burried in france since ww1 thought it was intresting

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2099187/Bodies-21-German-soldiers-buried-alive-WW1-trench-perfectly-preserved-94-years-later.html
 
Amazing to see the leather equipment relatively intact after all this. I wonder if there is an artillery luger in that holster?

It is good to see the site taken care of and the soldiers given proper burials. It makes you wonder how many more sites like this one are scattered around France and Belgium.
 
They are still to this day opening sites in France where the coats are hanging on the pegs and rifles are stacked against the wall. Watch the History channel later this year for an exclusive on opening of one the Canadian WW I trenches.
A regular contributor on this site is heavily involved in these projects in France.
An acquaintance in France has discovered the remains of a V-1 launching site on his family farm. It had just become overgrown with bush and trees. The marquis, at the end of the war, had blown up part of it but several of the buildings and part of the ramp still exist today. Time stands still in lots of rural France.
The Canadians went through the area (Caen) during the war and there are still fox holes and "relics" to be found in the forest. You have to use your imagination on a lot of the "relics" found, but you can recognize most for what they are/were.
Get caught using a metal detector in France and you are done like a donut by the way.
 
Mind blowing. I would love to walk that excavation site, just to take in the history. Places where time has “stood still” rank among my favourite places to visit.

The preservation is remarkable.
 
On a side note, for anyone interested in WWI trench life should check out the Australian movie Beneath Hill 60. I stumbled across it almost by accident last week and watched it. It was a pretty good flick, all about civilian miners brought in from Aus to dig the tunnels and lay the giant mines (really box upon box of TNT) under the German lines.
 
glad to see you guys found it intresting, found it while researching my wifes family's military history, they fought in both wars for germany and even sometime before ww1, was looking for a good site that lists war graves for the wermacht to try and find both her great grandfathers, they both fell, one in germany, killed by hand gernade the story goes, and the other in russia
 
There were stories coming out of Iraq concerning trenches and bunkers. The bulldozers just came in and covered them up. Dead or alive, it didn't matter. Most of those sites remain as war graves.
 
wheaty said:
They are still to this day opening sites in France where the coats are hanging on the pegs and rifles are stacked against the wall. Watch the History channel later this year for an exclusive on opening of one the Canadian WW I trenches.
A regular contributor on this site is heavily involved in these projects in France.
An acquaintance in France has discovered the remains of a V-1 launching site on his family farm. It had just become overgrown with bush and trees. The marquis, at the end of the war, had blown up part of it but several of the buildings and part of the ramp still exist today. Time stands still in lots of rural France.
The Canadians went through the area (Caen) during the war and there are still fox holes and "relics" to be found in the forest. You have to use your imagination on a lot of the "relics" found, but you can recognize most for what they are/were.
Get caught using a metal detector in France and you are done like a donut by the way.
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i walked along a row of bomb craters from d-day in normandy a few years back, and you can still see the firing positions cut into the hedge rows

is there a law about metal detecting in france? im not familiar with it
 
I didn't know about the metal detector law, I guess they don't want you digging up old shells...etc.

From my experiences a few years ago visiting some of the WW1 sites, the farmers tolerated you going on their land to reach a historical site (i.e. Hawthorn Ridge mine crater) but I wouldn't try it on a site that is not listed as they can get quite mad and especially when the crops are growing.
 
Interesting that the single Mauser 98 rifle they show is "stripped" in much the same fashion as our guys stripped the likewise-long-and-heavy Ross.

Other unidentified rifle is a Lebel; these were not standard-issue in the Bavarian Amy.

It is really a pity that a few less "experts" and a few more people who KNOW something are not included in projects such as this.

Oh well, not as bad as the CWM. Went there, saw a Mark II Sten Gun (the sign said) up on the wall. It was a .45-calibre and had THOMPSON SUBMACHINE GUN rollmarked onto the Receiver. Pointed this out and was told, in rather a snotty manner, that they had "experts" who knew a lot more than any mere civilian. I asked if they had any experts who could READ. I haven't bothered going back. Clowns!
 
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