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One Hundred Years Ago

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

Rix Gins

From the Library of Congress.


QuotePhotograph shows a group of Native Americans inspecting the model weapons aboard the USS Recruit, a wooden mockup of a battleship built in Union Square, New York City by the Navy to recruit seamen and sell Liberty Bonds during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)  1917 July 28 (date created or published later by Bain)
https://www.loc.gov/item/ggb2006000426/


QuotePhotograph shows Native American "chief Bald Eagle" shaking hands with Lt. Wells Hawks (1870-1941), a member of the Navy's public relations team aboard the USS Recruit. The ship was a wooden mockup of a battleship built in Union Square, New York City by the Navy to recruit seamen and sell Liberty Bonds during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)  [1917 July 28]
https://www.loc.gov/item/ggb2006000456/

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From the Imperial War Museums. 


QuoteA group of Royal Engineers at work on a light railway line near Boesinghe, grouped around a flat truck and led by a cheerful soldier with his cap at a rakish angle.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205193368


QuoteBritish troops laying a light railway line near Boesinghe, 28 July 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205237817


QuoteLieutenant Joseph Cecil Smith. Unit: Royal Warwickshire Regiment, attached to 70th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. Death: 28 July 1917 Missing (Machine B/3874, Engine no R 1518 WD 14647) Western Front.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205388816



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Inside of double paged memorial card, folded open.

Albert Schuder

Carpenter's son from the town of Ruhstorf, Bavaria, Germany.

Lance Corporal in the 16th Infantry Regiment, 5th Company.

Holder of the Iron Cross, Second Class and the Military Honor Cross, Third Class with Swords.  (Both medals are visible on his uniform.)

Died on July 18, 1917 as a result of a bursting high explosives shell.

He was 24 years old.

(The front and back cover of this card are similar to ones shown on previous pages, namely a close up of Jesus wearing a crown of thorns and an angel standing over a fallen soldier.)


A church in the town of Ruhstorf.  By Konrad Lackerbeck - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2788309







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From the Imperial War Museums.


QuoteGeneral view of Hervilly, 29 July 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205308689


QuoteRuined church at Roisel, 29 July 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205308744


QuoteSecond Lieutenant John Peirson Watson. Unit: D Company, 3d Battalion, attached to 7th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 29 July 1917 Wounded and Missing in Action Western Front.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205390432


QuoteSecond Lieutenant William Eric Thomas. Unit: 118th Company, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry). Death: 29 July 1917 Missing in action Western Front.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205389618


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From the Europeana Collections.


QuoteEmperor Karl I attended Kolomea, which was recaptured during the counteroffensive in Galicia.
http://europeana.eu/portal/record/9200291/BibliographicResource_3000073511233.html. K.u.k. Kriegspressequartier, Lichtbildstelle - Wien. Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library - http://www.bildarchivaustria.at/TELRequest.aspx?p_ImageID=15566550. Public Domain - http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/


QuoteEmperor Karl I in the auto Sniatyn to the 29.7.1917 immediately after the successful counter-offensive in Galicia.
http://europeana.eu/portal/record/9200291/BibliographicResource_3000073511242.html. K.u.k. Kriegspressequartier, Lichtbildstelle - Wien. Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library - http://www.bildarchivaustria.at/TELRequest.aspx?p_ImageID=15566592. Public Domain - http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/


QuoteFront visit of Emperor Karl I during the successful counter-offensive in Galicia. Difficulties during the trip.
http://europeana.eu/portal/record/9200291/BibliographicResource_3000073511232.html. K.u.k. Kriegspressequartier, Lichtbildstelle - Wien. Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library - http://www.bildarchivaustria.at/TELRequest.aspx?p_ImageID=15566501. Public Domain - http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/


QuoteFront visit of Emperor Karl I during the successful counter-offensive in Galicia. Difficulties during the trip.
http://europeana.eu/portal/record/9200291/BibliographicResource_3000073511224.html. K.u.k. Kriegspressequartier, Lichtbildstelle - Wien. Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library - http://www.bildarchivaustria.at/TELRequest.aspx?p_ImageID=15566473. Public Domain - http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/


