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Saturday, December 22, 2018

Memorial to the Dead of the Country, World War One and World War Two. France.

A French villages memorial to its dead of World War One, with names added for World War Two.

MKTH photographs.

Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Monument to 13 Executed from Choisy Le Roi, Seine. August 13, 1944

This monument is dedicated to 13 residents ("Fusilles", which means shooters, so presumably partisans) of Choisy Le Roi (a town near Paris) who were "victims of German barbarism" on August 22, 1944. They were executed. I don't know the circumstances of their execution, but there would be many like them.

Photographs by MKTH.

Thursday, December 6, 2018

Musee de la Grande Guerre, Meaux France

These are scenes from Meaux's Musee de la Grande Guerre, a museum dedicated to the topic of World War One. The displays here are really impressive.

All photos are MKTH photographs.

This museum has a fine display of weapons, including artillery.

An example of French uniforms early in the war. Note the red trousers and the dark blue jacket.

An example of the type of uniforms the Germans wore prior to World War One. The coat is a "Prussian Blue" service coat with red flashing. The helmet is the classic German "Pickelhaube" that survived into the early years of the war.

A panting commemorating the alliance between republican France and Imperial Russia.

Imperial Russian flag in Russian and French, for those units that served on the Western Front.

Example of early semi automatic pistols.

Display of British uniform.

British uniforms.

German uniforms.

French helmet, top, outfitted with net. German M16 helmet below, with painted camouflage.

Ship camouflage.

French armor, and primitive trench club.

German armor.

Early helmets.

Trench hand to hand weapons, including entrenching tools.

Light machine guns, Lewis top, Chauchat bottom.

Small arms of the Great War.

French cavalryman's armor. Early in the war, things remained very 19th Century for awhile.

Horizontal stabilizer of a French airplane.

Signalling flag.

Early airborne ordinance.

French winter uniform.

French uniforms.

Russian uniform.

British uniform.

French uniform on left, German on right.

German helmet pierced by a projectile.

French helmet likewise pierced.

Travelling Communion set.

British desert uniform.

German uniform for African troops in Africa.

Gurkha kukri.

U.S. handguns.

Display of American weapons.

Trench mortar.

Some Gave All

Some Gave All is one of a series of our blogs which are basically photographic in nature. The main blog, the "hub", is Holscher's Hub, which is a general photo site. The general blog that we have that receives the most viewing attention is Lex Anteinternet, which started off, and which also remains, a blog for the study of historical topics of the 1890-1920 time frame, but which also deals with about everything else. Our daily Wyoming history blog is Today In Wyoming's History.

We also have four specific photograph blogs with dedicated topics, those being Churches of the West, Courthouses of the West, Railhead and Painted Bricks. Those blogs are dedicated to photographs of the topics their title indicates (more or less). This blog, while a history minded one, fits into the latter category. It depicts monuments, mostly war memorials, that we've run across in our travels.

Many of these photos, indeed probably all of them, were taken as the opportunity arose. It'd be rare here to find a photo in which we had gone out specifically to photograph the memorial. Because of that, they will not have a professional quality, as we have to take the monument, including the light, weather, and other conditions, as we find them. Still, that serves the purpose, which is to record monuments and memorials that otherwise would likely be missed by most people.