rewdco Posted June 13, 2023 Share Posted June 13, 2023 Nice postcard, taken during the "siege of Antwerp" at the trainstation in Ghent. From Wikipedia: The siege of Antwerp (Dutch: Beleg van Antwerpen, French: Siège d'Anvers, German: Belagerung von Antwerpen) was an engagement between the German and the Belgian, British and French armies around the fortified city of Antwerp during World War I. German troops besieged a garrison of Belgian fortress troops, the Belgian field army and the British Royal Naval Division in the Antwerp area, after the German invasion of Belgium in August 1914. The city, which was ringed by forts known as the National Redoubt, was besieged to the south and east by German forces. The Belgian forces in Antwerp conducted three sorties in late September and early October, which interrupted German plans to send troops to France, where reinforcements were needed to counter the French armies and the British Expeditionary Force (BEF). A German bombardment of the Belgian fortifications with heavy and super-heavy artillery began on 28 September. The Belgian garrison had no hope of victory without relief; despite the arrival of the Royal Naval Division beginning on 3 October, the Germans penetrated the outer ring of forts. When the German advance began to compress a corridor from the west of the city along the Dutch border to the coast, through which the Belgians at Antwerp had maintained contact with the rest of unoccupied Belgium, the Belgian Field Army commenced a withdrawal westwards towards the coast. On 9 October, the remaining garrison surrendered, the Germans occupied the city and some British and Belgian troops escaped to the Netherlands to the north and were interned for the duration of the war. Belgian troops from Antwerp withdrew to the Yser river, close to the French border and dug in, to begin the defence of the last unoccupied part of Belgium and fought the Battle of the Yser against the German 4th Army in October and November 1914. The Belgian Army held the area until late in 1918, when it participated in the Allied liberation of Belgium.[a] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Citroman Posted June 14, 2023 Share Posted June 14, 2023 Here several captured renault tanks in 1940. The square i have seen before might be St .Quentin?? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Citroman Posted June 14, 2023 Share Posted June 14, 2023 And an other monster...Lanz 1914 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rewdco Posted June 15, 2023 Share Posted June 15, 2023 On 6/14/2023 at 8:37 AM, Citroman said: Here several captured renault tanks in 1940. The square i have seen before might be St .Quentin?? It's actually Hazebrouck town square... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Citroman Posted June 15, 2023 Share Posted June 15, 2023 (edited) OK thanks. I passed Hazebrouck several times but never was on the town square. Edited June 15, 2023 by Citroman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andypugh Posted June 15, 2023 Share Posted June 15, 2023 23 minutes ago, rewdco said: It's actually Hazebrouck town square... https://goo.gl/maps/nF7weBWW8GvsbXSJ6 How did you work that out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rewdco Posted June 15, 2023 Share Posted June 15, 2023 This picture (and similar pictures) appear in every Wehrmacht album. It is well known within the May 1940 fraternity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Citroman Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 Did see this in a destroyed village near the Verdun battlefield. A club had exposed all kinds of stuff found in the rubble. See the pick axe twisted by a grenade explosion. Later this week i found this barbed wire pin lying along a field. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Citroman Posted July 9, 2023 Share Posted July 9, 2023 Did see this for sale on ebay germany but helas rather expensive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rewdco Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 The picture with the Clynos is well known, but I hadn't seen the other one yet... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andypugh Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 The engine in the "Captured English motor tug for large guns that got stuck in the water" looks interesting, almost like 4 separate engines in a row. (I am familiar with single-cast cylinders, this looks to be wider spaced than that) I guess it's a 15 ton Holt, but the engine looks different to other photos I can see online. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War truck Posted July 24, 2023 Author Share Posted July 24, 2023 It is a Holt 120, like this one: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andypugh Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 Right, 6 cylinders, but 4 exhausts. That was what was confusing me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bill Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 This shows the exhaust arrangement a bit better: 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Citroman Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 Did find this lead WW1 toy today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rewdco Posted September 21, 2023 Share Posted September 21, 2023 Just found these on an auction site: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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rewdco Posted September 28, 2023 Share Posted September 28, 2023 eBay find: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rewdco Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 Belgian Minerva ambulance during the 1930's 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Citroman Posted November 7, 2023 Share Posted November 7, 2023 French army truck with a strange little tractor and a gun. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cel Posted November 8, 2023 Share Posted November 8, 2023 It looks like a Cletrac, could be a very early one. There are some differences with this one: https://ww1photographs.wordpress.com/2013/04/21/cletrac-tractor-1917/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Citroman Posted November 8, 2023 Share Posted November 8, 2023 Hi Marcel, looks like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Peskett Posted November 10, 2023 Share Posted November 10, 2023 A couple of Cleveland/Cletrac images , a bonus with the Pinders Circus image with a FWD in background. Richard Peskett. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Citroman Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 Nice the upper tractor has some arabic script on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Citroman Posted November 16, 2023 Share Posted November 16, 2023 Latil TAR with chain drive. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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