To memorialise the World War I centenary , the Open University enlisted a photo restoration expert to fastidiously color blackened and white image found in archives around the macrocosm . asterisk at us from across a century , the masses in the images convey iconic consequence on battlefields and at the menage front .
A trench on the Albanian front in 1918 , where a soldier receive a hair cut from an Alpine barber .
A group of soldiers advance from a trench , over a protective sandbag wall ( circa 1915 ) .
A roving pigeon loft , enabling messages to be sent from the Front Line back to headquarters .
A new male child and fille ride in a dress miniature car to advertise the Red Cross during a charity fundraising event in Adelaide , Australia .
Indian foot wearing gas masks in a trench , 1915 , prepared for a gun attack .
German Field Artillery Regiment crowd , with a 7.7 cm Feldkanone 96 field gun , 1914 .
Visit theOpen Universityto see more photos , as well as the original black and white rendering .
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