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Gerald

11-10-11 01:03 AM

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/arti...lefields.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

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Originally Posted by Falkirion (Post 1784554)

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/...rMemorial2.jpg

http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/s...ault/poppy.gif http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/s...ault/poppy.gif http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/s...ault/poppy.gif http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/s...ault/poppy.gif http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/s...ault/poppy.gif http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/s...ault/poppy.gif http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/s...ault/poppy.gif http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/s...ault/poppy.gif http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/s...ault/poppy.gif

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

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Originally Posted by papa_smurf (Post 1784640)

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

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Originally Posted by jimbuna (Post 1784644)

So sorry to hear, was he in the army or a civilian?

Jimbuna

11-10-11 06:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Montray (Post 1784650)

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

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Originally Posted by jimbuna (Post 1784673)

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.

TarJak

11-10-11 07:00 AM

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/a...E1remember.jpg

sidslotm

11-10-11 07:14 AM

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Originally Posted by papa_smurf (Post 1784640)

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

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Originally Posted by Montray (Post 1784679)

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

Gerald

11-10-11 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by jimbuna (Post 1784673)

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

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Originally Posted by Vendor (Post 1784886)

Interesting family history Jim, :yep:

I know very little of it sadly...now my father was a far different case.

Gerald

11-10-11 12:51 PM

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Originally Posted by jimbuna (Post 1784899)

I know very little of it sadly...now my father was a far different case.

OK!

Oberon

11-10-11 01:03 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:

Jimbuna

11-10-11 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Oberon (Post 1784990)

Of course I don't mind.....GOD BLESS THEM ALL

~SALUTE~

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