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One Hundred Years Ago

Started by Rix Gins, January 01, 2016, 08:20:14 PM

Rix Gins

Quote from: albrecht on April 22, 2018, 06:40:20 PM
Sad about the drowning. It is crazy how many people don't know how to swim and yet will still go into water. I heard back in the day many sailors and fisherman couldn't swim. I know some shrimpers on the coast that the old timers don't know how to swim. Crazy, I say!

I like the phrasing. "Art Has Solved The Great Mystery" should've been the headlines. I wonder what would cause the gentlemen's paralysis to come and go?

Ha, I imagined Art's name in that headline too.

albrecht

Quote from: Rix Gins on April 22, 2018, 07:12:48 PM
Ha, I imagined Art's name in that headline too.
In a worse situation your posting about a Spandau machine-gun position got me an ear-worm of early 80's new wave music going on. It sucks.

ShayP

Quote from: albrecht on April 22, 2018, 07:16:31 PM
In a worse situation your posting about a Spandau machine-gun position got me an ear-worm of early 80's new wave music going on. It sucks.

https://youtu.be/AR8D2yqgQ1U

Rix Gins

Quote from: ShayP on April 22, 2018, 07:18:44 PM
https://youtu.be/AR8D2yqgQ1U

Thanks, Shay.  In keeping with the thread's theme, this seems like a 100 years ago.

Rix Gins



Johann Konigbauer

Soldier with the 8th Reserve Bavarian Field Artillery Regiment.

Holder of the Iron Cross, 2nd Class, and the Military Service Cross, 3rd Class.

Died on April 23, 1918 after being badly wounded.

He was buried in Seclin, France.

He was 24 years old.


albrecht

Quote from: Rix Gins on April 23, 2018, 01:39:06 AM


Johann Konigbauer

Soldier with the 8th Reserve Bavarian Field Artillery Regiment.

Holder of the Iron Cross, 2nd Class, and the Military Service Cross, 3rd Class.

Died on April 23, 1918 after being badly wounded.

He was buried in Seclin, France.

He was 24 years old.
An interesting surname: "King" & "Peasant" (or "Farmer" in more modern usage.)

Rix Gins

Quote from: albrecht on April 23, 2018, 07:34:13 PM
An interesting surname: "King" & "Peasant" (or "Farmer" in more modern usage.)

Right.  Something like a top farmer back in ancient times and the name stuck and was passed down?  Any idea what Gütler means?  At first I thought butler, or shop/warehouse owner, but it never translates.  I even have a dictionary of old German words but it isn't in there.  See it all the time on these cards, though.

albrecht

Quote from: Rix Gins on April 23, 2018, 07:46:45 PM
Right.  Something like a top farmer back in ancient times and the name stuck and was passed down?  Any idea what Gütler means?  At first I thought butler, or shop/warehouse owner, but it never translates.  I even have a dictionary of old German words but it isn't in there.  See it all the time on these cards, though.
IDK, A quick internet search says ""Southern German for a holder of a small farm. But that is with two "Ts" so maybe a variant, typos, etc?
South German (Güttler): status name for the holder of a small farm, from Middle High German güetelin ‘small holding’, ultimately from guot ‘property’. 

Rix Gins

Quote from: albrecht on April 23, 2018, 07:57:07 PM
IDK, A quick internet search says ""Southern German for a holder of a small farm. But that is with two "Ts" so maybe a variant, typos, etc?
South German (Güttler): status name for the holder of a small farm, from Middle High German güetelin ‘small holding’, ultimately from guot ‘property’.

Oh yes, property owner's son, and that would tie in with King of Farmers.  They probably held on to their land for generations.  Johann would have got the land next but of course, he didn't make it.  Thanks.  I looked up the town of Gunzkofen but not much there.  Probably a small Bavarian farming community. 
 

Rix Gins

From the Imperial War Museum, April 24, 1918.


