One Hundred Years Ago

[Rix Gins]

From the Imperial War Museums.

A Filtering Plant : water is taken from the Sweetwater Canal, which flows from the Nile, and after being filtered is pumped across the desert. The engineer examines the water in the glass tube.

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/17942

Ruins in the village of Morval, 24 July 1917.

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205323313

General view of the ruined village of Marchelepot, 24 July 1917.

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205323272

British troops in the ruined village of Combles, 24 July 1917.

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205323259

Group of WAACs (The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps) off duty seated on a roof wall in their billet at Rouen, 24 July 1917.

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205091191

Private Selwyn Kemp Skipworth 1904A. Unit: 44th and 34th Battalions, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 24 July 1917 Died of wounds in France Western Front.

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205388714

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From the Europeana Collections.

Fotografia reprezinta colegi de lupta ai lui Petre (TICA) Chirovici asa cum sunt trecuti pe verso, respectiv Cap. Mihail Manoilescu, serg. M... (?), D. plutonians, Stefanescu. 24 iulie 1917 nu este precizata locatia.

Campania 1916-1917-1918 - frontul romanesc - http://europeana.eu/portal/record/2020601/attachments_69604_6083_69604_original_69604_jpg.html. Chirovici; Petre (Tica). Europeana 1914-1918 - http://www.europeana1914-1918.eu/en/contributions/6083. CC BY-SA - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/2020601/attachments_69604_6083_69604_original_69604_jpg.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=api2demo

Feldw.am wiper mountain with Kastreinspitze, Gregnedul with Col de Medeon, Bele Piz u.Caningruppe. (24/7.1917.)

(de) Feldw.am Wischberg mit Kastreinspitze, Gregnedul mit Col de Medeon, Bele Piz u.Caningruppe. (24/7.1917.) - http://europeana.eu/portal/record/9200291/BibliographicResource_3000073605014.html. K.u.k. Kriegspressequartier, Lichtbildstelle - Wien. Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library - http://www.bildarchivaustria.at/TELRequest.aspx?p_ImageID=15801840. Public Domain - http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/9200291/BibliographicResource_3000073605014.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=api2demo

Kaisrl.Hoheit Erzh.Heinrich Ferdinand on the wiper mount. (24/7.1917.)

(de) Kaisrl.Hoheit Erzh.Heinrich Ferdinand am Wischberg. (24/7.1917.) - http://europeana.eu/portal/record/9200291/BibliographicResource_3000073605017.html. K.u.k. Kriegspressequartier, Lichtbildstelle - Wien. Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library - http://www.bildarchivaustria.at/TELRequest.aspx?p_ImageID=15801833. Public Domain - http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/9200291/BibliographicResource_3000073605017.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=api2demo

Kaisrl.Hoheit Erzh.Heinrich Ferdinand am Wischberg. (Scotti-Hütte.) (24/7.1917.)

(de) Kaisrl.Hoheit Erzh.Heinrich Ferdinand am Wischberg. (Scotti-Hütte.) (24/7.1917.) - http://europeana.eu/portal/record/9200291/BibliographicResource_3000073605010.html. K.u.k. Kriegspressequartier, Lichtbildstelle - Wien. Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library - http://www.bildarchivaustria.at/TELRequest.aspx?p_ImageID=15801826. Public Domain - http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/9200291/BibliographicResource_3000073605010.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=api2demo

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Percy's War, July 24, 1917: https://percyswar.wordpress.com/2017/07/24/witley-july-24-1917/

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Recorded 100 years ago today.

https://youtu.be/dpCcX2XN3AY

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From the Europeana Collections.

