Soldiers of the Great War: A Brit in The Trenches

For my final WWI soldier, I chose this British soldier just because I liked his face.  The helmet, the trenchcoat...they're pretty standard, but I simply liked his face, so I sketched him down.  On a barely related sidenote (and I recommend reading up some on trench warfare in WWI), I would recommend taking in the final Black Adder series that satirizes this struggle.

Soldiers of the Great War: A German in Winter

For some reason, the simple wool-lined rustic looking coat with the mustache and hat made me think that this fella would've looked right at home storming over the steppes with Attila and descending on the Roman empire if the were a bow over his shoulder instead of a rifle.

Soldiers of the Great War: The Sikh Regiments

For this week, I decided to do something different, and using various image searches found what I thought were some interesting and different views of soldiers from the first world war.  I started with this interesting image I found of a lone soldier from one of the Sikh Regiments.

The Fire Set Off By Franz...

This quickie was based on an interesting photo I saw of two Austrian soldiers sitting on a giant piece of artillery from the first World War.