#cambrai

[theworldatwar]

Men of the East Anglian regiment occupy a German trench on the first day of the Battle of Cambrai, France - 20th Nov 1917

[the-spirit-of-yore]

Cathédrale Notre-Dame-De-Grace, Cambrai, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France

[theworldofwars]

German prisoners bringing in British wounded to the 57th Division's advanced dressing station, 8 October 1918.

[unearthly-strange-and-delightful]

"SCENES IN CAPTURED VILLAGES ON THE CAMBRAI FRONT"

[WWI FILM]

The villages of Marcoing, Flesquières and Havrincourt, Cambrai area, Western Front, 20-24 November 1917. Full description Ambulances in the main square at Marcoing shortly after its capture, 20 November. There is no great damage to the square apart from broken windows, a hall with the sign "Justice de Paix" over it and a badly damaged church. Unsaddled horses of CCXXXV Brigade RFA drinking from a pool in the centre of Flesquières. Soldiers of 51st (Highland) Division, probably Gordon Highlanders, with a captured German 210mm mortar. Royal Artillery draught horses, paddocked by a damaged building in Havrincourt, being fed. A possibly unrelated scene ends the film: a pioneer battalion gathers up picks, shovels and rifles before marching off in loose order, and a Royal Horse Artillery troop poses limbered up for the camera.

Source: Imperial War Museum

nb: RFA stands for Royal Fleet Auxiliary (logistics)

[turangalila]

Pierre de Cambrai & Gérard de Saint-Quentin (?) Offices for Elizabeth of Hungary [Cambrai MS 38 (olim 40) Le Labo. Médiathèque d'agglomération. Cambrai]

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– Sub Conrado Dei viro. Responsorium II – Nocturnus II.

R/ Sub Conrado dei viro quem timebat metu miro vovens castimoniam / acquisiti male cibi cum ancillis parca sibi horret alimoniam V/ Exsecrans illicitum solum quaerit licitum propter continentiam

– Ante dies exitus ejus collo. Responsorium V – Nocturnus II.

R/ Ante dies exitus ejus collo caelitus avis modulatur / a qua voce modula dulce cum avicula melos decantatur V/ Jam vicino transitu prophetali spiritu Elisabeth dona

– Cui nec apex neque iota. Responsorium VI – Nocturnus II.

R/ Cui nec apex neque iota mandatorum deperit / ut amica pulchra tota mortis horam comperit cui mox Christus aperit V/ Ecce inquit instat hora in qua vigor deperit meliorem sine mora migrans vitam reperit

– Tantae signa gloriae. Responsorium IX– Nocturnus II.

R/ Tantae signa gloriae venerentur hodie recreata cuncta / cujus vita recitat quod octonos suscitat mortuos defuncta V/ Post laborem operum ad quietem superum transit mater pauperum Marthae vice functa //

De convalle paupertatis ad aeternae quietem gloriae transit mater pietatis Elisabeth gemma Ungariae cujus membris unctionis liquor manat sub roris speciae quo diversae lesionis dolor omnis sanatur variae o mira vis virtutis hujus sanctae regalis vidue quae salutem caecis mutis surdis claudis confert assiduae defuncta.

_ Ossuaires – Office for Elizabeth of Hungary by Pierre de Cambrai - Villard de Honnecourt métier, memoires and travels of a 13th-century cathedral builder. Vol.1 Graindelavoix, Björn Schmelzer (2012, Glossa – GCD P32107)

[lounesdarbois]

Cambrai, Douai, Condé, Valenciennes.

[francepittoresque]

5 août 1529 : Paix des Dames ou de Cambrai ➽ http://bit.ly/Paix-Cambrai Toutes les puissances européennes étaient lasses de la guerre ; les trésors de tous les souverains étaient épuisés : ce fut donc avec bonheur que les peuples apprirent que la paix avait été signée à Cambrai, au nom de l’empereur Charles Quint et du roi de France François Ier

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Ανδρείη τας άτας μικράς έρδει.*

- Democritus

Courage makes misfortunes seem small.*

After the German advance on 30 November 1917 during the Battle of Cambrai, the British counter-attacked on 1 December. 4th Battalion Grenadier Guards attempted to recapture Gonnelieu, just south of the Péronne-Cambrai road, south-west of Bonavis, which had fallen to the enemy the preceding day. During this action, Acting Captain G H T Paton commanded the support company. The attack failed but it prevented the Germans from advancing out of Gonnelieu. Meanwhile to the south, the British mounted several cavalry attacks south of Gauche Wood towards Villers-Guislain which had also been captured by the Germans the day before. One of these involved 2nd Lancers (Gardner’s Horse), 5th (Mhow) Cavalry Brigade.

They came under very heavy fire and were soon pinned down. Lance Dafadar Gobind Singh volunteered three times for carrying the messages over open ground under constant fire.First, he carried a report on the position to Brigade HQ and brought back the reply. He then carried another report back to the HQ but was refused permission to return to the front. His regiment eventually completed a successful withdrawal after nightfall.

Gobind Singh received the Victoria Cross, the highest British and Commonwealth award for gallantry in the face of the enemy.