DCLI Posted 15 January , 2005 Share Posted 15 January , 2005 Hutchinson, Wold War 1, An Illustrated History - Artillery Observation Officer, Cambrai November 1917 - don't you think he is being just teensy bit obvious? regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elliot#1 Posted 15 January , 2005 Share Posted 15 January , 2005 He would soon know about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrB Posted 15 January , 2005 Share Posted 15 January , 2005 "Now, if I can just get another foot or so higher...maybe that top rung...." DrB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaeldr Posted 16 January , 2005 Share Posted 16 January , 2005 DCLI, Not quite as high as your chap But nevertheless pretty exposed for a Major-General The pic below shows Douglas, GOC 42nd Div during the Third Battle of Krithia on 4th June 1915 at Gallipoli [from Laffin’s ‘Damn the Dardanelles’] As far as I know Douglas survived It would be nice to think that your chap did too. Regards Michael D.R. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilB Posted 16 January , 2005 Share Posted 16 January , 2005 They look a bit dubious gents, but we don`t know how far from the front they were. In the tree photo, the photographer is not likely to have been standing there if there was much danger? Phil B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zephyr4 Posted 16 January , 2005 Share Posted 16 January , 2005 Looking at the back ground of the picture it does not look like most front line pictures you see that has been flattened by artillery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muerrisch Posted 16 January , 2005 Share Posted 16 January , 2005 However, the stance with legs each side of ladder suggests a rapid sliding descent once he sees the flash, never mind hearing the bang. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilB Posted 16 January , 2005 Share Posted 16 January , 2005 You mean he`d be down on the B of bang? Phil B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Samson Posted 16 January , 2005 Share Posted 16 January , 2005 You mean he`d be down on the B of bang? Followed rather quickly by several tons of assorted brickwork and masonry! Gary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaeldr Posted 16 January , 2005 Share Posted 16 January , 2005 Looking at the back ground of the picture it does not look like most front line pictures you see that has been flattened by artillery [tongue in cheek] This is Gallipoli - What artillery? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSMMo Posted 16 January , 2005 Share Posted 16 January , 2005 Now THIS is an O.P. Notice no ladder and any rapid descent would be unaided except by gravity. This is an OP for the Argyll Mountain Battery, 4th Highland Mountain Brigade in Salonika. My grandfather, who took the photo, wrote, ""Buchanan" in O.P. tree Gudeli Wood March 1918" on the back. (Buchanan is Lt. Malcolm Buchanan, who would later become the Battery Commander and even later the Provost of Rothesay in the '20's). Mike Morrison Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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