WW1: One hundred years of memory

Reuters Published June 28, 2014

A French mobile anti-aircraft gun is pictured on the Western Front, in this 1918 handout picture. - Photo by Reuters

Women work in a munitions factory in France in this 1916 handout picture. - Photo by Reuters

A German Friedrichshafen seaplane is seen crashed into a building in 1918 Germany. – Photo by Reuters

A German seaplane is pictured after crashing in an unknown location, in this 1916 handout picture. - Photo by Reuters

A German officer of Flieger Abteilung 280 reads a book in a chateau where he is stationed near the Western Front, in this 1918 handout picture. - Photo by Reuters

An Austro-Hungarian soldier is pictured in a bunker in an unknown location in this 1916 handout picture. - Photo by Reuters

German Air Force Officers and friends at a picnic in this 1918 handout picture. – Photo by Reuters

A German pigeon loft is pictured on the Western Front, in this 1916 handout picture. - Photo by Reuters

Officers of the Imperial German Air Service compete at a squadron athletics meeting near the Western Front in this 1917 handout picture. - Photo by Reuters

A view of women working at the Brewery Road Works munitions factory in this 1916 handout picture. - Photo by Reuters

Employees test gas masks at the Chemical Development Laboratory in Philadelphia in this 1919 handout picture. - Photo by Reuters

German officers sit outside dugouts on the Yser Front in Belgium in this 1917 handout picture. - Photo by Reuters

German officers of Flieger Abteilung 280 have a party at a house where they are stationed near the Western Front, in this 1918 handout picture. - Photo by Reuters

Sailors take part in morning exercises aboard a German Navy warship in this 1917 handout picture taken at an unknown location at sea. – Photo by Reuters

A view of a trench system set up in Long Island City as a field training facility in this 1919 handout picture. – Photo by Reuters

German officers of Flieger Abteilung 280 are pictured outside a chateau near the Western Front in this 1918 handout picture. - Photo by Reuters

German infantry are shown collecting water on the Western Front, in this 1916 handout picture. – Photo by Reuters

A view of German quarters behind the front line on the Western Front, in this 1916 handout picture. – Photo by Reuters

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The year 2014 marks the centenary of the start of the First World War.

Here is a selection of pictures that are part of a previously unpublished set of World War One (WW1) images from a private collection.

The pictures offer an unusual view of varied and contrasting aspects of the conflict, from high tech artillery to mobile pigeon lofts, and from officers partying in their headquarters to the grim reality of life and death in the trenches.

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Chaudhry Mohammad

Jul 01, 2014 12:38pm

The pakistani brain is still somewhat 'colonized'. To mark the commemoration of WW1, one would expect a Pakistani institution to remind our people of the people who died in WW1 but who hailed from our land. I advise the editor to watch the BBC documentary: Muslim Tommies! When will be stop fighting other peoples wars and remembering the dead of others!

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