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war movie

#all quiet on the western front #im westen nichts neues #rb #other people’s art

the company fool

#myart #ww1 #can be seen as 1917 fanart???#honestly these guys are basically my ocs at this point. i get the best of both worlds #baumer #muller #ferdinand (oc)#helmuth (oc)#friedrich baumer #1917 movie

andiamofratello

"But what do I know? Nothing. I'm a pair of boots with a rifle."

#all quiet on the western front #AH #rb

varmblood

bringing back a classic… tactical pile

#rb #all quiet on the western front #other people’s art #i’m broken

varmblood

life will have its way

#rb #other people's art #all quiet on the western front

moved-again-to-oh-westly

so i watched 1917

#YEEEEE #rb #other people’s art

never letting go of the fact that baumer was just built! different!

#1917 #mypost #hi haven’t been here in awhile <3

sovietcrab

im the only one who’s on crack here… anyway, who dosent love ghosts amiright?

#best 1917 au #rb #other people's art

peashooter85

German “Company Fool” helmet, World War I. Given to the individual who did the dumbest stunts of the day.

from Phoebus Gallery Auctions

#rb #not 1917 #muller: company fool

pinecone20

Otto Dix. Der Krieg (The War). 1929-32.

#rb #not 1917 #thought this was interesting

andromeddog

a hand that held yours

#OHOHOHOHHOOHHO #no words can describe how much i love this #rb #other people's art

venneeece

People in the background from 1917

#simplicity hhh #rb

sovietcrab

watched 1917 again and realized how much i missed my background character who dies instantly

#rb #THATS MY BOY RIGHT THERE OMG

blake-and-sco

@bobbole’s amazing “You Don’t Remember the Somme?” art reminded me of Jeremy Deller’s art “We’re Here Because We’re Here” which I actually had the privilege of stumbling across in person when I was in Manchester in July 2016.

It’s Remembrance Weekend here so I thought I’d go down memory lane a little... (none of the photos are mine btw)

The ‘art’ included about 1,600 male volunteers, all dressed in the uniforms worn by the British army in the First World War. Each man represented a named individual who had been killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme (1st July 1916). When approached by the public, the men would hand out a card bearing the name, battalion and, often, the age of the man they represented. In Deller’s words, these cards were “like small tombstones”.

Every so often, the men would sing “We’re Here Because We’re Here” which was put to the tune of Auld Lang Syne.