(de) Kaisrl.Hoheit Erzh.Heinrich Ferdinand am Wischberg. (Scotti-Hütte.) (24/7.1917.) - http://europeana.eu/portal/record/9200291/BibliographicResource_3000073605010.html. K.u.k. Kriegspressequartier, Lichtbildstelle - Wien. Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library - http://www.bildarchivaustria.at/TELRequest.aspx?p_ImageID=15801826. Public Domain - http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/9200291/BibliographicResource_3000073605010.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=api2demo

As far as I can figure that area is once again in Italian hands post-Treaty of Saint Germain but has been in-and-out of AHE, Austria, and Italian hands (maybe others back when more of principalities etc.) It is amazing, and we should remember this, that most of these countries often our politicians laud after are more modern countries than the USA. So when we look for "international tests" or "global/regional agreements" or foreign wars/interventions/police-actions we might should ponder, "wait, what, that 'country' has only been around so this long? How many wars have been fought? To what end? etc..."

ps: I also am certain certain considering building stuff and war-effort. Harder work constructing/taking-over those mountain positions. But better than making/digging and being-in those positions on other fronts in trenches!

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As far as I can figure that area is once again in Italian hands post-Treaty of Saint Germain but has been in-and-out of AHE, Austria, and Italian hands (maybe others back when more of principalities etc.) It is amazing, and we should remember this, that most of these countries often our politicians laud after are more modern countries than the USA. So when we look for "international tests" or "global/regional agreements" or foreign wars/interventions/police-actions we might should ponder, "wait, what, that 'country' has only been around so this long? How many wars have been fought? To what end? etc..."

ps: I also am certain certain considering building stuff and war-effort. Harder work constructing/taking-over those mountain positions. But better than making/digging and being-in those positions on other fronts in trenches!

Awful rocky up on those mountains and I was going to say dry too, but there is a snowpack visible in one of the photos above.  Looks pretty far away, though.  Not sure if its accessible, for drinking purposes.  I like whatever camera equipment that the Austrians use.  They make pretty cool pics. 

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Awful rocky up on those mountains and I was going to say dry too, but there is a snowpack visible in one of the photos above.  Looks pretty far away, though.  Not sure if its accessible, for drinking purposes.  I like whatever camera equipment that the Austrians use.  They make pretty cool pics.

Indeed. B&W and the equipment seems awesome. And the exposure and temp issues? Crazy. Imagine if the random soldier had an iPhone, or better yet, real good digital SLR today! War would've probably ended a lot sooner, or at least we'd have amazing pics. I never been in that region. But have hiked in the Swiss Alps and had just bought my first (expensive!) digital camera and so could take many pics (not nearly as much as today you could but still for then!) I went crazy with B&W, Sepia, various 'settings' and exposures and got some good stuff. (I know NOTHING about photography but it made 'taking' photos easier cause can delete bad shots- then or later.) Now? Even a kid can make stuff amazing. Though professionals just up their game even more. Though I got some good shots (I must admit, to me...)

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Indeed. B&W and the equipment seems awesome. And the exposure and temp issues? Crazy. Imagine if the random soldier had an iPhone, or better yet, real good digital SLR today! War would've probably ended a lot sooner, or at least we'd have amazing pics. I never been in that region. But have hiked in the Swiss Alps and had just bought my first (expensive!) digital camera and so could take many pics (not nearly as much as today you could but still for then!) I went crazy with B&W, Sepia, various 'settings' and exposures and got some good stuff. (I know NOTHING about photography but it made 'taking' photos easier cause can delete bad shots- then or later.) Now? Even a kid can make stuff amazing. Though professionals just up their game even more. Though I got some good shots (I must admit, to me...)

Ha, yeah.  It doesn't seem that long ago when we had to drop our exposed film off at a local photo place, or, in my case, send them to a place in Seattle for developing.  Then you had to wait a number of days for them to be developed.  Much easier now. 

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Ha, yeah.  It doesn't seem that long ago when we had to drop our exposed film off at a local photo place, or, in my case, send them to a place in Seattle for developing.  Then you had to wait a number of days for them to be developed.  Much easier now.

