The Battle of Messines

[ejwalshe]

Battle of Messines, 7 June - 14 June 1917. Men of the Number 3 New Zealand Field Ambulance and German prisoners bringing in wounded during the Battle of Messines, 8th June 1917. Soldier at the rear facing the camera is Private Herbert John Freeth, soldier on the right of the photo carrying the stretcher is Private Leslie Garey Hopkins, killed in action October 1917. A church bell in a German trench at Grande Bois, near Wytschaete. Two Colonels and their Adjutants at the entrance to a dugout in a captured German communication trench at Oostaverne Wood. Captured German concrete strongpoint "Sachsen feste " (Saxon Fort). British Brigade Headquarters in a captured German dug-out. Brigadier-General F. W. Ramsay, the Commander of the 48th Brigade, 16th Irish Division, on horseback, 11 June 1917. Brigadier-General Ambrose Ricardo, the Commander of the 109th Brigade, 36th Division, and his staff after capture of Wytschaete, 12 June 1917.

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Thanks ejwalshe. 

 

Excellent images and really interesting. Good of you to post. Cheers.

[HenryTheGerman]

Thank you, ejewalshe.

Interesting to see that the German POW were in good mood when being photographed. It expresses relief and combat fatigue.

[ejwalshe]

@HenryTheGerman Even more so in 1918...wish I could see some photos of Allied POWs showing same relief the war is over for them, for certainly they shared same feeling.