The soldiers life through ages

French infantry quarters inspection after Édouard Detaille (1885).

Roman soldiers life

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Medieval and Renaissance era

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  A Renaissance army on the move with civilian followers.
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Early Modern Age

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  A wounded English soldier taking refuge in a hayloft after the Battle of Sedgemoor and helped by civilian women.
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  French mousquetaires ( musketeers) playing a game of piquet.
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  A french infantry barrack at the end of the Ancien Regime.
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  Bivouac of the Strasbourg National Guard during the French Revolution.

19th-century soldiers life

Napoleonic wars

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  Napoleon at a french soldier's bivouac.
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  Prussian biwak with a vivandière saling goods to the troops.
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  French military cadet studying.
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  French cuirassiers envoying a game of bowling.

Crimean War

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  Wounded soldiers at the Florence Nightingale's Scutari hospital.
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  The Camp Theatre outside Sebastopol.
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  Cavalry camp near Balaklava (1855).
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  Interior of an Officer's tent.

American Civil War

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  Civilian afro-american gang washing clothes for the US troops at the General Lafayette's Headquarter.
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  Preparing a meal.
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  Army blacksmith and forge, Antietam, Maryland, september 1862.
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  Camp Chaplain and soldiers.

European armies

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  An Italian army's bivouac during manoeuvers.
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  French army camp during the 1870-71 war with the German Empire.
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  French soldiers dueling.
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  Mustering Swedish soldiers.

Early 20th century armies

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World War I

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World War II

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  Blokhaus construction on the Russian front.
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  Awaiting Ivan - a sentry on the Eastern front.
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  Essensausgabe - food distribution for Luftwaffe's ground troops.
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  Soldiers repairing vehicles on a field workshop.

• Japanese imperial army.

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  Physical examination for conscription.
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  Shintoist ceremonial service for fallen comrades in Nanking.
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  Japanese army's tent.
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  Japanese soldiers constructing a bridge in Malaya.

• Allied armies.

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  The Phony War : French and British soldiers enjoying a meal near a shelter (1939).
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  A British armoured car under repair in a French farm yard (1939).
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  The "Red Ball Express" supply convoys : loading/unloading combat rations for the US troops.
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  Hot meal for soldiers on the Belgian front during the Battle of the Bulge (winter 1944-45).

Late 20th-century and contemporary armies

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  American soldiers at work in April 2002.
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  American soldiers at Afghanistan in November 2009.
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Military life reenactment and reconstruction

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  Preparing For War - a medieval reconstruction in the Kingmaker exhibition at Warwick Castle (UK).
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  Getting His Kit On - another part of the exhibition.
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  Army and Navy hard tack - the soldiers and sailors "combat ration" for centuries.
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  Reconstructed assortment of medicines used during the American Civil War.

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  A Roman camp reenactment (the chairs are not matching).
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  A Napoleonic bivouac reenactment on the battlefield of Waterloo (Belgium) - last battle of the Emperor (June 1815).
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  An American Civil War camp reconstructed at the White Pine Village (Michigan).
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  American Civil War reenactors relax around the campfire.

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  Christmas Truce World War I reenactment.
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  A World War I Austrian army's field kitchen reconstruction in Pisek.
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  Relaxing at the bivouac (World War II reenactment).

Related/Selected Bibliography

• Philip Warner : The Soldier : His Daily Life through the Ages, Littlehampton Book Services Ltd 1975 (ISBN - 9780213165567)