View Full Version : All quiet on the Western Front.....
....as haunting images of the Great War's battlefields are revealed before Remembrance Day.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2058917/Remembrance-Day-2011-Haunting-pictures-Great-Wars-battlefields.html#
Note: Thursday, Nov 10 2011
Falkirion
11-10-11, 01:29 AM
RIP to all the brave men from both sides who lost their lives during the conflict.
And those are some very haunting pics, hard to imagine what they would have looked like nearly 100 years ago.
Torplexed
11-10-11, 01:37 AM
And those are some very haunting pics, hard to imagine what they would have looked like nearly 100 years ago.
The before and after pictures of Fort Douaumont near Verdun gives one a sobering glimpse.
http://www.strangecosmos.com/images/content/135663.jpg
sidslotm
11-10-11, 03:57 AM
Good post this one, thanks. In today's hussle bussle life it's easy to over look what men went through in the 14/18 war. I often google map these places and I am humbled by the French and their refusal to plow these land marks under, I'm not sure the British would have been able to muster that level of respect.
I read an interesting little article on an Amazon review where a man describes the first world war as a european civil war, he even went as far as describe WW2 as the same, a civil war.
I find this point of view very interesting because of the fact that Britian was in 1914 and uptil the 50s, still teaching school children about their Saxon heritage. How quick we all are to put aside who we all are for war.
Jimbuna
11-10-11, 05:26 AM
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
http://www.ukstudentlife.com/Travel/Tours/Belgium/Brussels/WarMemorial2.jpg
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papa_smurf
11-10-11, 05:47 AM
I have a excellent series on DVD about WWI, called "The Great War", which was originally broadcast in the 70's on the BBC. Of all the episodes, the worst has to be the one on the British dug in around Ypres/Passchendale where there were no trenches to speak of, but a landscape of shell holes filled with water/corpses/etc.
On friday I will paying my respects at my towns war memorial -we shall never forget.
Jimbuna
11-10-11, 05:53 AM
I have a excellent series on DVD about WWI, called "The Great War", which was originally broadcast in the 70's on the BBC. Of all the episodes, the worst has to be the one on the British dug in around Ypres/Passchendale where there were no trenches to speak of, but a landscape of shell holes filled with water/corpses/etc.
On friday I will paying my respects at my towns war memorial -we shall never forget.
I get a little resentful when I view footafe of the Somme....that is where my grandfather was buried alive in an explosion.
Thanfully he was rescued but he was stone deaf after that for the remainder of his life.
Montray
11-10-11, 06:01 AM
I get a little resentful when I view footafe of the Somme....that is where my grandfather was buried alive in an explosion.
Thanfully he was rescued but he was stone deaf after that for the remainder of his life.
So sorry to hear, was he in the army or a civilian?
Jimbuna
11-10-11, 06:22 AM
So sorry to hear, was he in the army or a civilian?
Durham Light Infantry iirc...would need to check with my mother (he was her father).
BossMark
11-10-11, 06:27 AM
Oh! you who sleep in Flanders Fields,
Sleep sweet - to rise anew!
We caught the torch you threw
And holding high, we keep the Faith
With All who died.
We cherish, too, the poppy red
That grows on fields where valour led;
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies,
But lends a lustre to the red
Of the flower that blooms above the dead
In Flanders Fields.
And now the Torch and Poppy Red
We wear in honour of our dead.
Fear not that ye have died for naught;
We'll teach the lesson that ye wrought
In Flanders Fields.
Montray
11-10-11, 06:29 AM
Durham Light Infantry iirc...would need to check with my mother (he was her father).
Ah I see, If I remember correctly Durham was quite a famous regiment right?
The name sounds very very familiar in any case
kiwi_2005
11-10-11, 06:38 AM
Good post, some interesting photos there.
http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa54/TarJak/AE1remember.jpg
sidslotm
11-10-11, 07:14 AM
I have a excellent series on DVD about WWI, called "The Great War", which was originally broadcast in the 70's on the BBC. Of all the episodes, the worst has to be the one on the British dug in around Ypres/Passchendale where there were no trenches to speak of, but a landscape of shell holes filled with water/corpses/etc.
I remember seeing this series, the horrendous images made there mark on all who watched. There where no imbedded news teams in those day's, the first a person new about tragedy was by telegram.
Jimbuna
11-10-11, 09:31 AM
Ah I see, If I remember correctly Durham was quite a famous regiment right?
The name sounds very very familiar in any case
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durham_Light_Infantry
http://www.1914-1918.net/dli.htm
Durham Light Infantry iirc...would need to check with my mother (he was her father). Interesting family history Jim, :yep:
Jimbuna
11-10-11, 11:53 AM
Interesting family history Jim, :yep:
I know very little of it sadly...now my father was a far different case.
I know very little of it sadly...now my father was a far different case.OK!
The Somme was a bloody mess...like many of the battlefields of the Western Front...I had two relatives that I know of in the Great War, one made it out and the other didn't.
My Great-Grandfather I have mentioned a lot about before, he was also buried by a nearby shell hit, but thankfully it must have been further away than the one that caught your grandfather, Jim, because he managed to retain his hearing and dig himself out.
My Great-Grand-Uncle I know little of other than his name was Robert and he was killed by a sniper at Verdun around 1916 I think, either that or 1918...I can't quite recall.
But yes...I'll be heading down the memorial tomorrow, I try to every year if I can. We have a lot to be grateful for, and it's on their shoulders and their sacrifices that we stand. I'm going to borrow one of those poppies for my sig if you don't mind Jim... :yep:
Jimbuna
11-10-11, 01:16 PM
The Somme was a bloody mess...like many of the battlefields of the Western Front...I had two relatives that I know of in the Great War, one made it out and the other didn't.
