#houplines

[herprivateswe]

Food cooking on a stove in the officers' dugout at Houpline, with troops of the 1/16th Battalion, London Regiment (Queen's Westminster Rifles) standing outside, 1915.

[theworldofwars]

Soldiers of the 1st Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) digging potatoes from a field on the edge of which their trench was conveniently situated. 20th November 1914, Houplines Sector.

[bigduduche2k24]

11 avril 2024 / Houplines

[arnaudpattin]

Trêve de Noël 1914, le témoignage de Frank Richards "Old soldiers never die".

Richards, Frank (1883-1961) Réserviste de l’armée coloniale, Franck Richards a combattu sur le front occidental pendant toute la durée de la guerre. Il a connu de très nombreux secteurs : Ypres, Houplines, Bois-Grenier, Laventie, la Somme, Arras. Ses mémoires forment un récit alerte et riche en informations, notamment pour ce qui est des relations entre Français et Britanniques. On y trouve…

[docpresseesj]

Houplin-Ancoisne est une commune française située dans le département du Nord, en région Hauts-de-France.

La force de la presse locale, c'est sa connaissance fine du territoire.

[zomb59]

Houplin-Ancoisne (France)

[paulrennie]

Things I Like • Vintage Hospital Suit • France • c 1950s

Equipements Militaires is stamped onto the metal buttons of the trousers of a vintage blue wool two-piece hospital suit from France. These suits were cut in a loose, unstructured, way and with simple construction.

The jacket has a shawl collar, patch pockets and a tie waist. It is a modern version of the old-style smoking jacket, but without the fancy silk collar. The trousers are wide-leg and tie-waisted.

The suits were made for recovering military casualties in the days before anti-biotics. The blue coloured cloth seems to have been standard for these suits, in both Britain and France.

The thick woolen cloth is woven by Linne-Desmaziere of Houplines, near Lille in northern France. All the suits I've found online have the same cloth, but are made in different places. SSA36 is the pattern number I think.

Here are some pictures of a similar suit, found online from Japan. These pictures are lovely, and show the shape and detail of the suit beautifully...

[poor-bloody-infantry]

December 1916, Houplines. Unidentified members of the 39th Battalion partaking in hot coffee in the front line trenches held by the battalion. Owing to the German observation of this sector there was great difficulty in getting hot meals to the men in the front line. Note the strombus horn, for gas alarms, above the man in the centre of the image.

[ulyssesbuell]

PROMENADES EN BUELL DANS LES HAUTS DE FRANCE

  Septembre 2019, Les Weppes, De Houplines à Pérenchies par la M7, la même que dans la vidéo précédente, mais dans l'autre sens,  très mauvais revêtement sur la chaussée. 

[catholgui]

Bonjour à tous voici une vidéo sur une de mes créations au crochet : collier avec pendentif au crochet et bouton bois tête d'ours.

[scrapironflotilla]

Soldier of the 1st Battalion, Cameronians in a muddy trench near Houplines, 20th December 1914.

[novanx]

#canal #eau #water #nature #balade #houplinancoisne #hautdefrance (à Houplin-Ancoisne) https://www.instagram.com/p/CS1YMo0qFFk/?utm_medium=tumblr

[airmanisr]

SNCB-NMBS 29.013 / Houplines by Nicolas B. Via Flickr: - Cliché de Pierre HERBIET -

[zomb59]

Houplin-Ancoisne (France)

[thisdayinwwi]

Thomas Keith Aitken takes the following photos on Mar 13 1918:

IWM (Q 11561) “Two officers of the Royal Engineers (29th Division) with a French interpreter attached to the Division outside their quarters in a lock on the Yser-Lys canal at Ypres" March 13 1918

IWM (Q 11563) “Post of the 13th Battalion, Welsh Regiment (38th Division) on the Houplines-Frelinghien road. Note camouflage screen across road and a small graveyard on the left, 13 March 1918. ... Two officers on the far right are Captain J. Boulton MC and Lieutenant Colonel J. Kennedy DSO & Bar MC DCM. “

Production date:1918-03-13

[18thfoot]

Royal Irish Regiment soldiers who died on 6th July

1915 

1st Bn

7261 Private Michael Costello, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary. Interred Houplines Communal Cemetery Extension, France.

 1916

1st Bn

6390 Private Lawrence Younge, Kilmacow, Co. Kilkenny. Commemorated Doiran Memorial, Greece.

 1918

 1st Garrison Bn.

9624 Private James Heaney. Interred Lurgan (Dougher) Roman Catholic Cemetery, Co. Armagh, Northern Ireland.

 2nd Bn

5258 Private Kieran Drea, Cuffesgrange, Co. Kilkenny. Interred Sedan (St Charles) Communal Cemetery, France