gerardkenny

The buckle seems to match the one on this page here;

http://www.irishmilitaryinsignia.com/metal/metal_index.html

click on the beltbuckle on the left and on the following page 'General', it seems to be the 2nd one down. Hope this helps.

The grave of a Medal of Honour winner at St James

There are lots more here if anyone is interested

http://www.militaria-archive.com/normandy/index.html

Bomb damaged Cathedral at Caen

St James American cemetery at Britanny

as above

Utah

Utah Beach

Airborne Museum

Leclerc memorial at Utah

Utah

Utah D-Day museum

Paratrooper Stained glass Inside St Mere Eglise

The Airborne Museum (at st mere Eglise)

Same place

Great thread, here are a few I took a couple of weeks ago.

At the patton memorial in Avranches

St Mere Eglise

Very nice pictures, welcome to the forum and thanks for sharing those.

This is a very interesting thread.

Coincidentally there was an article the other day in the Irish Times on the subject of another Irishman in Canada (from the 1700's) which might interest some people here

http://www.irishtime...4250637876.html

Hi Mervyn - I wasn't worried about the pictures to be honest as I took them personally. Also I am aware of the museum policy having seen it first hand, as I mentioned several times there are some areas where photography is permitted and some where it is not. The areas where it is not permitted were the ones where I did not take any photographs of so there is no copyright issue as far as I can see.

Re the manchester martyrs - I am trying to remember a mention of that at the museum but can't be sure, I know there is a private police force uniform from london with an Irish connection, I believe it was a private militia composed of men from Irish regiments ? I am not 100% sure, it was a stunning uniform and I would imagine like the German WWI Irish uniform very rare.

I had looked for the thread you referred to and couldn't find it, I just did a search back through the forum now and found it - very impressive item ! That is an episode that most Irish people would know from their schooldays :)

Those are very interesting, thanks for sharing those.

Today's work...

Soviets for everyone!

Got to say that is one of the best I have seen, looks like the photo was restored in the process. I had a go at one of these recently and suddenly realised the amount of work involved in it. Very nice work.

Glad to hear the map was useful - hopefully some london based members can take a shot showing the other side of Scotland if it helps. I would guess it was some kind of recruitment poster to illustrate how each area was represented to the general public ? It did not have a date on it that I saw but the legend is visible in the full sized PNG I linked to above for anyone who is interested.

We wait with bated breath!

Thanks

Here is a smaller sized JPEG showing the Scottish side :

The FULL sized one (including the map legend etc) is here - I reduced it to 4.5 mb from 10.5 so it is in PNG Format :

http://www.militaria-archive.com/stuff/Sco...ments01-web.png

Of course - I will check that when I get home later to see how much of the map is visible in the original un-cropped version of the photograph & post it on this thread. Will check out the drum thead now - cheers.

Did you, by any chance, also photograph the Scottish side of that map? Might be interesting for some of us.

Thanks,

Hugh

Hmm - I might have, can't remember to be honest, the IWM ones were from 2006/7-ish i think. I will check the original RAW file later as the one that I posted was cropped heavily when I put them online. If I find the Scottish side is on the original I will paste it into this thread.

FYI the rest of the IWM ones are here http://www.militaria-archive.com/Imperial%...seum/index.html

Glad you liked them, it's a shame they have a restrictive photography policy. The Irish WWI German regiment uniform is one I had never seen before, truly a very rare item, also the Fusileirs and Inniskillings regiments uniforms I would love to have gotten pictures of, the MG 108, lots of rifles, Crimea artifacts, and tons more including Vampire aircraft, tanks etc etc.

Here is another that might be interesting it shows the Irish regiments of the british army circa WWI (photo from IWM london)

More pictures:

The rest of the images are here if anyone wants to check them out ;

http://militaria-archive.com/Collins%20Bar...seum/index.html

Unfortunately I got told off when photographing some exhibits so there are only certain areas where photography is permitted, among the items I was not permitted to photograph were the 1916 exhibit, the Irish War of Independence, Civil War, Irish in the Confederate & yankee army, Franco Prussian war, Irish in WWI (including an German Irish Regiment uniform), a lot of iniskillings & Fusileirs medals, uniforms & weapons, the also the great coat Michael Collins wore when he was assasinated at B?al na mBl?th and many many more. For those in Dublin or passing through if you get to visit it is free admission and free parking & well recommended.

More Pictures :

Edged Weapons

More pictures

Firearms

Both barrels:

I paid a visit yesterday to the Collins Barracks Military Museum in Dublin. It is part of the Irish national museum complex spread across multiple buildings in Dublin and the Collins barracks location in addition to Militaria also encompasses the decorative arts museum (including viking artifacts etc). There is also Arbour hill 1916 memorial and cemetery adjoining the complex.

http://www.museum.ie/en/list/museum-highli...ts-history.aspx

One of the main displays at the moment is "The Irish at War at Home and Abroad from 1550" which tries to cover the Irish military contribution to a lot of European military history, including both sides of WWI, the Franco Prussian war, the napoleonic wars, Crimea, and too many more to mention right up to current UN & anti-terrorits roles. The other main exhibition is 'The British Garrison in Ireland'.

Here are some pictures I thought some members may enjoy. The collections cover a LOT of areas of history, WWI, the wild Geese, 1916, War of Independence, Civil War and lots more. I was not permitted to photograph all areas but here are a few I managed to get :

Courtyard of the Building

Collins Artifacts - Michael Collins Pistol, Sword and the pen used to sign the treaty & his death warrant ;

Viking Helmet

Loyalist tapestry

Came across this today :

http://izismile.com/2009/02/27/leningrad_b...ow_15_pics.html

It's a series of Leningrad ww2 pictures superimposed on the same view taken recently. Very good idea in my view and some nice examples included.

Fantastic collection and very educational for me ! Thanks for posting those.

This may be of interest to some here - several hundred glass plate portrait photos from the area of the Somme ;

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/eu...ar-1688443.html

Within a few months ? or days, most probably ? many of the soldiers were dead. The "somewhere in France" where these pictures were taken was a village called Warloy-Baillon in the d?partement of the Somme. Ten miles to the east was the front line from which the British Army launched the most murderous battle of that, or any, war, which lasted from 1 July to late November 1916 and killed an estimated 1,000,000 British empire, French and German soldiers.

More than 90 years later, at least 400 glass photographic plates preserving the images were found in the loft of a barn at Warloy-Baillon and cast out as rubbish. In recent months, the plates, some in perfect condition, some badly damaged, have been lovingly assembled and their images printed, scanned and digitally restored by two Frenchmen.

You can check out the photos here :

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/eu...ml?action=Popup

These are very interesting pictures thanks for posting them.