QuoteFront visit of Emperor Karl I during the successful counter-offensive in Galicia. Difficulties during the trip.
http://europeana.eu/portal/record/9200291/BibliographicResource_3000073511222.html. K.u.k. Kriegspressequartier, Lichtbildstelle - Wien. Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library - http://www.bildarchivaustria.at/TELRequest.aspx?p_ImageID=15566480. Public Domain - http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/


QuoteFront visit of Emperor Karl I during the successful counter-offensive in Galicia. Difficulties during the trip.
http://europeana.eu/portal/record/9200291/BibliographicResource_3000073511221.html. K.u.k. Kriegspressequartier, Lichtbildstelle - Wien. Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library - http://www.bildarchivaustria.at/TELRequest.aspx?p_ImageID=15566494. Public Domain - http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/


QuoteFront visit of Emperor Karl I during the successful counter-offensive in Galicia. Difficulties during the trip.
http://europeana.eu/portal/record/9200291/BibliographicResource_3000073511218.html. K.u.k. Kriegspressequartier, Lichtbildstelle - Wien. Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library - http://www.bildarchivaustria.at/TELRequest.aspx?p_ImageID=15566487. Public Domain - http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/


QuoteHis Majesty | Schuhmann, Heinrich.
http://europeana.eu/portal/record/9200291/BibliographicResource_3000073493138.html. Schuhmann, Heinrich; K.u.k. Kriegspressequartier, Lichtbildstelle - Wien. Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library - http://www.bildarchivaustria.at/TELRequest.aspx?p_ImageID=4814424. Public Domain - http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/







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       Front of single page card.                      Back of card.

Josef Neubauer

Died on July 19, 1917 near the town of Tarnopol.

He was twenty years old.

(An actual photo has been trimmed and glued to the card.)




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From the Library of Congress

.
QuotePhotograph shows Lt. Paul Montariol (1889-1974) of the French flying corps who came to the U.S. in June 1917 to help train American aviators possibly at the Mineola air station, Long Island, New York. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) 1917 July 30 (date created or published later by Bain)
https://www.loc.gov/item/ggb2006000435/


QuoteNo. 983: Street in town where troops are billeted. July 30th, 1917. Rear view of wooden barracks. No. 988: Baseball game, Y.M.C.A. 16th Infantry U.S.A. July 30, 1917. France.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/anrc.11242/

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From the Imperial War Museums.


QuoteElsie Knocker, the Baroness de T'Serclaes, and Mairi Chisholm in ambulance driving uniform at Pervyse, 30th July 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205079271


QuoteElsie Knocker, the Baroness de T'Serclaes, and Mairi Chisholm ("The Madonnas of Pervyse") driving their motor ambulance through the ruins of Pervyse, 30th July 1917. The two women manned a first aid post in the Belgian front line for most of the war.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205193192


QuoteA fleet of motor ambulances, part of the Calcutta war gift, outside the railway station at Proven, 30th July 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205079147


QuoteIrish Guards going up a communication trench. Elverdinghe, 30 July 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205215669


QuoteTwo Irish Guardsmen going up a communication trench with supplies. Elverdinghe, 30 July 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205215668


QuoteBritish soldier sitting in the shell-hole in a gasometer at Nieuport, 30th July 1917.
ww.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205079145


QuotePrivate Albert Edward Munt 269647. Unit: 6th Platoon, 2nd Company, Hertfordshire Regiment (Battalion info not provided). Death: 30 July 1917 Missing at St.Julien Western Front.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205386291


QuoteProbationer Miss Minnie Munro, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of pneumonia contracted on duty 30 July 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205380934


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From the Europeana Collections.


