This magnificent piece by noted Scottish artist Muirhead Bone appeared in the 1918 art book “The War Depicted by Distinguished British Artists.”
#Highlander #Scotland #Jock #piper #BritishArmy #fww #fwwhist #WWI #bagpipes
“In the Wake of the Advance” by Gilbert Rogers, ca. 1917, Wellcome Collection.
A stretcher team rescues a wounded #soldier under fire. Countless men owed their lives to these unarmed lifesavers. #RAMC #GreatWar #Trenches #FWW #WWI
Stonehaven, with it’s magnificent castle, stunning war memorial and its beautiful harbour. What a wonderful place.
#Scotland #Stonehaven #FWW #WW1 #SWW #WW2 #history
Here is another of Swiss artist Eugene Burnand’s magnificent pastel drawing from the #GreatWar. This piece depicts a #Scottish #soldier.
ca. 1917, Birmingham Museums Trust.
#fww #fwwhist #highlander #Scotland
Cpl G. W. Kimberley of Hampstead, UK. Drawn by Swiss artist Eugene Burnand, ca. 1917, Birmingham Museums Trust.
During the #GreatWar, the artist created a group of 104 fine art drawings of #Allied soldiers.
#fww #fwwhist #ww1 #WWI #RoyalArtillery
Zonnebeke, Winter 1917-18. A British infantryman is stuck fast in a large pool of liquid mud in a shell hole. To the right one of his comrades stands beckoning to him. There is barbed wire in the background. text: Stuck Fast in Mud. The beginning of an awful experience! One of the 10th Service Battalion York and Lancaster Regt got held fast by the mud and slime in a shell hole which flooded as he struggled. To haul him with ropes was impossible as he would have died. It took four nights hard work by the Pioneers to get him free. HIs comrade stood by him day and night under fire. He fed him by means of a long stick. When eventually saved both went delirious. Alexander Jamieson, Captain QM 10th York & Lancaster Regt.
“Stuck Fast in Mud” by Alexander Jamieson, 1918, #IWM.
This harrowing piece shows a Tommy trapped in the slimy mud of the #Ypres salient.
The artist was an eyewitness and helped rescue this #soldier. Many others in similar circumstances weren’t so fortunate. #fww #fwwhist #ww1 #WWI #WesternFront
“Tommy – Vanquisher of the Hun” by Jose Simont, 1916, L’Illustration magazine.
I don’t know if M. Simont travelled to the front for this particular work. But he was highly respected for the combat art he created in the #GreatWar.
#combatart #ww1 #WWI #fww #fwwhist #milart
#FWW #SWW #LWF Back to the Australian Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux for the start of a tour of the "Victory to Defeat" battlefields with Robert Lyman and Lord Dannat. Beautiful day and ghe Memorial was immaculate leading up to Anzac Day. Tomorrow Hamel then Arras.
“Over the Top, Neuville-Vitasse” by Alfred Bastion, 1918, #CanadianWarMuseum.
Backlit by the breaking sunrise, troops of the 22nd Bn, (Van Doos) #CEF, begin the attack on the Western Front.
#VanDoo #fww #GreatWar #WWI #WW1 @canvmilitarymuseum.bsky.social
Was there a Schlieffen Plan? Or was it just something created in the 1920s by the German Army to cover up their failure during the initial attack in September 1914?
Today the Great War Discussion Group releases David Pendleton’s presentation on the topic. #FWW #WW1 #WWI
youtu.be/qaqwZI6XxbI
Front cover of a ‘petit bouquin’ « À la Rescousse » by Georges Spitzmuller published in late 1918. The cover shows French troops marching to the aid of their allies, the British, who are battered and wounded by the force of the 1918 German spring offensive. A British officer shakes the hand of the French officer leading the unit that has arrived to help in the fight.
It’s at this time of year that thoughts go to those brave French troops who marched to the aid of their stricken British allies during the difficult days of the March 1918 German spring offensive.
108 years later, and not forgotten. #FWWHist #FWW #WW1 #1GM
From Roger Campana,
1914-1964 TREIZE DE SAINT-CYR Dans la grande guerre de 1914-1918.
#1GM #FWW #WW1
After only 4 days in the line in Jan 1915, Campana was evacuated with ‘congestion’ - perhaps with additional complications from an infected wound.
He returned to front line service in April 1915.
