German soldiers posing for photographs with their weapons and gear in a trench, July - August, 1915.
German soldiers posing for photographs with their weapons and gear in a trench, July - August, 1915. These photographs, belonging to @drakegoodmanofficial, were all taken by a German private Fritz Limbach from the German 16th Infantry Regiment near La Bassée on the Western Front. The following information was provided on Drake Goodman's Flickr: In the first, second, third, and fourth photographs we see young German soldiers sitting on a fire-step armed with an M1915 Stielhandgranate hand-grenade, a Gewehr 98 infantry rifle and an improvised trench periscope to observe no man's land and the enemy's trench, in this case the British. I'm guessing the soldiers took turns to have photographs taken of them with the weaponry. These four photographs were taken on July 27, 1915, and the soldier on the fourth photograph has been identified as an Otto Mertens. In the fifth and sixth photographs we see two German soldiers standing in the middle of the trench, the first one posing w...