For or good or bad though! Now everyone has SO many photos one cannot even sort them- or find them again. DSC-00030030010 and etc. And problem of archiving them. And, not to mention, not for me of course, the problem of people 'filming everything' and get online, leaked, sexting, blackmail, work problems, or even legal/work issues. Everything recorded, good or bad or just lame and worthless! Even benign things, formerly, 'hey look at this big fish I caught' or an off-color 'joke' to a friend might get you in the papers for some environmental thing or worse. Spring Break in an all digital world? Even professional, banking, and financial records....forever. No thank you....though, I could ponder philosophically and figure this, and next, generation so much 'dirt' will be had on everyone that the politics, social organization, business, and relationships might be forced to change because there is no 'gotcha' or 'deep background stuff' on anyone? Or, everyone will be controlled politically. Off subject, I guess. But check back in a 100 years.

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From the Library of Congress.

The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, July 25, 1917.

Now playing at the Butler Theatre: "AMERICAN METHODS"

  William Farnum, in "American Methods" founded on George Ohnet's "The Ironmaster." "American Methods" a special super de luxe William Fox Photodrama in which William Farnum plays the stellar role at the Butler tonight.

  William Farnum as William Armstrong is an American of French descent, and is a successful business man. He is left an estate consisting of an iron mine in France, and with his sister sets sail for the French village and takes charge of the business. In the French town live a Marquise, her daughter and son. Armstrong falls in love with the beautiful daughter, but she tells him she is betrothed to her cousin. Later the cousin learning that the girl has lost her fortune, marries another. She then accepts Armstrong, but confesses that she does not love him. Shortly after his marriage, the cousin finds that he is still in love with Armstrong's wife. He inveigles her into a comprising position and is soundly thrashed for his conduct by the American.

  See it. It is good. Also a paramount comedy. A laugh for all. Matinee 1:30; evening 7:15 and 8:45.


Allan Forrest, Jewel Carmen, Genevieve Blinn (center), William Farnum & Florence Vidor (right) in American Methods - publicity still.  Public Domain.   https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:American_Methods_(1917)_still_1.jpg

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Everett True, July 25, 1917.  (Library of Congress)

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Mata Hari is found guilty of spying and is sentenced to death by a French court on July 25, 1917,  http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/mata-hari-sentenced-to-die


Mata (Margaretha Zelle) Hari.  Public Domain.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mata_Hari_13.jpg

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From the Imperial War Museums.

Ruins in a street near the church in Peronne, 25 July 1917.

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205323298

British troops at an investiture held by HM King George V at Aldershot, 25th July 1917.

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205287184

Troops participating in a Scots Guards Sports Meeting at the Queen's Club, London, 25th July 1917. Here, a soldier is being soaked with a bucket of water.

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205287161

Group of WAACs outside their billet at Paris - Plage, 25 July 1917.

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205237844

Members of the WAAC bathing at Paris-Plage, 25 July 1917. One girl holding a towel scampers away from two others.

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205091192

Members of the WAAC bathing at Paris-Plage, 25 July 1917.

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205237853

Private William Wellings Locke 88584. Unit: 133rd Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Death: 25 July 1917, near Poperinghe, Western Front.

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205393700

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From the Europeana Collections.

Art.Beobachter with 40 x. Scope of the Wischberg.Hintergrund Caningruppe. (25/7.1917.)

http://europeana.eu/portal/record/9200291/BibliographicResource_3000073605022.html. K.u.k. Kriegspressequartier, Lichtbildstelle - Wien. Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library - http://www.bildarchivaustria.at/TELRequest.aspx?p_ImageID=15801847. Public Domain - http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

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Percy's War, July 25, 1917: https://percyswar.wordpress.com/2017/07/25/witley-july-25-1917/         

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From the Imperial War Museums.



http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205287161

And after the fun and games you can use it to hang spies and deserters!

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https://youtu.be/abUCVr4Zjr0

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And after the fun and games you can use it to hang spies and deserters!

Haha.  Good one, Mr. A!

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I think this is a verified date, though I only have one source that gives it, but John Edgar Hoover was first hired at the Justice Department on this day back in 1917.

Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover

Immediately after getting his LL.M. degree, Hoover was hired by the Justice Department to work in the War Emergency Division. He soon became the head of the Division's Alien Enemy Bureau, authorized by President Wilson at the beginning of World War I to arrest and jail allegedly disloyal foreigners without trial.[12] He received additional authority from the 1917 Espionage Act. Out of a list of 1,400 suspicious Germans living in the U.S., the Bureau arrested 98 and designated 1,172 as arrest able.[18]

Hoover in 1932.  Public Domain.  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:J._Edgar_Hoover_cph.3b10753.jpg

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A major fight between British and German aircraft took place above Flanders Fields on July 26th and 27th, 1917.  The Brits came out on top.  https://ww2-weapons.com/diary-july-26-1917/

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From the Library of Congress.

Photograph shows aviation students with officers at the Wilbur Wright Aviation camp at Wilbur Wright Field, near Riverside, Ohio during World War I. Officers include (left to right in front) Lieut. Schultz, Lieut. Richards, and Capt. Kirby. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)   Photograph published in the Bisbee Daily Review, July 26, 1917.

https://www.loc.gov/item/ggb2006000307/

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From the Imperial War Museums.

Ruined street in the village of Bertincourt, 26 July 1917.

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205323327

General William Robertson, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, and Major-General Frederick Maurice, the Director of Military Operations for the Imperial General Staff, leaving Hotel Crillon after the Allied Conference, 26 July 1917.

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205307773

Admiral John Jellicoe, the First Sea Lord, leaving Hotel Crillon after the Allied Conference in Paris, 26 July 1917.

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205282995

British Prime Minister David Lloyd George and Arthur Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary, leaving Hotel Crillon after the Allied Conference in Paris, 26 July 1917.

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205306471

Captain Phillip Bernard Prothero. Unit: 4th Battalion, Argyle & Sutherland Highlanders, attached to 5th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. Death: 26 July 1917

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205387403
War memorial and some info on Captain Prothero: http://www.prestwickwarmemorial.btck.co.uk/THEFALLEN-1914-1918/PhilipBPROTHERO

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Percy's War, July 26, 1917: https://percyswar.wordpress.com/2017/07/26/witley-july-26-1917/

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                Front of card.                                   Back of card.

Martin Brunner

Soldier with the 24th Bavarian Infantry Regiment, 12th Company.

Earned the Iron Cross, Second Class and Merit Cross, Third Class.

Soldier Brunner was in the war from the very start but was killed on July 17, 1917 as a result of being hit by a mine splinter.

He was 36 years old.  (An actual picture of Martin has been glued to the front of the memorial card.)

     

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French fighter Ace Georges Guynemer scored his fiftieth victory on July 27, 1917. 


Georges Guynemer by "Lucien" (unknown painter), Musée de la Légion d'Honneur et des Ordres de Chevalerie, Paris.
By Jebulon. Painting signed by "Lucien - Paris", (unknown) - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11264214

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From the Imperial War Museums.

AIR MINISTRY FIRST WORLD WAR OFFICIAL AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS COLLECTION

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205374551
(Notice the squiggly lines down below?  Those are trench works.  Both sides were quick to find out that you never, I repeat never, dig a trench in a straight line.)

Ruins of the church at Moislains, 27 July 1917.

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205308752

Millicent Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, the Duchess of Sutherland, with a doctor at No. 9 Red Cross Hospital (Millicent Sutherland Ambulance) at Calais, 27th July 1917.

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205235775

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https://youtu.be/ZTEq1NRP4Po

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Blues singer Moses Rascoe was born 100 years ago today.

https://youtu.be/0fQKNtUwypo

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Percy's War, July 27, 1917: https://percyswar.wordpress.com/2017/07/27/witley-july-27-1917/

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Inside of double page card, folded open.

Joseph Gnadler

Factory worker's son from the town of Kirchseeon.

Soldier with the 3rd Infantry Regiment, 11th Company.

Joseph was shot in the pelvis and was sent to a hospital in Berlin.  He died ten weeks later of a difficult illness on July 18, 1917.

He was 21 years old. 

The German Graves Office has a record of Joseph Gnadler being buried in a cemetery in Berlin, Germany.

The front cover for this memorial card shows the same illustration as that of Martin Brunner, above.  A colored depiction of Mary and Jesus.