#first world war

[theworldofwars]

Ruins of the Chateau Segar, Near Ypres. WWI

[slavicgerman]

One of The Red Baron's triplanes on display, 1935

[queerism1969]

[blackswaneuroparedux]

These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment.

- Wilfred Owen

An ex-comrade in arms from my former regiment forwarded me this video. It’s been doing the rounds amongst veterans. It doesn’t need any explanation.

Lest we forget...

[dronescapesvideos]

The Red Baron, WWI. Soldiers examine what remains of Manfred von Richthofen's aircraft after he was shot down, and killed over Vaux-sur-Somme, France, just days before his 26th birthday, but by then already an aviation legend.

➤➤ HIGHER RESOLUTION IMAGE: https://dronescapes.video/RedBaron

[barbucomedie]

Sniper Robe from the British Empire dated to around 1916 on display at the Imperial War Museum in London, England

Many British Army snipers were trained by former Highland gamekeepers and deer stalkers of the Lovat Scouts, who gave extensive guidance on sniper's field service attire based on their extensive professional skills in improvising personal camouflage and their practical experience of effective concealment. As a result a wide variety of camouflage clothing schemes were adopted on the Western Front, either improvised or officially produced; these included mittens, gaiters and robes.

Photographs taken by myself 2023

[bantarleton]

The Royal Tank Regiment’s Cambrai anniversary commemorations.

[illustratus]

The Ravine of Death at Verdun by Ferdinand-Joseph Gueldry

[huariqueje]

Sleeping Quarters of the French Civilian Evacuation Section, Oxela√´re - Ernest Procter , 1917.

British , 1886-1935

Watercolour, gouache, and pencil , 10 x 8 in. 25.5 x 20 cm.

[disappointedart]

Instead of therapy, tarot picturing Gaunt and Ellwood from "in memoriam" by Alice Winn. Poem is Lord Tennyson's "charge of the light brigade". Go read this book. Please.

[theworldofwars]

A graves registration officer locating a grave in the old trenches at Sannaiyat, near Kut, 1917. 

[henk-heijmans]

The Battle of the Somme took place between 1 July and 18 November 1916. It was one of the largest battles of the First World War, in which more than a million men were wounded or killed, making it one of the bloodiest battles in human history - by John Warwick Brooke (1886 - 1929), English

[lionofchaeronea]

Bully, Bruce Bairnsfather, 1914-18

[duncandonuts06]

Continuing the Remembrance Day theme with an oc I haven't formally introduced yet, No. 303!

303 (he/him) is a War Department Hunslet 4-6-0T, also affectionally known by its nickname the "War Office." I'll save most of his lore for when I finally get around to doing his ref sheet but I will offer a few tidbits!

He survives WWI and carries a large, deforming scar across the left side of his face from his service. (He has both eyes, he's just winking haha)

His nose was also broken during the war, leaving it crooked and misshapen. He believes in wearing his scars with pride, but, deep down is still quite self-conscious of his battered face.

He's best friends with Dave and sees him like a mentor and an older brother. He meets Schatzchen post-war and becomes fine friends with him as well.

303 (his only identifier and number) is shared by a real Hunslet (works number No. 1215) who served as his inspiration and, as I take it, is the only remaining "War Office" still running. Schatzi was also inspired by a real Brigadelok: No. 1091 (works number No. 15968) and No. 945 (works number No. 14913)

that's all folks!

[mr-oscarwilde]

Happy birthday Wilfred Owen! (b. 18th March 1893) ↳  Know that since mid-September, when you still regarded me as a tiresome little knocker on your door, I held you as Keats + Christ + Elijah + my Colonel + my father-confessor + Amenophis IV in profile. What's that mathematically? In effect it is this: that I love you, dispassionately, so much, so very much, dear Fellow, that the blasting little smile you wear on reading this can't hurt me in the least. If you consider what the above Names have severally done for me, you will know what you are doing. And you have fixed my Life – however short. You did not light me: I was always a mad comet; but you have fixed me. I spun round you a satellite for a month, but I shall swing out soon, a dark star in the orbit where you will blaze.

[barbucomedie]

Short Magazine Lee Enfield Rifle Mark III and Sword Bayonet from the British Empire dated between 1914 - 1918 on display at the Gurkha Museum in Winchester, England

This rifle and bayonet was used by one of the Gurkha Regiments in the British Indian Army during the First World War. The Mark III was the standard rifle used by the soldiers of the British Empire during the First World War.

Photographs taken by myself 2023