[Leica] IMG: WWI celebrations in rural France

[Douglas Barry]

Very poignant, Philippe - torn between two countries. It's a lose lose situation whichever way you turn. Several of my relatives served in the British forces during WW1, but then they returned home and fought for Irish independence.

Your village - Mungg? - was it on the front line? I ask as I see rising ground with trees on it in a couple of the images that remind me of abandoned fortifications?

Douglas
Douglas Barry
Monkstown,
Co. Dublin

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: WWI celebrations in rural France

As you may know, I now live in a small village in Alsace. This area was German in 1914, and turned French in 1918 as it was before 1870 ...

Local people there were then forced to join the German troops, or flee, and get enrolled on the French side only to fight their brothers or cousins …

The 360 souls village lost 37 young men between 1914 and 1918.

Yesterday was the 100th anniversary of the end of that war, and I witnessed the local celebrations and hommage.
No, it did NOT rain ...

The series starts here:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/Playground/LPP-11-11-2018-1528.jpg.html

Click on the right arrow to proceed to the end.

All my be viewed larger.


Amities, and may peace be with us all, fovever.


Philippe




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