A British 18 pound field gun gets ready for action from its camouflaged position - Ypres, Oct 1914
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• Sailors Leaving.
Date: 1917
Photographer: Robert J. Shillinglaw (Greenbush, NY)
Medium: Gelatin silver photographic print
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“See you later for the next one”
“Wtf no”
Happy Armistice Day y’all.
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A refugee family returning to Amiens passing some ruined houses in the city, 17th September 1918.
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I wish I could have a normal and healthy relationship with sexuality but when I finally admit I need to jeark off it's with the grim acceptance of a WW1 soldier being commanded to advance into no man's land after days of brutal attrition warfare. Day upon day of watching his comrades lose their minds. Day upon day of infected wounds and blood and piss and shit and vomit and mud. Day upon day of questioning what he's even fighting for, what could possibly be worth this scale of human suffering? He doesn't quite want to die; the rawest, animal core of him claws for life at every turn, but what does he have to live for? He has no money, no land, no job, no future. There's no one waiting for him back home. And what would it matter if there was? He is never leaving this battlefield. He knows this with more certainty than he knows his own name. Whether death comes in minutes, days, (or, lord forbid, weeks), his corpse will rot in this stinking mud with all the rest. And so he climbs over the rim and charges into the roaring machine gun fire. He feels nothing.
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Franz Jüttner (1915) Magazine cover for Lustige Blätter. Text:
Der Vater des "Militarismus". "Und das sage ich ihm, mein lieber Feldgrauer: lasse er die Engländer nur räsonieren über unser Potsdam, — wenn sie es bloß fürchten!“
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A group photo of Jasta 2 "Boelcke" around 1917 when Otto Bernert was leader . You can see they had two guests from Austria-Hungary's K.u.K:-)
Naming the ones I only recognise ,,, if anybody else recognises anyone , please do let me know:)
Friedrich "Fritz" Kempf and Hermann Frommherz
(This photo actually comes from the site dedicated to Fritz Kempf ! I will put the link somewhere below so you could pay a visit to it:-)
Otto Bernert and Werner Voss
Georg Zeumer and Karl Bodenschatz
Raoul Stojsavlesevic
Franz Pernet
Robert Strey
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German soldiers pose on top of a cupola at Fort Loncin, one of the Liege forts that had been knocked out by a German siege howitzer - Liege, Belgium 1914
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It's been a looooong time I haven't shared reenactment pics on here.
First because we're in a transition. We have changed eras, partly because we are more interested, partly because cavalry isn't exactly very modern (though you'd be surprised by the dates of the last battles led on horseback), and partly because... Reenactors have changed. We've always known we were among a minority of people who did this not for the glory of the soldiers but for the education of young and less young people - "never again" being our mantra, and we've been known to be pretty graphic in our descriptions, on purpose. But now, it's getting worse. The groups we have known and been part of have welcomed new people, and let's say... Politically speaking, we are opposites. This is euphemism, by the way. A real big nice euphemism. I would punch them if I could and if contrary to us they weren't in possession of (legal) actual working weapons.
That's the second reason I have stopped sharing. I'm a pacifist, a leftist, if this means anything here anymore, and I am fed up with being confused for war-crazed arseholes who glorify war and forget what history really is. Me and my husband are not like them. We have decided to separate from them, and maybe start doing our thing in our corner.
We will not leave history in the hands of people who do not respect it for what it teaches us.
Anyway. This week end I took these pictures and I like them, and I felt like sharing them again.
Benj and Illico here are fully dressed and equipped as a 1918 WW1 french cuirassier and his horse.
PS : the rifle (1894 Berthier) is demilitarised. There's not a single working gun in this house, they're all glorified paperweights. And it'll stay this way.
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Satyress sapper..ess ?
There's something almost whimsical about those blunderbuss-esque rifles after you give them the Star Wars prop treatment.
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