World War One

[Hedgehog]

Good Detective work there @Louis Yes that's my High street, well one side of it, here is another shot of the, here is another shot of the Lincolnshire Regiment, in Leighton

 

[Louis]

...here is another shot of the Lincolnshire Regiment, in Leighton

Can it be Wing Road? The chimneys and windows of the houses on the right and the stairs of the houses on the left seem to coincide.

 

[Gunner]

You beat me to it Louis.
I did the same thing with Google maps.

 

[Hedgehog]

Can it be Wing Road? The chimneys and windows of the houses on the right and the stairs of the houses on the left seem to coincide.

Sorry I never answered sooner @Louis Yes mate that is Wing Road, old and the new

 

[Nathangun]

Can it be Wing Road? The chimneys and windows of the houses on the right and the stairs of the houses on the left seem to coincide.

I always have a chuckle when I see photos from a hundered years ago. The roads always seem wider and in the age of the automobile they now narrower.

 

[Louis]

Almost 15 000 Russian prisoners of war queueing for food. Augustowo, location now of Poland.

 

[Unknown]

I happened upon this "then and now" video on YouTube. It is very worth seeing! The author did a brilliant job!

 

[mTk]

We got yer tanks right here!
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[Louis]

Return at home... Ladies wave good-bye to Canadians leaving Southampton, Eng, on the S.S. Olympic in April 1919.

 

[Louis]

WWI fighter pilot training. British airman fires his machine gun from a simulated cockpit that moves along rails.

 

[Louis]

Austro-Hungarian tail gunner armed with ten Mauser C96 handguns.

 

[Nort]

 

[Rico]

You can never have too many grenades... (or moustaches) German stormtrooper posing, Alsace late 1917.

 

[Gunner]

or mustaches for that matter....

Whats in the rack at there feet?

 

[Nort]

or mustaches for that matter....

Whats in the rack at there feet?

I’m guessing more grenades.

 

[mTk]

Isn't that Ted, kneeling (left)?

 

[Gunner]

I thought they were probably grenades also but they look egg shaped.
Without doing the research I wonder, and it wouldn't surprise me, if they had another type of concussion, fragmentation or even a gas grenade if there were such a thing.

 

[mTk]

This looks like it could be our "egg" grenade.

Model 39 grenade - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Gunner]

Research!
Learn something new every visit to this thread.

But according to that page it was designed in 1939.

Now the Model 17 on the other hand.....

Model 17 grenade - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Rico]

Interesting old black & white German World War 1 movie made in 1934, set on Western Front, Called Stosstrupp 1917 -- watched bits of it (understand the German, and notable for use of actual regional dialects amongst actors -- often missing in modern German movies)

... from minute 6:28 to 11:40 they do a trench raid on French lines for a possible prisoner snatch ... interesting stormtrooper tactics -- mostly rifles slung and copious use of handgrenades (have to excuse the weird speeded up movements of really old movies -- also all the voices during the raid were dubbed over in recording studio -- was shot outside and I guess sound recording technology of the time was limited)

It's a product of it's time, but quite unvarnished in it's portrayal of the trench warfare and an anti-war message (obviously just before the Nazis took over) ... some harrowing sequences when they spend days on end under non-stop Allied bombardment inside a cramped dugout -- in semi-darkness, going stir crazy and running out of food and water... haven't watched the whole thing yet...