World War One

[Louis]

Triage station, Suippes, France, World War I - Triage is the process of determining the priority of patients' treatments based on the severity of their condition.
Triage divides the victims into three categories:
1. Those who are likely to live, regardless of what care they receive;
2. Those who are likely to die, regardless of what care they receive;
3. Those for whom immediate care might make a positive difference in outcome.

 

[Louis]

Gallipoli then and now

1915: A view of Anzac Cove soon after the landing. A 6 inch 30 cwt howitzer and a collection of broken rifles are in the foreground; to the right are the flags marking the Casualty Clearing Station. In the middle distance a couple of water carts have been parked in the water. Boxes of stores are being unloaded from a barge, against a pier.


2015: Visitors stroll along Anzac Cove.

 

[Fredrocker]

Triumphant dog sitting atop a gun surrounded by gunners, France, during World War 1

 

[Louis]

Then & now in one pic.

Members of a Royal Garrison Artillery working party carrying duck-boards across the frozen Somme canal at Frise, March 1917.

 

[Louis]

Two sailors looking through a shell hole in the forward turret roof of the battlecruiser HMS TIGER. Overall she was hit fifteen times by large calibre shells during the battle of Jutland and lost twenty four members of her crew killed and a further forty six wounded. 1916.

 

[Louis]

German position on the eastern front, 1914.

 

[Rico]

Britsh Army soccer team posing with gas masks behind the lines 1916.

 

[mTk]

They may have been a little unclear on the subject of photography. :kilroy:

 

[Louis]

Miracle

 

[Louis]

French observation post.

 

[mTk]

I have one of those in my backyard.

 

[Louis]

A belgian soldier smokes a cigarette during a fight between Dendermonde and Oudegem, Belgium, in 1914.

 

[Nathangun]

Unusual to see a photo from the western front without a trench in sight.

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[Hedgehog]

Britsh Army soccer team posing with gas masks behind the lines 1916.

Is that the Euro England Football Team ? I think they better hide

 

[Louis]

 

[Louis]

Member of Infanterie-Regiment Freiherr von Sparr (3. Westfälisches) Nr.16 is using the same rudimentary trench periscope to observe enemy activity.

 

[steve]

Is that the Euro England Football Team ? I think they better hide

If that is their own goal, then yes, it is our squad ........if it is the opponents goal, then no, it can't possibly be ours...............

Steve

 

[steve]

Professor Richard Holmes called the Western Front of WW1 " a strip of murdered nature" (quoted from his excellent documentary called Western Front), and here's a photo

that says it all.....



One of many thought provoking photos to be found here........

http://www.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/wwi/

Episode one of the Western Front six part documentary on You Tube......

Steve

 

[Hedgehog]

 

[Louis]

Image of two airmen in a machine gun nest on top of the giant gas bags that make up a Zeppelin on 1916.