joerookery – Page 32

Zuydcoote

Post author:joerookery
Post published:June 18, 2022
Post category:Sabine's battlefield guide

This week Sabine's battlefield guide Saturday : ZuydcooteA visit to Zuydcoote Military Cemetery where I found not only a CWGC section of graves but also a French and a German…

Rui’s Renditions

Post author:joerookery
Post published:June 16, 2022
Post category:Rui Candeias

The Portuguese Mauser A Portuguese machine-gun post on the shores of the Rovuma River, the border between Portuguese and German East-Africa. 1916 Among several interesting details visible in this scene…

PEEBLES PROFILES

Post author:joerookery
Post published:June 15, 2022
Post category:PEEBLES PROFILES

Part of a common family, Clemens Gottlieb Ernst von Delbrück was born in Halle an der Saale on January 19, 1856. After high school, he studied theology at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität…

PEEBLES PROFILES EPISODE 125 Otto Kissenberth

Post author:joerookery
Post published:May 23, 2022
Post category:PEEBLES PROFILES Things that Fly

Born in Landshut, Bavaria on February 26, 1893, Otto Kissenberth studied at Grenoble University before completing an engineering degree in Munich. Soon, he was working for the Gustav Otto aircraft…

Erwin blumenfeld and Feldfreudenhaus 209

Post author:joerookery
Post published:May 21, 2022
Post category:Sabine's battlefield guide

Erwin Blumenfeld (1897-1969), became a world-famous fashion photographer, for American Vogue, Life and the fashion magazine Harper's Bazar. His parents were Albert Blumenfeld and Emma Blumenfeld, born Cohn. He received…

PEEBLES PROFILES EPISODE 124 Georg Fuchs

Post author:joerookery
Post published:May 16, 2022
Post category:PEEBLES PROFILES

MILITARY RISEBorn on Christmas Day 1856 in the Prussian city of Danzig, Georg Fuchs was a college graduate Prussian Army soldier at the age of twenty. Georg later became a…

Alcohol

Post author:joerookery
Post published:May 14, 2022
Post category:Sabine's battlefield guide

This week Sabine’s battlefield guide SaturdayAlcoholThe British had rum, the French red wine and the Russians vodka. German soldiers were entitled to 10 cl. of brandy a day, well known…

PEEBLES PROFILES EPISODE 123 Felix Graf von Bothmer

Post author:joerookery
Post published:May 11, 2022
Post category:PEEBLES PROFILES

Felix Ludwig Graf von Bothmer was born in Munich on December 10, 1852. He was the son of Generalleutnant Graf Max von Bothmer and Laura (née Reichert).In 1871, young Felix…

Antonio Wednesday’s Wonders A few beers and the S.M.S. Baden.

Post author:joerookery
Post published:May 11, 2022
Post category:Antonio Herrera

I showed this picture a couple of weeks ago and now it is time to talk a bit more about it. It took me seconds for me to get this picture.…

A cocktail named after a field gun

Post author:joerookery
Post published:May 7, 2022
Post category:Sabine's battlefield guide

A cocktail named after a field gunin 1890 General Mathieu, Director of Artillery at the Ministry of War, had been informed that Konrad Haussner, a German engineer working at the…