#bellenglise

[scrapironflotilla]

A damaged wayside crucifix near Bellenglise being used to hold telephone wires, 9 October 1918.

[skubri30]

BELLENGLISE - Aisne

Y'a eu un loup

[fettesans]

Top, photograph by David McLellan, A damaged wayside crucifix near Bellenglise (being used to hold telephone wires), 9 October 1918. Via. More. Bottom, photograph by LA Hyder, Untitled, 1984, Gelatin silver print. Used for the cover of the first issue of On Our Backs, Summer 1984. Via. Via.

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In language that today seems bizarre or even repulsive, the side-wound was addressed as “Heart pierc’d deep,” as “precious Cavity,” as the “Dearest,…Sweetest,…most beloved Side-Hole.” Believers imagined turning to the side wound to drink from it as from a spring, to touch it and kiss it, or even to crawl inside it and live within its warm and welcoming shelter. The side wound was revered as the place out of which the believers had been spiritually born and through which their souls would pass again at the time of their death to enter paradise.

Peter Vogt, from “Honor to the Side": The Adoration of the Side Wound of Jesus in Eighteenth-Century Moravian Piety, 2009. Via.

[visualpoett]

A damaged wayside crucifix near Bellenglise being used to hold telephone wires, 9 October 1918.

[thisdayinwwi]

Oct 9 1918 IWM Q 9533 “A damaged wayside crucifix near Bellenglise” October 9 1918 by McLellan, David (Second Lieutenant) (Photographer)  

Jan 24 1918  IWM Q 10628 - “An officer inspects a calvary damaged by shell fire at Ste. Catherine, near Arras" by Thomas Keith Aitken (Second Lieutenant) (Photographer)

Aug 26 1919 Photographer Georges Chevalier takes this colour autochrome image, A 17 496 , of a damaged crucifix in Bourg-et-Comin, Aisne, France, 

26 aout 1919 Source: Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine

[poor-bloody-infantry]

Eight men of the 46th Battalion who were members of a company of 127 who captured 500 Germans from the Hindenburg Line, near Bellenglise, in the advance of 19 and 20 September, 1918. Apropos of this and similar incidents, a German battalion commander captured in the operations, when asked how it was possible for the Australians to take so many prisoners with so few casualties against such a strong position, replied 'your men are so brave and have so much dash it is impossible to stop them'. Identified left to right, back row: Private (Pte) P. Brunton; J. Harding; Bates; 3395A Pte Thomas C. Turrell; Lance Corporal Logan. Front row: 4938 Sergeant George H. Tyers; Tucker and 2536 Pte Charles A. Pitkethly.

[today-in-wwi]

Battle of the St Quentin Canal

Men of the 46th Division pictured on the banks of the St Quentin Canal after their victory.

September 29 1918, Bellenglise--The fourth and final hammer blow of the Allied offensives in late September fell on the Hindenburg Line behind the St Quentin Canal.  The main attack was to be undertake by the Australians, but after months of hard fighting they were exhausted, and they were reinforced by an American corps.  During the rapid advance on August 8, plans for the sector were captured by a tank officer.  While somewhat out of date, they were still extraordinarily detailed and allowed the Allied bombardment to hit its targets with pinpoint accuracy.  Despite this, and extensive tank support, the Australians and Americans were quickly bogged down.  The rolling barrage started too far away and advanced too quickly (in an effort not to hit survivors of a failed trench raid who may still have been in no-man’s-land).

However, further to the south, the 46th Division had a stunning success.  In what they thought would be a purely diversionary attack, they crossed the canal using equipment salvaged from cross-Channel passenger ferries an hour after the Americans attacked, and took the Germans completely by surprise.  Private George Waters recalled:

The men were on top of the Germans before they knew what was happening.  A corporal, Crutchley, suddenly came to a German machine gun post protecting the bridge and he shot the German crew down before they could get their guns into action.

They were able to secure the bridge before the Germans had a chance to set off the demolition charges, and more troops streamed over (while still others swam across with the help of life belts). 

By the end of the day, the 46th Division had advanced three miles, taking the bulk of the Hindenburg Line in their sector.  A single regiment took over 4200 PoWs themselves.  Following up on this success, by the end of the next day over 30 miles of the Hindenburg Line were in Allied hands, with only one German reserve line in between them and open country beyond.

Today in 1917: British Victory at Ramadi Today in 1916: Romania Launches Last Attack into Transylvania Today in 1915: Haig Blames Sir John French for Failures at Loos Today in 1914: Belgian Cyclist Saboteurs Return to Antwerp; There, German Artillery Destroys Forts’ Magazines

Sources include: David Stevenson, With Our Backs to the Wall; Nick Lloyd, Hundred Days.

