the Tyrolean Front 1916

The Tyrolean Front 1916
a remarkable series of photographs from the Wolfgang Weihs collection.
These photos come from the estate of a certain Carl, who wrote on the backs of some of the photos and can also be seen marked in pencil on the photos as a person. He must have been a staff officer in the staff of the 10th Infantry Division and thus witnessed the war year 1916 on the Italian front in Tyrol.
I have taken the liberty of presenting the photos not in chronological order but in a somewhat jumbled fashion.
The photos show the battlefields and some fortresses such as the Lusern fortress in May 1916. Photos showing the degree of destruction of this prominent Austrian-Hungarian fortress do not exist elsewhere and were published in the excellent book by Rolf Hentzschel, Festungskrieg im Hochgebirge (ISBN 978-88-6839-201-7) Athesia-Tappeiner Verlag.
The troop visit of the newly crowned Emperor Charles must be the first visit to the front after the death of Emperor Franz Joseph. You can see that some of the gentlemen are still wearing their mourning colours. Also worthy of note, in addition to very beautiful high mountain shots, are the photos of the shelling of the plateau of Sieben Gemeinden.

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soundtrack: acoustic shellac records pre 1918,
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A publication from the private military history collection of Wolfgang Weihs
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