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Maneuvers of the National Guard of New York held at Camp Whitman, Fishkill Plains, New York, July 17th August 1st , 1915 .

Thanks for connecting this and related photos up with the probable event. Although I haven't yet found this specific photo reproduced, I did find testimony that pictures of the proceedings were considered newsworthy in a New-York Tribune advertisement (July 23, 1915), seen via the historic American newspapers site, Chronicling America: chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1915-07-23/ed-... (lower right). We'll add information when we next update the description.

This photo was published in 'Der Krieg 1914/15 in Wort und Bild', Heft 23, p. 179 digi.landesbibliothek.at/viewer/image/AC09345259_23191415... The 'Winterschlacht in Masuren' (Winter Battle of the Masurian Lakes or the Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes) took place in February 1915, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_the_Masurian_Lakes

Thanks B-59 for finding the published photograph and for the information about the Winter Battle of the Masurian Lakes. We will add more details when we update the image description.

Caption B-59's first link is "Field Bakery on the March in East Prussia." This is a photo by Alfred Kühlewindt (1870-1945), who took a number of photos of the fighting on the Eastern Front. www.fotografenwiki.org/index.php/Alfred_K%C3%BChlewindt "Alfred Kühlewindt, who took this photograph, was allowed to enter the battlefield as a war photographer in the fall of 1914. Many photographs of the German front line were staged. The new manner of waging war with long-range artillery, not to mention the no-man’s-land between opposing trench lines, made photographing battle scenes very difficult. As a result, photographs of still scenes (where exposure times were not an issue) circulated in far higher numbers than shots of active combat." germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=2125

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] Nice one - thanks Quasymody, we've stored these links for further study :)

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] hmmm, it's a shame it's not clearer. The only person that looks similar to the one in the newspaper is the man, possibly from Victoria Barracks, to the left of the pole with the hat on....