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:, united states :united_states:, germany :germany:, 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
: "Troops of the 10th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers at Wagonlieu on April 8th, 1917. Two days later, on April 10th, this battalion took Monchy-le-Preux, France. 240 men and 12 officers would be lost in the Battle."
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
: "Three German stretcher bearers and German casualty who had been found in a cellar by the photographer, Lieutenant John Warwick Brooke. Brooke took this photo as the men were being taken prisoner by a member of the 10th Battalion, London Regiment (Hackney). Sailly-Laurette, France. August 8, 1918."
28 posts
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#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."
25 posts
#2
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"
16 posts
#3
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."
14 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."
9 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
Belgium :Belgium:
: "“After the War, a Medal and Maybe a Job” by John Sloan, 1914"
5 posts
#7
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."
4 posts
#8
Serbia :Serbia:
: "Scouting infantry patrol, Salonika/Macedonian front (1918)"
4 posts
#9
Austria-Hungary :AustriaHungary:
: "“After the War, a Medal and Maybe a Job” by John Sloan, 1914"
3 posts
#10
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
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