QuoteEmperor Karl I in the back conquered Tarnopol on the 30.7.1917 immediately after the successful counteroffensive.
http://europeana.eu/portal/record/9200291/BibliographicResource_3000073511251.html. K.u.k. Kriegspressequartier, Lichtbildstelle - Wien. Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library - http://www.bildarchivaustria.at/TELRequest.aspx?p_ImageID=15566697. Public Domain - http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/


QuoteEmperor Karl I in the back conquered Tarnopol on the 30.7.1917 immediately after the successful counteroffensive.
http://europeana.eu/portal/record/9200291/BibliographicResource_3000073511267.html. K.u.k. Kriegspressequartier, Lichtbildstelle - Wien. Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library - http://www.bildarchivaustria.at/TELRequest.aspx?p_ImageID=15566711. Public Domain - http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/


QuoteCharles I visited the 30.7.1917 immediately after the successful counter-offensive in Galicia Jezierna.
http://europeana.eu/portal/record/9200291/BibliographicResource_3000073511254.html. K.u.k. Kriegspressequartier, Lichtbildstelle - Wien. Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library - http://www.bildarchivaustria.at/TELRequest.aspx?p_ImageID=15566655. Public Domain - http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/


QuoteImpressions of the Kaiser Karls I. front travel during or immediately after the successful counter-offensive in Galicia.
(http://europeana.eu/portal/record/9200291/BibliographicResource_3000073511261.html. K.u.k. Kriegspressequartier, Lichtbildstelle - Wien. Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library - http://www.bildarchivaustria.at/TELRequest.aspx?p_ImageID=15566753. Public Domain - http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/


QuoteImpressions of the Kaiser Karls I. front travel during or immediately after the successful counter-offensive in Galicia.
http://europeana.eu/portal/record/9200291/BibliographicResource_3000073511263.html. K.u.k. Kriegspressequartier, Lichtbildstelle - Wien. Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library - http://www.bildarchivaustria.at/TELRequest.aspx?p_ImageID=15566767. Public Domain - http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/


QuoteImpressions of the Kaiser Karls I. front travel during or immediately after the successful counter-offensive in Galicia. Gun projectiles.
http://europeana.eu/portal/record/9200291/BibliographicResource_3000073511258.html. K.u.k. Kriegspressequartier, Lichtbildstelle - Wien. Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library - http://www.bildarchivaustria.at/TELRequest.aspx?p_ImageID=15566774. Public Domain - http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/


QuoteImpressions of the Kaiser Karls I. front travel during or immediately after the successful counter-offensive in Galicia.
http://europeana.eu/portal/record/9200291/BibliographicResource_3000073511272.html. K.u.k. Kriegspressequartier, Lichtbildstelle - Wien. Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library - http://www.bildarchivaustria.at/TELRequest.aspx?p_ImageID=15566781. Public Domain - http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/



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A tune from the 1917 Broadway revue Hitchy-Koo.  Recorded: July 30, 1917.

https://youtu.be/Nx3hlvcexhw



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Inside of double page card, folded open.

Georg Mutz

A farmer's son from Stratweis.

Soldier with the 19th Infantry Regiment, Company 9.

Holder of the Iron Cross, Second Class.

Died on July 22, 1917 as the result of being hit with a hand grenade at the French town of Arras.

He was 21 years old.


Front cover of card (right) and back cover of card (left) unfolded.


World War I Iron Cross, 2nd Class.  By User:Quintus Fabius Maximus -http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/62/1914IronCross.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11619856


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The Chicago White Sox lost their fourth game in a row on July 31, 1917 when an opposing player (Harry Hooper) bounced a ball over the three foot wall at Boston's Fenway Park.

https://www.reddit.com/r/whitesox/comments/6qpjam/july_31_1917_white_sox_drop_their_4th_in_row_tied/?st=j5skzbw3&sh=1071f406
Quote"Bounce" home runs are always cheap shots especially when the right field wall at Fenway is just 3 feet tall. Maybe one day in the future these home runs will only be worth 2 bases because they hit the ground, a ground rule double or something like that. But that's for the future, today the 3-run shot sunk the White Sox who were unable to make a comeback.


