Faces of Great war

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The Christmas Truce shows us that extreme humanity is possible, even in the face of the impossible. World is inspired by the stories from these soldiers who laid down their weapons in a time of war to share in a brief moment of peace.
The Christmas truce also allowed both sides to finally bury their dead comrades, whose bodies had lain for weeks on “no man's land,” the ground between opposing trenches. The phenomenon took different forms across the Western front. ... And of course, it was only ever a truce, not peace.



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First photo - Riflemen Andrew and Grigg (center)—British troops from London—during the Christmas Truce with Saxons of the 104th and 106th Regiments of the Imperial German Army, 1914

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Movie versus reality.
First pic is of a still from the Netflix series " all quiet on the western front" 2022. The pic is showing dead german soldiers due to gas attack.
Second pic is real one from WW1-
The bodies of hundreds of Italian soldiers are strewn across the battlefield, victims of a gas and flame attack during World War I, as others haul the wounded on stretchers. They were members of the Ninth Italian Regiment of the Queen's Brigade.

Beginning of the wrist watch during WW1

Women wore wristwatches primarily as fashion accessories rather than for accurate timekeeping. A tipping point occurred with the Great War. Soldiers scarcely had time to take a watch out of their pocket, open the case, and check the time when they were crouching in a trench or engaging the enemy in gunfire.

Radium-lumed hands and dials were also used to make them easier to read them at night. By 1917, most officers owned one, and they would eventually become accessible to infantrymen.

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Belgian kids taunt a German soldier by dressing up as Sikh soldiers,C.1915.

In 1915 Belgium street kid taunted German soldiers by dressing up as Sikh soldiers. In the eyes of many in Flanders, it was the Indian soldier who struck the greatest fear into the hearts of the occupying Germans. Here, street kids dress as Sikhs and mock the German soldiers with the cry 'The Indians are coming!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p022njc7/p022klgl

Dead horse blown up in the tree , WW1.

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WWI, 1915; "Pegasus had wings - What we see in War. This unfortunate horse was blown into a tree after a shell exploded." -Le Flambeau/Gallica

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An undated WW1 picture shows a shelter for machine gunners in a French trench at Apremont-la-Foret, eastern France. (Image: Reuters)
Some historians see machine guns as responsible for up to 40 percent of the Great War's battlefield deaths. A more conservative consensus places the machine gun death rate at about 20-25 percent.
The machine gun was one of the deadliest weapons of the Western Front, causing thousands of casualties. It was a relatively new weapon at the start of the war, but British and German forces soon realised its potential as a killing machine, especially when fired from a fixed defensive position
This weapon, along with barbed wire and mines, made movement across open land both difficult and dangerous. Thus trench warfare was born.

Wreckage of an FF49C on top of the Officer's Casino at Kiel-Holtenau, 1919.

Friedrichshafen FF.49 was a German, two-seat, single-engine float-plane designed by Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen in 1917.

FF.39Two-seat reconnaissance float-plane, powered by a 150 kW (200 hp) Benz Bz.IV water-cooled 6-cylinder piston engine. 14 built.FF.49bTwo-seat bomber float-plane. 25 built.FF.49cTwo-seat reconnaissance float-plane.


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Movie vs reality.
The first picture is from the Netflix series "all quiet on the western front "showing the no man's land during WW1.
Second picture shows the real picture of no man's land and The mud and barbed wire of Passchendaele, Nov. 1917 (William Rider-Rider / Canada. Dept. of National Defence / Library and Archives Canada / PA-002165)

No man's land is a kind of narrow, muddy, treeless stretch of land, characterized by numerous shell holes, that separated German and Allied trenches during the First World War. Being in No Man's Land was considered very dangerous since it offered little or no protection for soldiers.

Various great war movies in the past has depicted no man's land to give a view of real war scenario to the audiences

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1916: Many thousands were killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
For on July 1, 1916, following a seven-day British bombardment, some 120,000 men clambered from their trenches and went ‘over the top’ — to be met by a hail of German machine-gun fire that mowed down half of them.

With 20,000 dead and 40,000 wounded, it was the bloodiest single day in British military history.

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Australian engineers from from 4th Field Company manoeuvre a dummy tank, made of wood and canvas, ahead of an assault on the Hindenberg Line in 1918

Some French soldiers were so shell-shocked following the Battle of Verdun that they tried to escape to Spain. Those caught were court-martialed and shot.

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"I arrived there with 175 men... I left with 34, several half mad... not replying anymore when I spoke to them." According to one French soldier whose unit was bombarded by a German artillery attack, the horrors were unimaginable:

The Battle of Verdun was grisly.
Battle of Verdun, (February 21–December 18, 1916), World War I engagement in which the French repulsed a major German offensive. It was one of the longest, bloodiest, and most-ferocious battles of the war; French casualties amounted to about 400,000, German ones to about 350,000.

