bruce Posted 4 April , 2013 Share Posted 4 April , 2013 This is a fascinating thread.....so many different patterns of memorials. Thanks for posting them. Bruce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
margaretdufay Posted 4 April , 2013 Author Share Posted 4 April , 2013 Hi Mags, I know the polychrome ones aren't to Marco's taste but in my recent trip I noticed that several seemed to have been repainted ready for the centenary, like this one at Lissey: I haven't actually heard anyone say that, but that's the impression I'm getting, if I hear anything or read anything I will post the info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
margaretdufay Posted 4 April , 2013 Author Share Posted 4 April , 2013 Was passing through Richebourg l'Avoué today and found this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myrtle Posted 4 April , 2013 Share Posted 4 April , 2013 La Chapelle d'Abondance - French Alps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myrtle Posted 4 April , 2013 Share Posted 4 April , 2013 La Chapelle d'Abondance The same Memorial in La Chapelle d'Abondance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myrtle Posted 4 April , 2013 Share Posted 4 April , 2013 Memorial at Briancon - Photograph taken September 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myrtle Posted 4 April , 2013 Share Posted 4 April , 2013 Memorial inside Briancon church Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
margaretdufay Posted 1 May , 2013 Author Share Posted 1 May , 2013 Was going through Pont sur Sambres first two pictures Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
margaretdufay Posted 1 May , 2013 Author Share Posted 1 May , 2013 and the last two Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
margaretdufay Posted 13 May , 2013 Author Share Posted 13 May , 2013 hi was in Bethencourt near Caudry and found this monument inside their cemetery, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
margaretdufay Posted 13 May , 2013 Author Share Posted 13 May , 2013 here are the names Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
margaretdufay Posted 29 May , 2013 Author Share Posted 29 May , 2013 It's surprising how these monuments can be discovered just by a turn of the head, that's what happened here,, so I decided to stop because it looked quite interesting. it's at bully-grenay. It looked quite quaint from a distance and I wasn't disappointed. http://chgrenay.cana...6/26660823.html the above is a link to a local website, hope it will be of interest. Mags Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
margaretdufay Posted 29 May , 2013 Author Share Posted 29 May , 2013 I have some more pictures of this and I have translated a part of the text, that explains its function. 1914 The First World Hope you like it.War has broken out. German and English and French are fighting each other. Soon a front line was established in the sector of Grenay commanded by British units. As was in the case in the seventeenth century, the location called the Tree of Condé was an excellent observation post. The Germans soon realized this, and they opened fire on a soldier who dared venture towards the monument. The lime tree was cut down in 1915 by the French, in order for it not be a landmark for the enemy.The situation made the English to replace it in 1915 by a thick circular body armour en all matters of appearance identical. The dome is formed of a hollow rotating dome and loop holes with rear site, allowing a man to slip and observe the enemy at leisure.This detachment is different, the 3rd French engineers. (according to M CHOQUET engineer at the mines of Douai. Commanded by Lieutenant LAISNE, former student at the the Horticultural College of Versailles, who for many years was responsible for the substitution. And when the day came on the plain of Lens, the Germans did not notice anything. For them, the landscape has not changed. The ancient monument was buried there. In reality they dug a big hole against all in which the namecalling will continue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian C Posted 30 May , 2013 Share Posted 30 May , 2013 Hi Mags Thought I would add this to the thread. This was a memorial to the victims of the first gas attack and it was located, I believe, at Steenstraat. This photo was taken C1938, on one side of the memorial part of the inscription said'killed by barbarians' the German army of 1942 took exception to this and blew the monument up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
margaretdufay Posted 22 June , 2013 Author Share Posted 22 June , 2013 Was passing through Bienvillers au bois, and thought that some of you may find this interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
margaretdufay Posted 22 June , 2013 Author Share Posted 22 June , 2013 here are the guns in more detail, plus a link giving more detail about them http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/9095/6tp6.jp This is one gun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
margaretdufay Posted 22 June , 2013 Author Share Posted 22 June , 2013 HH This is the second one. Mags Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Bennitt Posted 2 August , 2013 Share Posted 2 August , 2013 Just come back from a few days in central France and spotted these ones, first in Bourges, one of the nicest small French cities I know, and then in Aubusson, once famous for its carpets but the industry's days must now be numbered. cheers Martin B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Bennitt Posted 4 August , 2013 Share Posted 4 August , 2013 The mass grave containing the remains of French writer Charles Peguy, killed in September 1914 just west of Meaux. cheers Martin B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Bennitt Posted 4 August , 2013 Share Posted 4 August , 2013 At Rebais, south of Laferté sous Jouarre, a local peasant boy offers the fruits of the earth to a soldier cheers Martin B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Bennitt Posted 5 August , 2013 Share Posted 5 August , 2013 La Chapelle d'Abondance - French Alps He also seems to be a popular model. Here he is at Saint Simeon in the Seine et Marne west of Paris. cheers Martin B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myrtle Posted 16 September , 2013 Share Posted 16 September , 2013 Martin Interesting. I wonder who modelled for the sculptor. Here is another memorial from Larche. It is the only surviving structure in this village which was destroyed during WW2 following the Resistance's activity in the area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myrtle Posted 16 September , 2013 Share Posted 16 September , 2013 More photographs of the Larche Memorial Larche Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
margaretdufay Posted 19 September , 2013 Author Share Posted 19 September , 2013 Was at Le Touquet last week and found this one mags Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Bennitt Posted 19 September , 2013 Share Posted 19 September , 2013 Seen on my holidays this summer in Lorraine: Another painted Poilu, in Ecouviez, right on the Belgian border, with the inscription "passer-by, whoever you are, doff your hat for those who died for you" and a charging French soldier in Dun-sur-Meuse, taken with the sun not quite in the right place with a plaque honouring the US 5th Division on the side of the memorial And a bridge railing in memory of the same division close by cheers Martin B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now