Harry Hooper, Boston.  By Harris & Ewing, Inc. - Harris & Ewing Collection (Library of Congress), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7413302


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The Third (as if two weren't enough) Battle of Ypres (pronounced 'Eeeprah' - rah as in sis boom bah.) started on July 31, 1917.  The opening battle was called The Battle of Pilckem Ridge.  The British and French attacked the Germans and made great strides until the nice, high summer weather changed to heavy rain, turning the battlefield into a muddy, sodden bog.  The opening battle ended on August 2, 1917.

Overview of the battle:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pilckem_Ridge


QuoteTHE THIRD BATTLE OF YPRES (PASSCHENDAELE) 31 JULY - 10 NOVEMBER 1917 Description: Battle of Pilckem Ridge 31 July - 2 August: stretcher bearers struggle in mud up to their knees to carry a wounded man to safety near Boesinghe on 1 August. The look of agonised desperation on the men's faces has made this image a favourite choice to indicate the appalling conditions on the Western Front.
By John Warwick Brooke - This is photograph Q 5935 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 1900-13), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3084107

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The Irish poet Francis Ledwidge was killed on the opening day of the Third Battle of Ypres, July 31, 1917.

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


Ledwidge in uniform.  By Francis Ledwidge - https://archive.org/details/completepoemswit00ledwuoft, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45192324
QuoteOn 31 July 1917, a group from Ledwidge's battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers were road-laying in preparation for an assault during the Third Battle of Ypres, near the village of Boezinge, northwest of Ieper (Ypres). While Ledwidge was drinking tea in a mud hole with his comrades, a shell exploded alongside, killing the poet and five others. A chaplain who knew him, Father Devas, arrived soon after, and recorded "Ledwidge killed, blown to bits."


Memorial to Francis Ledwidge on the spot where he died.  By David Edgar - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4865469 

Oh what a pleasant world 'twould be,
How easy we'd step thro' it,
If all the fools who meant no harm,
Could manage not to do it!

albrecht

Quote from: Rix Gins on July 31, 2017, 04:05:59 PM
The Third (as if two weren't enough) Battle of Ypres (pronounced 'Eeeprah' - rah as in sis boom bah.) started on July 31, 1917.  The opening battle was called The Battle of Pilckem Ridge.  The British and French attacked the Germans and made great strides until the nice, high summer weather changed to heavy rain, turning the battlefield into a muddy, sodden bog.  The opening battle ended on August 2, 1917.

Overview of the battle:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pilckem_Ridge

By John Warwick Brooke - This is photograph Q 5935 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 1900-13), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3084107
Sobering "before and after":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Passchendaele#/media/File:Passchendaele_aerial_view.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filip_Konowal (only East European to receive the Victoria Cross):
"In one cellar he himself bayonetted three enemy and attacked single-handed seven others in a crater, killing them all.

On reaching the objective, a machine-gun was holding up the right flank, causing many casualties. Cpl. Konowal rushed forward and entered the emplacement, killed the crew, and brought the gun back to our lines.

The next day he again attacked single-handed another machine-gun emplacement, killed three of the crew, and destroyed the gun and emplacement with explosives.
This non-commissioned officer alone killed at least sixteen of the enemy, and during the two days' actual fighting carried on continuously his good work until severely wounded."
His post-war events are interesting, including being "not guilty due to insanity" of killing an "Austrian bootlegger," due to his war injuries and their effect on his mental health. He lost his wife and presumed he lost his family in the Soviet-design famine (Holodomor) in the Ukraine.

Rix Gins

Quote from: albrecht on July 31, 2017, 04:27:07 PM
Sobering "before and after":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Passchendaele#/media/File:Passchendaele_aerial_view.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filip_Konowal (only East European to receive the Victoria Cross):
"In one cellar he himself bayonetted three enemy and attacked single-handed seven others in a crater, killing them all.

On reaching the objective, a machine-gun was holding up the right flank, causing many casualties. Cpl. Konowal rushed forward and entered the emplacement, killed the crew, and brought the gun back to our lines.

