The Leeming Portable and Collapsible Aerial Ropeway

My guess is that you won’t have seen any of these photographs before.  And, from a thrill-a-minute point of view, possibly won’t be in too much of a hurry to see them again.  On the other hand, you might find this more interesting than it might appear at first sight, and if nothing else, it certainly answers a few questions about how troops might have been supplied when the land across which those supplies had to be transported had been turned into a quagmire by repeated artillery bombardments that had destroyed any semblance of the drainage systems that once patchworked Flanders Fields.  Note I use the words ‘might have been’.  Read on…… Continue reading

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Pond Farm Cemetery

Another beautiful Flanders day, and a CWGC signpost.  Looks promising.  Continue reading

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Wulverghem-Lindenhoek Road Military Cemetery

The leaves are turning in Flanders Fields.  Continue reading

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The Foster-Daimler Tractor

Apparently, kids of my generation liked tractors.  I couldn’t have cared less.  They just looked old and I was interested in new.  But I find I quite like them now, at least those used for military purposes in the Great War.  This is the Foster-Daimler (or, sometimes, Daimler-Foster) tractor, first produced in 1912, this example pictured on the Somme in 1916.  Continue reading

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The Rifle Grenade Part Four – The German M13 Gewehrgranate

This is the M13 Gewehrgranate, a high-explosive cast-iron rifle grenade fitted with a percussion fuse designed to explode on impact, its body segmented for maximum fragmentation on detonation.  Continue reading

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Two Bridges Too Far

‘All right men, about here’ll do.’  Continue reading

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Aldershot – The Royal Garrison Church of All Saints: ‘The Longest Yarn’

Back at the Garrison Church in Aldershot – well, we hadn’t really left, had we?  Continue reading

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