Spasm

Gents You can actually read it like a book online, complete with all the pictures, sheet music, letters and poems, here: http://www.archive.o...age/n0/mode/2up Enjoy

A wonderful book sold to raise money for the "Belgian Fund" to support a country "with nothing to gain by taking up arms, with no territory to annex, no commerce to capture, no injury to revenge, having neither part nor lot in any European quarrel, desiring only to be left alone......confronted by the choice of allowing her soil to be invaded.....or of protecting her independence as a seperate nation by the whole strength of her armed resistance" - the introduction is dated Christmas 1914. It contains tributes of admiration from many well known people from across the world. Two, from hundreds, I've shown here. A letter from the Rt. Hon. H. H. Asquith, the British Prime Minister and a painting by H. Chandler Christy called "On the Field of Honour".

I also have, hanging around on the shelves upstairs, "A tribute to the Belgian King and People from representative men and women throughout the world". It's called "King Albert's Book":

Been looking around on t'tinternet and it seems as though these are from Belgium! Didn't know they had any Looks like I've put the pictures in the wrong thread. Moderator - can you push this to Belgium please - ta

And Trooper with weapon peeking in at the edge (looking a bit sneaky - what's he up to?)

Third

Second with Colours

First Dude

Grenadiers I think, big shoulders and turned back coats. Not the best looking uniform with the star trek short trousers I gotta say.

And a big shell (this could be French though)

A group photo in front of the NAAFI (in German) of some blokes obviously armed to build a new bar. Bloke at the front has ordered egg and chips to go with his pilsner

And

Close up and writing on the back

A short fat geezer with a cigar standing next to a chair in front of a nice painting of some stairs

Oooops try again

And the writing on the back in some alien language

A close up of the main group that I've asked photoshop to adjust

Got a bit carried away on elbow the other night and ended up with some photos which included some WW1 german blokes up a tree. I've no idea what unit or anything else about them for that matter so putting them on here for interest.

I know I'm getting a bit microscopic but I only noticed when taking photos for the competition. The marks around and below the lettering? Not something I'd seen before - mind you, I never looked so closely before It's not like these things are expensive or anything so why would someone try to fake them? Just interested I suppose.

Gents Gave in on the information from relatives and paid the fees to join the Ancestry site. I can now confirm the links back through the family tree to our awardee. Hooray. And, of course, the relatives were correct in what they were saying. I've now got to get some time off of work to go looking at Parish records and Churches around Somerset. I'll also visit Sherborne Abbey to have a look at, and photograph, the Regimental Colours along with a visit to the Regimental Museum in Dorchester to see if they have anything interesting. An online picture of the Colours inside Sherborne Abbey:

I'm only 290,000 points away from Brigadier General in Battlefield Bad Co. It's waaaaay more fun than the soldiers of my youth in the 60's and 70's. Remember General Jumbo with the radio controlled army in the Dandy? I always wanted one of those, now I've got one ratatatatatat

Forumees I've had this for a while languishing in a drawer. Now I look at it and........

Chris what a great thing to find. Obviously never to be wound or cleaned in any way. And for some reason they do seem to go together.

When I asked what he wanted for it he said "well, this used to be mine, what?, it's still mine, it's my shop" Obviously used to have it in his display - he he

Any ideas on the first picture - Regt. etc ? I've just found another photo (civilian) and a name for the handsome bloke with the impressive tash in the second picture and will post more on him as I find it Spaz