#first world war
Estonian soldiers with British 18 pound guns during the Estonian War of Independence / Russian civil war.
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Commander of the Petrograd Military District, General L. G. Kornilov March 13, 1917 at the Winter Palace
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On 12 May 1918, RMS Olympic, while serving as HMT Olympic, she rammed and sank the German submarine U-103. Olympic was on her twenty-second voyage as a troopship.
Olympic’s gunners opened fire immediately, and the ship turned to ram the submarine, which immediately crash dived to 30m (98 ft) and turned to a parallel course.
Almost immediately afterwards Olympic struck the submarine just aft of her conning tower with her port propeller slicing through U-103’s pressure hull. The crew of U-103 blew her ballast tanks, scuttled and abandoned the submarine. Olympic did not stop to pick up survivors, but continued on to Cherbourg.
Meanwhile, USS Davis had sighted a distress flare and picked up 31 survivors from U-103. Olympic returned to Southampton with at least two hull plates dented and her prow twisted to one side, but not breached. It was subsequently discovered that U-103 had been preparing to torpedo Olympic when she was sighted, but the crew were not able to flood the two stern torpedo tubes. For his service, Captain Hayes was awarded the DSO.
Oil on canvas by Barry Spicer
Ignorance is bliss.
Dad scanned in a bunch of my Great Granddad’s war photos. First world war, that is. when taken in to show the military lot so they could have copies (some apparently very useful in IDing/getting photo records of some soldiers) they apparently made noises along the lines of ‘he should NOT have taken these’.
But anyway. Here’s a bird on a grenade, taken near Ypres in 1914 by Edgar Penrose. DO NOT REMOVE THE TEXT.
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A Belgian woman, who was a forced labourer in Germany, returns home in November 1918.
Original image source: Library and Archives of Canada
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An Austrian soldier walks into a ruined church on the Isonzo Front, 1916.
Original image source: Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek
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Portrait of a French soldier wearing a gas mask, taken 1915.
Original image source: National Library of Denmark
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Two soldiers release a pigeon with a message from their trench. Taken May 1917.
Original image source: Library and Archives Canada
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A father helps his son draw a French flag. Taken March, 1917.
Source:Canadian Library and Archives
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