World War One

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Catfish

Do you know what this picture has to do with the loss of L 15 (LZ 48) ?

[April 4th, 1916] "Big Game Shooting On The East Coast" (Western Mail cartoon).

https://www.reddit.com/r/100yearsago/

[HunterICX]

Got this from the ''The Great War'' facebook page, here are some interviews of German Veterans made in the 80's about the Battle of Verdun:

http://gottmituns.net/2013/03/18/ger...eo-interviews/

[August]

Originally Posted by HunterICX

Got this from the ''The Great War'' facebook page, here are some interviews of German Veterans made in the 80's about the Battle of Verdun:

http://gottmituns.net/2013/03/18/ger...eo-interviews/

100 years ago today my Great Grandfather, Johann August Ferd Karl was in the trenches on the southern flank of the Verdun salient. Vaux les Palameix (Chevaliers wood, Bouchot wood).




6th Company
8th Bavarian Infantry Regiment Grossherzog Friedrich II. Von Baden
8th Bavarian Infantry Brigade (8th BIR and 4th BIR)
33rd Reserve Division

5th German army (Generalmajor Wilhelm, Crown Prince of Germany)

[Oberon]

Mine was at Flesselles, starting on a couple of months training after being up the front on and off since January. Their next action would be in July at the Somme.

My other great-grandfather so far as I can make out was in Egypt either in the Senussi campaign or at the Suez. He'd reverted from Corporal to Driver at his own request and was working with the Army Service Corps with the 52nd divisional train.

And I'm not so sure about my other great-grandfather, he was either with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders or the Gordon Highlanders at this point, sadly I've not been able to get to his records, I can only presume that they were likely discarded or destroyed after his death in 1917.

[Betonov]

This is why Austria-Hungary lost the war



Everyone was high all the time

(P.S. it's a joke, I know hemp was important for rope and other heavy duty fabric)

[HunterICX]

Originally Posted by August

100 years ago today my Great Grandfather, Johann August Ferd Karl was in the trenches on the southern flank of the Verdun salient. Vaux les Palameix (Chevaliers wood, Bouchot wood).




6th Company
8th Bavarian Infantry Regiment Grossherzog Friedrich II. Von Baden
8th Bavarian Infantry Brigade (8th BIR and 4th BIR)
33rd Reserve Division

5th German army (Generalmajor Wilhelm, Crown Prince of Germany)

Thanks for sharing!

Originally Posted by Oberon

And I'm not so sure about my other great-grandfather, he was either with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders or the Gordon Highlanders at this point, sadly I've not been able to get to his records, I can only presume that they were likely discarded or destroyed after his death in 1917.

Was that common to have records of serving personal discarded or destroyed after one was confirmed killed in action?

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by HunterICX

Was that common to have records of serving personal discarded or destroyed after one was confirmed killed in action?

I must admit I don't know, I wouldn't have thought so, but you can never fully tell with the British document storage system. Also, another possible reason is, if I recall correctly, during WWII a lot of records were lost when a German incendiary burnt down the building they were stored in.

[Catfish]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

[April 4th, 1916] "Big Game Shooting On The East Coast" (Western Mail cartoon).
https://www.reddit.com/r/100yearsago/

Ah thanks Jim , i wondered about the african 'theme'..

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Catfish

Ah thanks Jim , i wondered about the african 'theme'..

As did I if I'm to be totally honest

[Schroeder]

I don't know whether this has come up here already but there is a youtube channel dedicated to show what happened in WWI on a weekly basis:
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGrea...?nohtml5=False

[HunterICX]

^

Yep, on the previous page:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...&postcount=107

but it's worth mentioning again and again imo

[Betonov]

It's this week, but WW1 related so I'll just post it here.
A stash of WWI ordinance was located and the bomb disposal units of civil protection were sent in to clear 87 pieces (386kg) of unexploded shells, grenades and mines (Italian and Austrian)
The area is in the Coastal region, where the Soča front used to be

























As of today, there have been 131 interventions due to unexploded WWI ordinance and it columnated in 421 pieces or combined weight of 2326kg this year

[Aktungbby]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3125088/Inside-toxic-grave-longest-battle-history-French-forest-300-000-died-300-days-Battle-Verdun-littered-bodies-arsenic-unexploded-shells-grows-100-years.html http://mentalfloss.com/article/23966/europes-iron-harvest An extremely lethal and dangerous problem all over it seems; thanks for posting that Betonov!

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Betonov

It's this week, but WW1 related so I'll just post it here.
A stash of WWI ordinance was located and the bomb disposal units of civil protection were sent in to clear 87 pieces (386kg) of unexploded shells, grenades and mines (Italian and Austrian)
The area is in the Coastal region, where the Soča front used to be

As of today, there have been 131 interventions due to unexploded WWI ordinance and it columnated in 421 pieces or combined weight of 2326kg this year

Quite a varied selection of ordnance there Anze. I reckon you could have fun with some of that