Another photo from market stall - sweet young lad in WWI uniform - very poignant photo - quite why they photographed him with a selection of plantpot stands....???
Incredible images show British soldiers smiling in the trenches, Indian cavalry at the Somme in 1916, and a solitary soldier traipsing though mud at Passchendaele.
In 2011 a team of researchers led by Australian journalist Ross Coulthart made an incredible discovery when they uncovered a collection of hundreds of
Art curator Dr Benjamin Thomas, from Melbourne, is bringing historic World War I photos to life by converting them from black and white to colour.
Posing proudly for the camera, they were young soldiers excitedly preparing for the adventure of war. The photos are now part of an archive of 2,000 predominantly military prints that has been hidden from public view for decades.
The very nature of WWI produced a considerable amount of written words in letters and diaries. The diaries were often a place of self-care, sometimes published - usually by families - after the war, but frequently kept secret for decades.
Q 87586. A German soldier returning with supplies from a local market with his dog.
A wounded Belgian soldier takes his first look into a mirror after his recovery from a severe head wound during WWI, Antwerp, Belgium, circa 1916.
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This half of an Autochrome stereo slide shows two French soldiers sitting on a bench in front of a large building. It is dated December 1915. The date is written in the same hand as that on the stereo Autochrome of two girls on a rocking horse I have posted. About the Autochrome: The Autochrome Lumiére was introduced in 1907 and was the primary process used to make color photographs until the introduction of color film in the 1930s. A glass plate was coated with a random mosaic of grains of potato starch died red, green, and violet. Lampblack filled the spaces between the grains. A panchromatic silver halide emulsion is added. After exposing in the camera the plate is developed then reversed as a positive. The starch grains act first as filters for the colors striking the plate and then as a viewing filters in the finished image. For example light from a green leaf will pass through the green particle and expose the emulsion under it but would not pass through the red or violet particles. On viewing by transmitted light the green color would show wherever green light hit the plate. We collect Autochromes and other early color processes and I will add more examples as time permits.
Vera Brittain Remembrance Day, November 11, 2012 "The pacifist clings to hope." I remember writing that in an essay during my fourth year of university. I took a fascinating course about war in literature. We had 10 books to read, and I just couldn't get them all finished. My favourite was English writer Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth. The book jacket describes it as "one woman's unforgettable record of the First World War - a haunting elegy for a lost generation." Haunting is an appropriate word for it. I cried sometimes while I was reading it. Vera Brittain's real life losses were many and painful. But this book is also strikingly beautiful with eloquent, poetic writing. The thing is, I never finished it. It's over 600 pages and I found I had to move on to other things. That was many (many!) years ago. As we honour our veterans this Remembrance Day, I am hoping to pick up the book and start it all over again. I will also be thinking about family members who served in the First World War, like my dad's father, who came down with the Spanish Flu in England and never made it to the battlefield. Luckily, he survived. The flu claimed up to 70 million lives around the world until it finally disappeared in 1919. In fact, the virus killed more people than the war itself. My dad's uncle also served, and had to get drunk to round up dead soldiers on the field. Another of my dad's uncles suffered from post-traumatic stress for the rest of his life, and would go into trances now and then. Vera Brittain's young love, Roland Leighton, wrote this poem from Ploegsteert Wood (Plug Street Wood), a sector of the Western Front in Flanders, in April of 1915. Villanelle Violets from Plug Street Wood, Sweet, I send you oversea. (It is strange they should be blue, Blue, when his soaked blood was red, For they grew around his head; It is strange they should be blue.) Violets from Plug Street Wood-- Think what they have meant to me-- Life and Hope and Love and You (And you did not see them grow Where his mangled body lay, Hiding horror from the day; Sweetest, it was better so.) Violets from oversea, To your dear, far, forgetting land These I send in memory, Knowing You will understand.
HU 127205. Private Roland Icombe Webb 5223. Unit: 59th Battalion Australian Imperial Force. Death: 22 November 1916 killed in action at Zenelle Trench Somme Western Front
The U-boat 110 was engaging a convoy of merchant vessels off the north east coast of England on July 19, 1918 when she was spotted and forced to the surface by Allied depth charges.
GRG26/5/4 Photographic Portraits of South Australian Soldiers, Sailors and Nurses who took part in World War One Number 2415 BAWDEN, Ralph Mervin 50th Battalion Place of birth: Salisbury Residence: Aldgate Died of wounds SRSA ref: GRG26/5/4/2415
Posing proudly for the camera, they were young soldiers excitedly preparing for the adventure of war. The photos are now part of an archive of 2,000 predominantly military prints that has been hidden from public view for decades.
These incredible before and after photographs show how British and French soldiers had to have their faces completely rebuilt having been maimed during World War One.
La historia de la humanidad está llena de momentos increíbles, muchos de ellos captados por el objetivo de algún fotógrafo logrando icónicas imágenes que aún hoy nos sorprenden. Volver la vista atrás y contemplar sucesos pasados es un ejercicio necesario del que debemos aprender, pues lamentable el pasado tiende a repetirse más de lo que […]
HU 118810. Private Ernest John Sweet 1999. Unit: "D" Company 21st Battalion 6th Infantry Brigade Australian Imperial Force. Death: 21 November 1916 died of wounds at No
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