Michiel 2005's photos with the keyword: WOI

Here, on November 11, 1918, the criminal pride of the German Empire succumbed, vanquished by the free peoples it claimed to enslave.

Spot where the railway carriage of general Foch stood.

Not the original, that was transported to Germany in 1940 and it burnt down in 1945. This is a similar carriage from the same time.

The French army used Paris taxis to transport troops to the battle of Marne early September 1914, racking up 70,012 francs in taxi fares.

Guynemer (born 1894) was a fighter ace of the First World War. In 1917 he disappeared, the Germans claimed that their pilot Kurt Wissemann shot him. Guynemer has 53 victories.

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The son of Dr. med. Karl Gustav Schwabe, Ludwig Schwabe, himself a doctor too, died on the island of North Keeling. He was the ship's doctor on the Emden, a German war ship which was attacked by the Australian light cruiser Sydney, during the Battle of Cocos. Ludwig lost his foot and had a hole in his back as a result of shrapnel. He managed to get to the island, but he died from lack of water. He was buried there, but his father made this monument and was later buried beside him. More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cocos www.sachsen-lese.de/index.php?article_id=732

The son of Dr. med. Karl Gustav Schwabe, Ludwig Schwabe, himself a doctor too, died on the island of North Keeling. He was the ship's doctor on the Emden, a German war ship which was attacked by the Australian light cruiser Sydney, during the Battle of Cocos. Ludwig lost his foot and had a hole in his back as a result of shrapnel. He managed to get to the island, but he died from lack of water. He was buried there, but his father made this monument and was later buried beside him. More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cocos www.sachsen-lese.de/index.php?article_id=732

German, WWI

De Cruyenaere was a Belgian who emigrated to Canada. He enlisted at age 16 and this picture was taken. He survived the war and he died, aged 80, in Winnipeg, Canada.

All over Arras these signs are put up to remember the people of the battle of Arras in 1917. Corporal Valmore Orville Forest resembles captain Blackadder.

It was designed by Walter Seymour Allward and it was unveiled by King Edward VIII in 1936.

The former battlefield is still dangerous.