Images of the physical and psychological scares left by World War I.

1. World War I Trauma
(Warning graphic images. If you have sensitivities to
violence and gore, you might want to keep scrolling.)

2. British Soldiers Operating a Vickers Machine Gun, Battle of
the Somme, July 1916.
Gas Masks
Machine Gun

3. World War I Casualties on the Battlefield, France, 1914.
On the 1916 Front alone…
850,000 Germans
700,000 French
400,000 British

4. Photographs and reconstruction drawings
of war injuries, c. 1917

5. Figure 2. Moulage (painted plaster), Mus:e
du Val-de-GrAce,Paris. Photo courtesy of
Musce du service de sant6 des Arm6es,
Val-de-GrAce,Paris.
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Wax casts of war injuries, Val-de-Grace
Museum, c. 1917

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Figure3. Pairof moulages(paintedwax),Museedu Val-de-Grace,Paris.Photocourtesyof Musee
du servicede santedesArmees,Val-de-Grace,Paris.
Wax casts of war injuries, Val-de-Grace
Museum, c. 1917

7. British soldier suffering from “shell shock”, c. 1917.
Over 80,000 British soldiers suffered
from “shell shock.”