Rare Photograph Collections of the Great War and Bibliography

A Collection of Rare Photographs

These rare old photographs taken during and after the Great War were collected by my father after painstaking hours of searching through fleamarkets, carboots and bazaars. Find more about each one as more content is added.

These collections do not appear in authorised history books that I know.

This site’s purpose is to share these historical photos, many of which were taken by German naval officers around Europe. Thankfully, these images have been saved from possible damage or of being lost forever.

Find images of the Zeebruggee Raid on St George’s Day in 1918; Cologne at the closing of the war and a selection of airmen, fighter planes and airships.

Hours of research have been conducted on each image. Some of the information has been garnered from countless books, a bibliography of which is given below.

These photographs have been resized to save space on this site. But the undoctored original scanned photograph can be issued via email at the cost of £2 per image.

The original images are not very big. The scanned images vary between 200 to 600KB

Due to their age, some damage and fading can be found.

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View the photo gallery menu of the Zeebrugge Raid 1918

Bibliography of WW1 Books Used as Research for the Photographs on this site (in alphabetical order)

Ansell, D. Military Motorcycles

Barker, R. The royal Flying Crops in France

Brown, W. Book of the Somme

Carter, T. Birmingham Pals

Campbell, C. Aces and Aircraft of WW1

Chancellor Press WW1

Ellis, J. The Social History of the Machine Gun

Farrar Hockley, A. Ypres 1914

Gordon, H. The Unreturning Army

Guderian, H. Achtung Panzer

Hart, L. The Real War

Hodges, G. Memoirs of an Old Balloonatic

Horne, A. The Price of Glory

Keegan, J. The Face of Battle
Kendall, Paul The Zeebrugge Raid 1018: The Finest Feat of Arms

Lewis, C. Sagittarius Rising

Macdonald, L. 1914 The Days of Hope

Moore, W. See How They Ran

Moynihan, M. People at War 1914-1918

Popham, H. F. A. N. Y. Women’s Transport Service

Shermer, D. WW1

Smithers, A. The Development of the Tank

Steel, N. And Hart, P. Passchendaele

Sturart Dolden, A. Cannon Fodder
Terraine, J. The Road to Passchendaele