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SZ Photo - Gas warfare in the First World War

Back area, First World War, Germany, german empire - This selection contains pictures from our partner agency Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo.

Rider with gas mask, 1918

30.07.1918 - German Riders of a German patrol protect themselves and their horses with gas masks. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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German soldier during a gas alarm in the First World War

01.01.1918 - A food courier at the entrance of a shelter. The soldier is wearing a protective mask because of a gas alarm. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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German soldiers inspect their gasmasks, 1917

10.10.1917 - Gas protection officers check the masks of an infantry unit at the Western front. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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German soldiers with gas masks at the western front, 1916

01.01.1916 - Machine gun crew with a heavy machine gun type 08/15 during a gas defense exercise. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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German infantry practice an attack by a gas unit, 1918

01.01.1918 - In January, 1918 soldiers behind the front in Flanders practice an gas attack. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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British soldiers with gas masks, 1917

26.10.1917 - British infantry with gas masks in a trench on the front in Flanders. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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German soldiers inspect their gas masks, 1917

01.01.1917 - An officer checks the gas masks of an infantry unit behind the front in the Vosges mountains. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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British gas tanks at the Western front, 1918

01.05.1918 - British gas tanks, that were left-behind in a trench. During a gas attack gas was blown out from them. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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German soldiers during a gas alarm, 1917

24.08.1917 - Soldiers of a howitzer battery rush out of a trench and put on gas masks. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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German Soldiers in Flanders during a Gas Alert, 1916

09.02.1916 - Sailors at the front in Flanders wear masks during an exercise related to gas attacks. In some cases, the soldiers are already wearing special gas masks. However, even these gas ma...
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Cavalry Patrol with gas protection at the western front, 1918

30.07.1918 - Riders of a German patrol protect themselves and their horses with gas masks. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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Runner with a gas mask in the First World War

01.01.1914 - A liaison officer on the Western Front works its way through a terrain which is coated with craters. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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Gas war at the Western Front in World War I, 1918

01.01.1918 - German ammunition column equipped with gas masks and horses, passing a gasified area. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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Floodlight of a German ant-aircraft battery, 1918

01.01.1918 - Floodlight exercises on the Western front. The soldier wears a gas mask to protect from gas bombs. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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Austrian miners in a tunnel, 1918

01.01.1918 - Austrian soldiers carry an unconscious comrade from a mine tunnel. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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German pilots of the close support airplanes with gas mask prior to a deployment, 1916

01.01.1916 - The pilot and his observer of a German ground attack airplane wear gas masks. On the wing of the airplane was installed a machine gun, on the side of the fuselage signal flares. Be...
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Marine soldiers with gas masks, 1915

13.01.1916 - Soldiers of the Marine Infantry with gas masks in front of a barbed wire barricade in World War I. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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German soldiers practice taking on gas masks, 1918

01.01.1917 - Officers check privates, whether they wear the gas masks correctly. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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Soldier gives gas alarm, 1917

23.08.1917 - A soldier gives gas alarm. Lacking a bell, he uses a pan. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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Soldier on gas alarm post at the western front, 1917

04.09.1917 - Soldier with gas mask, giving the alarm with a huge bell. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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French soldier and dog with gas masks, 1917

01.01.1917 - A soldier of the French army with his dog at the Western Front in World War I. Both wear gas masks. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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Dispatch rider with gas mask at the western front, 1917

06.07.1917 - A galloper of the German army with gas mask in the battle ground between St. Quentina and Laon during of the battles of Aisne. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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German Gas Attack at the Eastern Front, 1915

01.01.1915 - German forces use gas at the Eastern front. The gas is being released from containers while the members of the operating crew have positioned themselves on the lee side. [XPAEXPORT...
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German Soldiers During a Training Exercise Related to Gas Attacks, 1918

01.01.1918 - Solders at the Western front during a military training exercise that simulates a gas attack. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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American soldiers on exercises in France, 1918

03.10.1918 - Soldiers of Battery A of the 108th field artillery of the American expeditionary corps at exercises with gas defenses near Varennes-en-Argonne at the Meuse. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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German soldiers at an autocannon used for air defense in WWI, 1918

01.01.1918 - Soldiers during an exercise at an autocannon in postition, the mount of which allows it to fight against enemy aircraft. The soldiers are wearing gas masks during the gun exercises...
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Rider with gas mask, 1918
German soldiers with gas masks at the western front, 1916
German soldiers inspect their gas masks, 1917
German soldier during a gas alarm in the First World War
German infantry practice an attack by a gas unit, 1918
British gas tanks at the Western front, 1918
German soldiers inspect their gasmasks, 1917
British soldiers with gas masks, 1917
German soldiers during a gas alarm, 1917

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