Pic of Helmets Being issued
I came across this yesterday on the net, I would site a source but sadly cant remember, so it is someone on the WRF's originalI am sorry
anyway
Wanted to share this because there is so much going on in this picture the more I look the more I see (that sounded dumb). We have helmets with decals, the pile behind no decal, the guy issuing them has a cuff title just all around interesting to me
regards
Ned Kelly
Theses Bundesarchive images are open access online as far as I understand it.
Regards,
Jerry
Whateverits just an opinion.
Looks like Grossdeutschland !!
The gates of hell were opened and we accepted the invitation to enter" 26/880 Lance Sgt, Edward Dyke. 26th Bn Northumberland Fusiliers , ( 3rd Tyneside Irish )
1st July 1916
Thought shall be the harder , heart the keener,
Courage the greater as our strength faileth.
Here lies our leader ,in the dust of his greatness.
Who leaves him now , be damned forever.
We who are old now shall not leave this Battle,
But lie at his feet , in the dust with our leader
House Carles at the Battle of Hastings
It strikes me that this is a familiar scene to anyone who has served in any army! Recruit: "It don't fit Sarge" Quartermaster: "There are three sizes of army kit my lad, L, XL and FM"
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares more about than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature with no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
Do any look like they have chinstraps, or did they get that later or at a store?
I second that watchdog
BDU's thrown in my face...."but I am size 46"......Next
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