egbert Posted 4 August , 2006 Author Share Posted 4 August , 2006 The great advance 1914, Grandfathers push into France in/with 12.Kompanie, III Bn, IR 49 The battle of Soupir, 2 November 1914 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marina Posted 4 August , 2006 Share Posted 4 August , 2006 The great advance 1914, Grandfathers push into France in/with 12.Kompanie, III Bn, IR 49 The battle of Soupir, 2 November 1914 The enemy fled in panic and left lots of hardware and food. 2 artillery guns and 3 MG were also captured. Remarkable fact: in the French trenches we found German trench coats and tarps with issue stamp of our regiment 49. Obviously they were the same French troops as the ones we had fought earlier in Crapeaumesnil and Les Loges and where we suffered heavy losses from them. The victory in Soupir was considered a true satisfaction, revenge and success. Small world, eh? Marina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 6 August , 2006 Author Share Posted 6 August , 2006 The great advance 1914, Grandfathers push into France in/with 12.Kompanie, III Bn, IR 49 The battle of Soupir, 2 November 1914 Front of Chateau de Soupir 1914 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 6 August , 2006 Author Share Posted 6 August , 2006 The great advance 1914, Grandfathers push into France in/with 12.Kompanie, III Bn, IR 49 The battle of Soupir, 2 November 1914 Back of Chateau de Soupir 1914 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marina Posted 6 August , 2006 Share Posted 6 August , 2006 He'd be in Paradise if he was billeted there! Marina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 6 August , 2006 Author Share Posted 6 August , 2006 The great advance 1914, Grandfathers push into France in/with 12.Kompanie, III Bn, IR 49 The battle of Soupir, 2 November 1914 Soupir village 1914 or earlier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 11 August , 2006 Author Share Posted 11 August , 2006 The great advance 1914, Grandfathers push into France in/with 12.Kompanie, III Bn, IR 49 The battle of Soupir, 2 November 1914 "La Cour de Soupir", 1914 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 11 August , 2006 Author Share Posted 11 August , 2006 The great advance 1914, Grandfathers push into France in/with 12.Kompanie, III Bn, IR 49 The battle of Soupir, 2 November 1914 "La Cour de Soupir", destroyed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marina Posted 11 August , 2006 Share Posted 11 August , 2006 Ruins, ruins. What a thing war is. Marina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 18 August , 2006 Author Share Posted 18 August , 2006 I wonder why attachments within this thread have been deleted. I do understand that over time the interest in this thread will diminish to nil, but- will most attachments therefore be deleted over time due to file storage limitation? Spot checking I find the attachments in post #601 and # 489 already removed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebie9173 Posted 18 August , 2006 Share Posted 18 August , 2006 The attachments are both .PPT files. I wonder if these type of attachments are no longer permitted? Steve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Mackenzie Posted 18 August , 2006 Share Posted 18 August , 2006 I have recently completed a summary of this thread (well the Trunk bit but not the subsequent maps and pictures on advances into France) and, having had agreement from Egbert and Chris, hope to make it generally available in the not too distant future. It will not include every single attachments but hopefully the main ones. Neil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
susanhemmings Posted 20 August , 2006 Share Posted 20 August , 2006 Well done Neil. That's great news I think the story should be published. I know I am not the only member to think this. Are there any PALS members who could help in a professional way? Would be wonderful and a totally fitting tribute to the man himself. Susan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marina Posted 20 August , 2006 Share Posted 20 August , 2006 Great idea! Marina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spice Posted 20 August , 2006 Share Posted 20 August , 2006 Here, here! - this is fantastic Egbert, thank you so much for sharing this with us. Spice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Mackenzie Posted 21 August , 2006 Share Posted 21 August , 2006 After a bit of messing about - because I could not get my own web space to work - I have put the summary on E-Snips which can be accesed from here. This is no work of art or professional job, merely a rough summary I put together for myself. But Egbert has seen it and made the changes he felt necessary. I also want to emphasise that this is for personal use only and the copyright rules of the Forum apply. I hope it works! Neil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 3 September , 2006 Author Share Posted 3 September , 2006 Grandfathers final housing - a story in three pictures No1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 3 September , 2006 Author Share Posted 3 September , 2006 Iteration no 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 4 September , 2006 Author Share Posted 4 September , 2006 Final housing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 4 September , 2006 Author Share Posted 4 September , 2006 ...next to his son's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunner Bailey Posted 4 September , 2006 Share Posted 4 September , 2006 Wonderful heritage Egbert. GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian turner Posted 4 September , 2006 Share Posted 4 September , 2006 Egbert, Nice presentations! Well done, you have saved their memories for future generations. Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyHollinger Posted 4 September , 2006 Share Posted 4 September , 2006 Haven't posted for a while, but thought I'd add my thanks as well. Beautiful ... and wonderful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marina Posted 4 September , 2006 Share Posted 4 September , 2006 Beautifully arrangd, Egbert! Well done! Marina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob lembke Posted 5 September , 2006 Share Posted 5 September , 2006 Hi, Egbert! I only "chimed in" or posted in this thread a couple of times, but I have followed it closely. It truly has been wonderful. The thread itself is a specific, unfolding art form, but I also feel that all your research and your artifacts deserve another presentation. There now are so many options, both technical and business/financial, in publishing that it is now possable to easily and inexpensively publish almost anything, without the approval of a dreaded publisher and editor. (Clearly a proper presentation of this material would be an unusual book that some publishers might not instantly warm to.) I have a couple of "e-friends" in Germany who write books on WK I and self-publish them, quite nice and excellent books. They also sell them themselves, and probably also get them into more conventional book outlets. One is a Hauptmann in the Bundeswehr. I also have seen a book self-published in the US by two life-long friends who now live on opposite coasts of the US and carry out a lively e-correspondence. They decided to write a book based on their e-mail conversations, certainly a topic of limited interest, and they used commonly available software to write and lay it out. Then some firm printed a full-sized book, with illustrations, with an attractive paper cover in color that included a photograph. They had 100 copies printed, for a total cost of $800. This was a couple of years ago, and I bet that it could be done today for less. A book such as the one you could produce would of course have a much wider appeal than the example I gave above. You might also consider an edition in English as well as in German. Such a work would be a really permament way of perpetuating your grand-father's memory. Gruss aus Philadelphia, Bob Lembke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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