Rlangham

Tim, shall I ask the guy in my group who has the cloth board and see where you can get them from?

Oooh, lovely - I like it! Very nice on the eyes

Thanks for the comments guys, and for the photos - next up after doing a sign with my WW1 groups name on it is this one for the Lewis gun position

Oh, and that's a brodie helmet, not a Chinese coolie hat

This is my first attempt at a trench sign for the Old Contemptibles display. Pleased with the outcome, i'll be making a few more signs for the OC's display, plus if anyone else wants some making i'd be happy to oblige for a reasonable price

For those that don't know the significance of Filbert Street, it's where the Leicester City Football Club ground was from 1891 up until 2002

One of the Old Contemptible's tents, including Pete's fantastic inflatable officers pillow

This is the last batch of photos (except for those of Polygon Wood which i'll put up in a new thread), most of the remainders are similar to those already put up, so if anyone wants any photos of themself, let me know, i'll have a look and then e-mail you any I find.

I've included some photos from the museum - for those that haven't been, I highly reccommend it, in my opinion it was better than the Imperial War Museum

Selection of Belgian personal armour

Oh yeah, very illegal, as was all gambling - typically one tommy would have the game cloth, and the other with the dice, so if one of them was collared and had it taken off him, then there was still another half of the game left.

A symbol on one die - pays evens

A pair - pays twice

Three of a kind - pays three times

The banker takes all bets on losing squares, so the odds are always in the bankers favour

If anyone 'oop North' is interested in seeing a small scale, but quality, WW1 event they could do worse than going along to the Barnsley Pals Tribute Event being staged on the site of the Pals original training camp at Silkstone, nr Barnsley. Some slight traces of the original camp survive. Unfortunately it is the same weekend as Wings and Wheels at Elvington May 10/11th. All gate proceeds to Ex -Service Charities. £2.50 per head to get in.

I'll be at Barnsley as a Lewis gunner again, should have a bit of a diorama there with our display - watch out for my yellow flashes on my jacket

Whilst in Belgium last weekend, I was extremely lucky enough to be given a flight in a Stampe SV.4 OO-PWA at Moorslede airfield. During the flight, we flew over Polygon Wood, scene of fierce fighting in the 3rd Battle of Ypres in late 1917, and also Zonnebeke where a WW1 living history event was being held

Zonnebeke church

Zonnebeke Chateau and lake

Polygon Wood

Polygon Wood Cemetery

Crown and Anchor game

Dirck about to lob some stick grenades at us

Me and my Lewis post

Middlesex Regiment after their march to Tyne Cot and back, well done guys, hope to join you next time

I say, who are those three really small people that look like Pete and John from the OC's, and Malcolm from the GWS?

Fantastic MG08

Lewis gun innards in the museum

My Lewis post (I think Zonnebeke this year was 'year of the Lewis' for us Brits)

Meg the mule, one of my favourite displays

Australian Light Horse, cracking guys

Cooling fins and barrel of a Lewis gun

1918 Vickers on a 1915 tripod

Here's the first part of my photos from a brilliant weekend, going to be a very large thread i'm afraid as took over 300 photos

Middlesex Regiment

"Right, now what do I do?!"

Martin teaching me how to strip the Lewis gun

One of the Old Contemptible's Lewis's (Lewii? :lol: )

'Genevieve' was a Darracq - she was incorrectly rebuilt shortly before the film, but the owners have kept her in her film appearance as that's what it's most famous for. The other one was a Spyker. Went to the 2007 London to Brighton run and there must have been at least 50 De Dion Boutons. I reckon the middle one's a Bugatti, but apart from that I have no idea

Found this posted on the WW1 re-enactors forum, looks brilliant

http://p1917a.blogspot.com/

Indeed - it's the part of the movie where Biggles and his American friend go back in time with a stolen police helicopter (after escaping armed police), and destroy the secret German sound weapon! Great movie I thought, the aerial scenes were pretty good too

Put that man on a CHARGE,........Sgt Major:...........Improperly Dressed;..........Top Button undone...............

 

 

Great Shots, Rlangham.

 

Andy

Ah, but that's so I can get my gas hood on quickly! (Although looking at the photos, I didn't have mine with me, oops) Luckily the wool didn't get too wet, I hate the smell of wet wool! Off to Belgium in a week for a large WWI living history event which should be fantastic (although not looking forward to the 6am four mile march to Tyne Cot Cemetery!)

Soldier of Fortune do a similar tankers helmet, go into 'US WWII' then 'Headwear' then 'Helmets'

http://www.sofmilitary.co.uk/reenactors/index.asp

I've always fancied his beard myself, but it'd be rather hot when it starts getting warmer.... plus i'd look a berk

Bah, foiled! I quite enjoyed it actually, got it in the post this afternoon and already managed to watch it twice. As for the Dodge, well, I am studying Aviation Management......

Having a struggle trying to identify this motorcycle used in the filming of 'The Blue Max' - i've ruled out Triumph model H, Clyno, Douglas and Phelon & Moore, i'm currently thinking BSA or Enfield? BSA's seemed to have a thick black ring several inches away from the tire inbetween the spokes though

Cheers, Rob

Alright chaps and chapettes - the what, where and why of this one - This isn't a doctored photo!

The winner gets the pleasure of having me in the passenger seat of their MV (Or driving seat, depending how adventurous you're feeling)

Do you know what Zep raid it was, Snapper? Since moving to London i've developed a large interest in Zeppelin/Gotha/Zeppelin Staaken (giant bombers) raids on London and the UK as a whole - in the past two days alone i've bought another book, a 1/72 scale Gotha bomber, a cartoon postcard and a genuine 1916 newspaper featuring the Zeppelin that was brought down over Potters Bar

Think they might have - that hangar is long gone! It looks like a triple bay hangar, and the surviving ones at Hendon are double bays - haven't actually seen any photos of a triple bay hangar at Hendon, but it was a very very big site. Nice photo though, i'll try and find a photo of a triple bay hangar (that could be one of the Grahame-White hangars, and there's a large drawing of most of the site in the Grahame-White factory hangar)

Thanks for the update, looking forward to the next one, couldn't believe it when you told me it's coming to Gods back garden upon completion (ie Leicestershire)

Focke Wulf 190 and Junkers 88 - i'm willing to bet it's a nightfighter version, and possibly the one sitting 200metres away from me at the RAF Museum which ended up in Scotland by a defecting German crew. These two would be part of the Air Fighting Development Unit (AFDU) which evaluated captured German aircraft. One AFDU unit was based at Duxford for a while