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WWI Centenary
« on: January 24, 2014, 10:28:19 AM »
2014 - A hundred years since the start of the First World War




Battle of Pilckem Ridge. British and German wounded talking together.



German Retreat to the Hindenburg Line. Cyclists passing through the village of Vraignes, March 1917.


American troops, carrying Stars and Stripes, marching past an operating room; Rouen, 1st June 1917



American nurses; Rouen 1st June 1917



Two British nurses; Rouen, 1st June 1917



Party of British troops wearing German helmets; Athies, April 1917



Battle of the Scarpe. British cavalry advancing over newly captured ground; near Tilloy, 10th April 1917


Issuing rations to German prisoners, Tincourt, April 1917



Battle of the Scarpe. Wounded British soldier being removed from a dug-out; near Tilloy, 10th April 1917



Women carpenters working in theTarrant Hut Workshops, near Calais, 30th June 1917.



The ruined Town Hall, Arras, May 1917



Billet houses, made by soldiers entirely of petrol tins, at Proven, 29th July 1917. In front is a flower garden.



Distinguished visitors to the Front, including the Prince of Siam, and to his right front, Mr. Garvin. The officers in the back row are, from left to right, Major H.C. Roberts, Captain W.C. Scott and Captain Sir George Arthur. The party is about to visit Vimy Ridge. June 1917.



The first official photograph taken of a Tank going into action, at theBattle of Flers-Courcelette, 15th September 1916. The man shown is wearing a leather tank helmet.



Trees cut down by the Germans on the main road from Vendelles to Vermand.



 Indian troops in the ruined village of Caulaincourt.



Mr. R. Small and Mr. Philip Simms, American War Correspondents, at Rollencourt Chateau, 28th May 1917



Silhouette; looking for a comrade's grave. Pilckem, 22 August 1917.

^ I am sure this image is from an album cover, but can't recall who

German prisoner captured in the Battle of Messines Ridge, 8th June 1917



The Duchess of Sutherland attending to a wounded soldier, Calais, July 1917



Burmese near Contalmaison, 2nd September 1917. Reading Burmese papers sent them from England.


A working party in a motor-drawn tip-truck train. Near Arras, 28th June 1917.







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Re: WWI Centenary
« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2014, 11:54:31 AM »
One of my grandfathers joined up I think before he finished high school  and was in an artillery battalion  that got sent to France.  Unfortunately he died when I was only nine so I don't know a lot of details.  My great uncle was all set to go and was even an officer but was sent to Louisiana to train and be an officer for a black battalion but by the time they were ready the war was over.  I have some of his army books in my collection.
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Re: WWI Centenary
« Reply #2 on: January 24, 2014, 12:29:46 PM »
Thank you for posting the pictures. +
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Re: WWI Centenary
« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2014, 01:53:20 PM »
 :birthday:  Happy Birthday, War.  :birthday:
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Re: WWI Centenary
« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2014, 03:00:38 PM »
Thank you Bodie.  My grandfather was stationed in Italy (ambulance driver.)  It was a truly horrible war.
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Re: WWI Centenary
« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2014, 03:26:11 PM »
Yes it was a horrendous few years. 

'shell shock' was an awful thing that plagued survivors for years and years.
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Re: WWI Centenary
« Reply #6 on: January 24, 2014, 05:15:34 PM »
They still dig up unexploded  bombs from WW1 and there are still areas that are off limits because of it in France
http://exhibits.lib.byu.edu/wwi/historical/Verdun.html
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Re: WWI Centenary
« Reply #7 on: January 24, 2014, 06:07:42 PM »
Great pictures. Thanks bodie.  8)
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Re: WWI Centenary
« Reply #8 on: January 24, 2014, 06:08:41 PM »
Quote from: odeon on January 24, 2014, 12:29:46 PM
Thank you for posting the pictures. +
seconded.  :plus:
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Re: WWI Centenary
« Reply #9 on: January 24, 2014, 06:14:33 PM »
Good pictures indeed.

It is weird, how the Great War is no part of my history. It hardly got mentioned during history lessons at primary school. WWII got lots and lots attention.
The Flu from 1918 made a far bigger impression on people.

Strange, it was so horrendous, and so close. Belgium, Germany, England, all the direct neighbours were part of it.
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Re: WWI Centenary
« Reply #10 on: January 24, 2014, 06:43:28 PM »
Netherlands is listed as 'neutral' although it says on wikipedia that they were an ally of the UK by treaty.  Spain too.
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Re: WWI Centenary
« Reply #11 on: January 24, 2014, 06:51:41 PM »
Government here are releasing documents digitally for free over the next four years to mark the centenary.  I have just located papers and medal list for my Grandfather.   He returned from France with a metal plate in his skull and spent the rest of his life with shell shock.   Drinking and sometimes violent.  I never met him, he had died before I was born.


Parliament has been arguing over whether it was a 'just' war and how it should be presented to school kids. 
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Re: WWI Centenary
« Reply #12 on: January 25, 2014, 01:06:28 AM »
Doesn't your parliament have anything better to do than arguing about how to rewrite history. FFS, just tell what happened.
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Re: WWI Centenary
« Reply #13 on: January 25, 2014, 01:32:47 AM »


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Re: WWI Centenary
« Reply #14 on: January 25, 2014, 03:36:09 AM »
The pictures are well worth looking at a second time.
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