With the British Army in Flanders & France

As son leaves for France, father looks stoic, and sister extends a claw.  Continue reading →

The text basically says ‘Prayers in a Belgian church being used as a bivouac by German soldiers’.  Well, there are two rifles, and as the congregation prays and one soldier sleeps, has the other joined in with the prayers?  Is he the kneeling or sitting figure, with head bowed and shaven neck, closest to the pillar in the centre?  Continue reading →

Bearing in mind your comments yesterday, here are a couple of similar images, both originally scheduled for a couple of weeks time but brought forward to today, the first entitled (on the reverse, which is otherwise blank)  ‘In Dire Need of Rescue’… Continue reading →

Saved.  Apparently.

An Italian-manufactured card, despite the French writing, featuring a captured German Taube surrounded by French officers, the photo taken in Salonika, on the Macedonian Front.  Continue reading →

Literally, ‘We don’t worry because we will have them with that’.  Hommage to the famous French 75 mm quick-firing field gun, introduced in 1898, and recognised as the first true modern artillery piece. Continue reading →

English Hussars on the way to the front, optimism on their smiling faces.  Another early postcard, this time French, and is that really a pith helmet I spy?  I do believe it is.  The officer in the background leading these cavalrymen had presumably previously served in hotter climes.