battleofhaelen

Other images from this battle in Bain Collection: www.flickr.com/search/?w=8623220@N02&q=haelen

Cropped from original Agence Meurisse photo shown at Bibliotheque Nationale de France's Gallica site, with following caption:
" En Belgique : combats de Haelen et Diest : église de Haelen après le bombardement "
[In Belgium: Battle of Haelen and Diest: Haelen Church after the bombardment]]





Pub. Date 1914

Church Sint-Pieter-in-Banden (s. inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be/dibe/relict/21764) Street view: www.google.com/maps/@50.9482143,5.1146125,3a,75y,353.01h,...

Thanks for finding the name of the church B-59. Aside from the remade steeple, it hasn't changed that much. We'll add it's name to our catalog record.

the New York Times has a vivid recount of the battle query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FA0B12F93A5B13...

This Bain picture appears to have been taken on the same road:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Haelen_%281914%29 says "De Witte repulsed the German cavalry attacks by ordering his men (which included a company of cyclists and another of pioneers) to dismount and meet the attack with massed rifle fire, which succeeded in inflicting significant casualties upon the Germans. The battle demonstrated the advent of the irrelevance of mounted cavalry charges on the battlefield."

swanq That would explain all the dead horses, all right...

The Battle of Haelen was a cavalry battle on the Western Front at the beginning of World War I. It took place on August 12, 1914 between German forces led by Georg von der Marwitz and the Belgian forces led by Leon De Witte and resulted in a tactical victory for the Belgians.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Haelen_(1914)

1914, not "circa 1910."

Fantastic

Brutal...

Wow O_O