Flanders Fields Pictures
World War 1 Photos

Photos courtesy of Rob Ruggenberg / The Heritage of the Great War

Canadian stretcher bearers in Flanders fields
photographed in 1915, around the time that Canadian John McCrae
wrote his world famous war memorial poem In Flanders Fields.

French trench with a donkey and poppies;
this is the only color picture known to show poppies on the battlefield.
The picture was made in 1915 by an official French war photographer.

Officially known as the Third Battle of Ypres,
Passchendaele became infamous not only for the scale of casualties,
but also for the mud.

The ruins of the Cloth Hall, the Cathedral and Bishop's Palace, Ypres

A Hun Pill-Box amidst surroundings characteristic of the Ypres salient.

British soldiers pushing an ambulance car through the mud;
photographed on the Western Front, somewhere in Flanders.

A War Cemetery in the Belgian village of Woesten;
the village is just behind the frontline, not far from Ypres in Flanders.
Photographed in 1917

Cross in a flooded shell hole; German amateur picture.

Living among the dead!

The Canadian War Department used McCrae's poem to get war loans.
The painting was made by Frank Lucien Nicolet

January 29th 1918: The funeral procession of John McCrae
at Number 14 British General Hospital for Officers
in Boulogne, France, led by his horse Bonfire.
In the tradition of fallen mounted officers,
McCrae’s boots were placed backwards in the stirrups.

Photos courtesy of www.greatwar.nl