My Great-Grandfather I have mentioned a lot about before, he was also buried by a nearby shell hit, but thankfully it must have been further away than the one that caught your grandfather, Jim, because he managed to retain his hearing and dig himself out.
My Great-Grand-Uncle I know little of other than his name was Robert and he was killed by a sniper at Verdun around 1916 I think, either that or 1918...I can't quite recall.
But yes...I'll be heading down the memorial tomorrow, I try to every year if I can. We have a lot to be grateful for, and it's on their shoulders and their sacrifices that we stand. I'm going to borrow one of those poppies for my sig if you don't mind Jim... :yep:
Of course I don't mind.....GOD BLESS THEM ALL
~SALUTE~
nikimcbee
11-10-11, 02:00 PM
A question for everybody. How many had family the fought in WWI? What did they do? Did they survive?
I've been re-kindling my interest in WWI. I bought the video series "The First World War" (Channel 4)
My Dad's side of the family got out of Europe right before the War started (Austrio-Hungary) and moved to Brasil.
I shall note the two minute silence tomorrow and on Sunday as well.
A question for everybody. How many had family the fought in WWI? What did they do? Did they survive?
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=684262&postcount=8
nikimcbee
11-10-11, 02:43 PM
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=684262&postcount=8
Thanks for re-posting that.:salute: I remember when you posted it originally.
A question for everybody. How many had family the fought in WWI? What did they do? Did they survive?
I've been re-kindling my interest in WWI. I bought the video series "The First World War" (Channel 4)
My Dad's side of the family got out of Europe right before the War started (Austrio-Hungary) and moved to Brasil.
My Great-Grandfather James Milne was Master-at-Arms on the HMHS Brittanic:
http://www.titanic-whitestarships.com/HMHS%20Britannic.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMHS_Britannic
Luckily he survived her sinking. Otherwise I probably wouldn't be here!
No photo of him though.:cry:
Don't know about the rest of the family.
Mike.
Randomizer
11-10-11, 04:01 PM
My maternal Grandfather died for King and Country 24 October 1918 - killed by influenza while waiting to be posted to a front line battalion from the Canadian Expeditionary Force replacement pool in France.
Mom was born the following May and Grandmother was denied her meager widow's pension as he had not died in combat.
Perhaps the most pointless, futile, ill-managed and far-reaching war since 1648 and maybe since ancient times; one where the consequences continue to haunt us even today. We should never forget but we should also strive to understand what happened without glorifying or romanticizing the thing.
Respenus
11-10-11, 04:42 PM
/rant
What a pitiful country I live in. People can't be bothered to remember something as unimportant as the First World War. All they care about is drinking themselves half dead on a Friday. I realise that we fought on the loosing side, but that doesn't mean that our boys died in vain, especially if you consider that a third of all Slovenians were forced to live under Italy, which soon turned in a fascist regime. There is always a small group of older gentlemen that try to commemorate the fallen, but that's about it. Considering that we have an excellent Isonzo front museum, one would think there was more interest.
In any case, I try and pay my respects to the fallen on my own.
Jimbuna
11-10-11, 06:16 PM
A question for everybody. How many had family the fought in WWI? What did they do? Did they survive?
I've been re-kindling my interest in WWI. I bought the video series "The First World War" (Channel 4)
My Dad's side of the family got out of Europe right before the War started (Austrio-Hungary) and moved to Brasil.
Check my previous posts Jason.
Tribesman
11-11-11, 03:52 AM
Better late than never.
http://www.glasnevintrust.ie/index.cfm/fuseaction/notice_board.content/id/B2E9B4F8-0B0E-69D4-0B4E547D84B2D5CB
Credit to such a detailed list and page Trib,:up:
BossMark
11-11-11, 04:35 AM
They shall grow not old
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7av6mgdeCkY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbw1pGUhG7Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEY6LcZFtXc
HunterICX
11-11-11, 07:23 AM
Adieu la vie, adieu l'amour,
Adieu toutes les femmes.
C'est bien fini, c'est pour toujours,
De cette guerre infâme.
C'est à Craonne, sur le plateau,
Qu'on doit laisser sa peau
Car nous sommes tous condamnés
C'est nous les sacrifiés !
HunterICX
Sailor Steve
11-11-11, 11:26 AM
I've a little wet home in a trench,
where the rainstorms continually drench.
There's a dead cow nearby, her feet aimed towards the sky,
And she gives off a terrible stench.
Underneath, in the place of a floor
There's a mass of wet mud and some straw.
But with shells dropping there, there's no place to compare
With my little wet home in the trench.
Randomizer
11-11-11, 12:41 PM
The World wasn't made in a day
And Eve didn't ride on a bus
But most of the world's in a sandbag
And the rest of it's plastered on us
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What sublime emotion inspires you at the moment of the assault?
I think of nothing other than dragging my feet out of the mud that encases them.
What did you feel after surviving the attack?
I grumbled because I would have to remain in the line without wine.
Is not ones first act to kneel down and give thanks to God?
No. One relieves himself.
Raymond Joubert
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In case of bad weather, the battle will be conducted indoors.
Notice posted in a German dugout at Verdun
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GOOD-MORNING; good-morning, the General said
When we met him last week on our way to the line.
Now the soldiers he smiled at are most of em dead,
And we're cursing his staff for incompetent swine.
He's a cheery old card, grunted Harry to Jack
As they slogged up to Arras with rifle and pack.
. . . .
But he did for them both by his plan of attack.
Siegfried Sassoon
Lest We Forget...
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