sling

Wonderful expressions of pride.

I had seen this one before somewhere, as a child I was a member of na Fianna but we were not nearly as pretentious as these lads. Stu has a name on the Schafer method - I can't remember the name of what the second lad is doing but it was the method used where the arms were moved vigorously about and pressed into the solar plexus to do the same thing. The swords were probably more in order in that era, we did not have access to them.

that's a fine photo!

There is a small hillock in Merrion Sq. but the considerable structure on the far left causes confusion. Small mounds like this can be removed and rebuilt quite easily I suppose. The number of windows and chimney pots on the houses might just provide a starting point for investigation.

Great posture on the lad in the center, born leader perhaps!?

"war is hell"

Photo caption from AWM:   [larger crop than shown above]

"A scene on the Menin Road near Hooge, looking towards Birr Cross Roads, during the battle on 20 September 1917. The wounded on the stretchers are waiting to be taken to the clearing stations; others able to walk are making their way along the road as far as possible.

"Identified are: Major (Maj) G A M Heydon MC, Regimental Medical Officer of the 8th Battalion (fifth from the left with his arm in a sling). To his left is Private W Bain and next to him is Private (Pte) 'Spud' Murphy. To Pte Murphy's left (wearing a pack) is 58 Lance Corporal (LCpl) Roy Arthur Findlay MM, all are members of the 1st Field Ambulance.

"Shortly after the photograph was taken a shell landed in approximately the area where Maj Heydon and Pte Murphy had been standing. The shell killed most of the wounded on stretchers and LCpl Findlay was blown under the truck, shown lying on its side to the right."

what a very sad story, above, war is a terrible thing...

This is truely brilliant, thank you so much for showing some of the many Frannk Hurley images.

Thank you for these amazing pics.

Happy (belated now!) Mother's Day, from the Indicommons blog!

beautiful:)

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called folk costumes, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Her hands.

Now featured on this Mother's Day traincase: