THE FIRST WORLD WAR as reported in the daily news

PeterN2 · Post by **PeterN2** » Wed Oct 29, 2014 5:41 pm

They have sold 888,246 poppies. I make that £22,206,150. for a price of £25 each. A link to the sale site. The 888,246 is the total of British fatalities in the First World War, so one poppy per fatality.

Regards
Peter.

https://poppies.hrp.org.uk/buy-a-poppy/

Post by **Niner** » Fri Oct 31, 2014 9:32 am

Open mouth and insert foot. Political figures were just as dumb back then as they are today. This Frenchman was good at getting noticed by the press...and French people as well it seems.

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/ ... d-1/seq-1/

Post by **Niner** » Thu Nov 06, 2014 10:45 pm

Turkey joins the War. They side with the Germans... probably because they have all those Mausers. And this is an American view of this turn of evens. a hundred years ago today.

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/ ... d-1/seq-1/

Post by **Niner** » Sun Nov 09, 2014 11:35 pm

Here is another notion about Turkey entering the War on the side of Germany. The "Christian" view.

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/ ... d-1/seq-2/

Why the idea of the Kaiser bringing in some Muslim heathens to a Christian war......how could he sink so low?

Post by **DuncaninFrance** » Tue Nov 11, 2014 3:54 am

Links to two sets of images.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/phot ... rters.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/worl ... me=3101618

Post by **DuncaninFrance** » Tue Nov 11, 2014 8:22 am

Taken this morning - a typical, grey, Armistice Day.

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Post by **Niner** » Sat Nov 15, 2014 11:41 am

If wars had referees and line judges this kind of thing wouldn't continue to happen. Oh....and maybe camera's everywhere and instant replay and further review would help too. From a hundred years ago both sides are telling the U S they just made winning plays.

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/ ... d-1/seq-1/

Post by **Niner** » Fri Nov 21, 2014 4:02 pm

The idea of conscription is in the press of England a hundred years ago today.

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/ ... d-1/seq-1/

Post by **Niner** » Mon Dec 01, 2014 12:47 am

Here's a likely story. It's the other side that started this thing. It's not our fault at all. We were forced into it.

Sounds like a tune we have learned to find familiar.

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/ ... d-1/seq-1/

Post by **Niner** » Mon Dec 08, 2014 11:09 am

A new invention...so says the story. Although a rangefinder, like someone would use on a hunting expedition, wasn't used by FO teams in my day, over half a century later, for various reasons, including not being issued one on the one hand and, when encountered, the enemy was within rock throwing distance anyway. It probably made perfect sense back a hundred years ago. After all, with trench warfare at line of sight close range, knowing exactly how far it was to the enemy trench could be calculated from such a device and gun data calculated. The hard part would be taking a reading without getting your brains shot out. I got a feeling this photo was staged and the sight taking was aimed at some territory from which no fire was coming nor could be coming.

Why the elaborate carriage and support structure I can't guess. Unless.... he was setting deflection with it too. And that carriage is laid in like a gun in a battery and the guy is looking at some target a couple thousand meters in the distance... and... well .. I'm getting in deeper and over my head speculating.

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/ ... d-1/seq-1/

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