KIRKY Posted 19 September , 2014 Share Posted 19 September , 2014 They are really great. tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roel22 Posted 19 September , 2014 Share Posted 19 September , 2014 Absolutely amazing then & nows, Biffo! Roel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverFox100 Posted 19 September , 2014 Share Posted 19 September , 2014 Apologies if these have been posted. Click Mike Brilliant Mike love them. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m0rris Posted 28 September , 2014 Share Posted 28 September , 2014 Hopefully these haven't been posted before: http://metro.co.uk/2014/08/04/first-world-war-centenary-stunning-composite-images-remember-the-effects-of-wwi-4817893/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m0rris Posted 29 September , 2014 Share Posted 29 September , 2014 London Transport Museum battle bus: https://twitter.com/ltmbattlebus/status/516465213542248448/photo/1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sapper D. Posted 14 October , 2014 Share Posted 14 October , 2014 Great post Biffo. Thanx! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mebu Posted 20 November , 2014 Share Posted 20 November , 2014 Here's one of behind the former lines, with minor after the 6th Div and US have pushed the Germans out of the village in late 1918 and inhabitants return. Peter edited as half of photo missing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ypres Posted 21 November , 2014 Share Posted 21 November , 2014 (edited) War trophies. Place de Concorde Edited 21 November , 2014 by ypres Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ypres Posted 21 November , 2014 Share Posted 21 November , 2014 Dannemarie Viaduct, Alsace, 'Artillery Damage' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ypres Posted 21 November , 2014 Share Posted 21 November , 2014 French Wounded, Glennes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havrincourt Posted 18 July , 2016 Author Share Posted 18 July , 2016 Not been on here for a little while....just checking my old threads, any other then & nows to show? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geraint Posted 6 March , 2017 Share Posted 6 March , 2017 I've spent two hours revisiting this thread! Incredible! Such a shame to see it sink into the archives -so - BUMP! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon Posted 6 March , 2017 Share Posted 6 March , 2017 This unusual monument with the képi is part of le Grand Hohnack near Trois-Épis. It marks the furthest advance of the French army during the fighting of 19th August 1914. The 152e Régiment d'Infanterie had been ordered to capture Trois-Épis and ascended the steep climb from the Munster valley. At just under 1000m they encountered German troops. In the chaotic face-to-face fighting with bayonets, they prevented the Germans from advancing and because of their fierce determination they were nicknamed les Diables Rouges [Red Devils]. The name helped to bond the unit and is said to have inspired fear in the enemy. The granite monument lists the names of 21 men who died. 27 more were wounded. During the Second World War, knowing that the occupying German forces intended to destroy the monument, local patriots carved it up and buried the pieces in situ with the intention of re-erecting it after the war. Apparently on close inspection you can see fissures in the stone testifying to the truth of the story. This is a Mass at Croix de Wihr celebrating the birthday of Princess Charlotte. This is the newly erected war memorial: This is the war memorial and the old cross now. Gwyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon Posted 6 March , 2017 Share Posted 6 March , 2017 Alsace. Cimetière de Mongoutte, Ste-Marie aux Mines 1914-1918, 1939 - 1945 "Dans ce cimetière militaire reposent 1175 soldats allemands" / 1175 German soldiers rest in this military cemetery Under construction: Now: My postcards. Gwyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon Posted 6 March , 2017 Share Posted 6 March , 2017 Gaschney and cimetière militaire 'Germania'. French cemetery on Reichackerkopf. Bodies exhumed in 1930s and moved to cemeteries of Chêne Millet or Wettstein. Card posted 1921 (my card): Now: Gwyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon Posted 6 March , 2017 Share Posted 6 March , 2017 Hexenweiher (German cemetery, la Tête des Faux) Hexenweiher, posted 1916: Now: My cards. Gwyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon Posted 6 March , 2017 Share Posted 6 March , 2017 Rabenbuhl (German cemetery, la Tête des Faux) Now: Gwyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geraint Posted 6 March , 2017 Share Posted 6 March , 2017 Wow! That's what I call a quick response. Brilliant comparisons Gwyn! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon Posted 7 March , 2017 Share Posted 7 March , 2017 (edited) Thank you, Geraint. All my cards are ready scanned, hence easy to upload. Most of my photos and postcards would be comparisons before the war, after the war and now. La Chapelle d'Emm, Metzeral-Sondernach, was wrecked in the battle of Metzeral, June 1915. After the war, it was rebuilt as a memorial to the soldiers who died in the Vosges, particularly in the battle for Metzeral. I took this photo from the French position at Altmattkopf. The chapel... ...has beautiful stained glass windows. This one is called 'Nos morts'. More on my blog: La Chapelle d'Emm Gwyn Edited 7 March , 2017 by Dragon Correcting link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon Posted 7 March , 2017 Share Posted 7 March , 2017 (edited) Metzeral then... ...and now: (These have been attached directly from my PC instead of via an external host - I normally use my Zenfolio. I'm interested to see the effect of the forum compression on the quality of the image. Edit. Hmmmm.... very lossy.) Gwyn Edited 7 March , 2017 by Dragon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geraint Posted 7 March , 2017 Share Posted 7 March , 2017 (edited) Some of those images are hauntingly ethereal. What prompted your interest in (to me - a little known war region) the Vosges? Trying to place your last three shots into order - the rebuilt chapel of Metzeral is on a far grander scale, and made of different construction material than the first. (They are one and the same aren't they?) Agreed! That stained glass window is a gem. The poilu in the foreground. Is he a cleric? A chaplain? Edit - You're too quick. I refer to the images in #925 Edited 7 March , 2017 by geraint Fast responses! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon Posted 7 March , 2017 Share Posted 7 March , 2017 The link in the post about la Chapelle d'Emm was wrong and I've put it right. It's explained there. The new, much larger, chapel was built on the site of the old one. It's made of the pink-grey stone of the Vosges. It's much larger partly because the walls are lined with panels listing names of French soldiers who died in the Vosges, such as this panel: Yes - a chaplain: More pictures here. Why am I interested? Thirty years of visits and still discovering different things every visit. A very special region in which the difficulties of logistics, transport, construction of military buildings, managing an infrastructure and maintaining remnants of civilian life alongside the constraints of mountain terrain, altitude and climate were particular to this area. Tourisme de mémoire. Unexpected sites, vestiges and traces of the men’s presence - some places are almost open-air museums themselves. Wine. Good food. We first went to Alsace and the Vosges in about 1988. At that time there was very little to be found by way of reading and, of course, no internet, so it was a matter of triangulating memoirs, maps, the 1920 Michelin battlefield guides, conversations and hearsay to find what there was. To visit the Somme there was Rose Coombs' excellent guide. For the Vosges at war - nothing. It was a challenge. Gwyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger H Posted 7 March , 2017 Share Posted 7 March , 2017 Ooh, I'm glad this thread has been resurrected! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIFFO Posted 7 March , 2017 Share Posted 7 March , 2017 Ooh and me !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mebu Posted 8 March , 2017 Share Posted 8 March , 2017 (edited) Caestres, May 1918, an Australian and his cart outside the church, which has been hit on the spire. Edited 8 March , 2017 by mebu sizing and cropping correction attempted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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