Winter War: Snow On The Wire in No Man’s Land

This extraordinary image shows an early war German position on the Western Front during the winter of 1914/15 – so exactly a hundred years ago. Little damage from shell fire is visible, but on the left in the trees the head of a German soldier peaks out from above his trench and to his right there also appears to be a periscope. This would mean the image would have to have been taken in No Man’s Land, which makes it even more unusual as the enemy would have to have been to the rear of the photographer.

A close inspection of the barbed wire shows it covered with snow; glistening in the winter sunshine. The old world had ended; man had made a new world on the Western Front which grow even more terribly as the next twelve months evolved.

10/12/2014 | Categories: 1914, 2014-2018, Battlefields, France, French Army, German Army, Germany, Great War, GreatWar100, Poilu, Trenches, Western Front, WW1, WW1 Centenary | Tags: 1914, 1915, 2014, 2014-2018, Barbed Wire, Battlefields, France, French Army, French Front, German Army, Germany, Great War, GreatWar100, Poilu, Trench, Trenches, Western Front, Winter, Winter War, WW1, WW1 Centenary | 2 Comments