British prisoners in the process of being released from the internment camp at De Vlasakkers near Amersfoort. Autumn or winter 1918.
1915: A high-ranking officer serves replenishment to Dutch troops marching through Amsterdam as part of a three-day exercise.
Conscripted telegraph troops (T
elegrafisten - today they would be called "
Verbindingstroepen") of the "batch" 1917 being called up for military service.
British prisoners in their barracks at Groningen's internment camp
British prisoners during a snow fight in the same camp.
The
Wire of Death thoroughly ruined Dutch-German relations (particularly in the eyes of the general public who had been relatively pro-German and anti-British (particularly because of the Boer Wars), anti-French before the war.) In both pictures, Dutch troops can be seen on the right - Germans on the left.
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