Malte Znaniecki Posted 9 February , 2006 Share Posted 9 February , 2006 No 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malte Znaniecki Posted 9 February , 2006 Author Share Posted 9 February , 2006 No 2 Location: Road Ypres - Menin Subject: Stretcher-bearers passing the battle-field. In the back-ground an exploding German shell. Space of time: 21 September 1917 Source: Der Weltkrieg im Bild : Frontaufnahmen aus den Archiven der Entente. - München : Verl. "Der Weltkrieg im Bild", [o. J.] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malte Znaniecki Posted 9 February , 2006 Author Share Posted 9 February , 2006 No 3 Location: Road Ypres - Menin Subject: From the caption: "The Menin Road during the Great War. " Space of time: 1916 - 1918 Source: http://www.ww1battlefields.co.uk/flanders/hooge.html Photo: Keystone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malte Znaniecki Posted 9 February , 2006 Author Share Posted 9 February , 2006 No 4 Location: Road Ypres - Menin at Gheluvelt Subject: Soldiers of German Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 126 Space of time: July 1915 Source: Schwäbische Kunde aus dem großen Krieg / i. A. d. früheren Württ. Kriegsmin. bearb. von Hptm. d. Res. Schmückle; Hermann Missenharter [Mitarb]. - 3. Buch. - Stuttgart [u. a.]: Kommissions-Verlag der DVA, 1918 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malte Znaniecki Posted 14 February , 2006 Author Share Posted 14 February , 2006 Map 1 Location: Road Ypres - Menin Subject: Space of time: December 1917 Source: http://pathsofglory.co.uk/contents.htm Many thanks to Dave (CROONAERT) for the permission to post it here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malte Znaniecki Posted 15 February , 2006 Author Share Posted 15 February , 2006 qpower, I suppose it is a bridge to cross bogland or a very small river beside the road. Malte Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SFayers Posted 15 February , 2006 Share Posted 15 February , 2006 I suppose it is a bridge to cross bogland or a very small river beside the road. I agree - it does appear to be an elevated walkway. Certainly the ground beneath appears to be very wet! Mind you, if indeed that's what it is, I wouldn't want to be caught on it during a bombardment - it appears rather exposed! cheers Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan_J Posted 15 February , 2006 Share Posted 15 February , 2006 Can anyone zoom in on the bridge? This photo comes from my website (as attributed by Malte - thanks) - and I have the original Keystone stereoview at home. I'm pretty sure Malte's explanation above is correct. The photo on the website has been compressed to make it a reasonable size for web use; when I get a chance I will scan the bridge structure in fine detail and post the image here. Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malte Znaniecki Posted 15 February , 2006 Author Share Posted 15 February , 2006 Thanks Alan, that's very good news. Malte Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian turner Posted 24 February , 2006 Share Posted 24 February , 2006 Looks like a hell of an explosion in picture 8 - a dump going up perhaps? Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan_J Posted 25 February , 2006 Share Posted 25 February , 2006 Can anyone zoom in on the bridge? This relates to the picture in post #3 in this thread - I have sacanned a small section of the "bridge". It certainly looks like a walkway, there are definately handrails, although how well they will come out in the attached remains to be seen..... Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malte Znaniecki Posted 26 February , 2006 Author Share Posted 26 February , 2006 Alan, many thanks for the zoom. It's very good to see what I presumed. Do you have any information where exactly the photo was shot ? Many thanks again Malte Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan_J Posted 26 February , 2006 Share Posted 26 February , 2006 Malte, No more information I'm afraid - the card in one in a series of stereoviews of the war published by the Keystone View Company. There is a certain amount of information on each card; on this one the title on the front is "British soldiers Gelaning in the fields of War: Menin Road". There is more information on the rear of the card, but this doesn't relate to the location. I think with any of these cards one has to have a certain amount of scepticism about the location, although the line of trees would suggest a road, but exactly which road and where on it.......well, impossible to tell I think. Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurel Sercu Posted 26 February , 2006 Share Posted 26 February , 2006 I must say the first time I saw the complete photo in this thread, my immediate reaction was : This looks like the Boezinge Canal (between Ypres and (north of it) Boezinge. There were quite a lot of bridges there. Infantry bridges, and a lot more primitive. But seeing that the bridge of the photo is not primitive at all ... Just a question : can we be sure this "nice" bridge is a military bridge, not a pre-war bridge crossing a lake or pond north that due to the ploughing of the battlefield has run "dry" ? Aurel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malte Znaniecki Posted 26 February , 2006 Author Share Posted 26 February , 2006 Aurel, since my self-constructed time-machine standing in my cellar does not work properly (I don't think this matters on me) I spent 3 hours this morning with my telescope on the top of our roof. But the sight on the area was bad. I suggest that there was too much fog in the atmosphere so I'll try it again when the sun comes out. And you won't convince me of any theory like "the earth could be round and not flat". No chance. From my opinion - regarding the shattered landscape roundabout - this bridge is too less damaged that it could have been standing at the place before the bombardments started there. Unfortunately I have no maps showing small rivers or lakes beside the road (if it really happens to be the Menin-Road) that could get passed over a bridge which is in orthogonal position to the road. Puzzling. Malte Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurel Sercu Posted 26 February , 2006 Share Posted 26 February , 2006 From my opinion - regarding the shattered landscape roundabout - this bridge is too less damaged that it could have been standing at the place before the bombardments started there. Unfortunately I have no maps showing small rivers or lakes beside the road (if it really happens to be the Menin-Road) that could get passed over a bridge which is in orthogonal position to the road. Puzzling. Malte Malte, Actually you took the words right out of my mouth. For these two points were indeed my counterarguments (countering my own prewar bridge + dry pond hypothesis). But I did not post this, because I wanted to test you, try to find out if on this Sunday morning your brain works full capacity. So : 1. Correct, the bridge looks too intact. 2. No ponds or small lakes so close to the Menin Road as far as I know. (But I don't habe the appropriate trench maps right here with me.) Aurel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malte Znaniecki Posted 26 February , 2006 Author Share Posted 26 February , 2006 Aurel. you are right and I feel a little bit ashamed. Yours sincerely Malte Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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