There were several reasons for the failure of the Germans to achieve their objectives in the almost year-long battle of Verdun. The Germans had underestimated the depth and extent of the French fortifications and also their ability to repair them in lulls during the battle.

the battle of verdun was so long because

Falkenhayn was convinced by 1916 that the war could only be won on the Western Front. ... Germany accumulated huge losses and gained little territory, leading it to throw more and more men into the conflict: Verdun soon became a battle of prestige for the Germans, as well as the French.

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"I arrived there with 175 men... I left with 34, several half mad... not replying anymore when I spoke to them." According to one French soldier whose unit was bombarded by a German artillery attack, the horrors were unimaginable:

The Battle of Verdun was grisly.
Battle of Verdun, (February 21–December 18, 1916), World War I engagement in which the French repulsed a major German offensive. It was one of the longest, bloodiest, and most-ferocious battles of the war; French casualties amounted to about 400,000, German ones to about 350,000.

There were several reasons for the failure of the Germans to achieve their objectives in the almost year-long battle of Verdun. The Germans had underestimated the depth and extent of the French fortifications and also their ability to repair them in lulls during the battle.

the battle of verdun was so long because

Falkenhayn was convinced by 1916 that the war could only be won on the Western Front. ... Germany accumulated huge losses and gained little territory, leading it to throw more and more men into the conflict: Verdun soon became a battle of prestige for the Germans, as well as the French.

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Austro-Hungarian soldier dressed as Krampus, 1917
The Austrian Tradition of the Krampus

Originally thought to have come from the old pre-Christian myths involving beasts from the forest and creatures such as satyrs, the Krampus became linked with St Nicholas in the Middle Ages. As with so many pagan customs, it was absorbed into the official Christian calendar.

The legend is part of a centuries-old Christmas tradition in Germany, where Christmas celebrations begin in early December. Krampus was created as a counterpart to kindly St. Nicholas, who rewarded children with sweets

Photograph of Berlin inhabitants cutting up a horse for meat during fighting in the city,

This picture was probably taken in January 1919 during the Spartacist uprising, an abortive Communist uprising in Berlin that led to fierce fighting between government troops and revolutionaries. It illustrates starkly the widespread hunger in the city at this time, as women and children hack away pieces of meat from a horse killed in the fighting.
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Although Germany signed an armistice with the Allies on 11 November 1918, the trade blockade was maintained - at France's insistence - until the new German republic signed peace terms in Paris at the end of June 1919

Famine in Germany, WW1

Alexander Watson in his book Ring of Steel noted that “Germany teetered on the brink of starvation during the second half of the war.” The blockade on imports and exports imposed by the British (and enforced by the Royal Navy)

The German Board of Public Health in December 1918 claimed that 763,000 German civilians had already died from starvation and disease, caused by the blockade. An academic study done in 1928 put the death toll at 424,000.
Christmas 🎄 in the second half of the war was marked by starvation and shortage of foods in Germany
The civilian population called it the “turnip winter,” a bitter nickname, given the indignity of having to eat turnips, normally considered to be food fit only for cattle

Source - Ring of Steel, Scientific American and national archives of UK.



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Verdun, in a house. Meals of a battery. The kitchen of an artillery battery is installed in a house in Verdun.
The black soldier leaning on the fireplace could be from the French West Indies.

Almost 13,000 French Caribbean men were called up or volunteered to fight in World War One, and many died fighting at the fronts.

Martinique and Guadeloupe are collectively referred to as the French Antilles, while the 3 countries together comprise the 3 Caribbean Departments of France. Located in northern South America, French Guiana is bordered by Brazil to the south and the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north, and Suriname to the west.

Note: French in their own right, the Martinicans and Guadeloupeans were not mobilized in the colonial troops but integrated into line infantry or artillery regiments. 10/25/1916 © Pierre Machard/ECPAD/Defense

A man from Guadeloupe, Captain Camille Mortenol (1959-1930), ( not in this photo)
who was the son of former slaves, was one of the rare Caribbean officers in the French army during World War One. Mortenol had also been the first ‘homme de couleur’ (man of colour) to enter the French ‘Ecole Polytechnique’, the elite national military school which is the French equivalent of Sandhurst in the UK.



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German soldier posing for a photograph with a girl holding an evergreen twig for Christmas, December 1914.

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Alexander Watson in his book Ring of Steel noted that “Germany teetered on the brink of starvation during the second half of the war.” The blockade on imports and exports imposed by the British (and enforced by the Royal Navy)

The German Board of Public Health in December 1918 claimed that 763,000 German civilians had already died from starvation and disease, caused by the blockade. An academic study done in 1928 put the death toll at 424,000.
Christmas 🎄 in the second half of the war was marked by starvation and shortage of foods in Germany
The civilian population called it the “turnip winter,” a bitter nickname, given the indignity of having to eat turnips, normally considered to be food fit only for cattle

Source - Ring of Steel
and Scientific American

Two French soldiers holding a rifle gr***de some where in Trench in WW1

The gr***de depicted in this photo is VB gr***de", and officially referred to as the "Viven-Bessières shell"

The V-Bs were deployed by rifle grenadiers at infantry company level. Initially, they were eight per company.

While it was possible to fire the rifle from the shoulder, the force of the recoil meant that it was better to fire the gr***de with the rifle butt placed on the ground. This method also allowed for greater range. Thus, an angle of 80 degrees will give a range of 85 meters; An angle of 45 degrees will give a range of 190 meters. To simplify the calculations, a special firing-rack was also provided. The rifles were placed on them, simplifying the range calculations.

For example, to neutralize machine gun nests.

The US Army also adopted this weapon and implemented it from July 1917.

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A telephonist killed at his post during the offensive on the Somme, World War I, 10th October 1916.

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Football had the power to bring people together'.
Prince William
The Christmas Truce shows us that extreme humanity is possible, even in the face of the impossible. World is inspired by the stories from these soldiers who laid down their weapons in a time of war to share in a brief moment of peace.
The Christmas truce also allowed both sides to finally bury their dead comrades, whose bodies had lain for weeks on “no man's land,” the ground between opposing trenches. The phenomenon took different forms across the Western front. ... And of course, it was only ever a truce, not peace.

Merry Christmas ⛄ 🎄

First photo - Riflemen Andrew and Grigg (center)—British troops from London—during the Christmas Truce with Saxons of the 104th and 106th Regiments of the Imperial German Army, 1914

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Crowd watching the looting of a German house in Poplar, c1914.

A crowd watching the looting of a German house in Poplar, c1914. Anti-German feeling in the United Kingdom led to infrequent rioting, assaults on suspected Germans and the looting of stores owned by people with German-sounding names. The increasing anti-German hysteria caused King George V to change his German family name of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to Windsor. From 'The Manchester Guardian: History of the War', Vol. II.-1914-15., 1915. (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)

French soldiers helping a wounded comrade.
1916

Artillery accounted for the highest number of wounds and fatalities, especially on the Western Front. British signaller Leonard Ounsworth was wounded by a shell on the Somme in July 1916 – not that he realised this at first.

Well, the blast blew me out of that trench – I was just getting to my feet, you know as you’re going down – it blew me out of that trench. I bruised my hip on the edge of the trench as I flew out, I think, and I landed about, you know, two or three bays away. Well, they’d both dropped had these two officers in front, and I started off. They said ‘Are you all right?’ I said, ‘Yes,’ and so I started to walk on after them, no bones broken. And so I walked on a bit and I felt this hand was wet, so I wiped it on my breeches, and I wiped it a second time on my breeches, well everything’s dry as a bone and there was blood running off my hand, so I thought, ‘Oh hell’. So I just shouted to them, ‘Half a mo’ – I am hit after all!’ So we sat down in a hole and I got a field dressing – you used to have a field dressing in the corner of your tunic, you see. I didn’t know then, I’d got one in here through my jaw and one in the throat here, just missed the jugular. I’d got another one in the back, I’d stop four pieces and I never felt them. You feel it afterwards, mind you, but just at the moment you didn’t feel anything at all.

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Alpine soldier with a mortar on his back during the First World War,

The Alpini are the Italian Army's specialist mountain infantry. Part of the army's infantry corps, the speciality distinguished itself in combat during World War I and World War II. Currently the active Alpini units are organized in two operational brigades, which are subordinated to the Alpine Troops Headquarters.

Movie versus reality........
First pic is of a still from the Netflix series " all quiet on the western front" 2022.
The pic is showing a dead french soldier beside a St. Chamond tank

Second pic is real one from WW1

No dummies: Papier mâché heads, first made by the French in the winter of 1915, were used to flush out German snipers
------------------------------------------------ The images released by the Imperial War Museum show the weird and wonderful events behind the frontlines of battle

These uniquely odd images aren't the normal view we have of World War One.

But the Imperial War Museum has shared them, showing that there were plenty of unusual scenes during the 1914-18 conflict.

The pictures, which show papier mâché heads

The pictures, which show , ponies dressed as zebras and parachuting pigeons among other things, are in a new book called Weird War One.

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