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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #120 on: August 07, 2018, 01:42:32 AM »
From the Library of Congress. The Devils Lake World and Inter-Ocean, August 7, 1918.

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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #121 on: August 08, 2018, 01:11:52 AM »
From the Imperial War Museum, August 8, 1918.

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A British Mark V tank (B56, 9003) of the 2 Battalion, Tank Corps crossing the ditch at the side of a road at Lamotte-en-Santerre, 8 August 1918. #1
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Men of the 95th Siege Battery RGA loading a 9.2 inch howitzer near Bayencourt during the Battle of Amiens, 8 August 1918.
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Battle of Amiens. Three German stretcher bearers and a German casualty outside the cellar in which they were found by Lieutenant John Warwick Brooke (British official photographer), and then captured by the 10th Battalion, London Regiment. Sailly Laurette, 8 August 1918.
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Battle of Amiens. German prisoners marching through the ruins of Maricourt l'Abbe, 8 August 1918.
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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #122 on: August 08, 2018, 02:10:19 AM »
From the Library of Congress, August 8, 1918.


The Ashland (Oregon) Tidings.

65th May Now Be On Firing Line

  The Medford Mall Tribune of Wednesday says that relatives of Jackson county boys in the 65th artillery are watching the war news from the front with much eagerness these days as there is a strong probability that the 65th is engaged in the great battles. A number of letters received in the city in the past two or three weeks told that the 65th was all ready for duty in the front line and about to be sent there. Today another mail from France arrived in the city bringing more letters indicating that the boys have been and probably are still in the fighting.

  Mayor and Mrs. Gates received a letter from Sergeant George Gates, written June 28, this morning, in which he made the simple statement, "We've been at the front for awhile." The letter was unusually mutilated by the censor, who cut away three and one-half pages of it. George wrote that two of his Medford comrades while out on the march, collapsed from heat attacks.

  Sergeant Ben Plymale wrote on June 20 to Samuel T. Richardson in a letter the latter received over two weeks ago that the 65th was all ready to go to the trenches, having been issued their steel helmets, gas masks and other equipment. He stated that he and four other sergeants had just returned from attending a special school in higher mathematics. Hence it is probable that the Jackson county boys of the 65th have been manipulating guns against the Hun in the recent battles. Sergeant Plymale and Sergeant Carl Ringer of Eagle Point, are the only Jackson county boys in company C of the 65th.


Aged German Enemy Meets Just Reward

  Monday evening Lester Ball, deputy United States marshal of San Francisco, passed through Ashland on train No. 16 on his way north. The officer had in his company Coach Ammar, a German, 65 years of age, who was being conducted to McNeil Island, Wash., where he will undergo internment for five years for seditious talk. It is claimed the alien enemy came from the north a short time ago and made himself conspicuous on the train by his seditious utterances.


Report Presented By Police Judge

The following is the report of the Ashland city court for the month ending July 31, 1918:

Number complaints for violation of traffic ordinance, 5.
Number of' complaints for violation of water ordinance, 16.
Number of complaints for violation of park ordinance, 2.
Number of complaints for violation of booze ordinance 5.
Number of complaints for disturbing the peace, 1.
Number of complaints charging use of obscene and vulgar language, 1.
Total number of complaints heard and disposed of, 38.
Amount of money received and deposited in city treasury, $147.00
D. M. BUOWER,
Judge of City Court.


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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #123 on: August 08, 2018, 02:32:12 AM »



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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #124 on: August 09, 2018, 02:01:48 AM »
From the Imperial War Museum, August 9, 1918.

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Corporal of the Tank Corps standing beside the camouflaged Mark V tank 'J18' of the 10th Battalion in a cornfield near Albert, 9 August 1918. The battalion was attached to the III Corps during the Battle of Amiens.
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Mark V tanks of the 10th Battalion, Tank Corps (tanks numbers are J17, J18, J19, and J29) attached to the III Corps during the Battle of Amiens, standing in a cornfield near Albert, 9 August 1918. They are hidden from aerial observation by being covered with corn.
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Battle of Amiens. Captured German Maxim machine gun and a British soldier resting at the post. Note steps leading to dug-out. Malard Wood, 9 August 1918.
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Battle of Amiens. German prisoners arriving at a temporary POW camp near Amiens, 9 August 1918.
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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #125 on: August 10, 2018, 01:30:52 AM »
From the Imperial War Museum, August 10th, 1918.


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Nurse Marion Dorothy Chapman, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of pneumonia at Alexandria 10 August 1918.
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Second Lieutenant Edmund John Waldegrave. Unit: D Battery, 286th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 10 August 1918. Killed outright by a bomb. Western Front. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has age at death given as 19.
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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #126 on: August 10, 2018, 02:06:42 AM »
The Axeman of New Orleans continued his killing spree on August 10, 1918.  Joseph Romano an elderly man who was struck in the head by the Axeman's axe, survived the initial attack but died two days later due to complications.  He was the Axeman's sixth victim. 

