Posted on 05/08/2020 5:26:26 AM PDT by C19fan
Two brothers from Boston, Lincolnshire, built an incredible, full-scale Second World War trench and bunker in their back garden during lockdown. Alfie Oglesbee, nine, and his big brother Jacob, 11, decided to construct their amazing creation just in time for the 75th anniversary of VE Day. The pair both love learning about the Second World War so they decided to find out all they could about the life of the soldiers and recreate it.
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My recollection of the tales of WWII does not involve trenches.
Am I forgetting something?
Most useful in an artillery front? Not as common in war today? Trenches/foxholes still useful in static situation which did occur on occasion.
www.hardscrabblefarm.com/ww2/foxholes.htm
interesting comments here on origination of the term fox hole. https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/238542-foxhole-was-the-term-used-in-the-great-war/
and the boys can now celebrate VE Day properly on Friday, May 8.
When I was about that age, I tried to dig a big hole in the backyard for some reason or another. The clay was so thick I got about three feet and gave up.
There was a kid in my neighborhood who apparently had a habit of digging holes too. I knew him but never knew about the hole habit until after he killed his sister and buried her in one of them.
What a horrible time to graduate and enter the work force. 15 to 20 million got let go last month.
Best of luck to your son finding work. There’s no justice when he devoted so many years defending us (thanks for that!) and now this.
Battle Boy grabs
His sisters
Barbie’s and it
Goes Really Sideways!
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Good Times,
Good Times.
That is exactly how one of my dad’s close friends lost his son around age 13. It was really tragic.
Thankfully, the trench these young lads built isn’t very deep.
Horror movie plot. Poor sister!
Yea, it was bizarre. As I recall, he bludgeoned her then stabbed himself to throw off suspicion. That worked for about two whole minutes.
He got life in the loony bin for that. Their parents were also real victims.
My husband had friend whose dad let them do EVERYTHING from tree houses to pits to battles with wooden swords. Husband broke his leg there and his sister broke her arm. They had a blast.
After one battle brother one placed his foot on the chest and raising his wooden sword to the sky. Three of five kids went into the military.
Boy on the right appears he is about to commit suicide.
Speaking as an Underground Electrical worker Compete Man I have to say that this is a great way to lose your kids. Those trenches back in the day were shored up.
25000.00 fine if I did this back in the day.
COMPETENT MAN
“When I was about that age, I tried to dig a big hole in the backyard for some reason or another.”
Same here. I loved to dig holes for some reason. Around 10 years of age a friend and I dug a hole about 6-7 feet deep-it became an obsession. About a week it took us. At the bottom of the hole we made a tunnel attempt-went in horizontal about 3 feet until my dad saw what we were doing and about had a heart attack. Had a neighbor with a backhoe come up and cover it up that night.
I have seen it happen in my life. A trench collapse doesn’t have to bury a person completely under. If it came to a height of the lower chest, the pressure from surrounding soil would crush the air out of a grown man, let alone a child.
Construction companies drag ‘mules’ through the trenches to protect workers.
‘You need a panty check’ or the like is the common remark until a life is snuffed out. Then, it is replaced by, ‘I had no idea it could happen!’
Quite well done!
I grew up on an air force base and we used to play war with BB guns and water balloons. Rules were you could never aim at the head with your BB gun and the water balloons were grenades.
We would climb on the roofs of houses and any tree insight. We probably had at least 20 kids playing and you had to stay within two blocks of base. We played for hours and wear camo and fight until the last person was still alive or when the street lights would turn on, then it was time to go home and eat.
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