Grafitti and Trench Drawings
From the walls of Pompei to the streets of modern day New York, we find grafitti everywhere. Great War soldiers with time on their hands in the trenches must surely have doodled around on any flat surface at hand, on dug-out walls, in farm-houses and billets, in abandonded buildings and on the odd scrap of paper.
Now most of such doodling and drawing is not preserved for posterity. However we do have several photos of Great War grafitti that were published in 'Sittengeschichte des Weltkrieges'. Also quite interesting is a photo of a house in Poland that has been defaced by Russian soldiers with all manner of indecent drawings.
'The Barracks Artist at Work' a drawing by L.Gedö
Photo of a house in Poland with walls covered in grafitti left by Russian soldiers.
An Erotic Fantasy - drawing in a French trench
Another drawing from a French trench
Grafitti from a Viennese military hospital.
