Eagle Boat

This is USS Eagle Boat no. 60. The last of the submarine chasers built by the Ford Motor Company. This one was commissioned in October of 1919.

Studio Portrait

A studio portrait taken in America.

H. M. S.

Wigs

As with many group photos the clowns show up in the back row. Here they are sporting a number of wigs.

Regular Army

An infantryman with the regular army. There is no unit number is on his collar insignia so this would place this photo to before 1918.

A Litter of Rabbits

A German officer displaying a litter of rabbits.

Stick Grenade Disposal

This appears to be a group of Americans that have been assigned to dispose of a large cache of German stick grenades.

Boche Wire Entanglements

A section of German barbed wire on the Western Front.

Returning Troops

Doughboys returning to America. In this case Virginia as indicated by the license plate on the car on the right.

Don't Give Up the Ship Boys

A mule drawn parade float. This was constructed by a machine gun company at Camp Cody, New Mexico.

American Supply Column

An American supply column traveling through an area close to the front. The center truck is a FWD Model B. The other ones appear to be Liberty Trucks.

Ralph Lush

Ralph Lush and his fellow Americans in France.

In der Champagne

Artillery Damage

No written explanation on this card. It looks like someone took a picture showing the artillery damage just above the bed they were sleeping in.

Breech Cover

A poor quality photo but one of the few I have seen where the rifles are fitted with a breech cover. This also makes the rifles difficult to identify. I believe they are M1917 Endfields.
The soldiers here are marching through an American town. They are lucky enough to have trucks to carry their packs.

Messines

A German supply depot at Messines two months before the Battle of Messines (1917).

Railroad Repair

A narrow gauge track runs along the main tracks being repaired by these German troops. They are close enough to the front to warrant a screen to shield they from the sight of the enemy.

Einjährig Freiwillige

An Einjährig Freiwillige or One Year Volunteer in Vienna. He has both the cuff sleeve and collar button indicating his status.

Ausmarsch

German troops festooned with flowers marching off to the front.

Mailly-le-Camp

Two soldiers from the 76ème régiment d'infanterie flying high over Mailly-de-Camp.

Aerial Photography

Two German photographs showing aerial views of the battlefield. The top shows two very faint trench lines. Soldiers can be seen in the trenches as well as in the area between them. The bottom pictures the remains of a building in a heavily shelled area. It is not clear if there are soldiers among the ruins.

German Munitions Factory

A German machine shop making artillery shells.

Grudusk Church

A German field kitchen and artillery outside a heavily damaged church in Grudusk. The church still stands today.

300 Meters From the Frenchmen

A frontline German trench. If the note on the back is to be believed it is only 300 meters to the opposing French trench.

Trench Ladders

Four German soldiers carrying short makeshift ladders through a shallow trench. It must have been a very secure area to allow the photographer to set up on a high point to take this picture.

The Royal Berkshire Regiment

An unidentified member of the Royal Berkshire Regiment.

Walter Henry Jones

Walter Henry Jones of the Army Service Corps in France.

Tranchée No. 1

Four German officers posing in a trench. The one in the leather coat holds a sign that says Tranchée No. 1. Perhaps this is a trench they captured from the French.

Army Service Corps

A motor driver with the Army Service Corps. This picture was taken by Murray Dowding of Chipping Sodbury.

22nd Infantry

A young father from the 22nd Infantry Regiment. The 22nd spent the war in home guard action. First seizing German ships in New York harbor. Company L spent some time at the Frankford Arsenal, Pennsylvania supplying guards for Cramp's Shipbuilding Company in
Philadelphia, PA and Gloucester, NJ.

Bavarian Infantryman

A Bavarian infantryman. He has a Gewehr 88 rifle with a S71 bayonet and Model 1895 ammunition pouches. These were typical of Landwehr regiments.

Magdeburgisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 66

Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 126 Großherzog Friedrich von Baden

This card was sent shortly after the regiment entered the line in the sector near Ville-sur-Tourbe in January of 1917.

Landwehr-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 85

89e Régiment d'Infanterie Territoriale

Two medics with the 89th Territorial Infantry Regiment posing with their bicycles. They both have the horizon blue jackets and the brown corduroy pants suggesting that his photo was taken between 1915 and 1917.

Chickens

A pair of German chickens on a shell from a British 15-inch howitzer.

Quartermaster Corps

A private in the Quartermaster Corps. Taken at the American Photo Gallery of Des Moines, Iowa. He has one overseas service chevron so this picture would have been taken after his return.