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@bobolobocus if you (or anyone else) wants to know the details and/or see a picture of Cher Ami, here’s on of the additions I made to this post. Reminder to everyone for the millionth time that this is a war memorial, not a church. Check out my blog for more Great War content.

Pigeon steals poppies from the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, Australia in order to build a nest beside a stained glass window.

#pigeons #pigeon #cher ami #australian war memorial #wwi #ww1 #great war #world war one

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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors | Тіні забутих предків (1965) dir. Sergei Parajanov

#dancing #flowers #gif #gifset #shadows of forgotten ancestors #film #joy

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someone buy me this sticker

#world war one #osowiec #attack of the living dead #gas attack #war memes #russian #soldiers #meme #sticker #wwi #ww1 #great war #poison gas #living dead

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From La Baïonnette (The Bayonet), a French art nouveau magazine published during the war for the benefit and humor of the soldiers. August 1915.

#la baionnette #art nouveau #french #magazine #world war one #1915 #art #wwi #ww1 #bayonet #howitzer #artillery #woman #soldiers

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Mariia Lutsak aka Марія Луцак aka  Maria Lutsak (Ukrainian, b. 1997, Kyiv, Ukraine) - Nothing, 2017, Drawings: Charcoal on Paper

#skull #skeleton #charcoal #art #mariia lutsak #maria lutsak #black and white #ptsd #flashbacks #memories #nothing #hands

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#world war one #reenactor #american #soldier #doughboys #reenactment #wwi #ww1 #great war

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Poppy by Rudra Mandal

#poppy #red poppy #flanders poppy #lest we forget #rudra mandal #flowers #in memoriam #world war one blog

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#man #wounded

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Sandra Bullock saved me from a war dog that was going to eat me, by giving it a glass of brandy because, “a dog this big needs something extra to calm down.”

#war dogs #sandra bullock #not great war #weird dreams #brandy

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I have such a hard time queuing, I just want to just dump everything in one big go and not post for another two weeks

#sorry about that #personal #queue

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Letters from Major General W T Swan to his daughter Barbara and a picture sent to him on her 11th birthday in 1918. My favourite parts are the donkey outside his headquarters and the cat pissing on the stairs.

I don’t care if it’s sappy. This kind of stuff is really lovely to see and wonderfully humanises these people. They loved their children and told them silly stories and talked about pets just as much as we do. And viewing them as prim and proper, uptight robots does them and us a disservice.

#world war one #wwi #ww1 #letters home #correspondence #letters #major general #w t swan #british #great war #marieux #belgium #1915 #1916 #1918

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#old film #1930s #gif #roses #flowers #black and white film #not great war

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#shovel #dirt #digging

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Cacolet, the dog mascot of the 5th Australian Light Horse Field Ambulance. ‘Cacolet’ is a French word for a litter mounted on a pack animal for carrying injured soldiers, so it’s a bit like naming a dog ‘Wheelchair’.

#cacolet #dog #war dogs #mascot #world war one #wwi #ww1 #dog mascot #5th australian light horse #field ambulance #australian #good boy #great war

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A Poilu (rural French soldier) pauses eating standing up in a sandbag shelter somewhere in Nieuwpoort, Belgium. His scarf and sheepskin jerkin indicate it’s probably winter, c. 1915.

#world war one #wwi #ww1 #poilu #french #soldier #1915 #belgium #sandbags #mealtime #nieuwpoort #great war #portrait

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mood #happybirthdaytome

#not great war #act your age #birthday #mood #old af #hat

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Perfection. Thank you, I can’t tell you how delighted I am.

It’s my birthday (technically tomorrow but we’re celebrating today) and my kids were making me cards.

I got an A;TLA themed card, a happy ‘Brithday’ card where I was putting flowers on a very large horse, a picture of me in the middle of the city with an ent (?) and my youngest wrote her name (spelled wrong) on a piece of paper, put it on the floor and rolled on it (”to put hugs in it”).

But my favorite was my 8yo’s. For background, my kids know that I’m a World War One reenactor and have seen me in uniform at events. My wife is a former sex worker and works with several organizations to help get women off the street and to create safe, respectful environments for those who choose to continue working. I support her in this 100% and our kids know about this. Of course, their understanding of it depends on their age, but they have a general idea of what a prostitute is.

That explained, my daughter decided to make a drawing where I am standing defending a large group of sex workers from a bunch of WWI-era German soldiers. I initially did not have a weapon but when I pointed this out, she hastily drew a gun in my hand. The Germans are about 50% angry eyebrows and most of them aren’t armed either. The prostitutes seem pretty nonchalant about all this. They’re dressed extremely fancy, but not revealing. (She’s at the age where all women should wear glamourous sparkly dresses.) One of the sex workers seems to be growling? But I think maybe it’s a smile. 

Honestly I think the whole thing was just an excuse to draw women in pretty dresses. She forgot to put anything inside.

I wish I could share this picture with you but I asked her and she said it would be too embarrassing. I respect her wishes so you’ll just have to imagine it yourself.

#birthday #birthday cards #charge #rainstormdragon