New colour WW1 Photos***warning***Please read the warning in thread***warning***

it really is sad to think that todays youth have no repsect what so ever for todays olders and war folk, to think they went though all that for thier freedom, and get repaid by abuse and being robbed.
 
Vicar said:
Both my Great Grand father and Great Uncle Alec fought and more amazingly survived WWI, Great Grand Father suffered half an arm loss and removed from duty, my Great Uncle though got shellshock, seems that the test for sending you back was dropping a large boulder behind you and if you reacted you were sent back.... Which he did.... My Gran says neither of them ever talked about it.
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Please delete if too off-topic, but I wonder if they were alive today or those that are alive who served in WWII think about the current situation? :(
 
Its hard to comprehend what people went through. My grandad was a PoW. People dont seem to realise what went on. These pictures are great, but so tame compared to what you think our grandfathers/mothers seen first hand.
 
molinari said:
Amazing pictures.
It's strange to see colour pics of WW1, I'm so used to seeing everything from that period in time in black & white.
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Same. The pictures are simply stunning and the colour just makes them all the more eerie and haunting.

Zefan said:
I really urge anyone who can to go to some of the remaining trenches and graveyards in France, Beligum and Germany.

I went on a trip to the Somme in year 9 and it's something I will never forget.
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I also went on the Year 9 History 'Battlefields' trip to Belgium. The highlights for me were the Last Post at the Menin Gate. The number of names written there was just mind boggling.

The other highlight was the lead teacher getting us to run across a battlefield. He said we had to run from one trench to another. After the first run he said at least half of us wouldn't have made the distance. :(

What these soldiers put up with in terms of battlefield atrocities and treatment by their own sides in respects to shellshock and desertion is just beyond any of our comprehension?
 
MarcLister said:
The other highlight was the lead teacher getting us to run across a battlefield. He said we had to run from one trench to another. After the first run he said at least half of us wouldn't have made the distance. :(

What these soldiers put up with in terms of battlefield atrocities and treatment by their own sides in respects to shellshock and desertion is just beyond any of our comprehension?
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That's for sure :(

I remember visiting what appeared to be a cliff face/hill with a hole in it where we could walk in (France). We all walked in being typical year 9 students. 10 minutes later we were told that thousands of Jewish prisoners had been kept in there in appalling conditions, and it was flooded in there one time and they all drowned. Nobody said a word after that...horrendous..
 
Those are amazing so much different seeing them in colour. But I shudder to think what those men went through. R.I.P those that fell. :(
 
Tom|Nbk said:
But I shudder to think what those men went through. R.I.P those that fell. :(
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And also those who survived and had to live with the memories of what they saw, heard, smelled and experienced. I can understand lots of the survivors just being traumatised by their experiences and how they NEVER talked about it. The mental trauma must have been so bad that sometimes they perhaps wished they had died? :(

I remember seeing a quote on the wall at the Imperial War Museum in London, "Only the dead have seen an end to war". That was Plato I think. Being able to see how eerie and spooky I can really understand that.

How awful it must have been to survive the atrocities and go back to normal life as a civilian and not have any counselling to help with what they'd gone through. :(
 
some breath taking photos to remind us how dreadful war can be and probably more emotional than some of us as 90% of us have some relative thats been in i mmay say more than we know or have relatives in other modern wars
 
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