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A Maurepas, dans La Somme, terrain bouleversée par artillerie, deuxième juillet 1916.

Rouler rapidement un cigarette entre de vagues d'attaques, vers Combles, Somme, 1916.

Recalling the first day of the Battle of the Somme...the French did very well, achieving most of the set goals, whilst the British exelled in having most of their men slaughtered and gained less to nothing in most objectives. Only the sections that were pointed to Montauban and Mametz did achieve to capture both villages.

To know a bit about the pride of France.

Un Tirailleur Senegalese avec le tribu charactéristique. Date et place inconnu.

Somewhere on the border of the Netherlands and Belgium, German soldiers and Dutch borderpatrol posing with their guns wit bajonets fixed, 1914, maybe early 1915.

Un village détruit: Le Mesnil-Les-Hurlus, 1916.

Mortier de 270 mm au tir de barrage, sept. 1915, front de Tahure.

La langage de Tranchées

Les horreurs de Cornillet a journal Anglaise, 1917.

Le Miroir 1915, c'est en pas de AI.

Gemütlich zusammen, wie im Heimat.

A flooded trench in the Loos section, june 1915.

Fantassins en Le Main de Massiges, juin 1916.

Just east of Mons lays a small cemetery that contains British and German soldiers. Sad detail is there are graves of men who died after the Armistice and remembrance stones of men who's grave could not be found. Trip of today, 13th of june. Lest We Forget 🌹

Communicationtrench, Zillebeke, 1915.

The comedy stops and the men face the front line.

For six episodes of Blackadder Goes Forth, Captain Blackadder had joked, schemed and complained his way through the trenches of the First World War. Alongside Lieutenant George, Private Baldrick and Captain Darling, he spent his time trying to avoid the inevitable order to go over the top.

Then, in the final episode, Goodbyeee, everything changes.

The jokes gradually disappear as the reality of what lies ahead sinks in. Captain Darling, who has spent the war safely behind a desk, suddenly finds himself ordered to join the attack. He quietly admits that he had hoped to survive, return home and marry his fiancée, Doris. His final diary entry, he tells Blackadder, simply reads:

"B-gger."

Even Blackadder has no joke to offer in return.

When Baldrick notices that the British guns have stopped firing, he wonders whether the war might finally be over. Blackadder explains the truth. The artillery has fallen silent only so it doesn't hit the British soldiers who are about to leave their trenches and advance towards the German lines.

Moments later, Blackadder wishes George, Baldrick and Darling good luck. Then he blows his whistle.

The four men climb out of the trench and charge into No Man's Land.

The charge slows almost to a standstill as explosions erupt around them and Howard Goodall's haunting arrangement of the theme plays in the background.

As the smoke fills the screen, the battlefield slowly fades away and is replaced by a peaceful field of red poppies.

There is no final punchline...just a reminder of the countless young men who never came home. ♥

8 inches (204 mm) heavy guns in battery on the Somme in 1916.

Resting for a moment near Wijtschate during the advance on Messines Ridge, june 8, 1917.

Just came back from a book- and recordfair, bought me this testpress for €1. Different type of white label testpressing from ATCO. Nice music, too.