Wednesday, November 11, 2015 4:06:18 AM
bulldzr .. Unseen WW1 photographs by Irish Rifleman uncovered
A startling collection of previously unseen photographs by Irish Rifleman George Hackney will be
on show in the new Modern History gallery at the Ulster Museum in Belfast from November 26, 2014.
George Hackney, from Belfast, was sent off to fight on October 3, 1915. An amateur photographer before the war, Hackney took his camera with
him. The photographs were discovered in the Ulster Museum archive after being bequeathed following the death of George Hackney in 1977.
Photograph taken in July/August 1916 at Ploegsteert Wood near Messines in Belgium. This is where the
14th Batallion Royal Irish Rifles were redeployed after the devastation of the Battle of the Somme.
1 of 10 - Picture: George Hackney/Ulster Museum
Photograph taken during the Battle of the Somme: One of three photographs taken by George Hackney during the advance of the 36th Ulster
Division on 1 July 1916. In the foreground we can see German soldiers surrendering as the 36th Ulster Division advanced upon German lines.
3 of 10 - Picture: George Hackney/Ulster Museum
British scouts and snipers gather in a trench at a sentry post in Hamel, France during World War One.
5 of 10 - Picture: George Hackney/Ulster Museum
Hackney's friend John Ewing
8 of 10 - Picture: George Hackney/Ulster Museum
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-one/11238280/Unseen-WW1-photographs-by-Irish-Rifleman-uncovered.html?frame=3110134
Horrifying stories of the last day of horrifying war.
Haunting selfies, premonitions of death and suicidal attacks: the last moments of World War I
November 11, 2015 10:36am
The road to war ... it would be travelled again, two decades after this devastation on
the Western Front.
Justin LeesNews Corp Australia
WHAT happened in the final moments of World War One? In those last seconds, as the clock crept around to the appointed ceasefire time?
Killing, on a criminal level, ordered by men who knew peace was only minutes away.
Ninety-seven years ago today, the greatest conflict the world had seen came to a shuddering end. [YT of embed}
After three days of intense negotiations between the Allies and an increasingly desperate Berlin delegation, the Germans — facing riots at home — signed the terms of the Armistice
at 5.10am on November 11th, 1918. The parties agreed that fighting would officially end at 11am — a time delay to ensure the information was carried across the Western Front.
The digits — the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month — have gone down in history as a day to pause
and remember. Join the commemoration and conversation at AnzacLive .. https://www.facebook.com/anzaclive .
KILLED FOR A BATH: SICKENING SLAUGHTER
Your war’s over ... a German soldier surrenders. Picture courtesy of State Library of New South Wales.
Yet even as the news was telegraphed across the world and crowds in the big cities began celebrating (or continued celebrating, in the case
of Sydney, where the news had been misreported three days earlier), in the trenches the dying continued — on a massive and sickening scale.
Thousands of men, on all sides, were killed, wounded or went missing on that day.
Friend or foe ... some men celebrated with their
former enemies after the armistice.Source:Supplied
Astoundingly, the “business as usual” killing did not just happen on parts of the front where the news had not yet dropped: some generals, well aware the end was within grasp,
deliberately ordered their men into action for a final thrust, in search of glory/promotion before the chance slipped away, or because they felt the Germans needed to be smashed.
Many Americans were particularly gung-ho about this, from the top down.
One officer — the 89th division’s Major-General William M Wright — decided to take the town of Stenay, his rationale being that his dirty and exhausted men could refresh themselves at the bathhouse, although
he knew it would be handed over to him within hours. Wright’s pointless assault cost 365 casualties — among 3000 Americans to fall before 11am. Despite later public anger, he was not punished.
60 SECONDS TO CEASEFIRE: THE LAST TO DIE
.. continued .. http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/haunting-selfies-premonitions-of-death-and-suicidal-attacks-the-last-moments-of-world-war-i/story-fnq2o7dd-1227604047870
Such a tragedy all wars, yet the conspiracy boys as Alex Jones and sidekick Paul Joseph Watson ..
Troops Ordered To Kill All Americans Who Do Not Turn In Guns
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=106954465
see much of the effort to minimize the chance of another world war as all part of a conspiracy against the American people.
.. if you haven't caught it yet see also fear-monger extraordinaire Alex Jones lose it it here ..
