richman888
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Apr 18, 2020 6:37 AM
richman888
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spaceonionfarmer
I got married up there.
BovrilOnToast
Check out The Great War. Incredible project. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB2vhKMBjSxO1lsrC98VOyOzfW0Gn8Tga
BladeSmithSapper
CTL v, works great!
znayesh
Beware of an old man in a profession where men die young
PantherMedic
Like the Accrington Pals. All from the same town, started with 700 at the Somme. Nearly 600 dead or wounded within the span of 20 minutes.
Jorwhore
Now let's do a silly picture.
VultureTX
That new Mount & Blade Bannerlords patch is really murder on the troops when assaulting a castle.
PCskele
God bless the Highlanders!
parasP6rsas
Where have all the young men gone?
iamwang
My troops after sieging a castle in Bannerlord
Sayagain
Did they win?
pc832pc832
Why do people insist of forging material to pass off as legit just to get a post noticed? How needy are you in real life?
ReneDeGames
This posting has deprived it of context, but the edit was meant to show the (real) losses for the unit, not intended to be a real picture.
DownvotesRmyBadgeUvadge
Trees at the right and grass in foreground are identical in both photos.
vanderzee
also the car is in the exact same position on both photos, and the shadow from the men in the front, rear men shadows are projected wrong.
Silverboon
War. War never changes.
DewiMorgan
Coronavirus?
Cuummiess
Nice Photoshop
ReneDeGames
This posting has deprived it of context, but the edit was meant to show the (real) losses for the unit, not intended to be a real picture.
OdeToBouncer
Edinburgh Castle?
FFeather
Edinburgh castle.
twisster76
They must have been essential
tatt2br1an
The bushes in the background are exactly the same, I mean nothing is different about them at all! These are the same two pics
SmolTenk
Thats true,but the debunking site posted above points out that 27 men and one officer -as depicted- were left of that unit by christmas 1914
Showsni
It's not a real photo, but it's an accurate infographic of the losses sustained.
Rijtjeshuis
The regimental system worked so that most people in a given regiment were from one town. One bad battle and all a town's men were gone.
HolyShitDudeCalmDown
Gordon Highlanders. Edinburgh Castle.
tumppu
Which regiment would that be?
ChimingIn
Any Cadian regiment.
halfwindsor
First Battalion, the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders
HolyShitDudeCalmDown
Pretty sure it was the Gordon Highlanders.
learntotakejoke
The Highland, can't you read guy?!
steve1907
No it's not, tired old fake, been exposed many times.
DontTouchMyHoHos
Thing is the numbers in the photo represent the numbers unscathes. It may be a photo showing uninjured. If thats the csse it isnt fake
SmolTenk
The photo is fake the message isnt.By christmas of 1914 27 rank and file and one officer were left (as depicted in the photoshopped version)
RackhamTheRed
Now do one with the Romanovs
treefcknfiddy
Too soon
RackhamTheRed
Pfff. Shoot me
hezroncarverofgravenimages
https://hoaxeye.com/2018/12/02/cameron-highlanders-1914/
omuaomua
just check, if photoshopped at fotoforensics.com... you can see the edits below /4dPrEoT
richman888
Thanks
PatrikLilja
According to the book 27 men and one officer survived. While the second photo might be doctored. It show the real number of survivors.
hezroncarverofgravenimages
BishlamekGurpgork
The photo is fake, but the number is accurate, at least.
ClownSteakTasteFunny
Men who had been in the trenches and was sent home on leave found it hard to wash the smell of the trench of them >
ClownSteakTasteFunny
< even after having a long shower and really washing themselves, they would still smell of mud, gas and decay. I can't remember where >
ClownSteakTasteFunny
< I read this, but the story is about two soldiers home on leave being thrown out of a restaurant because the other quests were gagging.
RawSuger
its amazing the advances in military camouflage and other technologies made during wars
MrBoopleSnootFluffkins
WW1 certainly had advances. Started on horse back, ended with tanks. What's that, tanks? You're welcome!
gwhh
That a good one.
OhmyBandit
Askingforafriend37
I want this gif reversed...
MillerLitesaber
Don’t one of you say a DAMN word
deathsausage
Too soon dude
OngoGoblogianTheArtCollector
it's been 100 years
RazzleDazzle69
DownvoteAllYouWantImstillRight
101*
OngoGoblogianTheArtCollector
I'm not counting the gas leak year
Jordinatinglybeautiful
Edinburgh Castle. It hasn’t changed much
Apollo42
Just to the left of the castle down those rocks was one of the first places to be blizzed by Zeppelin, place called the grass market.
ReturnoftheZombiePlagueApocalypse
It's in colour now.......
Rehjee
Pauly79
Loved Edinburgh when we went. Definitely a beautiful city and culture and the people were extremely welcoming.
