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Armistice Day parade in Masterton, NZ, Nov 1918.
World War One
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They were trying to trick the Axis Powers into thinking that New Zealand actually had tanks. 
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Then & now...
June 28, 1919, European leaders sign the famous Treaty in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles.
June 28, 1919, European leaders sign the famous Treaty in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles.
Black and white picture sure doesn't do the hall any justice.
Wow.
Wow.
thats my wife Mary in the blue vest.
What? There's no throne to sit in?
You would have your head chopped off if you sat on it.
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In the Copenhagen City Hall, citizens follow the newest movements of Europe's armies on a large map. 1914
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An Austro-Hungarian posing with a puppy, 1917.
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A captured portable concrete-mixing machines, used in the construction of the Hindenburg Line, Oct 1918.
Ha! When the pic first opened and for a split second I thought it some kind of artillery piece.
My Pavlovian response.
My Pavlovian response.
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Bulgarian soldiers in position to fire against an incoming Allied aircraft in the Southern Front.-
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Three Austro-Hungarian soldiers answering nature's call at the front.
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July 1, the 106th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme.
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Sigmund Freud (1856/1939) with his sons Ernst (1892/1970) and Jean-Martin (1889/1967) during the war, where they fought in the Austro-Hungarian Army, surviving the conflict.
German Stormtrooper on Somme front 1918 -- looks like he's been through hell.
Note the carry bags for hand grenades.
Note the carry bags for hand grenades.
Austro-Hungarian assault troops (Sturmtruppen) of a Sturmpatrouille on the Piave Italian Front,, 22 June 1918. Note that only some have rifles and that many are armed only with hand grenades (and probably pistols)
Also of note that some have canvas helmet covers -- the guy in the front seems to wearing some kind of pith helmet?
Also of note that some have canvas helmet covers -- the guy in the front seems to wearing some kind of pith helmet?
8 September 1917: Austro-Hungarian Sturmtruppen on the Isonzo Front, during the last days of the 11th Battle of the Isonzo.
Note the grenade bags, full medals worn on combat dress, canvas helmet covers and the variety of shades of field-grey uniforms
Note the grenade bags, full medals worn on combat dress, canvas helmet covers and the variety of shades of field-grey uniforms
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British soldiers in a destroyed German rail cart.
