Saturday, August 29, 2020

War Photographer David McLellan took these photos of the Royal Artillery gunners of 51st Division on Jan 5 1918. The men are entering their billet converted from a collapsed water tower at Riencourt, near Bapaume.


7 comments:

  1. Hope nobody accidentally let off a round in the drum! Can you imagine the reverberations?

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  2. I would guess there is maybe a few levels of floors in there.

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  3. They are certainly marching to a different drum . . . .

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  4. A very important lady in my early years told a story about her brother. He was buried alive in a trench in that war, and when he was dug up, had issues with claustrophobia until he died.

    I got the same looking at all those men, and one tiny hole to escape from. No thanks.

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  5. "You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, our Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!"

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