Jordinatinglybeautiful
I live in Edinburgh and there are two people who live here that are the fucking coolest, handsomest in the world, and I’m both of them.
yourlocaleconomicsnerd
Oh, yeah? I live there too. Let us engage in mutual hatred of the tram delays and general quality of the road surface.
Askingforafriend37
Y’all live in a city that’s uphill in every direction. How- and why is it built like that?
Askingforafriend37
Side note: in Edinburgh, every day is leg day.
ElroydIsGone
As someone already pointed out: The 2nd photo is fake, but the 27 men + one officer is what was remained unscathed at xmas 1914 (!) already.
gwhh
So the photo should say. August 1914 till Xmas of 1914?
HumfreeBugart
The intention was to show the losses suffered by the Cameron Highlanders in first 6 months of WW1. How the photo was edited is irrelevant
Rehjee
"That" the photo was edited is relevant, but just as a clarification that it was edited.
5minutekebab
The photoshopped picture is accurate in that it shows 27 soldiers and one officer. Perhaps it was created as a representation.
cousteau
So it's fake as in shopped, but not fake as in lying
ElroydIsGone
Yes, and apparently, the truth was even much bleaker than the caption of the pic here (which said 1919 of the 2nd one).
IWishIHadABetterNickName
Yeah looking at the tress they are the same
ElbowDeepInAPoliceState
Unscathed doesn't necessarily mean the rest died. Injured and captured would make up a good chunk
Peynus
Well, I was hoping for something bright, like 'that was the dudes who wanted a picture of only their buddies'. Fuck
DemSumBigAssRidges
Sadly, the most pleasant way to describe WW1 is "a human meat grinder."
NotNotDeadpool
WWI didn't have a happy ending. Even the end of the war caused a lot of bitterness. And technically every war since then.
FiendishDoctorWuTangClan
Turns out there weren't a ton of bright spots from WW1. Weird
Darkspire
Fortunately it was the war to end all wars, so that's the end of it
FiendishDoctorWuTangClan
Well glad that rough business is out of the way
agonarch
This Hitler fellow was a bit of a worry, but it's OK chaps, he signed this 'I won't keep attacking places' document!
Aquilarden
Bent double like old beggars under sacks, knock kneed, coughing like hags we cursed through sludge.
FiendishDoctorWuTangClan
Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori
superanth
That war was a grinder. There were no tactics to deal with machine guns and massed artillery, so they just threw waves of men at them.
PicassoCT
The american civil war already forshadowed this. Nobody in europe learned a thing.
NacLac
The US also had a higher causality count due to lack of bayonet use compared to European wars of the time
PicassoCT
There was a english cavalary unit that recieved one of the first machine guns. They did a manouver with in that constellation pre-war.
PicassoCT
The cavalary charged and the machine gun guy fired blanks. At the post-manouver talk, he said he would have killed them all.
PicassoCT
Leader of the cavalary had him walk home that evening, for "noone that low on honor, deserves to ride a horse."
LasciviousHedgehog
Weirdly it was the reverse in practice, when US units joined the front later in the war they tried 1914 tactics as opposed to 1917 tactics
PicassoCT
If anyone romaticizes the military, its the brass.
Levitus
Same thing happened in WW2. See "the Second Happy Time," a period of prosperity for U-boat captains brought about by American ignorance.
Thefear1984
I can only imagine how long it took knights to realize war had changed due to the gun. Everyone carried noble ideals around for so long>
Beelsebooob
That moment when someone discovers gunpowder in civ, and destroys 3 other civilisations over night.
HolyOldMackinaw
armored cavalry (cuirassiers) were a decisive force well into the 19th century. Knights just became another component of the army.
StuieG
Didn't the crossbow screw the knights ?
fusselwurm
more importantly, pike tactics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pike_square
Thefear1984
Longbow, Pike, and Crossbow took commoners to battle and were defeating knights galore. Gunpowder was around since the 1300s
Thefear1984
that got horses and people slaughtered in WW1, its almost a looking glass into the military hierarchy not willing to adapt new tactics. >
Thefear1984
Look how long it took for the tank to actually be accepted, even then it took the back seat most of the war.
Odballl
It was a piece of junk and a deathtrap that kept breaking down. Tanks weren't that useful until they improved them in the final year or so.
HolyOldMackinaw
Not true, they developed a variety of different tactics. Creeping barrages, bite and hold, mixed weapon platoons, defense-in depth, etc
tehguldincalk
The French in particular developed equipment specifically to deal with MG nests. Chauchat to suppress, rifle grenades to destroy, etc.
Mooseheart
Yes but it didnt change much. Every offensive still had massive casualties and then got bogged down and stalled.
HolyOldMackinaw
1 Not true. C&C was tough so objectives had to be limited and no breakthrough could be achieved or exploited. But your original comment was
HolyOldMackinaw
2 that they simply resorted to throwing masses of men at artillery and machineguns through the whole war, where in fact they were constantly