'I do not think we can hope for any better thing now.
We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker of course, and the end cannot be far.
It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. R. SCOTT.
Last Entry - For God's sake look after our people.'
In memory of Capt. Robert Falcon Scott, Edward Wilson, Henry Bowers, Lawrence Oates and Edgar Evans. South Pole Expedition, 30th March 1912.
Ahh, but do they have the Haka!
The epitome of 'game face' .....literally!
All Black Haka 2010 New Zealand Rugby - YouTube
Kurt 'Panzer' Meyer in Normandy. The fella behind him has got his Game Face on too!
I always thought this guy had THE 'game face.' Maybe its just because, Ive read about him, that I believe so.
Anyway, a very determined person - his later 'exploits' notwithstanding.
Sadly, these later exploits overshadow the fact, that he was the finest cavalry commander of his era - perhaps of all time.
NB I heartily recommend Jack Hurst's most excellent book.
Here is another person with either a game face.....or a permanent scowl.....!
Again, a very determined person in the face of overwhelming odds. What can I say but.....PECANS!!
As this is in the German section of the forum, Id better include this bloke (though he is in the winter attire of a different nation here). Again, a person whose memory had been badly tainted in his native country.
Not a great tactician by any stretch of the imagination (a fact, which also caused his downfall), but a soldier of some courage like many others on both sides of that huge conflict.
The furrowed brow shown here is the expression most often seen in pics of him. He looks very haughty, but then with one homeland taken over by his most bitter enemy and his new country, to which his family relocated, overrun in a matter of hours where upon he chose to fight for said occupation force - who wouldnt look slightly miffed!!
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
Without wanting to be too pedantic people this is the GERMAN photos area !!
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
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