Lost Generation WWI photos auction

[goamules]

The subject is sad, the pictures very good, by the first British female news photographer.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1236319/WWI-photographs-taken-Christina-Broom-auction.html

[Tin Can]

Very hard to look at with a dry eye.




The subject is sad, the pictures very good, by the first British female news photographer.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1236319/WWI-photographs-taken-Christina-Broom-auction.html

[gleaf]

I will avoid looking up the percentage of lost. The subject is a proof of the limited appetite of the public for truth. But it does give me an idea. Time to give a bit of me back to the current survivors of our political last resorts.

[Mark Sampson]

Very evocative. Any one of the soldiers in those photographs might as well have been my grandfather. He was in the British Army and first went to France in late 1914. He served throughout the war and was wounded three times. In his memoirs he wrote about how progressively more difficult the leave-taking became after each trip home, each time not expecting to return.

[photobymike]

mmm nothing captures history like a printed photo

[SergeiR]

and then they went to Russia to pacify revolution.. But who counts, right?

some lovely documentaries on british army from 1919.. Other bits of said lost generation.

http://www3.nfb.ca/ww1/postwar-film.php?id=538502
http://www3.nfb.ca/ww1/postwar-film.php?id=538503
http://www3.nfb.ca/ww1/postwar-film.php?id=538504
http://www3.nfb.ca/ww1/postwar-film.php?id=538505

[Tin Can]

I need to study that, as I have not.

I have read a bit on Battle of Moscow and Siege of Leningrad.

My takeaway was how Russians knew how to keep weapon working in very cold and troops need winter gear.

But we must not talk politics here.

War is Hell.


and then they went to Russia to pacify revolution.. But who counts, right?

some lovely documentaries on british army from 1919.. Other bits of said lost generation.

http://www3.nfb.ca/ww1/postwar-film.php?id=538502
http://www3.nfb.ca/ww1/postwar-film.php?id=538503
http://www3.nfb.ca/ww1/postwar-film.php?id=538504
http://www3.nfb.ca/ww1/postwar-film.php?id=538505

[dtheld]

All war is evil, no matter what side you are on.

Photos from past wars show the universality of feelings of the soldiers and their families. From the Civil War to Afganistan, soldiers face the harsh reality of being away from home, fearing for their lives and realizing that when and if they are able to return home, they will never be the same.

Dave Held (46th IPSD, Vietnam 1969-1970)

[bobwysiwyg]

David, were you a handler? I was in-country Oct '68 to Oct '69.

[Jac@stafford.net]

I think you know he was Rusty's handler.

--
J - '64 to '70

[bobwysiwyg]

Why would I know that?

Oops on my part. I was in-country Oct '67 - Oct '68. Old age creeping in I guess.

[dtheld]

This is really strange.

Bob and Jac - yes I was Rusty's handler with the 46th at Tay Ninh. Although, I have no idea who either of you are.

Like I said, this is really strange. I just returned from a reunion with a few of the others from the platoon.

Dave