r/WWIpics is a subreddit with 12k members. The community frequently discusses soldiers, wwi, german, french, and ww1, and the most common flair used is united kingdom :united_kingdom:, germany :germany:, united states :united_states:, france :france:, and russia :russia:.
A place to share World War I photographs.
Popular Topics in r/WWIpics
#1
Soldiers
: "Original color (autochrome) photo of German Soldiers posing with a machine gun. Photo taken by Hans Hildenbrand"
149 posts
#2
Wwi
: "Elizabeth Friedman’s first graduating class of American code breakers in Wwi. The photo itself is a cypher which men facing towards the camera and away from the camera creating a binary code, 1’s and 0’s, spelling “Knowledge is Power” (1918) [1200x240]"
54 posts
#3
German
: "Original color (autochrome) photo of German soldiers posing with a machine gun. Photo taken by Hans Hildenbrand"
49 posts
#4
French
: "French machine gunners on the march during the First Battle of the Marne, September 1914."
45 posts
#5
Ww1
: "Ww1 photo of great grandfather"
44 posts
#6
Troops
: "Troops of the 13th Battalion, King's (Liverpool) Regiment pose with captured machine guns in front of a German mobile pill box and concrete observation post amidst the ruins of Tilloy-les-Mofflaines. April 10, 1917"
44 posts
#7
Battle
: "French soldiers salute as stretcher bearers carry away one of the dead during The Battle of Cote 304. Verdun, August 25, 1917/"
42 posts
#8
Army
: "Russian Imperial Army. Armoured car."
33 posts
#9
Trenches
: "Belgian Grenadiers along with two Carabiniers (facing the trench with the more rigid caps) and a Red Cross Priest in shallow Trenches, thought to be somewhere in Kampenhout, Belgium around October 1914."
29 posts
#10
Battalion
: "Daylight patrol of the 6th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders working forward towards Hausa and Delbar Woods during the Battle of the Scarpe. North-east of Roeux, August 29, 1918"
28 posts
Flair Used in r/WWIpics
#1
United Kingdom :United_Kingdom:
: "Colorized photo of 19 year old Private Walter William who served with E Company, 1st Battalion, Hertfordshire Regiment. Walter and six other men were killed in action on November 19, 1914 (111 years ago today) when their trench took a direct hit near Shrewsbury Forest, Zillebeke, Belgium."
27 posts
#2
Germany :Germany:
: "An original color photo of an early German trench taken by Hans Hildenbrand, who was one of 19 photographers employed by Kaiser Wilhelm II. Of the 19 Hildenbrand was the only one using Autochrome, the others took traditional black & white photos."
15 posts
#3
United States :United_States:
: "American 'Shell Shock' patients having a happy time fishing and swimming under the walls of Château Chambord in the Loire region in France. September 1918"
15 posts
#4
France :France:
: "French Zouaves from the 3rd Zouave Regiment in 1914. This photo has not been colorized, but instead was taken with the Autochrome process, making it an original color photo."
10 posts
#5
Russia :Russia:
: "A gun crew with a cannon. The cannon is on wooden wheels. There are holes in the cannon. Two soldiers have St. George's crosses on their chests."
8 posts
#6
Italy :Italy:
: "Carlo Alberto Passolini in the uniform of an infantry lieutenant at the end of the war. He was the father of director Pier Paolo Passolini."
5 posts
#7
Belgium :Belgium:
: "“After the War, a Medal and Maybe a Job” by John Sloan, 1914"
4 posts
#8
Serbia :Serbia:
: "Scouting infantry patrol, Salonika/Macedonian front (1918)"
3 posts
#9
Allies :United_Kingdom: :France: :Russia: :United_States:
: "In Wadi Itm near Resafe while discussing the terms of the Turkish surrender. July 5th, 1917"
3 posts
#10
British India :British_India:
: "The Maharaja of Patiala, Bhupinder Singh, inspects a BL 12 inch Mk III railway howitzer near Borre, France. Note how the carriage has been lowered to the ground to steady it when firing. August 20, 1918"
1 post
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