QuoteAerial photograph taken by German reconnaissance aircraft on the morning after the historic Zeebrugge Raid on 24th April 1918. Showing the gap in the Mole.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205315084 © IWM (Q 67726)


QuoteGerman aerial photograph taken by German Reconnaissance aircraft on the morning after the historic Zeebrugge Raid of 24th April 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205315083 © IWM (Q 67725)


QuoteHMS VINDICTIVE at Dover following the Zeebrugge Raid showing damage done by German gunfire to the ship's bridge, foretop and forward armored flamethrower hut. Note the mattresses used to protect exposed parts of the ship's superstructure from bullets and shell splinters.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205026710 © IWM (Q 55566)


QuoteMembers of the crew of HMS PRINCE EUGENE cleaning the upper deck of HMS VINDICTIVE after her return to Dover following the Zeebrugge Raid. One sailor holds a flamethrower of the type used on the mole by members of the Royal Naval Air Service Experimental Party in support of the Royal Marine and naval landing parties.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205026713 © IWM (Q 55569)


R.I.P.


QuoteLieutenant Kenneth Chester Herron. Unit: Essex Yeomanry, attached to No. 82 Squadron, Royal Air Force. Death: 24 April 1918, Somme, Western Front.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205301135 © IWM (HU 123270)


Rix Gins

A fascinating video that describes the April 23, 1918 raid on Zeebrugge.

https://youtu.be/yuKW9yrgeeU

albrecht

Quote from: Rix Gins on April 24, 2018, 02:45:57 AM
A fascinating video that describes the April 23, 1918 raid on Zeebrugge.

https://youtu.be/yuKW9yrgeeU
Imagine volunteering for that mission! Btw roughly a 100 years later there was an awful ferry disaster there. Someone forgot to close the bow door (where you drive your car onto the ship.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Herald_of_Free_Enterprise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P28rSUJHYHA

Rix Gins

Quote from: albrecht on April 24, 2018, 01:43:23 PM
Imagine volunteering for that mission! Btw roughly a 100 years later there was an awful ferry disaster there. Someone forgot to close the bow door (where you drive your car onto the ship.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Herald_of_Free_Enterprise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P28rSUJHYHA

Pretty cool video shows what the BBC could pack into a ten minute news segment.  Well done, and God Save The Queen played just before sign off!  I remember those days when you had to wait until the next morning to catch up on the news.

Rix Gins

From the Imperial War Museum, April 25, 1918.


QuoteRuined buildings and fires burning in Amiens after an artillery bombardment, 25 April 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205246768 © IWM (Q 11152)


QuoteBritish and French troops in front of a gutted shop in Amiens, 25 April 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205246758 © IWM (Q 11140)


QuoteRuined buildings and fires burning in Amiens after an artillery bombardment, 25 April 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205246766 © IWM (Q 11150)


R.I.P.


QuotePrivate Peter Robert Jones 304232. Unit: 13th Battalion, Tank Corps. Death: 25 April 1918 Western Front. Son of Sarah Elizabeth Jones, of 125, Ashbourne Rd., Fulwood Rd., Liverpool, and the late Peter Jones. He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot memorial.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205026110 © IWM (HU 96662)

Rix Gins

From the Imperial War Museum, April 26, 1918.


QuoteMen of the 7th Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment, cross a temporary bridge over the River Narin at Narin Kopri, 26 April 1918. The original stone bridge was blown up by retreating Turkish forces during operations by III Indian Army Corps to drive them from the area around Tuz Khurmatli - Qara Tepe - Kifri.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205215657 © IWM (Q 24650)


QuoteOfficers of No. 59 Squadron RAF examining the fuselage of a German Pfalz Scout D.III at Vert Galand Aerodrome, 26 April 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205247695 © IWM (Q 12165)


QuoteActions of Villiers-Bretonneux. Wounded German prisoners at a Casualty Clearing Station at Namps, 26 April 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205246571 © IWM (Q 10930)


R.I.P.


QuoteSecond Lieutenant Harold Witter. Unit: 13th Battalion, Tank Corps. Death: 26 April 1918. Missing in Action Western Front.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205391031 © IWM (HU 127741)

Rix Gins

Actor Stafford Repp was born on April 26, 1918.  He appeared in lots of television shows during the 1960's but was perhaps best known for playing Chief O'Hara on "Batman."  He also played the mechanic on the Twilight Zone episode "Nick of Time" where the William Shatner character and his wife were held captive in a café by a devil decorated fortune telling machine.

Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafford_Repp

https://youtu.be/pMnwzlwM1qs

Rix Gins

From the Imperial War Museum, April 27, 1918.


QuoteThe Gare du Nord in Amiens, which was slightly damaged in the German bombardment, 27 April 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205247051 © IWM (Q 11453)


QuoteBattles of the Lys. An outpost of the 41st Division on the Poelcappelle Road at St. Jean, 27 April 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205238601 © IWM (Q 6703)


QuoteNurses looking after British and French wounded on a RAMC ambulance train near Doullens, 27 April 1918. They are members of either the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve or the Territorial Force Nursing Service.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205193189 © IWM (Q 8749)


QuoteAmerican troops displaying results of bullet test on body armor at Langres, 27 April 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205354824 © IWM (Q 112258)


R.I.P.


QuoteSecond Lieutenant Augustus Montague Sargent. Unit: 15th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derby Regiment). Death: 27 April 1918 Died of wounds in France Western Front. Son of Richard and Alice Matilda Sargent, late of Manor Villa, Wootton Bassett, Wilts; now of Seales Farm, Upper Seagry, Chippenham. Buried at Doullens Communal Cemetery Extension No. 1.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205388269 © IWM (HU 126167)

Rix Gins

From the Library of Congress.  The Tonopah Daily Bonanza.

(Went back in time to push my improved air compressor.)




Rix Gins

From the Imperial War Museum, April 28, 1918.


QuoteBritish troops in captured Turkish positions following the action of Tuz Khurmatli, 28 April 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205215658 © IWM (Q 24642)


QuoteStretcher bearers of the 38th Infantry Brigade (13th Division) bringing in a wounded man during the action of Tuz Khamatli, 28 April 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205215656 © IWM (Q 24663)


R.I.P.


QuoteSecond Lieutenant Arthur Cecil Paterson. Unit: 1st/2nd Battalion, attached to 9th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry. Death: 28 April 1918 Western Front. Son of Arthur Thomas and Lily Paterson, of 79, Danecroft Rd., Herne Hill, London.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205386852 © IWM (HU 116685)



Rix Gins

April 28, 1918.

Died: Gavrilo Princip, the man who shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, and whose actions many believe started the chain of events that led to World War One.  He died from tuberculosis brought about by the harsh conditions of the prison he was held in.

Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavrilo_Princip

Rix Gins

From the Imperial War Museum, April 29, 1918.


QuoteA trainload of British tanks on the siding at La Vicogne, 29 April 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205247089 © IWM (Q 11495)


QuoteCamouflage on the framework of an uncompleted concrete dug out in the Ypres Salient, 29 April, 1918. The man in the foreground belongs to the 10th Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent) Regiment.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205239676 © IWM (Q 7875)


QuoteThe Battle of the Lys. A piquet of the 10th Battalion, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) of the 41st Division behind a wire "block" on a road at St. Jean, 29 April 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205196010 © IWM (Q 6595)


QuoteA British soldier wears a greatcoat as he stands amidst a dump of empty shell cases near Domart, 29 April 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205196065 © IWM (Q 10943)


QuoteSwans in the grounds of a chateau near Montreuil which housed a section of British GHQ, 29 April 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205246583 © IWM (Q 10944)


R.I.P.


Sergeant Ernest Crane MM 717. Unit: 22nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Death: 29 April 1918 Missing in action Western Front.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205292838 © IWM (HU 120521)


Rix Gins

From the Library of Congress.  The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, April 29, 1918.


BODY OF HERBERT HICKS WILL BE SENT TO CALIFORNIA FOR INTERMENT

  After an illness of but three days, Herbert Hicks, a well known and highly respected young miner of this city, died at his home on Florence avenue last evening at 8:45. He took a cold a few days ago, which developed into pneumonia.

  The deceased was a native of Nevada City, Cal. He came to Tonopah about four years ago. Until recently he was employed in the Cash Boy mine.

