egbert Posted 5 January , 2012 Share Posted 5 January , 2012 Nobody knows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger H Posted 5 January , 2012 Share Posted 5 January , 2012 It looks well tended, so hopefully not! Roger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Upton Posted 5 January , 2012 Share Posted 5 January , 2012 It looks well tended, so hopefully not! I would have said it looks very badly added-in myself! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 5 January , 2012 Author Share Posted 5 January , 2012 Well Roger, having a closer look at the 2 steelhelmets, year 1919 - I tend to say in about 10 minutes it will be ploughed over Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger H Posted 5 January , 2012 Share Posted 5 January , 2012 Egbert Maybe the farmer was a compassionate man. I hope so. Roger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter and Ellen Posted 6 January , 2012 Share Posted 6 January , 2012 I agree with Andrew, it looks like an add-on. Known graves would have been opened and the remains relocated, a process that went from the end of the fighting until 1923 when the volunteer soldiers involved in grave location and clearances were sent home. I think also, the fact that the field seems to be fully repatriated, also suggests that the image has been created. I suspose that it was meant to be symbolic rather than fact. Still a good representation in that the farmers had to rework the fields and many a body would lay below their plough. Life just had to go on....the search for some type of normality after the horror. Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
59165 Posted 6 January , 2012 Share Posted 6 January , 2012 Where did you find this,Egbert? It is not the best photoshop I have seen.Awfully flat for Soissons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 6 January , 2012 Author Share Posted 6 January , 2012 Where did you find this,Egbert? It is not the best photoshop I have seen.Awfully flat for Soissons I copied the image from a link given yesterday here on free online-available books that cover the genre of cleaning up the battlefield after the war. Don't find the post any more, maybe somebody else remembers. 2 virtual library books where referenced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tipperary Posted 6 January , 2012 Share Posted 6 January , 2012 Hi egbert i put the links up for Norman(seadog) on Cnock's flanders postcard thread yesterday up around post 95ish.john Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 6 January , 2012 Author Share Posted 6 January , 2012 Hi egbert i put the links up for Norman(seadog) on Cnock's flanders postcard thread yesterday up around post 95ish.john Ok thats it, scroll to page 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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