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Each of the stereoviews has been tagged with the following primary filters Theatre, Subject, Source and Publisher - click on the drop down lists and select any combination of these to limit your selection. In addition, the stereoviews have the following secondary tags, ie. detail that may or may not be present in the image. Include these to refine your selection.

Service Arm – make a selection from the drop down list
Location - enter a search term in the "search term" box
Regiment / Ship - enter a search term in the "search term" box
Battle or Engagement - enter a search term in the "search term" box
Image Date - enter a search term in the "search term" box
Nationality of Combatants - enter a search term in the "search term" box
Image ID - enter the ID number in the "Image ID" box to select a specific image
Images with Anaglyphs - check this box to display only anaglyph images

For example, if you want to display stereoviews of British combatants in behind the lines scenes from the Western Front.

To do this select "Western Front" from the Theatre drop down list, select "Behind the Lines" from the Subject drop down and enter "British" in the Search Term field (no quotation marks required). Click on the Filter button and a thumbnail list of your images will be displayed. Click on a thumbnail to view a larger image, more details and add comments. The Western Front Association provides these images free of charge to researchers, collectors, academics, and for personal use with proper attribution (Jordan/Ference Collection courtesy of greatwarin3d.org); in the case of commercial use please email stereoscope@westernfrontassociation.com.

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Machine-gun car awaiting deployment

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Theatre: Western Front Subject: Behind the Lines Publisher: Amateur Stereographers (Collections) Source: French

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Machine-gun car awaiting deployment

Railway bridge under construction

Railway track maintenance

Preparing for entraining

Entraining for an imminent move to the front

Peaceful contemplation away from the battlefield

Lone soldier watches the camera, Abbaye Sainte-Marie aux Monts-des-Cats, Godewaersvelde in the distance

Posing for the camera (possibly l'église Saint Martin, Meteren in the background: destroyed in the war)

Hopital d'evacuation nr 36

Preparing the meat ration

Butchery, literally, in the field

A supply column being readied

A lone French officer watches the camera

American supply column mustering

Devasted battlefield

Poilus with time on their hands

Busy unloading narrow-gauge railway

Destroyed shelter

Battle-scarred trenches

The old front line