#war trophy

[ruufie]

Oh no I’m old

[chuckbbirdsjunk]

[illustratus]

The Ensign of Le Généreux.

This vast Tricolour is a Napoleonic-era ensign captured from the French warship Le Généreux by Captain Sir Edward Berry in February 1800.

[vanishingsydney]

Missing war trophy. The action near Péronne just over two months before the war's end. The 77mm German field gun is long gone, probably stolen and melted down for its metal, but the plaque remains at the base of a memorial (1922) which lists in granite the names of more than 350 men of Leichhardt who volunteered and died in the First World War. The memorial bears the simple inscription "Honor To The Dead". A gun grew of six Prussian Guards were killed for the now vanished artillery piece. W.M.Currey VC went on to become a railway worker, trade unionist, and Labor Party MP in the New South Wales State Parliament, twice re-elected, before he died suddenly after he collapsed in the state house in 1948 aged 52. Leichhardt.

Bottom Photo: Australian machine gun post, Péronne, France, Sept. 1918. Source: Official Australian War Photographer not known (one of 16)/Sir John Monash Centre, Villiers-Bretonneux, France.

[theworldofwars]

This German trench knife was taken during the Battle of the Somme by British Corporal Mark Lambert of the 16th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment – the 1st Bradford Pals. Lambert engraved his initials and the word 'Somme' on the handle. Men could only keep what they could carry in their kit and often sold their battlefield trophies to officers able to send packages home or to soldiers behind the lines who had access to storage. Selling their trophies was also a way for soldiers to make extra money.

[thisdayinwwi]

Mar 27 1920 AWM P01887.003

Sydney, NSW. 1920-03-27. The 28cm German railway gun known as the `Amiens gun' at a railway siding before it was moved to Canberra. The gun and the complete train were captured by AIF troops near Harbonnieres in France on 1918-08-08. The barrel of the gun is now in the collection of the Australian War Memorial. (Original housed in AWM DRL 3270)  

[scrapironflotilla]

German troops examining a captured French  long-range gun with which Laon was bombarded. It was captured at Pargny where the Germans crossed the Somme on 24th March 1918.

[thisdayinwwi]

Sep 26 1916 IWM Q 1331 "Soldier of the Royal Fusiliers wearing a German (Württemberg regiment) helmet, after the capture of Thiepval on 26 September 1916. Note trousers cut down to make shorts, which was quite a common procedure at the time and a German Luger pistol, a highly desired war trophy amongst British troops, next to him." by Ernest Brooks