Les tranchées / the trenches

What is trou de marmite, abri, guetteur etc mean? and what do they look like?

I had a go translating from 🇫🇷 to 🇬🇧 in a 2 mins video, with some help from 315e RI orginal photos from 1915/16

Enjoy!

A remembrance project aimed at preserving the memory of soldiers from all nations who fell in the Ypres Salient during the Great War, the New Ypres League is based on the original Ypres League that was present in Ypres in the years after the First World War.

Episode on the New Ypres League with Roger Steward & Prof Mark Connelly, out now:

patreon.com/posts/new-ypre…

“I’ve no space in my luggage for books.”

- Me, before #SMH2024 🤣

Fantastic talks this morning at #SMH2024 . 😎

Lovely day to visit Pershing Park. (Music choice in the background not mine. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

The Commander-in-Chief.*

*of the AEF. Complicated guy. Doing everything for just about the first time.

Lovely day to see Pershing Park & the new WW1 memorial.

Ooh—I’m in the back. (Rather like in high school.)

In this transcribed Dispatches Podcast, the late Rob Thompson discusses his interest in #WW1 and logistics. He focuses on the events at Messines and Third Ypres in 1917, as well as the Somme and the retreat to the Hindenburg Line. Listen here > bit.ly/3e6FKZu
#WW1 History

#SMH2024 Been waiting for this one. 😃

Excellent talk by Mark R. Folse on JRR Tolkien’s kids’ effect on his writing. A pleasure to listen to. #SMH2024

Well-researched and really engaging talk by Michael Terry on Richthofen, his representation in British press, and lasting perceptions of fighter pilots. #SMH2024

Looking forward to SMH Historians 2024 conference. 😊

Today is publication day for my first book and a package arrived LSE International History from Cambridge University Press containing my author copies of Making Sense of the Great War.

There is a spare one.

So, in true Twitter style, I will send it to someone who likes + RTs this in the next seven days.

Deja vu all over again. That could be the Argonne in 1916.