World War One

[bz6568]

Repairing damaged planes , Colombey France , 1918.

Romanian King , Ferdinand.

Ruined church , Frise France.

Ruined church , Nieuwpoort Belgium.

Ruined church , Ribecourt France.

Ruined church , Tilloloy France.

Ruined City Hall , Peronne France.

Ruins of Chateau Thierry.

Ruins of Dixmude , Belgium.

Ruins of Misery , France.

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Ruins of Ortelsburg , East Prussia.

Ruins of St. John's hospital , Venice.

Ruins of Starbrouck Fort , near Antwerp.

Ruins of Vraignes , France.

Russian dirigible gondola.

Serbian King , Peter.

Shell exploding on a French road.

Shell striking the ruins of a French Farm.

Sophie Von Hohenstein.

SS River Clyde , run ashore at the entrance to the Dardanelles , 1915.

[bz6568]

Sultan Mohammed V , of Turkey.

Sureya Bey , commander of the camel corps , killed at Katia (Qatia) , 1915.

The British Fleet in port.

The capture of the assassin Gavrilo Prinzip , Sarajevo 1914.

The gondola of the German naval airship PL-19.

The grave of Edith Cavell , executed by Germans troops , October 12, 1915.

Edith Cavell

The Prince of Wales , with men of his grenadier guards company.

Torpedo tubes of an American submarine.

Transporting a German plane.

Trees downed by the Germans to slow the Allied advance on Cambrai.

[bz6568]

Trilport , France.

Twisted remains of a Zeppelin brought down over England.

U.S. General , Leonard Wood.

U.S. mine laying ship.

U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and the First Lady leaving the White House.

U.S. President Woodrow Wilson.

U.S. submarines anchored at Havana , Cuba.

Wrecked bridge and locomotive on the river Ourcq.

Wrecked German gun at Tsing-Tao , China.

Zeppelin hangar in Dusseldorf , Germany.

[Wally1967]

Originally Posted by bz6568

Wrecked German gun at Tsing-Tao , China.

In China?

I mean who manned the gun?
by Germans?

hnbc

[Finn76]

Originally Posted by Wally1967

In China?

I mean who manned the gun?
by Germans?

hnbc

Yeah, Germany had colonies in China and in pacific, most ( or all ? ) of them were handed to Japan after WW1.

[Wally1967]

Thanks
I knew German had some colonies in the Pacific but not in China itself.

[Marsmann]

Originally Posted by Marsmann

some photographs of my family:

Andreas Zimmermann, born 1877, Iron Cross II. & Cross of Honr winner (EK II & Ehrenkreuz für Frontkämpfer)


Franz Marsmann, born 1879

also Andreas Zimmermann as lieutnenant

[bz6568]

A wrist purse containing coins from WWI was found during an excavation of a mass grave in Fromelles , France July 2009.

A collection of coins discovered in a wrist purse from WWI was found during an excavation of a mass grave in Fromelles , France July 2009.

A purse with eight Ottoman coins from WWI was found during an excavation of a mass grave in Fromelles , France July 2009.

A heart shaped leather pouch with a gold crucifix from WWI was found during an excavation of a mass grave in Fromelles , France July 2009.

http://www.army.gov.au/fromelles/Previous_Updates.asp

[Connaught Ranger]

In all reality the purse probably belonged to a member of the Australian Forces, who stopped off in Egypt on the way to France by ship, they would have gone via the Suez Canal, alternatively a survivor of the ill-fated Gallipoli Campaign.

[Wally1967]

Originally Posted by Connaught Ranger

In all reality the purse probably belonged to a member of the Australian Forces, who stopped off in Egypt on the way to France by ship, they would have gone via the Suez Canal, alternatively a survivor of the ill-fated Gallipoli Campaign.

Yes or they swapping stuff between the ANZACs and the Turkish Ottomans during cease fire to bury their war dead at Gallipoli.

[JNM]

Originally Posted by Wally1967

Thanks
I knew German had some colonies in the Pacific but not in China itself.

It was a little Area (552km²) called Kiautschou.

Kiautschou


In 1914 it was conquered by the japanese

[Wally1967]

Originally Posted by JNM

It was a little Area (552km²) called Kiautschou.

Kiautschou


In 1914 it was conquered by the japanese

Thanks for that also found this from that wiki Kiautschou http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Tsingtao

Very interesting.

again thanks!

[T.S.C.Plage]

That's by the way the reason why they brew such a famous beer in Tsingtao and why parts of the city look like they're ported directly from old Germany.

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Battle of Messines , 1917.

Eleven battles of the Isonzo , 1915-1917.