"X"s are barbed wire entanglements, solid "squiggly" lines are trenches, dotted double lines are tracks, single dotted lines are disused trenches and...
...and "The Baby Killers - German Air raids on Britain in the First World War" by Thomas Fegan. For a region-specific account, try also "Zeppelins...
might be of some use... (PS. Michel - do you know if anything else at all was found on the remains?)
Re:Ludendorff... ...and, strangely prophetic - Ludendorff on Hitler... "You have delivered up our holy German Fatherland to one of the...
I believe you, Annie!:D Anyway re: the "W.B" stamping ... here it is again, but this time on a (non-Bavarian) greatcoat button (along with another...
I have the ID disc of a man who served in (I think) the 73e RI... ...Joseph Letellier , class of 1909. Is Letellier a name still known in the area?
Most certainly isn't - the "Flieg" (Flieger) signifies an airman and, that besides, this bloke's already got a grave.
WB is quite a common maker (though I don't know which it is)of these. I've seen and had several of these with the same intitals, though most of the...
Lieutnant Erich Wassmuss - born 18th June 1892 at Rodewald. Official date of death (as from German Air service records and the VdK) 11/4/1918...
They're the manufacturer's details. Where they are would have actually been "inside" the uniform (it's the belt hook (one of two) from the rear of...
OK - but you'll have to give me a synopsis of that thread now I've actually read it - I've now twice tried to work my way over it and got totally...
Well, for day 1 of the Lys offensive (and just talking about Bavarian units), you're looking at the Portugese facing the 1st Bavarian Reserve...
A couple, but a contact of mine has quite a lot. Any particular regiment in mind? (...please don't say the Kgl. Bayerisches 16....
Easier download from the gutenberg project (I remembered where I got my (electronic copy) from!!!:D)... Not as easy to navigate as the hard copy ,...
A free download of Histories of two hundred and fifty-one divisions of the German army which participated in the war (1914-1918) by the AEF...
Many regimental verlustlisten available online also. Try here for starters... http://www.denkmalprojekt.org/covers_vl/vl_wk1_index.htm
There appears to be a problem with the website at the moment, but a lot of rare German regimental histories , verlustlisten and other WW1 histories...
My second favourite... http://www.chtimiste.com/ ...and, IMO, the best website on the internet for French regimental information (and general...
Day one might have been (for many of the British units)...but the battle as a whole? The 420,000(ish) casualties suffered by the German Army on the...
The Somme offensive was going to happen even without Verdun - initial planning had begun 3 months before the Verdun battle had even started (though...
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