Does anyone know where good, close-up pics of Great War barbed wire can be found, to illustrate the difference between that and what we see in the countryside today? It's for educational purposes.
I thank you.
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I understand the cultural reference, but am deeply disappointed in you for lowering the tone.
One of the amusing noms de plume that one of my radio punters frequently employed was, in fact, Barb Dwyer. There's a word for that (Phil D. Basket, etc) but I can't remember what it is. My personal favourite (after the Swedish barman, Lars Torders) is the French choreographer Charles Louis D'Ince.
Be that as it may, what I was trying to get at is that I dimly remember a doco in which the presenter compared WWI wire with the stuff we use today, which is intended merely to irritate the noses of livestock. The stuff he showed was German wire, as thick as your wrist with barbs about 3" long. Apparently you could tell which type of wire was produced by each combatant nation.
But the picture will do to be going on with.
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I am oh-so-ever-so-frightfully-sorry. Couldn't resist old boy. I succumbed to a super-soaraway-sun moment.
I have seen a documentary where it was stated that on one section of the British line they had captured a reel of German wire. They snipped bits off it and handed them in with reports of completely fictitious trench raids. The near-suicidal trench raids were not popular!
But I've not seen photos of the wire. Sorry (again).
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-- Edited by James H at 02:09, 2008-10-29
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