A French veteran of the Franco-Prussian War greets Australians, June 1916
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Due to personal reasons I will be court martialed and shot at dawn by an unfair military show trial
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I was reading an interview with some Korean War veterans and it always strikes me how similar the trench warfare phases were.
But this was just 100% Great War coded.
Look, I know Australians had the reputation for being naive, backwards colonials, but did they have to prove it true?
There’s a kind of WW1 enthusiast who’s going to really appreciate these excerpts.
Tagging @my-darling-boy for no particular reason
From the memoir of private Richard Roberts, 3rd Battalion AIF.
sadly i couldn’t get anything for 11th pumped out this year, but i wish you all a peaceful remembrance day
“whatever hope is yours,
was my life also”
Wreck of the German cruiser Konigsberg in the Rufigi River Delta, German East Africa, seen from HMS Severn’s motor boat, 10 December 1916.
A female impersonator of the Maple Leaves, the Canadian Concert Party, making up for his role in a field on the Western Front, September 1917.
An Australian bugler on the HMAT Euripides playing the Last Post, silhouetted against the sky.
Submarine Scout Zero Type Airship SSZ 37 flies above what I think is a Hunt Class mine laying sloop, c1917.
Major Winston Churchill, wearing a French Adrian helmet, standing with General Emile Fayolle and other officers at the headquarters of the French 33 Corps while visiting the French front line on 15 December 1915.
Australian troops being innoculated on board the troopship HMAT Euripides.
Some of the first Australians and New Zealanders to be returned home were a very small number of soldiers who refused to be vaccinated.