Andrew Neil calls Alex Jones an idiot in Sunday Politics clash
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=118405835
.. 'ave a good day .. :)
A startling collection of previously unseen photographs by Irish Rifleman George Hackney will be
on show in the new Modern History gallery at the Ulster Museum in Belfast from November 26, 2014.
George Hackney, from Belfast, was sent off to fight on October 3, 1915. An amateur photographer before the war, Hackney took his camera with
him. The photographs were discovered in the Ulster Museum archive after being bequeathed following the death of George Hackney in 1977.
Photograph taken in July/August 1916 at Ploegsteert Wood near Messines in Belgium. This is where the
14th Batallion Royal Irish Rifles were redeployed after the devastation of the Battle of the Somme.
1 of 10 - Picture: George Hackney/Ulster Museum
Photograph taken during the Battle of the Somme: One of three photographs taken by George Hackney during the advance of the 36th Ulster
Division on 1 July 1916. In the foreground we can see German soldiers surrendering as the 36th Ulster Division advanced upon German lines.
3 of 10 - Picture: George Hackney/Ulster Museum
British scouts and snipers gather in a trench at a sentry post in Hamel, France during World War One.
5 of 10 - Picture: George Hackney/Ulster Museum
Hackney's friend John Ewing
8 of 10 - Picture: George Hackney/Ulster Museum
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-one/11238280/Unseen-WW1-photographs-by-Irish-Rifleman-uncovered.html?frame=3110134
Horrifying stories of the last day of horrifying war.
Haunting selfies, premonitions of death and suicidal attacks: the last moments of World War I
November 11, 2015 10:36am
The road to war ... it would be travelled again, two decades after this devastation on
the Western Front.
Justin LeesNews Corp Australia
WHAT happened in the final moments of World War One? In those last seconds, as the clock crept around to the appointed ceasefire time?
Killing, on a criminal level, ordered by men who knew peace was only minutes away.
Ninety-seven years ago today, the greatest conflict the world had seen came to a shuddering end. [YT of embed}
After three days of intense negotiations between the Allies and an increasingly desperate Berlin delegation, the Germans — facing riots at home — signed the terms of the Armistice
at 5.10am on November 11th, 1918. The parties agreed that fighting would officially end at 11am — a time delay to ensure the information was carried across the Western Front.
The digits — the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month — have gone down in history as a day to pause
and remember. Join the commemoration and conversation at AnzacLive .. https://www.facebook.com/anzaclive .
KILLED FOR A BATH: SICKENING SLAUGHTER
Your war’s over ... a German soldier surrenders. Picture courtesy of State Library of New South Wales.
Yet even as the news was telegraphed across the world and crowds in the big cities began celebrating (or continued celebrating, in the case
of Sydney, where the news had been misreported three days earlier), in the trenches the dying continued — on a massive and sickening scale.
Thousands of men, on all sides, were killed, wounded or went missing on that day.
Friend or foe ... some men celebrated with their
former enemies after the armistice.Source:Supplied
Astoundingly, the “business as usual” killing did not just happen on parts of the front where the news had not yet dropped: some generals, well aware the end was within grasp,
deliberately ordered their men into action for a final thrust, in search of glory/promotion before the chance slipped away, or because they felt the Germans needed to be smashed.
Many Americans were particularly gung-ho about this, from the top down.
One officer — the 89th division’s Major-General William M Wright — decided to take the town of Stenay, his rationale being that his dirty and exhausted men could refresh themselves at the bathhouse, although
he knew it would be handed over to him within hours. Wright’s pointless assault cost 365 casualties — among 3000 Americans to fall before 11am. Despite later public anger, he was not punished.
60 SECONDS TO CEASEFIRE: THE LAST TO DIE
.. continued .. http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/haunting-selfies-premonitions-of-death-and-suicidal-attacks-the-last-moments-of-world-war-i/story-fnq2o7dd-1227604047870
Such a tragedy all wars, yet the conspiracy boys as Alex Jones and sidekick Paul Joseph Watson ..
Troops Ordered To Kill All Americans Who Do Not Turn In Guns
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=106954465
see much of the effort to minimize the chance of another world war as all part of a conspiracy against the American people.
.. if you haven't caught it yet see also fear-monger extraordinaire Alex Jones lose it it here ..
Andrew Neil calls Alex Jones an idiot in Sunday Politics clash
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=118405835
.. 'ave a good day .. :)
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