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Re: THE FIRST WORLD WAR THREAD.
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 5:41 pm
by PeterN2
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/
Re: THE FIRST WORLD WAR THREAD.
Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2014 9:32 am
by Niner
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/
Re: THE FIRST WORLD WAR THREAD.
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 10:45 pm
by Niner
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/
Re: THE FIRST WORLD WAR THREAD.
Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2014 11:35 pm
by Niner
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?
Re: THE FIRST WORLD WAR THREAD.
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2014 3:54 am
by DuncaninFrance
Re: THE FIRST WORLD WAR THREAD.
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2014 8:22 am
by DuncaninFrance
Taken this morning - a typical, grey, Armistice Day.
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Re: THE FIRST WORLD WAR THREAD.
Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2014 11:41 am
by Niner
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/
Re: THE FIRST WORLD WAR THREAD.
Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2014 4:02 pm
by Niner
The idea of conscription is in the press of England a hundred years ago today.
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/ ... d-1/seq-1/
Re: THE FIRST WORLD WAR THREAD.
Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2014 12:47 am
by Niner
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/
Re: THE FIRST WORLD WAR THREAD.
Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2014 11:09 am
by Niner
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/