Cnock Posted 15 January , 2019 Author Share Posted 15 January , 2019 Poelkapelle the British tank in the village Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 15 January , 2019 Author Share Posted 15 January , 2019 19 hours ago, mebu said: I don't think its a face. However, interestingly, the "pentagon frame" you mention is something I hadn't spotted. It is a manufactured steel protected observation post, which had probably been atop the concrete tower. There are still several existing to be found. Pic attached for comparison (sorry it's poor quality b/w, on an incomplete OP on Wotanstellung near Vitry-en-Artois). Another good pic Cnock. Peter, thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 15 January , 2019 Author Share Posted 15 January , 2019 Poelkapelle The land after the war with remains of horses and captured German howitzers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 19 January , 2019 Author Share Posted 19 January , 2019 Passendale Broken arms and equipment still lying around the monument Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 19 January , 2019 Author Share Posted 19 January , 2019 Vlamertinge, British engineers and German POW rebuilding houses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
17107BM Posted 19 January , 2019 Share Posted 19 January , 2019 10 hours ago, Cnock said: Passendale Broken arms and equipment still lying around the monument The times I have stood in front of this Monument. May I take a copy of this image Cnock? Never seen it before. Regards, Gary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 20 January , 2019 Author Share Posted 20 January , 2019 Gary (17107BM,) no problem, You can take a copy! Cnock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan Tall Posted 20 January , 2019 Share Posted 20 January , 2019 (edited) On 15/01/2019 at 15:30, Cnock said: Poelkapelle the British tank in the village This is Damon II in which a gunner from Kenilworth, Corporal Dudley White, was killed. You can read all about him and the tank on my website http://www.susantall.co.uk Website a bit out of date now because in October 2017 a full scaled working replica of Damon II trundled into the village just as it did 100 years before. Edited 20 January , 2019 by Susan Tall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
17107BM Posted 20 January , 2019 Share Posted 20 January , 2019 Hello Susan. Big thanks for posting your site, very interesting indeed. On my way back there now! Regards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 21 January , 2019 Author Share Posted 21 January , 2019 Kemmel Chateau Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Margosh Posted 21 January , 2019 Share Posted 21 January , 2019 Just to add my voice to others, a big thank you Cnock for these wonderful images. My Grandfather (RE) spent a lot of time in Flanders (around Ypres, Kemmel, Neuve Eglise, Yser Canal, surrounding villages and up to Nieupoort). From research I found that a Great Uncle was in some of the same places as well as family cousins. I am finding it fascinating to see these pictures of places they would have been. On 14/01/2019 at 19:35, Ex-boy said: Is it my imagination, or is there a face in the picture, on the lower left, inside the pentagon shaped 'frame' of wood and twisted metal? If I am looking at the same 'shape' I see a face too but on the close-up it turns into a boot!! Imagination turning an unknown shape into a known object. Margaret Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 21 January , 2019 Author Share Posted 21 January , 2019 Margosh, thanks, glad You liked the postcards Cnock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 21 January , 2019 Author Share Posted 21 January , 2019 Kemmel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimberley John Lindsay Posted 21 January , 2019 Share Posted 21 January , 2019 Dear Cnock, Yes, thanks for posting these too, from me. They graphically underline what book critic Brian Masters wrote in 1981 (commenting on Vera Brittain's "Chronicle of Youth"):- 'It can never be said too often that the First World War was a vile, stinking mess, a stupid and disgusting massacre of men caught up in the incompetent tangle of international politics (and the best books of this war are those that say so plainly).' Kindest regards, Kim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 22 January , 2019 Author Share Posted 22 January , 2019 Kim, thanks; As a Frenchman said: war is the massacre of people who doesn't know each other, at the profit of people who knows each other and doesn't massacre among them Cnock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 22 January , 2019 Author Share Posted 22 January , 2019 Poelkapelle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 23 January , 2019 Author Share Posted 23 January , 2019 Kemmel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NigelS Posted 24 January , 2019 Share Posted 24 January , 2019 (edited) 23 hours ago, Cnock said: Interesting mix of hardware lying around in this image. Wondering what the metal 'box' like object with three cylindrical hole and rounded corners lying between the two bits of elephant iron might have been, although more sophisticated than the wooden crates also shown, a carrier for munitions of some type? NigelS Edited 24 January , 2019 by NigelS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 24 January , 2019 Author Share Posted 24 January , 2019 Kemmel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 14 February , 2019 Author Share Posted 14 February , 2019 Nieuwpoort. Old powder storage building in the 'Grand Redan' that resisted to German artillery shells. The British called it 'Rubber House' regards, Cnock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripeyman Posted 14 February , 2019 Share Posted 14 February , 2019 So called because shells were said to bounce off it..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mebu Posted 15 February , 2019 Share Posted 15 February , 2019 Here's another pic of it. Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 15 February , 2019 Author Share Posted 15 February , 2019 Nieuwpoort Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JulianR Posted 19 February , 2019 Share Posted 19 February , 2019 First train over the repaired mole at Zeebrugge in 1919 Julian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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