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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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près de Vauquois - near Vauquois

prisonniers portent un de leurs blessé - prisoners carry one of their wounded

A shattered family memorial

le zeppelin abattu à Compiègne - the zeppelin shot down in Compiègne

tank anglais incendie vers Moreuil - British tank burnt out near Moreuil

abords du fort de Vaux - nearby fort Vaux

Graves at Bezonvaux

observatoire devant le fort de Vaux - observation point in front of fort Vaux

cadavre boche dans une tranchée conquise - German corpse in a captured trench

en enterre les morts - burying the dead

grosse grenade allemande - large German mortar (literally grenade)

infanterie en réserve - reserve infantry

en pleine attaque - preparing to attack (literally, in full atttack)

Bois des Fougasses 1er ligne - Fougasses Wood front line

Blasted village

Devastation all around

attaque aux gaz - gas attack (by the French, note the gas cylinders)

attaque aux gaz - gas attack in the distance (probably a French attack given the relaxed attitude of the soldiers in the foreground)

déserteurs boche - German deserters

la maison blindée - strong point (literally, the armoured house)