Ribble Posted 15 March , 2005 Share Posted 15 March , 2005 Anne001 The original book I refered to will be long out of print, I'm afraid. There is a tiny reprint of the still on page 62 of Paul Reed's 'Walking the Somme' (Pen & Sword). In the meantime I have been scouring the internet trying to find it - this is the best I could come up with but it has been very tightly (and poorly) cropped and is either earlier or later in the film sequence than the frame I'm referring to and doesn't have the same impact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TanyBryn Posted 16 March , 2005 Share Posted 16 March , 2005 Photographs of the desolate battlefields, without soldiers or the dead. Showing just the destruction and the terrible conditions that these poor men saw, lived in and fought over everyday. They speak silently of the utter destruction man can inflict. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Holscher Posted 3 July , 2006 Share Posted 3 July , 2006 The photo that appears here at time 21:31: 09 is a fairly spooky one. http://www.militaryhorse.org/forum/topic.a...amp;whichpage=2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyMacdonald Posted 3 July , 2006 Share Posted 3 July , 2006 A "larrikin" in NZ is a bit different, more disapproving- a child who is "a bit of a brat" often grows up to be a larrikin, who does things that sober sedate people disapprove of, things verging on criminal. I think Aussies admire this free-spirited type of person more than NZers do I never believed the NZ meaning larakin to be any different to the Australian. This after growing up in NZ. I always understood the the Australians embraced the characteristic as part of their culture, whereas it was just another noun in NZ. Certainly, it has no correlation with 'a bit of a brat' whatsoever. I don't even believe it has any negative connotations in NZ. But there you go, we all have our opinions, for what it's worth. Andy M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozzie Posted 3 July , 2006 Share Posted 3 July , 2006 A larrikin is a name I would wear with some weird sort of pride. Someone who pushes the envelope with humour and good nature, who doesn't quite follow the norm, but searches out their own way. The larrikin in the group is the one, who when the chips are down, will bring up marale, put a smile on the face of the most dour, and pull the most outrageuos stunts and get away with it. There is one in every crowd. Cheers Kim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephanie Posted 21 August , 2006 Share Posted 21 August , 2006 There is one picture that I saw in the Sanctuary Woods museum, in a little box, of a nearly skeletal horse stuck in a tree.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arras100 Posted 1 March , 2007 Share Posted 1 March , 2007 Thought I would add to this collection, a picture that has always haunted me. It evokes the words... "Does it matter?—losing your sight?... There’s such splendid work for the blind; And people will always be kind, As you sit on the terrace remembering And turning your face to the light." ~ S. Sassoon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malte Znaniecki Posted 3 March , 2007 Share Posted 3 March , 2007 After the german gas-attack of April 22nd 1915 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilB Posted 3 March , 2007 Author Share Posted 3 March , 2007 Just a thought, S. The gassed soldiers seem to have very pale boots. Photographic effect or did gas discolour leather? Phil B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arras100 Posted 4 March , 2007 Share Posted 4 March , 2007 QUOTE (Phil_B @ Mar 3 2007, 08:13 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Just a thought, S. The gassed soldiers seem to have very pale boots. Photographic effect or did gas discolour leather? Phil B Very interesting question...and since I'm no expert on photographs or gas, my educated guess would be it's the way the photograph was taken...perhaps the lighting? What do you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryn Posted 6 March , 2007 Share Posted 6 March , 2007 Photo captioned "Dead Turks one year after Romani" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arras100 Posted 7 March , 2007 Share Posted 7 March , 2007 Bryn, this is a very disturbing photograph to look at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryn Posted 7 March , 2007 Share Posted 7 March , 2007 It certainly is. Not much romance about being left to rot in the desert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arras100 Posted 9 March , 2007 Share Posted 9 March , 2007 Oh, the glory of war... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJP1963 Posted 29 August , 2007 Share Posted 29 August , 2007 G'day This particular photo 'spooks' me. It seems to be featured in almost every book and exhibition of 'general' 1st AIF involvement. It is included in the "stills" video at the Hooge Crater Museum, and is actually the overprinted background to a travel brochure for an official Flanders booklet. I had been familiar with it for many years before becoming aware that Jackie would have been processed at that spot at about the time the photo was taken. Most reproductions of the picture spare us the haunting statement. "Shortly after this photo was taken a shell exploded killing most of those on stretchers". ooRoo Pat The AWM reference is B4260.1 Location is variously shown as Hooge, Birr Cross Roads or The Culvert Battle of The Menin Rd 20/09/1917 This photo made me cry as it was taken on the very same day my great uncle died thankyou though for giving me another link to him Regards Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rice Posted 30 August , 2007 Share Posted 30 August , 2007 After looking at the photo's, is it any wonder that most returned soldiers didn't wish to speak about the sights that they had seen during the war The soldier with the smile on his face in death was very moving. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auchonvillerssomme Posted 31 August , 2007 Share Posted 31 August , 2007 Lots of comments about how we feel when we see these pictures of 90 years ago. Are they any more thought provoking and horrific than the ones we see every day in the media? Mick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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