Forget most of my previous posting. Got it! The end of the Western Front was at Pfetterhouse, a small village about 18 miles south-east of Belfort. The Swiss frontier post on the D10 to the south-west of the village marks the end of the line.?The trenches just stopped at a barbed wire fence. Enclosed is...
Hello! Are there any ideas how I can find the exact place where the Western Front met the Swiss border during the Great War? Any help is much appreciated! Thomas
Hello, I am looking for a good drawing of "Hedi" (3 or more views). As far as I know, there is one in the book "The German A7V Tank and the Captured British Mark IV Tanks of World War I". I would like to buy this book, but the cheapest one that I found is at 180US$ !!! Anybody has an other s...
I note that we appear to have had acouple of 'anonymous' postings recently that cannot be accessed! They show up on the main page as "latest posting" but do not appear in the thread itself or in 'recent postings'. Is this just yet another glitch or something more sinister?
After reading A Company of Tanks?I wondered whether it would be worth having a list of links to editions?of?WWI books that are out of print or otherwise unobtainable and legally available as either a pdf download,?text/HTML version, or other format. As a starter the AWM has C.E.W. Bean's "Off...
The wonderful Youtube has these clips of Peter Jackson's Mk IV taking part in a tremendous WWI display in New Zealand, together with a Rolls-Royce A/C, some (unseen) German ordnance, and lots of WWI aircraft. For such an impressive gathering I'm surprised there hasn't been more (and better) footag...
Does anyone have access to a copy of Equipment Regulations, Part 1, 1912?? If so, could they let me have a scan or photocopy of Appendix XX which apparently deals with the marking of British Army vehicles? This is likely to deal with horse-drawn vehicles rather than MT but would be of interest to me as th...
Came across a magazine about the educational a/v industry, and was pleased to see that the IWM has remastered the 1916 film The Battle of the Somme. They say it will be available on DVD in the near future. This is what the new version looks like:
There is a photo at the AWM (Photo No. C04889) showing a Mk IV supply tank. As far as I can make out, its WD number is 6043. Does anyone know whether 6043 was in fact a supply tank or the actual WD number of this tank? Thanks in advance.
Hi All, I seem to be getting a reaccuring problem with some images copied to my hard drive, I think mostly from this site, usually WW1 Pics of Tanks..... The problem is my operating system identify a possible hazard and shuts down the explorer window, usually a file with a large number of pictures in it....
There is an index of war memorials in the NE that contains amongst many other things the original locations of the presentation tanks in that area (unfortuately it generally fails to give any details of the tanks themselves).One of the tanks was placed in somewhere called Southpark ( I have an awful v...
Looking at a copy of the back of a 1918 postcard (kindly sent to me by Alwyn Killingsworth) I see details of the monies raised by Tank Banks in Tony Pandy and Porth on 29th and 30th May 1918. The tank at Porth is refered to as Julian (no problem there) but that at Tony Pandy as 'Julian Junior' This is interest...
Good afternoon! Can somebody help with a problem?Have presented me a helmet. "Adrian", M26, Crest - duralumin.?Vile is bright-green color.Has decided to remove a new paint and to paint correctly. Under a layer of a green paint has found out fragments of a gray-blue paint.But in that inf...
Oh - I love computers ...... Did anyone else notice the last WWI book recommended on the amazon-list on the landships site ? I bet it?s on the list because it?s title incorporates "over the top" and because it?s written by Juliette VERDUN Sorry, folks, I cannot resist to this kind of humour....
The? photograph enclosed is very poor quality but appears to show Egbert (see hole in front) Its from Stockton on Tees archives and is supposed to show a tank in Darlington post war (see date on photo). Egbert was in Darlington in Jan 1918 I have found details of its visit here and to neighbouring towns i...
Can anyone tell me the identity of the wrecked Mark IV Male that can be seen in photos behind the equally wrecked Grasshopper II in Bourlon Wood?? There are various photos on the main Landships site of both tanks. Probably Gorzynski and Gibot has the answer, but I don't have a copy (nor does Amazon and my...
I am new to this forum and am researching my Grandfather's action at Beaumont Hamel/Beuacourt in mid Nov 1916 where he got a "good" blighty. My mother is called Daphne; I understand that 2?or 3?D Company tanks were in the vanguard of the action at the time he was wounded (http://www.geocit...
Gwyn recently made a comment vis a vis the new Osprey Mk IV book and Egberts name appearing (or not appearing) on the front plate. I've just been looking at a copy of a post card of Egbert at Halifax in March 1918. A nice clear photo (more on this later). The tank has the name Egbert but no number on the port ho...
?Hello Everyone ??I ran across this site to day researching Turkish Fortress Artillery and specific forts, namely Anadolu Mecidiye and Derma Burnu. ?It is called NAVAL OPERATIONS IN THE DARDANELLES 1915. ?If you already know about this site, sorry?????? ?but if you dont, check it out, it has some v...
A real oddity is this one man tracked vehicle of 1919 intended to deep water salvage operations. It even had a gun (probably pneumatic) for making holes in hull sides. The beast was built as the photo shows. It was designed by a Mr Reno who had some years before invented the first moving staircase (escal...
A photo on eBay (item no. 300104632922) shows just how young some of the soldiers could be. It makes you wonder whether he joined willingly or was pressed into service.
