apwright Posted 13 September , 2010 Share Posted 13 September , 2010 Some bits and pieces found on the hills of Doiran and Kosturino: ...except for the helmet, which I bought off a Bulgarian chap. Adrian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 13 September , 2010 Share Posted 13 September , 2010 Hi, Seen 2 weeks ago, Langemark-Houthulst Cnock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War Truck Posted 26 December , 2010 Share Posted 26 December , 2010 I found this under the Christmas Tree. As to what it is, the clue is in the last paragraph. My Brother Steve found it in a local second hand tool shop. Quite an amazing find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiegeGunner Posted 26 December , 2010 Share Posted 26 December , 2010 Not the whole tank, then ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War Truck Posted 26 December , 2010 Share Posted 26 December , 2010 Yes, thats right. Fairly certain that it is off the Mark V tank. Already checked back at the shop. Someone else must have bought the rest of the tank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
franzmaximilian Posted 1 January , 2011 Share Posted 1 January , 2011 The most amazing finding I ever made is a simple wood plate. In the picture here below, how it looks nowdays: Gipfelstollen means "Mountaintop Gallery". This one was located inside the ice galleries system at the top of Monte Cristallo (Hohe Schneide in German). In the next picture is the wood plate at its original location during the war. Here is where the ice gallery was (upper row) and where I found the wood plate, some hundreds of metres below on the crevassed glacier. It doesn't happen quite often to find an object that was portraied in wartime pictures (it appears in at least one other photo that I am aware of). This is the best piece in my collection and surely the one that gave me the strongest emotions when positively identified as exactly the one that appears in the picture. Franz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen p nunn Posted 8 February , 2014 Author Share Posted 8 February , 2014 Amazing - from Captain Bocker's coat - Zeppelin L33, crashed and set fire 23/9/1916, Wigborough, Essex. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghazala Posted 26 February , 2014 Share Posted 26 February , 2014 High Wood and London Cemetery in the background. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bellflower Posted 26 February , 2014 Share Posted 26 February , 2014 High Wood and London Cemetery in the background. I walked the other side of that lane last October and found an 18 pounder where the crop starts in your photo ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khaki Posted 27 February , 2014 Share Posted 27 February , 2014 In my youth I was wandering around the site of a disused fortified harbor defense hill, tunnels searchlight batteries etc, etc when on a dirt track I noticed a partially exposed but buried rounded area of metal, maybe 3x4", I scraped it away and could see that it was bronze and could make out writing. It turned out that it was the breech area of a bronze 6" muzzle loading gun that having become obsolete had been rolled down the side of the hill and over the next 100 years had become buried. Many years later it was rediscovered and winched back up the hill and mounted for display on a pedestal. I have no claim to it's discovery, but my small role was satisfying to me. khaki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoj22 Posted 27 February , 2014 Share Posted 27 February , 2014 Three of Spades Three German entrenching tools and a French water bottle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trenchtrotter Posted 28 February , 2014 Share Posted 28 February , 2014 Re the last Verdun / Argonne? TT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoj22 Posted 28 February , 2014 Share Posted 28 February , 2014 Pierre St Vaast before I knew how risky it was!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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