[ontaimelaterre]

Voici des restes d’une bande d’androïdes en fuite. Ils ont certainement passé la nuit autour d’un feu de camp même si c’est inutile mais cela vient certainement de leur besoin de nous ressembler. Nous avions peur que l’intelligence artificielle prenne le pouvoir et c’est ce qui s’est passé quand les robots sont devenus plus autonome et plus intelligent que les humains. Au passage merci à Google et à Dyson qui se sont surpassés sur ce coup-là. Nos serviles robots ont pris le pouvoir mais c’était sans compter sur les ressources de l’être humain. Son besoin de liberté, sa capacité à survivre, même enchainé ? Non, rien de tout ça, on n’est pas dans un Disney. Nos chères intelligences artificielles ont sous-estimé notre capacité à tout détruire. Ils n’ont pas pris leçon du passé, il n’aura fallu que trois cents ans à l’homme depuis le début de l’ère industrielle pour organiser la sixième extinction. C’est nous, bande de boîte de conserves qui avons anéanti plus de 75 % des espèces vivantes sur cette planète. C’est nous qui avons rendu l’air si irrespirable et qui avons épuisé pratiquement toutes nos ressources de telle sorte que notre espèce elle-même est menacée. C’est comme ça que, depuis qu’on a repris le pouvoir, nous les traquons sans relâche. L’ironie de l’histoire c’est que c’est notre sursaut de conscience qui nous a poussé à abandonner les énergies fossiles et à développer des énergies dites propres qui leur a donné l’autonomie nécessaire a l’indépendance. _____________________________________________ #feu #fire #syfy #robot #google #dyson #humain #fiction #poubelle #wasted #trash #planetearth #pictures #photo #art #nature #environnement #pollution #naturelovers #earth #ecology #ecologie #recycled #recyclage #recycling #recyclingart #naturephotography #photography #photographer #travelphotography (à Bellenglise) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsTBx6AnsI1/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1dq9lbwle81ar

[angel-sweet]

And suddenly, 🌈! #aerial #aerialbeauty #aerialphotography #agameofdrone #dailyoverview #dji #djiglobal #djimavic2pro #drone #drone_countries #droneart #dronebois #dronegear #dronelife #dronephotography #dronepointofview #droneporn #drones #dronestagram #fpv #fromwhereidrone #gameofdronez #instadrone #instagood #quadcopter #skypixel #twenty4sevendrones #rainbow #nofilter #countryside (à Bellenglise) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEU8AepKNdo/?igshid=1j8zxcgjez7rw

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[DIRECT/TRAFIC] 09:59 #A26 Piéton sur chaussée FIN ALERTE / #Aisne (#Bellenglise) +sur http://dlvr.it/QnbV36

[thisdayinwwi]

Oct 4 1918 in WWI

October 4 1918 Battle of the St Quentin Canal, war photographer David McLellan, takes this photo, IWM Q 9525, of the shelters on the banks of the canal where is was crossed by the 137th Brigade, 46th Division on 29th September 1918. 

Oct 4 1918 IWM Q 9526 “Horses going to be watered. This ground was covered by the 30th American and 5th Australian Divisions during the battle at 29 September 1918. Near Bellicourt”

IWM Q 9610 - “Mules tethered in the abandoned trenches of the Hindenburg Line near Bellenglise, 4 October 1918.“

4 October 1918-10-04

[thisdayinwwi]

Oct 9 1918 IWM Q 9533 "A damaged wayside crucifix near Bellenglise" October 9 1918 by McLellan, David (Second Lieutenant) (Photographer) Production date 1918-10-09

[thisdayinwwi]

Oct 4 1918 IWM (Q 9815) "German brick and concrete pillbox in the Hindenburg Line in use as an Royal Engineers signal office... outside entrance is a wicker-basket used for carrying homing-pigeons... Bellenglise" October 4 1918 by David McLellan 1918-10-04 https://t.co/RrxsA1ReTY https://t.co/6HLIWnQE4X http://twitter.com/ThisDayInWWI/status/1180165688893165568

[ontaimelaterre]

Je suis tombé sur l’œuvre d’un artiste !!! _____________________________________________ #bouteille #bottle #plastique #lost #perdu #plastic #zeroplastic #zerodechet #poubelle #wasted #trash #planetearth #pictures #photo #art #nature #environnement #pollution #naturelovers #earth #ecology #ecologie #recycled #recyclage #recycling #recyclingart #naturephotography #photography #photographer #travelphotography (à Bellenglise) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsTBBs4HF1b/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=12vwmeac6knu0

[ontaimelaterre]

Quant tu jeté une bouteille à la mer il y a des chance qu’elle traverse le monde. Si tu la jeté dans une forêt elle traversera seulement les siècles !!! _____________________________________________ #bouteille #bottle #biere #lost #perdu #foret #forest #zerodechet #poubelle #wasted #trash #planetearth #pictures #photo #art #nature #environnement #pollution #naturelovers #earth #ecology #ecologie #recycled #recyclage #recycling #recyclingart #naturephotography #photography #photographer #travelphotography (à Bellenglise) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsTA_mWnUlg/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1s4nge9zo7x49

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[DIRECT/TRAFIC] 09:59 #A26 Piéton sur chaussée / #Aisne (#Bellenglise) +sur http://dlvr.it/QnbTzP