'Belgian troops resting after a fight', 1914

Lantern slide, World War One, Western Front (1914-1918), 1914.

Although Belgium's small army resisted bravely against the invasion of 4 August 1914 it was soon overrun by the huge German force opposing it. Over 750,000 soldiers of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Armies crossed the frontier to initiate the Schlieffen Plan, an invasion route through Belgium and into northern France. The Belgians fell back to their 'National Redoubt' at Antwerp.

From a box of 70 lantern slides.