wow I would love to see that
I’ve studied WWII extensively, WWI is just too grim.
Is he Buck Rogers ?
Pics at the link and a link there to a Tweet with more pics.
Sadly there is a mlitary coat badly deteriorating from just time and air (and probably moths),
If they are to preserve that and other organic materials someone will have to “touch” it and put them in glass with nitrogen. Also no flash photography.
>>That is where you will discover the home of the parents of Hubert Guy Pierre Alphonse Rochereau.
they must be ancient today
I found your link did not work.
here is one that works
https://www.theblaze.com/news/wwi-soldiers-bedroom-untouched-1918
Unfortunately I was too young to appreciate him when he died and now I have so many questions I would like to ask him if he were still around.
Studied WWII most of my life. I learn new things all of the time. Very hard to read about WWI. War started by the bullet of a socialist assassin, trained by a secret service. The massive loss of life, the repeated command failures, the weapons far advanced of tactics, left a bloodbath that’s just hard to comprehend.
My Father was told from childhood never to go fight in a war. His father had gone AWOL and escaped conscription in the Italian army before WWII and fled across the new border to Austria and finally to the United States to avoid another European war. He was against any service for any army, although his brothers all participated in the Yugoslavian resistance against the NAZI’s. His brother, my great Uncle was caught, nearly died in captivity in a NAZI work ‘camp’. I was told in childhood to never voluntarily serve. I thought it was the Vietnam war, but the family history was far deeper....
My father was visiting a museum in now day Slovenia, he saw a picture of his Grandfather at the end of WWI. He did not know that he had been in the Austrian army. He had fought the entire White War in the mountains with the Austrian army. His photo, in his uniform, was the last exhibit in the museum. It wasn’t until my Father read about he White War, that he realized why the family was so against it all.
At this point, somewhere deep in my blood, I can smell a fascist. Hitler, Mussolini, modern Democrats (and their deep state operatives, you can just feel it. The ‘communists’ are really no better. I hope and pray that the voices of the dead scream out to people not to make the same mistakes and choices. War is hell.....but fascism and socialism are actually worse and always lead to War.
Sorry for the long ramble.
In 1930 a British author coined the term 'thankful village'. This was a city, town, village, or hamlet that did not lose any of their sons to the war. In all the United Kingdom, in all those thousands of incorporated area, only 53 were identified as Thankful Villages. All were in England, none were in Scotland or Wales or Ireland. Following World War 2 a second survey identified 17 of those as doubly thankful in that they also didn't lose anyone in World War 2.
A similar survey was conducted in France. The total number of Thankful Villages there? One.
Miss Haversham.
“...I imagine him to be quite provincial, perhaps even narrow-minded...”
Daniel Fabre sounds like the typical product of 21st century Europe. He’s not fit to carry Hubert Rochereau’s water, much less smoke his cigarettes.
Interesting commentary.
In my youth, I knew a friend of my father who volunteered in the Canadian medical corps before we got into WWI. In summer he operated a floating refreshment stand on the Potomac River. I saw huge scars on his legs. My mother told me he was released from service because he went kind of nuts stacking up corpses during the Spanish flu epidemic.
Both my parents were born in 1918. Bless their souls.
Things in the old country endure. Not so much here. Most things are temporary and not built or intended to last.
Untouched? The dust must be several inches deep by now!
The carnage among junior infantry officers was beyond appalling all war long - they were the first to go. I don’t think a graduate of St. Cyr would be all that provincial, actually, but he would certainly have been a man of his time, one central belief of whose was that the soil of his country was sacred and worth dying to protect from a foreigner (particularly that foreigner). Contrast that with the No Borders cultists of today and you’ll see what I mean.
What an ass. Typical of liberals who think they can glance at a person's circumstances and make all kinds of conclusions about them, their thoughts, and feelings.