Images from WWI

[Graeme]

First World War centenary - Wikipedia

Thought it would be nice to start a thread where people can post images from WWI - similar to the WWII picture threads.
To start...
Two Australians guard a captured Turkish sniper (if you can spot him)...

 

[Wurger]

 

[buffnut453]

This might interest folks looking at this thread. Sir Peter Jackson of "Lord of the Rings" and Wingnut Wings Models fame is collaborating with the Imperial War Museum to create a new film about the First World War. The film will comprise totally restored and updated footage from the conflict, together with recordings of interviews with veterans to get a first-hand perspective on the WW1 experience. The premier is scheduled in London for Armistice Day, 11 November, 2018.

This video gives a taster for what's in store...and I, for one, hope they release this on DVD because I think it's something I will want to watch over and over again:


View: https://youtu.be/vn6HrP_LTu8

 

[Graeme]

Looks interesting Buffnut.....thanks.

 

[Graeme]

Caption says this is Thomas Edward Lawrence.

T. E. Lawrence - Wikipedia

 

[Wurger]

 

[Graeme]

Observation "post".
A forward observation officer of the 82nd Battery, Royal Field Artillery, observes the fall of shot during the advance on Kut in the autumn of 1915...

 

[Wurger]

 

[buffnut453]

Observation "post".
A forward observation officer of the 82nd Battery, Royal Field Artillery, observes the fall of shot during the advance on Kut in the autumn of 1915...

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It took many iterations, and over 80 years of technical improvements, before the Segway became a viable mode of transportation.

 

[Gnomey]

Good stuff!

 

[Graeme]

Rubber shortage in Germany - 1917...

 

[Graeme]

Belgian Carabiniers with dog-drawn machine guns. 20th August 1914...

 

[Hansie Bloeckmann]

First World War centenary - Wikipedia

Thought it would be nice to start a thread where people can post images from WWI - similar to the WWII picture threads.
To start...
Two Australians guard a captured Turkish sniper (if you can spot him)...

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Centered between the two Aussies with Enfield rifles on left shoulders-- I can see his helmet, and his boots behind the leafy screen-assume he surrendered his rifle- wonder what make, cal. and configuration he was using?Not "on topic" here,but a great movie about the Aussies in the Boer War-- "Breaker Morant"- B&W, probably came out in the 1970's--

 

[Graeme]

Charles Web Gilbert - Wikipedia

 

[Airframes]

Hansie, 'Breaker Morant' was made in 1980, in colour - great movie.

 

[The Basket]

Turkish sniper rifle would probably be a Mauser not sure which one or if it would have had a scope. This probably from Gallipoli. Turks had the 1903 in 7.65mm
Snipers are not usually captured so the guards could be there to stop any instant justice. A sniper would usually quickly throw away his rifle if he felt he was going to be captured.
Turkey was a regional power so certainly a powerful enough country to have as an enemy or ally

 

[Graeme]

The diminutive Arthur Vickers VC. Just over 5 ft tall...

Arthur Vickers - Wikipedia

Being congratulated by a rather large Sergeant Patrick Burns just before attending a concert for wounded soldiers at Highbury Hall, Birmingham...

 

[Graeme]

A wounded British 'Bantam' bringing in a prisoner during the Battle of Epéhy on the18th September 1918...

 

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[Graeme]