The P.O.W. Experience In Photos: French

[Guest Rick Research]

1-- Capture

2-- Disarmament & field interrogation

3-- Removal from the front

4-- Transport

5-- Camp

6-- Release

2: Here is a frontline snapshot taken by a native Hamburger, an Unteroffizier in a Pioneer unit who cheerfully sent back all sorts of views he had taken to his fianc?e.

This is somewhere far enough back for strolling in the open, but surely within range of cannonfire... a row of freshly captured poilus head back, lightly escorted by German horsemen, as German troops pass headed forward.

Imagine them looking into each others eyes as they passed-- one direction headed for safety, the other towards death, brightly colored flowers in the barbed wire foreground lending a real-time "All Quiet On The Western Front" feeling.

Edited May 10, 2005 by Guest

[Tony]

I think this lot are French. Apart from the ones with rifles of course.

Tony

[gallipoli1915]

I think this lot are French. Apart from the ones with rifles of course.

Tony

French submarine Saphire's crew... Captured by the Turks at Dardanelles, 1915

[gallipoli1915]

The funeral of Saphire's captain Done

Edited December 30, 2009 by gallipoli1915