Ypres Today - Bloody cold

[warproject]

Brilliant Andy.

E-mail addy on the way.

Sandy

[Jon Haslock]

Very atmospheric. I think the battlefields always look better in winter.

[zippo]

I bet the combatants didnt agree and to think that this is early winter;what must it have been like for the poor chaps .

Was WW1 the first war that not stop/pause for at least part of the winter?

[Jon Haslock]

I bet the combatants didnt agree and to think that this is early winter;what must it have been like for the poor chaps .

Was WW1 the first war that not stop/pause for at least part of the winter?

I have read accounts that say that a good frost would 'sterilise' the battlefield and make movement easier as well. The thaw must have been terrible though, with the mud and the corpses reappearing.

[nilis11]

great pics,

always wanted to do that, visit the battlefields in the snow.

nilis

[bruce]

Tuesday this week down on the Somme was really very, very cold.

I was taking some friends, none of whom had ever been before, and overheard,

"I'll be glad to get back in the nice warm car."

"Not realy an option to those who had to spent five days and four nights in a hole in the ground ninety years ago, though."

YES! Result!

At least two of them bitten by the bug.