Passchendaele... the third major batlle of Ypres, almost too brutal to watch

[usmc1855]

The ground battles where viscous (as all infantry battles are) this scene from the Movie Passchendaele by Paul Gross demonstrates rather realistically, just how bloody the fighting was.

[Rat of Vengence]

Makes you damn glad to not have had to live (or not) through that.

Dave

[csadn]

Explains why the US didn't want any part of it....

[Zoe Brain]

My Grandfather was in the original - he part of one arm blown off, and his body peppered with shrapnel. He'd joined up in December, 1914, and had been at the Somme and Galipolli.

[gully_raker]

My Grandfather was in the original - he part of one arm blown off, and his body peppered with shrapnel. He'd joined up in December, 1914, and had been at the Somme and Galipolli.

Hi Zoe! My dad was an original Anzac & then served all through France until he copped a shrapnel burst in his back which caused much damage. However he recovered & lived until he was well into his 70's.
I came along late in his life as my Mum was told she couldnt have chrildren but as change of Life approached I came along to prove the diagnosis wrong.

[Albert Ross]

This is a photo of my wife's great uncle in uniform. We've been unable to identify the regiment or where he served, but it looks like he was with a mounted unit - either cavalry or artillery.

He survived the war and returned to England in the 1950's, but that's about all we know about him.

[Flying Officer Kyte]

Here is a retouched one of my Grandfather. We found the miniature in my Grandmothers jewell box when she died. It must have been taken about 1915.
Rob.

[usmc1855]

Amazing glimpses at your families histories.

Thank you for sharing.

[gully_raker]

This is a photo of my wife's great uncle in uniform. We've been unable to identify the regiment or where he served, but it looks like he was with a mounted unit - either cavalry or artillery.

He survived the war and returned to England in the 1950's, but that's about all we know about him.

Gee Stuart with that hat brim turned up he almost looks like an Aussie Light Horseman!
Me thinks he could have been in a mounted Rifle Regiment from the Bandoleer.

[Albert Ross]

Gee Stuart with that hat brim turned up he almost looks like an Aussie Light Horseman!
Me thinks he could have been in a mounted Rifle Regiment from the Bandoleer.

I would love to find out for sure! If he served at Gallipoli, then he must have been aboard my great uncle's ship at one time or another, as uncle Bert was on the steamer Barryfield which was used as a troop carrier....
Don't have a wartime photo of him, but this one was taken at his wedding around 1919-20

[Jimmy Doolittle]

Terrible, a boy forced to wield a rifle and fight for his life in a trench.