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Illustrated map on rash of axe murders in New Orleans, 1919.
By Not credited - via Times-Picayune website; which New Orleans newspaper this was originally published in unfortunately not specified., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17107923


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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #127 on: August 10, 2018, 04:27:20 PM »
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Josef Eibl

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Infantryman with the 7th Bavarian Infantry Regiment, Company 8.

Died at a camp near Lihons, France, from wounds suffered during the fighting at Amiens on August 10, 1918.

He was 20 years old.


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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #128 on: August 11, 2018, 01:58:36 AM »
From the Library of Congress, August 11, 1918.


The Rogue River (Grants Pass, Oregon) Courier.

MINISTRY BESIEGED BY FREAK INVENTIONS

London, July 15. (Correspondence of the Associated Press)

If the dreams of numerous British amateur inventors who have been besieging the ministry of munitions could be realized, the war would have been over long since and little would be left of the German army. Recent proposals include the following:

Freeze the clouds and mount artillery thereon.

Train cormorants to fly to Essen to pick the mortar from Krupp's walls so that they will crumble.

Trail from balloons monster magnets that would snatch rifles from the hands of the German soldiers.

Perch men on shells to steer them.

A suggestion often submitted is to attach a searchlight to an anti-aircraft gun, project the light on a Gotha and shoot along the beam. Unfortunately, shells will not follow the path of light. 

Other schemes for dealing with hostile aircraft are to suspend heavy guns from captive balloons; to arm defense airplanes with scythes; to provide heat rays for setting Zeppelins on fire, and to cover the moon with a big black balloon. To prevent polished rails shinning at night and serving as a guide to enemy aircraft, the last coach of the last train is to drop blacking on them.

A shell containing gravel is to lay a pathway over mud, and another, containing an irritant powder or a sticky substance, is to hamper machine guns.

The "relay shell' is a favorite proposal, the plan being for a shell at the height of its flight to expel a smaller inner shell. As a shell does not point directly along its trajectory it would be impossible to secure accuracy of aim for the second shell.

Among the more miscellaneous projects are:

To petrify German soldiers by squirting cement over them.

To throw snakes by pneumatic propulsion into the enemy trenches.

To penetrate and attack Germany itself via a "tube" built "all the way" from England.

It is said that about one suggestion in ten that reach the ministry of munitions is novel and possible.

The air ministry announces that its air inventions committee, formed about nine months ago, has examined more than 5,000 inventions and suggestions.


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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #129 on: August 11, 2018, 02:20:38 AM »
...and to cover the moon with a big black balloon.
Not a bad idea.  :)

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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #130 on: August 11, 2018, 02:44:31 AM »
Not a bad idea.  :)

Ha, yeah.  I liked the one where they spray cement on the German soldiers, thus hardening them up.

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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #131 on: August 11, 2018, 04:56:21 AM »
I liked the snakes. Put a bunch of rattlers in a barrel and launch it with a catapult.
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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #132 on: August 11, 2018, 09:48:44 PM »
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Johannes Rehm

Grenadier (thrower of hand grenades) with the Grenade Regiment 123, Company 4.

Born on September 20, 1899 in Westerheim, Bavaria-Germany.

Died in a military hospital in Saint-Amand, France on August 11, 1918.

Buried in the churchyard in Saint-Armand.

He was 18 years old.


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Josef Schreibauer

Son of a farmer from Usigen, Germany.

A machine gunner with the Leib Regiment, Company 4.

Holder of the Iron Cross and Military Honor Medal.

Died as a result of a shot to the chest on August 11, 1918 after 21 months of loyal, soldierly service.

He was 21 years old.




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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #133 on: August 12, 2018, 01:02:03 AM »
From the Imperial War Museum, August 11, and 12, 1918.

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American soldiers on board the Chinese troopship ELPENOR near Princes' Landing Stage, prior to debarking. Liverpool, 11 August 1918.
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British soldiers extinguishing a fire caused by hostile air raid on Calais, 12 August 1918.
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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #134 on: August 13, 2018, 01:26:58 AM »
From the Imperial War Museum, August 13, 1918.
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Troops of the American 37th Division taking enemy trenches near St. Barbe, signal flares can be seen in the distance, 13 August 1918.
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King George V going aboard H.M.S. Whirlwind after his visit to France. Photograph taken at Dunkirk, 13 August 1918.
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Sailors cheering King George V leaving Dunkirk in the Royal Navy flotilla leader HMS Whirlwind, 13th August 1918.
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King George V leaving Dunkirk in the Royal Navy flotilla leader HMS Whirlwind, 13 August 1918. Commander Reginald St. Pierre Parry and Vice Admiral Roger Keyes are also in attendance.
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