#puttees

[princetonarchives]

Throwback Thursday: This ad for Fox’s Puttees appeared in Princeton University’s 1921 Bric-a-Brac.

[thedeadofflandersfields]

One of them still had a spoon, though, wrapped in the puttee around his leg. This was a common practice: In war, soldiers never knew when they would eat, so they carried their spoons everywhere, just like their toothbrush.

Franco Nicolis, director of the Archaeological Heritage Department of the Province of Trentino, Italy, discussing two Austro-Hungarian world war one soldiers, around 18 years old and probably killed by a grenade, whose bodies were discovered on the Presena Glacier in 2012.

[scrapironflotilla]

French women repairing and packing puttees, Ordnance Depot, Quai de Javel, Paris, 27th April, 1917.

[earltheartist]

A Alpine Guardsman commissioned by @never-gonna-give-who-up

this was fun to do and tried to do everything in Clip studio paint even if I do have Photoshop.

[parrillustrate]

@theRMcharity - Private, #Royal Marine Light Infantry, Gallipoli, 1915. In honour of the #Royal #Marines (#RMLI, RMA and RMB) who served with distinction in the First World War 1914-1918. 

[twoandahalfwars]

German MG08/15 crews, possibly 1917 or '18 with how many men in that photo have puttees instead of jackboots.

Side note, their gas mask cans are on their fronts just to keep 'em handy in case they got gassed. In combat those tended to get moved around to the side, or wherever they could go that wouldn't be as badly in the way.

[greatwarincolour]

Australian Captain JD Cramb has a portrait taken with a gas mask. 

Original image source: Australian War Memorial

[sweet-suzume]

just casual drawing, after this photo