#wwi

[my-darling-boy]

Source: I was there

[theworldofwars]

Christmas Dinner 1916 At the Front, Canadian Expeditionary Force From the collection of William McLellan

[fictionadventurer]

Fun Catholic Lord of the Rings trivia for you:

Tolkien had a devotion to St. John the Evangelist (which should not have been surprising, given his name).

Traditionally, the symbol of St. John the Evangelist is an eagle.

There's no indication it's intentional allegory, but it does add a very cool layer to those scenes.

[captain-price-unofficially]

French cavalry with their trench donkey, Somme, 16 Sept 1916

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[cirr0stratus]

Erich Maria Remarque you have ruined me

[yeoldenews]

A selection of emojis from a love letter written in 1916.

The final one appears to have been the author's favorite as he wrote: "I'm particularly proud of this one - It looks so natural. Bless its 'ittle 'eart-"

[sogekii-heii]

some wwi fruk redraws - references under the cut

[asidian]

One of the things I love so much about Dead Boy Detectives is how much attention is paid to detail, even on little things, even when they didn't need to go that hard.

Take the very first case. This WWI ghost?

Was killed by chemical warfare.

If you've done any reading on WWI, one of things that comes up again and again was that it was the first major conflict where chemical warfare and gas attacks were employed against soldiers on the ground.

Soldiers on both sides were terrified by it. They had gas masks with them all the time, when there were enough to go around, but sometimes the gas masks failed.

And if someone was hit by a gas attack, what were some of the symptoms? Blistered skin, blisters in the lungs, and irritated eyes, up to and including blindness.

This man was killed by a gas attack, probably mustard gas, and likely when his gas mask failed.

They never mention it in the dialogue. Maybe Edwin and Charles don't even know.

But the show runners did the research and designed his makeup accordingly and slipped in that little nod for anyone who knows the history.

God damn. This series was made with so much care, and it shows.

[lionofchaeronea]

Men of the 369th Infantry Regiment, informally dubbed the "Harlem Hellfighters," pose for a picture. The Hellfighters were initially part of the American Expeditionary Force sent to fight on the Western Front in WWI. In April 1918, due to racist attitudes among the American high command, they were separated from the AEF and assigned to the French 4th Army. Fighting under French command both in the trenches and in the open field, the Hellfighters distinguished themselves at the Battle of the Meuse-Argonne. Their continuous six-month deployment was the longest of any American unit. Following the armistice, the French government awarded the Croix de Guerre to 170 members of the Hellfighters, including all nine men pictured here, for courage in combat.

[my-darling-boy]

Somehow my signaller idea turned into an old Saturday Evening Post cover. Why is a British soldier on an American magazine, We Don’t Know

[madnessofmen]

perfectly heterosexual man

[catsofyore]

Young soldier posing with kitten. 1916. Source.

[captain-price-unofficially]

Munitions manufactory worker, England, 1915-16

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My I ❤ TRENCH WARFARE shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

[cirr0stratus]

Siegfried Sassoon, counter attack