Portraits of the First World War

This series of scanned negatives dating from the year 1916 was discovered only recently. Moreover, its author is unknown. However, there is a version that it was a Frenchman, who worked in peacetime photographer.

All the pictures were taken on the eve of one of the longest and bloodiest battles in the history of mankind - the Battle of the Somme. The battle lasted four and a half months, during which the killing and injuring of more than one million people. Most of the pictures shows a portion of the British Army. It is based on the Australians and British. Cheerful and sad, and tired cheerful, neat and smeared - they are so different, but most common destiny. Researchers are currently trying to identify pictures of soldiers. However, while all in vain.