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Remembered Today:

Flanders Postcards


Cnock

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On ‎03‎/‎12‎/‎2018 at 04:20, Cnock said:

 

 

Hello Wendy,

 

yes, common practice for the Germans in WW1 and even in WW2

on the picture a Canadian soldier has his boots removed.

 

 

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Such  sad photo. I always wonder how the man came to be where he was when he was killed? Seems along a road but not sure. Was this his last sight of things before he died? Always questions that can never be answd.

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3 hours ago, Loader said:

Such  sad photo. I always wonder how the man came to be where he was when he was killed? Seems along a road but not sure. Was this his last sight of things before he died? Always questions that can never be answd.

Very sad indeed. From the look of his face, I'm afraid he/they have laid there for a good while. Looks like they've been hastily dragged to the roadside and left there. 

"For we would never have marched so far 

To be food for a crow"
- Sting, Something the Boy Said 
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Not a postcard but interesting enough to show,

Photo taken from German observation balloon in 1918 when they got the closest to Ieper. Lille gate at right in  picture

 

regards,

 

Cnock

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Coxyde Military Cemetery,

at right 2 casualties of 10th July 1917

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Thanks Eddy.  The second Coxyde photo clearly shows the gaps where French graves were 'extracted', and I'm pleased to see such a spendid view of the three British graves, alone at the very head of the cemetery, which are Sub-Lt Edgar Donovan RNVR and his two AB comrades from the RN Siege Guns, killed in action on 26 April 1917.

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Hello Mick,

 

yes, T thought You would like this picture,

 

cheers,

 

Eddy

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