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Almost every bay of the communication sap from Pear trench to Hamel Village contained dead bodies of the enemy

from National Science and Media Museum

  • 15 older comments, and then…
  • Terrific Lake said:
    Crop off the persons from top part of image
  • Anita & Greg said:
    I used this image for Remembrance Day.

    Never Forget.

    Thank you.
  • lloyd09 said:
    "lying still on the ground in the row of the poppie,you see the man/youth in the cross that lay in the field to cross the trench to get the medic",still life .
  • Pixel Wrangler said:
    Photo caption from AWM: "Looking towards Hamel along the communication trench (CT) running from the village to Pear Trench, over the fiercely contested ground won from the enemy in the Australian attack of 4 July 1918. The bodies of two dead German machine gunners bayoneted during the fighting lie on the ground, while the village is being shelled by the enemy. The Germans were caught behind the barrage in the CT and in almost every bay a dead body was found."
  • Gareth Davies said:
    very sad scene

Eerste Wereldoorlog, loopgraven

from Nationaal Archief

  • 4 older comments, and then…
  • Corrie Barklimore said:
    Maybe the French military borrowed their armour design from the Australian bushranger Ned Kelly? Who knows... I borrowed this image for a blog post over at CherryFingers Dynasty. Thanks for the fantastic pic.
  • Erny van Wijk said:
    this looks more like a drawing than a photo. Might it be an artist impression of an eyewitness account ?
  • Simon Trimby said:
    The body armour looks better made than the helmet, and appears to be the pre-war armour worn by cuirassiers (heavy cavalry). If so, it wasn't bullet-proof!
  • Steven Sanders said:
    It wasn't uncommon for photographs to be drawn over back then. Lots of photos use hand touch ups to bring out detail, this one just takes it to an extreme.
  • *Medulla* said:
    Also in Italy "arditi" soldiers used to wear that, if I'm not wrong. But it wasn't so bullet-proof.

Leven in een loopgraaf

from Nationaal Archief

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  • Raymond Pashoukos said:
    Thank you for posting these photos. I remember studying about WW1 in high school but this tells the tale.
  • Albert Koevoet said:
    "40 Years Since The End of World War I"? I really thougt it was 90 years ago!
  • Yvette Hoitink said:
    The Dutch version says "De foto is verspreid in november 1958, 40 jaar na de wapenstilstand", "This photo was spread in November 1958, 40 years after the armistice". I guess that explains the 40 years ago in the description.
  • George Redgrave said:
    This well known photo depicts British soldiers in a captured German trench. One can tell that because the fire-step and parados are on the left while the sentry is posted on the back of the trench on the right.
  • SandyEm said:
    The world still NEEDS to see captures like this...it should always remain fresh in the mind...