100 years!!

[Daddybang]

Since the guns fell silent and ended the "War to End All Wars"
LEST WE FORGET

[bigpete]

[pete1]

Lest We Forget

[bladeracer]

Have you guys been following Indy Neidell's "The Great War" Youtube channel?
He's done a weekly report every week since May 2014 that allows us to follow the war in real-time, 100 years after the event.
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGreatWar/videos
He just started a World War Two channel in September this year that does the same thing.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP1AejCL4DA7jYkZAELRhHQ/videos

[Daddybang]

I don't watch you tube alot cause I've only got a prepaid phone and it chews the data but im very interested in having a look at these series so I'll get my sister to download it for me next time I get to innisfail...Thanks for posting Bladeracer

[bladeracer]

I don't watch you tube alot cause I've only got a prepaid phone and it chews the data but im very interested in having a look at these series so I'll get my sister to download it for me next time I get to innisfail...Thanks for posting Bladeracer

I don't do online stuff on the phone, and I don't watch stuff on Youtube.
I download Youtube videos to my drive and watch them in my own time, without the advertising.
I would likely have the entire collection spread across various hard drives.

[Member-Deleted]

Lest We Forget

[pete1]

Have you guys been following Indy Neidell's "The Great War" Youtube channel?
He's done a weekly report every week since May 2014 that allows us to follow the war in real-time, 100 years after the event.
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGreatWar/videos
He just started a World War Two channel in September this year that does the same thing.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP1AejCL4DA7jYkZAELRhHQ/videos

Yes seen some of his stuff and very interesting, learn alot of interesting things

[Stix]

I was loading at 11...

Figured im all alone & not making noise so ill keep going...

As it turns out i had to stop for a bit anyway cos the scales went a tad foggy for a minute or 2.

Fukn gets me every time.

[Gaznazdiak]

My maternal Grandmother's brother Thomas was so keen to get amongst it his army number was 128.

He survived everything the enemy threw at him in all the campaigns he was in, wounded, decorated, but on the ship coming home there were 2 guys from another unit who had been feuding over something, we have never been able to discover what, and one of them set a booby trap for the other containing a grenade.
Unfortunately Thomas fell victim to it instead and "died of wounds" before the ship reached home.

My maternal Grandfather had a reserved occupation and was refused enlistment numerous times until the need for men increased.
He spent his service as a stretcher bearer with 15th Field Ambulance and was one of those involved in the creation of the RSL and the Anzac Day March.

Two of my late Mum's treasures were the hypodermic kit and thermometer her father used throughout his service and "souvenired" on demobilisation, and the deck of miniature cards he carried in a matchbox, kept safe along with a picture of her mother in a protective metal sleeve.

We have always remembered them and their mates, what their innocence led them into, for their service and what it cost them.

[marksman]

lest we forget

and good on you Gaz

[Sergeant Hartman]

Good on ya Gaz.

[Daddybang]

As it turns out i had to stop for a bit anyway cos the scales went a tad foggy for a minute or 2.

Fukn gets me every time.

Yeah mate my sunnies got a bit foggy around then....must've been made by the same mob as ya scales hey

Thats some amazing history there Gaz!!

[Stix]

That stuff is priceless Gaz...
Would be amazing to see it in real life...!!!
Thanks for sharing it...

My family have kept letters from the men away at war...its truely freaky reading them.

One inparticular was transcribed & published in a double page newspaper spread a while back.

I remember reading a letter written by my great grandfather & sent back home while he was at war...
He told a story of how he & 3 of his mates had to skiddadle quick from their position in the trench as their position was known & mortars or something were on their way...

He writes it with an almost cold but matter of fact manner, & goes on to say that while they were running & under fire, his mate behind him was shot in the head, & a grenade exploded just forward of them killing his 2 mates leading...

Many people have said im crazy for getting outa bed so early to go to dawn service...

[Gaznazdiak]

Yeah Stix, a different breed of people back then, they hadn't been weaned on the Nanny State.
Imagine what a tribe of Caspar Milquetoasts we'll be in another 100yrs,

I never met my Grandfather, he was born in 1890 and died in 1941 when my Mum was only 7.

He apparently left with jet black hair and when he returned after his time ferrying wounded in from no man's land it was snow white.
He never carried a gun, just a first aid kit and stretcher. Balls of steel.
Him and his fellow stretcher bearers must have been flat out, Australia had the highest casualty rate of the war at nearly 65%

I remember as a kid, once I was old enough to grasp the cocepts, looking at the hypo kit and wondering about the guys he used it on.
And the cards, imagining them sitting in a dugout playing crib or patience while they waited for the artillery to stop.

[bladeracer]

Ian McCollum and Karl Kasarda are doing a Great War Armistice two-gun competition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ekndJK6BRg

[Stix]

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Yeah mate my sunnies got a bit foggy around then....must've been made by the same mob as ya scales hey :

Hehe....weighing charges on my raybans eh...& you wearing your redding beams... ...

[Noisydad]

Seymour Black Powder Club too a break at 10.45 yesterday for a memorial reflection and the traditional minute of silence at 11 am and followed by a “wall of smoke” as is our way saluting the fallen. A lot of our members are ex servicemen and servicewomen.

[Daddybang]

Seymour Black Powder Club too a break at 10.45 yesterday for a memorial reflection and the traditional minute of silence at 11 am and followed by a “wall of smoke” as is our way saluting the fallen. A lot of our members are ex servicemen and servicewomen.

I reckon that would be impressive to see and hear Noisy

[bladeracer]

They have an Aussie doing the Armistice match.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBt31q7diQ0