World War One

[mTk]

I'll have to check it out.
Sounds very uplifting.

 

[Louis]

Despite the age it looks better than other films that were made later. Trench warfare, horrible enough to have experienced that.

 

[Louis]

German prisoners carrying Canadian wounded. Advance east of Arras, Fr., Aug 1918.

 

[Louis]

Serbian soldier sleeps with his father who came to visit him on the front line near Belgrade.

 

[Louis]

Then and now...
Armistice Day celebrations at Municipal Chambers, 1918 Dunedin City, New Zealand.

 

[Louis]

Miscellaneous: People outside Independence Hall building examining a new map of Europe shortly before the end of WW1, Philadelphia, Oct 1918.

 

[Gunner]

At last Louis a site I can drive to!

Well, it would be a bit of a drive really.

The site today:
(via Google Maps)

You can see the plaque on the wall to the right and the door was covered by the map.

 

[Louis]

Canadians training in bayonet fighting with a dummy soldier before going to the front.

 

[Gunner]

Don't see too may men fighting with bayonets wearing spurs.

 

[Louis]

Air flight celebrating the signing of the Armistice, San Diego, California, nov 27, 1918.

 

[Gunner]

Passhendale before and after the Battle of....

 

[Rico]

A moving photograph of a Verdun veteran just out of the trenches in 1916. The experience of battle is written all over this image.

 

[Gunner]

I saw this on imgur and found it interesting.



It made me think of a picture I once saw a few years ago that touched me.
The above picture made me do some searching and found this:

"A picture by Fortunino Matania showing a gunner saying farewell to his dying horse known as “Goodbye Old Man”.
The original was painted for the Blue Cross Fund to raise money for the charity during the First World War. Date: 1916"

 

[Louis]

Then & now
A bomb crater rue Drouot in Paris after a German Zeppelin raid – 1918

 

[Nathangun]

Streets always looked wider 100 years ago.

 

[Gunner]

Beat me to it, I was gong to say is it me or do the streets always look wider in the old photo's?

I did a Google Maps search wondering where in Paris this is.
I swear Louis, one day my wife and I will go to Paris on vacation and I'll say "Come on honey let's take a walk down this street and get a coffee." and when we get to a certain point on the street I'll pull out my Tablet and hold up this photo and say "Look, check out this before and after!" My wife will roll her eyes, shake her head, look at me like I'm 12 years old, punch me in the arm and say let's go get some coffee.
As you may guess she is not in to history the way I am. She would love the museums though.

 

[Louis]

Streets always looked wider 100 years ago.

I understand that it is due to the type of lens of each of the cameras.

 

[Nathangun]

I understand that it is due to the type of lens of each of the cameras.

And I thought it was wider foot paths and traffic control systems.

 

[Gunner]

And I thought it was wider foot paths and traffic control systems.

That's what I was thinking (we call them sidewalks) that the sidewalks were narrower.
Maybe the curb lower to give the impression of a wider street.
But I think Louis is spot on.

 

[Louis]

Representation of a Zeppelin dropping a bomb on Antwerp.