The next day he again attacked single-handed another machine-gun emplacement, killed three of the crew, and destroyed the gun and emplacement with explosives.
This non-commissioned officer alone killed at least sixteen of the enemy, and during the two days' actual fighting carried on continuously his good work until severely wounded."
His post-war events are interesting, including being "not guilty due to insanity" of killing an "Austrian bootlegger," due to his war injuries and their effect on his mental health. He lost his wife and presumed he lost his family in the Soviet-design famine (Holodomor) in the Ukraine.

Thanks for the link.  Somebody stole  Konowa's Victoria Cross back in the 1970's and yet they found it in 2004, some 87 years after it was awarded to him.  Wow.

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From the Imperial War Museums.


QuoteBattle of Pilckem Ridge. Troops of the 11th Battalion (Pioneers), Durham Light Infantry, being taken forward by light railway passing Elverdinge, 31st July 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205191743


QuoteBattle of Pilckem Ridge. Men of a Pioneer Battalion getting out of light railway trucks. Brielen, 31 July 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205237821


QuoteThe Battle of Pilckem Ridge. British troops crossing the Yser Canal at Boezinge, 31st July 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205191740


QuoteA doctor dresses the wounds of Lieutenant Guy Vaughan Morgan of the 2nd Battalion, Irish Guards at a RAMC aid post during the Battle of Pilckem Ridge, 31 July 1917. Lieutenant Morgan is one of several men on stretchers.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205213225


QuoteBattle of Pilckem Ridge. The first wounded to come in lying on the ground at a farm at Elverdinge. Note an observation balloon rising in the background.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205193363


QuoteGerman DFW C.V reconnaissance biplane wrecked at Pilckem, on the first day of the Battle of Pilckem Ridge.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205225524


QuotePrivate Albert Franklin G/14947. Unit: 12th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment. Death: 31 July 1917, Ypres, Western Front.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205295037


QuotePrivate George Bernard Hawson 66731. Unit: "B" Company, 1st Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Death: 31 July 1917, Ypres, Western Front. Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205300646


QuoteSecond Lieutenant Bernard Roy Edgar. Unit: 23rd Battalion, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry). Death: 31 July 1917 Ypres Western Front. Son of Albert Edward and Rosina Edgar, of 10, Trelawney Rd., Cotham, Bristol.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205294187


QuoteSecond Lieutenant Henry George Frith. Unit: 17th Battalion, Manchester Regiment. Death: 31 July 1917, Ypres, Western Front. Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205295126


albrecht

Quote from: Rix Gins on July 31, 2017, 05:13:46 PM
Thanks for the link.  Somebody stole  Konowa's Victoria Cross back in the 1970's and yet they found it in 2004, some 87 years after it was awarded to him.  Wow.
And interesting that initially some dealer thought was fake because it had English on it (whereas the British awarded Victoria Cross is in French. Like many UK and European orders French was still 'linqua-franca' or Latin for metals and orders.) But the Victoria Crosses awarded to Canadians were in English (this a snub/on-purpose?) due to resentment about the Francophile types?

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From the Europeana Collections.


QuoteVisit Sr.Kaiserl.Hoheit Erzh.Eugen in SOCA. (31/7.1917.)
http://europeana.eu/portal/record/9200291/BibliographicResource_3000073604975.html. K.u.k. Kriegspressequartier, Lichtbildstelle - Wien. Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library - http://www.bildarchivaustria.at/TELRequest.aspx?p_ImageID=15801550. Public Domain - http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/


QuoteArchduke Eugen on the Mojstrovka pass.
http://europeana.eu/portal/record/9200291/BibliographicResource_3000073493621.html. K.u.k. Kriegspressequartier, Lichtbildstelle - Wien. Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library - http://www.bildarchivaustria.at/TELRequest.aspx?p_ImageID=10827984. Public Domain - http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/


