World War One

[Louis]

Street shrines on London became increasingly common as the casualty list lengthened during the war.

 

[Louis]

French troops prepares to fight the advancing enemy on the Marne, 1914.

 

[Louis]

Mark V crossing the ditch at the side of a road at Lamotte-en-Santerre, 8 Aug 1918.

 

[Louis]

French troops wearing an precarious gas mask and glasses during the Second Battle of Ypres.

 

[mTk]

There's always the one guy who refuses to wear his mask properly.

 

[fabishd]

There's always the one guy who refuses to wear his mask properly.

Yes there is that person and he probably dies.

 

[Nathangun]

There's always the one guy who refuses to wear his mask properly.

Has anyone noticed that as well in our covid time?

 

[rocketman]

Has anyone noticed that as well in our covid time?

I'd say it is more like "one guy who wears it as it is supposed to" in these times

 

[mTk]

"Has anyone noticed that as well in our covid time?"
I did.

 

[Louis]

Colorized pic Austro-Hungarian grenadiers, Sept 1917.

 

[mTk]

Metal horseshoes on his boot heals so he sounds cool while walking/marching.
I had some of those when I was 11.

 

[HOA_KSOP]

Metal horseshoes on his boot heals so he sounds cool while walking/marching.
I had some of those when I was 11.

More likely it's to keep his heel from wearing out, as who knew if and when you'd get replacement boots...

 

[Louis]

Colorized pic of funnel listening post in front of Neuve-Chapelle, France, 1916.

 

[Louis]

A young Adolf Hitler (firts right) with his WWI comrades of the Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment 16.

 

[Louis]

Mark I tank with infantry, 15 Sep 1916.

 

[mTk]

The top is open so the crew can grow their own vegetables.

 

[Nort]

 

[Louis]

American comic from July 1914: "A Threatening Situation": "If Austria attacks Serbia, Russia will fall upon Austria, Germany upon Russia, and France and England upon Germany."

 

[Louis]

Effects caused by a Zeppelin raid over England. 1915.

 

[Rico]

A Russian Austin Armoured Car in Romania, 1917. The Russians used these vehicles in large numbers during the war, and many were also used by both Red and White forces in the following Civil War and many other wars in Eastern Europe in the aftermath of the First World War.