The spring of 1915 was the first time that warm weather began to warm up the countryside after the cold winter at war in 1914-1915. The child's birth certificate for 5 o'clock In 1920 the Lauwers family returned to Ypres. The next day the mother fled the battle area with her newborn child. Gas cloud and the battle that was going on as a result of it. At exactly 5 o'clock, as the gas cloud was released, a Belgian woman gaveīirth to a baby boy in the cellar of a cottage on the Zonnebeekseweg, just 3 kilometres from the poisonous The birth of new human life happened during the surprise gas attack on the French lines by the GermanĪrmy on 22 April 1915. Poppy growing on the old Somme battlefield in France.Īgainst the odds, new life did also occasionally come into being in the battle zones. Of the trenches only broken, half-obliterated links are visible.” On the brown band the indentations are so closely interlocked that they blend Woods and roads have vanished like chalk wiped from a blackboard of the villages nothing remains but gray smears Every sign of humanity has been swept away. Now there is only that sinister brownīelt, a strip of murdered Nature. Peaceful fields and farms and villagesĪdorned that landscape a few months ago - when there was no Battle of Verdun. “Immediately east and north of Verdun there lies a broad, brown band. He describes the front line as a “brown belt, a strip of murdered Nature”: He recorded a vivid description of the destroyed landscape below him as he flew over the 1916 battlefield of Verdun. James McConnell was an American pilot who had volunteered to fight in the war and was flying with the French Escadrille Lafayette. Soldiers' accounts write of how birds, and most particularly larks, could be heard twittering high in the sky even during the fury of an artillery bombardment. Sometimes, however, the sounds of nature could be heard through the fog of battle. Living things they might see on the ground during tours of duty in front line trenches were scavenging rats, mice and lice. Little choice but to live in an underground network of holes, tunnels and trenches. Few elements of the natural world could survive except for the soldiers who had In the fighting zones the devastation caused to the landscape over a period of years while in a state of static warfare created a wasteland of churned up soil, smashed Mr Starkey, a constitutional expert, also took aim at today's politicians saying that many were not good enough to run the country and said MPs should no longer be paid to stop them getting "above their station" and defying the Government over Brexit.German soldiers carrying ladders through trenches in a smashed up wood on the Ypres Salient battlefield, 1915. And many of them just enjoy killing and that’s very useful." They are doing it usually because they like it, and they get tremendously excited about it. "Say if you have mass war and conscription, today's soldiers are volunteers. He said: "It's also associated again with something else: we’re turning soldiers into either victims or heroes, and the two sort of uneasily shift around each other. There is what we call poppy fascism, we're both suffering from it. He said that acts of remembrance had "become a crazy religious ritual. Speaking to Chopper's Election Podcast, Mr Starkey attacked what he described as "poppy fascism" which requires people to demonstrate that they are remembering Britain's war dead. Remembrance Sunday has become a "crazy religious ritual" which wrongly turns soldiers into either "victims or heroes", television historian David Starkey has said.
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