"It is estimated that over 165,000 Commonwealth soldiers are still unaccounted for on the Western Front."

Daaaaaannng.

Strange the article didnt mention that the road builders surrendered to the soldiers before alerting authorities o their find.

So they had a war where the first thing they had you do is dig your grave and wait in it...

Well, we really dodged a bullet this time, but the season's gonna end sooner or later.

'aye 'av a cunning plan, Sir... But unfortunately, we need a goat. And there's just one problem, we NEED a goat...

Hmm. Wonder if one of them wasn't my great-grandma's brother. I know he died fighting for the heroic Germans against the evil and belligerent English pig-dogs but I'm unsure of the circumstances.

Not amused.

When I started reading the headline, I thought it was going to be "French roadbuilders find 21 German WWI bombs" or something similar. This happens a lot more often than people realize. The French demineurs remove almost 1000 tons of unexploded ordnance every year; the farmers refer to shells that they plow up as the "iron harvest".

21:1, lucky goat she was.

It happened in france.

/beware of france

That was my grandfather's war.

2wolves: "Building tool: A large hammer (left) that archaeologists believe was used to help dig the trench network"

When I think of digging tools a hammer leaps to mind.

Maybe to drive reinforcing pylons in the ground. To hold the earth back from collapsing into the trench when it rains.

Ahhh...dis whar es 'ell on airth

I'm sure most wars are hell. But ww1 has to be one of the worst to fight in.

ghare: "It is estimated that over 165,000 Commonwealth soldiers are still unaccounted for on the Western Front."

Daaaaaannng.

To say that the Western Front was a bit of meat grinder is an understatement.

I bet that goat had a sore asshloe.

This one looks like a coinpurse and coins, but I don't think steel was much used for coinage then.

"archaeologists are still trying to work out what the item on the right is"

It's a coin purse.

Or a street light.

Yaxe: ghare: "It is estimated that over 165,000 Commonwealth soldiers are still unaccounted for on the Western Front."

Daaaaaannng.

To say that the Western Front was a bit of meat grinder is an understatement.

All Quiet on the Western Front (new window)brings back some thoughts. Kinda like Das Boot.

The roadbuilders surrendered on the spot, right?

Hey conductor!
What place is this? Where are we now??

What an amazing find, thank you subby,

Black Adder (new window) Obligatory. Gulp.

stuhayes2010: I'm sure most wars are hell. But ww1 has to be one of the worst to fight in.


35 million deaths. About 10 million from disease.

Yaxe: To say that the Western Front was a bit of meat grinder is an understatement.

My grandfather and six of his friends were the only survivors out of a battalion of 600.

I.D. of the guy who was thrown down the stairs in the "foetal" position?



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Coelacanth: Yaxe: To say that the Western Front was a bit of meat grinder is an understatement.

My grandfather and six of his friends were the only survivors out of a battalion of 600.

Wow. That was only a 1% chance you are even here.

Amos Quito: stuhayes2010: I'm sure most wars are hell. But ww1 has to be one of the worst to fight in.


35 million deaths. About 10 million from disease.

One of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century. If it weren't for that, maybe some of the other bad things in the decades since could have been avoided. No Russian Revolution - at least not the Communist one, no rise of Hitler, no carving up of the Ottoman Empire into such an unstable mess.

And all because the Austro Hungarian Empire wanted to flez muscle and be dicks to the Serbs.

And now for a definition of "intact" that is completely different.


A rifle (left) lies intact after a century underground,

Delay: Coelacanth: Yaxe: To say that the Western Front was a bit of meat grinder is an understatement.

My grandfather and six of his friends were the only survivors out of a battalion of 600.

Wow. That was only a 1% chance you are even here.

Given the sheer volume of cock his grandmother was getting at the time, I'd peg the odds way lower. That he was even white is a small miracle.

sblocal: Strange the article didnt mention that the road builders surrendered to the soldiers before alerting authorities o their find.

Wrong war.
They fought like mofos in this one.

thisispete: Amos Quito: stuhayes2010: I'm sure most wars are hell. But ww1 has to be one of the worst to fight in.


35 million deaths. About 10 million from disease.

One of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century. If it weren't for that, maybe some of the other bad things in the decades since could have been avoided. No Russian Revolution - at least not the Communist one, no rise of Hitler, no carving up of the Ottoman Empire into such an unstable mess.


Yeah, there was a lot of behind-the-scenes skulduggery going on in all of that, and as you imply, we're still feeling the repercussions today.

Coelacanth: That was my grandfather's war.

Mine also. He worked in communications which consisted pretty much of two phones and a strand of wire from what I've gathered.

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This one looks like a coinpurse and coins, but I don't think steel was much used for coinage then.

I'm thinking lots of things came in little tins back then. 10cm = 3.93 inches which totally changed the scale of what I thought I was seeing.

I have a to know, what is a drinks cup?

These men are my heroes.

you build miles of trenches. do they call you a master trench builder?

you shoot many of the enemy. do they call you a great soldier?

cross no man's land. do they remember you as a lucky man?

but you die with some of your mates and a goat...

21 soldiers, 1 goat.

The use of scale in those pictures is odd.. maybe they were a race of giants?!