QuoteExplosives Abtlg.des Mob.Schanzzeugdepot 7.in St.Veit a.d.Glan. (Gesammtansicht.) 31/7.1917.
http://europeana.eu/portal/record/9200291/BibliographicResource_3000073605002.html. K.u.k. Kriegspressequartier, Lichtbildstelle - Wien. Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library - http://www.bildarchivaustria.at/TELRequest.aspx?p_ImageID=15801749. Public Domain - http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/


QuoteExplosives Abtlg.des Mob.Schanzzeugdepot 7.in a/d.Glan St.Veit. (Gesammtansicht.) 31/7.1917.
http://europeana.eu/portal/record/9200291/BibliographicResource_3000073605046.html. K.u.k. Kriegspressequartier, Lichtbildstelle - Wien. Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library - http://www.bildarchivaustria.at/TELRequest.aspx?p_ImageID=15802043. Public Domain - http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

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Inside of double page memorial card, folded open.

Josef Hartmann

Painter from Ergoldsbach.

Member of the 25th Infantry Regiment.

Served 14 months of active service.

Killed on July 25, 1917 after being struck by shrapnel while digging a trench.

He was 30 years old.


Front cover of card (right) and back cover of card (left) unfolded.


View of the town of Ergoldsbach, Germany from Kapellenberg ("chapel hill"). 
By LowerBavaria (talk) 08:55, 20 March 2009 (UTC) - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6282237








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The Chicago White Sox battled the Boston Red Sox for first place on August 1, 1917.  The visiting White Sox came out on top 4 to 0.  Pitcher Reb Russell was hot.
QuoteReb Russell had a great game, in addition to shutting out the Red Sox he also had two hits of his own, including one that hit the flagpole near where Jackson hit his home run. Russell was told not to run his hardest to save his energy for pitching so he settled for an RBI triple rather than an inside the park home run.

www.reddit.com/r/whitesox/comments/6qylmo/august_1_1917_jackson_knocks_em_out_and_russell/?st=j5tznjesh=e39fc3ec


Professional baseball player Reb Russell.
By C. T. Thoner - The Washington times, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=57463198




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From the Library of Congress.


QuotePhotograph shows the 22nd Engineers (name was later changed to 102nd Engineers, U.S. Army), preparing to depart from New York to Camp Wadsworth in Spartanburg, South Carolina, August 1, 1917. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)[/b]
https://www.loc.gov/item/ggb2006000470/


QuotePhotograph shows Captain George D, Snyder, commander of Company D of the 22nd Engineers (name was later changed to 102nd Engineers, U.S. Army), who left New York for Camp Wadsworth in Spartanburg, South Carolina on August 1, 1917. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)
https://www.loc.gov/item/ggb2006000469/


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From the Imperial War Museums.


QuoteBattle of Pilckem Ridge. Shell-carrying pack-horses splashing through the mud on a road north of Ypres, crossed by railway line, 1 August 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205237996


Quote12inch howitzer on railway mounting being loaded. Brielen, 1 August 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205239622


QuoteThe breech and a shell of a 12inch howitzer on railway mounting. Brielen, 1 August 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205239623


QuotePrivate Walter Sherry 66344. Unit: 12th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Death: 01 August 1917 Card lists as falling in action the same day as his brother.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205388564


QuotePrivate Albert George Sherry 235182. Unit: 17th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment). Death: 01 August 1917 Card lists as falling in action the same day as his brother.
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Rix Gins

From the Europeana Collections.


QuoteWaldemar Titzenthaler, the photographer, with his wife Olga and children Marba and Eckart in an open area.
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Rix Gins


Inside of double page memorial card, folded open.

Xaver Wolf

Farmer's son from the town of Predling. 

Sergeant with the 13th Bavarian Infantry Regiment, Company 1.

Holder of the Iron Cross, Second Class and the Merit Cross with Crown and Swords.

Died on July 27, 1917 as a result of a gas attack.

He was 29 years old.


Front cover of card (right) and back cover of card (left) unfolded.


Military Merit Cross 2nd class with crown and swords on ribbon for non combatant military officials.
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