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Roger Payne When I was on the Great War... 09-03-2018, 11:08 AM
Gil Boyd They are great those pieces... 09-03-2018, 11:26 AM
Roger Payne Cheers for looking Gil. I use... 09-03-2018, 11:41 AM
Gil Boyd Roger, As per PM if its of... 09-03-2018, 11:46 AM
Roger Payne Grateful for anything you can... 09-03-2018, 12:33 PM
mrclark303 Great image Roger, it's... 09-03-2018, 03:55 PM
obijohnkenobe I wonder if he was a survivor... 09-03-2018, 06:53 PM
Roger Payne Here's another one that never... 09-03-2018, 07:44 PM
Seaforth72 Library and Archives Canada... 09-04-2018, 03:05 AM
CINDERS Couple of pics of some... 09-04-2018, 03:17 AM
Gil Boyd Roger, Here are 50 pages on... 09-04-2018, 04:31 AM
Roger Payne Fascinating read Gil, even if... 09-04-2018, 05:21 AM
Gil Boyd Roger, Yes absolutely. He... 09-04-2018, 09:05 AM
Roger Payne Yes. I was also wondering if... 09-04-2018, 09:09 AM
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Roger Payne It's hard to make out a lot... 09-04-2018, 10:21 AM
Gil Boyd Interestingly, I found this... 09-04-2018, 10:36 AM
Surpmil Wrong McRae gents. ... 09-30-2018, 06:09 PM
Roger Payne Well done Sherlock! Thanks... 09-30-2018, 08:18 PM
Gil Boyd Guys, Meant to say a film... 10-01-2018, 03:34 AM
Surpmil I see there is some further... 10-02-2018, 12:32 AM
Roger Payne The walls of the tunnel... 10-02-2018, 04:23 AM
browningautorifle I think it was just the... 10-02-2018, 10:45 AM
Gil Boyd Roger, The scribbling of... 10-02-2018, 10:48 AM
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Daan Kemp I have found an absolute... 10-17-2018, 12:21 PM
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    The walls of the tunnel system are absolutely smothered in graffiti written by Britishicon & Dominion troops, but as mentioned when I started the thread a disproportionate amount seems to be Canadianicon. I don't know but it's likely that Canadian units must have been billeted in the vicinity when not in the line. (Or do you guys just like writing on walls?!?) The village is three or four miles behind the front line as it would have been in late summer/early autumn 1916. There are dates shown with a few, the ones I noticed being around August to October 1916, IIRC. At around this time the Canadian infantry were sustaining heavy losses, but gaining many plaudits for their success, in the taking of Courcelette, Destremont Farm, Regina Trench & thereabouts.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Roger Payneicon View Post
    Or do you guys just like writing on walls
    I think it was just the thought that so many had disappeared into anonymity and they wanted to leave a mark "I was here"... Some survived, some didn't. I saw the expose' on the dugouts and names carved and written in the chalk too...every unit known or thought of could be identified at a glance.
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    Roger,
    The scribbling of soldiers is timeless, and most likely, having contributed myself in some of the shitholes of the worlds, a way of informing those that follow that, "our" unit was there before them.
    In many of these special locations nevertheless, they are poems and odes and the names of those that knew the "writing was on the wall" which is where it came from WW1, that they were unlikely to survive.
    God bless them all.......................Lest We Forget!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gil Boyd View Post
    Roger,
    The scribbling of soldiers is timeless, and most likely, having contributed myself in some of the shitholes of the worlds, a way of informing those that follow that, "our" unit was there before them
    I take it as a former Para that your musings were scribbled in Crayon Gil?

    Think I'll retreat to the Sangar now and await the inevitable incoming rounds.

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