Tunneller Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 Remembering the boys who went over the top 100 years ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Boonzaier Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 !00 years ago today.... a view of the othr side of the hill.... http://kaiserscross.com/41902/588901.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ixhs Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 (edited) Ruhet in Frieden RIP. In Erinnerung an Krgfw. /Musketier Georg Utz , RIR 121 - my great grandfathers brother Died on 1st of July 1916 by an MG bullet (head shot) at Beaumont / Somme Hope you died fast. Buried in a mass grave at the frontline. I still have some things and photos of him. http://www.denkmalprojekt.org/2009/vl_wuertt_rir_nr_121_11Komp_wk1.htm His best friend survived the war, he served in Pionierregiment 13 Ulm (Minenwerfer) Edited July 1, 2016 by ixhs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurence Strong Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 Memorial Day in Newfoundland... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tunneller Posted July 1, 2016 Author Share Posted July 1, 2016 Remembering L/Cpl 2283 Albert Thomas Weston (seated right) DCM,1/6 Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment (Tamworth Territorials). KIA 1st July 1916 at Gommecourt . Remembered on the Thiepval memorial to the missing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claudius Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-36674451 ...posted here in case someone didn't see this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ixhs Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 (edited) The person on the right is Georg Utz. The peoples of his village said, that he must have been a good harp player. My father still has his harp standing in his house. The other two persons are friends of him. If i am right, the person in the middle is his best friend, who survived the war. The person on the left wears the IC ribbon and it seems, that he was Unteroffzier. I bought him some flowers for the graves of the "Unbekannter Soldat". (volksbund.de) Wuerttemberg had only good divisions... (Ludendorff). Furchtlos und Treu! Damn war, may be he shot your brothers and they shot him.. choose files... Click to choose files Edited July 1, 2016 by ixhs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spasm Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 Just got back from the National Commemorative Event to mark the Centenary of the Battle of the Somme. Held at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme. A very moving return to the battlefield in a spirit of reconciliation and respect. Their sacrifice and suffering will never be forgotten. - words from Prince Charles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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