#great war

[herprivateswe]

Image: IWM (Q 53994) US Army parade, with the Stars and Stripes carried in front, down Piccadilly in London, 15th August 1917.

[scrapironflotilla]

A damaged wayside crucifix near Bellenglise being used to hold telephone wires, 9 October 1918.

[nemfrog]

La Baionette. May 1, 1919. Gallica. Cover.

On May Day 1919, the cover of La Baïonette features a figure with a forced smile, lily-of-the valley sprouting from their head and leashed butterflies. The caption reads,  "It's me, the peddler of gaiety." With France still staggering from the Great War, only recently ended, Paris wasn't in a party mood.

[driftsart]

I had this very old Soundwave doodle of him as a World War One British tank, I still think it's a really cool idea lol

[thespookydookie]

happy holidays once again guys, have the obligatory xmas truce card

[my-darling-boy]

One of my favourite WWI anecdotes was one British soldier recalling the start of the war when the first trenches had only just been dug—back when barbed wire wasn’t laid and steel helmets hadn’t even been issued yet—and said he and his comrades watched the Royal Engineers pull up unannounced with a reel of barbed wire and proceed to lay what looked to be a “clothesline” in front of the trench so tall a “giraffe could walk under it” and I could not stop laughing imagining the RE just standing back after proudly laying their Single Line of barbed wire to defend against the Entire German army like

[neupokoevv]

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