somme)'.
Order
#13005.
'Arrival
of wounded at a base hospital'.
Order
#13006.
'Giving
water to a wounded pal beside a Hun block house shattered in our advance
at Hooge, Ypres'.
Order
#13007.
Picking
up the severely wounded from among the dead, battlefield scene, France'.
Order
#13008.
'Stretcher
bearers rescue a comrade wounded in our great push on the Somme'.
Order
#13009.
'Attending
to wounded on the Menim Road, Ypres, during the stiff fighting around Zonnebeke'.
Order
#13010.
'Rendering
first aid to the wounded in the French trenches'.
Order
#13012.
'The
dog in war - Reporting to First Aid Squad with helmet of wounded soldier'.
Order
#13013.
'Allied
soldiers binding up the wounds of their prisoners after the battle'.
Order
#13014.
'French
convalescents nicknamed "The Cripples", about to return to the Front'.
Order
#13015.
'Bringing
in the wounded "on stretchers stiff and bleared with blood"'.
Order
#13016.
'Belgian
stretcher bearers carrying a wounded comrade through the trenches at Dixmude'.
Order
#13017.
'RAMC
at Monchy Dressing Station attending the wounded coming down the line'.
Order
#13018.
'Tenderly
carrying a "blighty" case to an aid post through the maze of trenches at
Passchendaele'.
Order
#13019.
'After
the storm and stress of battle, caring for the wounded'.
Order
#13020.
'Collecting
the wounded - Scotch sergeant and officers watching the stretcher cases
come in during battle'.
Order
#13021.
'Dogs
with first-aid and stimulants off to find wounded in inaccessible parts
of No Man's Land'.
Order
#13022.
'Severely
wounded being transferred to hospital ship from transport, Hoboken'.
Order
#13023.
'Wounded
soldier about to undergo operation. Hospital No 5, New York'.
Order
#13024.
Price
$18.
'Ghastly
glimpse of wounded Belgians in hospital, Antwerp, Belgium'.
Order
#13025.
Price
$18.
'Nursing
wounded heroes back to health. Convalescent Hospital No 5, New York'.
Order
#13026.
Price
$18.
'Looking
over soldiers' quarters - General Hospital in distance, Camp Upton, N.Y.'.
Order
#13027.
'Courage
unsurpassed ! Crawling through wire to rescue comrades, victims of a deadly
shell'.
Order
#13030.
'Actual
battlefield in northern France, strewn with German dead'.
Order
#13031.
'Strong
concrete German position and victims after Battle of Menin Road'.
Order
#13032.
'Daybreak
on Vimy Ridge after our dogged and impetuous assault on the height. April
9th 1917'.
Order
#13033.
'After
the assault on Mouquet Farm, Thiepval Ridge, taken by our matchless infantry
at heavy cost'.
Condition.
Slightly darker on l/h image but scanner has struggled to reproduce.
Order
#13034.
'Proud
men of the North who "fought like shining angels", on Flanders Field'.
Order
#13035.
'Knocked
out! A nest of Hun machine-guns which held up our advance at Monchy, Battle
of Arras'.
Order
#13036.
'"Twas
messy, that bit of a fight". Dead Germans amidst wire entanglements'.
Order
#13037.
'Through
sickly shrapnel-sown meadows reaped by death alone'.
Order
#13038.
'His
last fight - "See he lies, death staring from his eyes" - Somewhere in
France'.
Order
#13039.
'Uncovering
men who fell contesting the crater at Zouave Woods, stormed by the irresistible
6th Div.'.
Order
#13040.
Price
$18.
'Grave
of Lieut. Quentin Roosevelt, buried by Germans where he fell'.
Order
#13041.
'Internment
of the Fallen Brave in the Cemetery at Villiers au Bois, France'.
Condition.
Slight creases at the bottom.
Order
#13042.
'The
field of battle near Arras, France - burying the German dead'.
Order
#13043.
'Buring
the comrades with military honors on the Somme front'.
Order
#13044.
Price
$18.
'"And
now we lay in Flanders Field", Vallee Foulon, France'.
Order
#13045.
'French
graves smashed by shell fire, where a Hun sniper was discovered hiding
in a coffin'.
Order
#13046.
'Sacrificed
on Altar of German Militarism - Arrival of dead at Military Cemetary, Villers
au Bois, France'.
Order
#13047.
'"Back
to the Home Land". Removing Casket of America's Unknown Soldier from the
Olympia,
Washington D.C.'.
Order
#13048.
Price
$18.
'The
American Cemetery at Belleau Wood'.
Order
#13049.
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 seven - Battlefield landscapes, prisoners
To page eight - Miscellaneous and war damage