  Surviving him are his mother in Grass Valley, Cal., his wife and two little daughters here, and the following sisters and brothers: Mrs. Bert Pollard and Mrs. James Timlin of Tonopah, Mrs. Frank Mills. Portland, Ore.; Mrs. Leslie Theuerkauf of Los Angeles. Mrs. James Mutton of Grass Valley and John Hicks of Grass Valley.

  The remains may be viewed after 8 o clock this evening at Wonacott Cavanaugh's undertaking parlors.  The body will be shipped tomorrow morning to Nevada City for interment.


DEATH OF A RESIDENT OF TONOPAH AFTER A VERY BRIEF ILLNESS

  Taken ill suddenly late Friday night, John Honey grew rapidly worse until 1 o'clock the following afternoon, when he was taken to the Mine Operators' hospital. Pneumonia set in and he died four hours later.

  The deceased was aged 36 years and was a resident of Tonopah for the past ten years. He was born in Cornwall, England, where his mother resides. Henry Honey of Goldfield is his brother. Two other brothers are in the British army. The funeral takes place this afternoon at 4:30 from Wonacott & Cavanaugh's undertaking parlors. It is conducted by the Moose lodge. of which the deceased was a member. 


YOUNG MINER VICTIM OF QUICK PNEUMONIA WAS BORN IN NEVADA - LIVED ALL HIS LIFE IN THIS STATE

  Charles Hayden died at 2 o'clock this morning at the Mine operators hospital. He walked without assistance to the hospital yesterday afternoon and a little later his condition became critical. A bad cold had suddenly changed to pneumonia.

  Mr. Hayden was born at Austin and lived all his life in this state. He was aged 33 years. He came to Tonopah about two months ago and went to work in the Jim Butler mine.

  Surviving him are his mother, five sisters and a brother at Battle Mountain, a brother near Mina and another brother in the war. Mrs. Frank Meyers of Tonopah is his cousin.

  Arrangements for the funeral are not yet completed.

Lord Grantham

Has influenza made its way to Tonopah?

Rix Gins

Quote from: Lord Grantham on April 29, 2018, 05:28:32 AM
Has influenza made its way to Tonopah?

I was wondering the same.  Will keep a close watch on forthcoming issues of the Bonanza.

Rix Gins

From the Imperial War Museum, April 30, 1918.


QuoteSopwith 7F.1 Snipe single-seat experimental fighter biplane. This aircraft was the forerunner of the Dragon.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205314747 © IWM (Q 67520)


QuoteAmerican troopship SS Czaritza, probably arriving in France with American troops aboard. Brest, 30 April 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205307651 © IWM (Q 58443)


QuoteCamouflaged covering for walks and huts at the American 26th Division Headquarters at Boucq, 30 April 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205092002 © IWM (Q 63746)


QuoteTroops of the 6th Regiment, US Marines putting on gas mask during gas alarm, 30 April 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205308904 © IWM (Q 61480)


R.I.P.


QuotePrivate George Marrison 201623. Unit: C Company, 2nd Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment.. Death: 30 April 1918 Missing Western Front.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205385228 © IWM (HU 117938)


Rix Gins



Esidor Schnell

Mason's son from Peterskirchen, Bavaria, Germany.

Soldier with the 20th Bavarian Infantry Regiment, Machine Gun Company 2.

Holder of the Iron Cross 2nd Class and the Military Service Cross.

Died on April 30, 1918 from wounds to the chest and abdomen.

He was 22 years old.


Rix Gins

The German U-boat SM UB-85 was found partially flooded off the coast of Belfast, Ireland on April 30, 1918.  HM Drifter Coreopsis II fired at the U-boat, causing all 34 crew members of the sub to jump overboard.  The Coreopsis II rescued all the officers and sailors and they were held as POWs.

When asked about the flooding problem, the UB-85's Captain claimed that they had surfaced the night before to recharge their batteries and that they were attacked by a large sea creature that damaged their sub.  The crewmembers fired their sidearms at the creature but to no avail.

Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM_UB-85

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