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Hale Village War Memorial
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Fuzeman
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Hi Paul
Thats a nice memorial ! i read a document somewhwere that saisd after the 1St world war every village would be given German captured equipment as a memorial these would be in the form of a Rifle , a bayonet , and would be displayed in the village halls.
I wonder how many of these are left.
Steve
Thats a nice memorial ! i read a document somewhwere that saisd after the 1St world war every village would be given German captured equipment as a memorial these would be in the form of a Rifle , a bayonet , and would be displayed in the village halls.
I wonder how many of these are left.
Steve
Chris 42 RQ
Well-Known Member
Nice find.
Nice one Paul and interesting too.
As Steve says, wonder what else is out there hidden away ???
Nice one Paul and interesting too.
As Steve says, wonder what else is out there hidden away ???
Hello, my first post here.
The Hale Gun is only 2 miles down the Road from me but I've never taken the time to have a close up look, must make the effort (nice Photo).
That A7V is rather a nifty piece of Kit iirc even the Tank Museum at Bovington don't have one so it must be quite rare.
The Hale Gun is only 2 miles down the Road from me but I've never taken the time to have a close up look, must make the effort (nice Photo).
That A7V is rather a nifty piece of Kit iirc even the Tank Museum at Bovington don't have one so it must be quite rare.
25thapril
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Captured guns
Australia is the place to see some great WW1 German war trophys {captured guns etc} I visited the Australian War Memorial for a week about 5 years ago and it was explained to me that they have the most complete collection of WW1 german guns anywhere in the world. I was told that a lot of the WW1 guns that were in the UK were melted down during WW2 to help the war effort. And WW1 tank shown in the pervious reply is the only surviving example left in the world and is hidden around the back of the Queensland museum so that if you don't know about it you would never see it which is a real pity After WW1 just about every town in Australia built a memorial hall and depending on the size of the town War trophys ranging from Mg08 08/15 Minniweffers, feild pieces etc were given to them. Then in WW2 with just about all of Australia's automatic weapons serving in Africa and worried about the yellow peril invading from the north most of the 08 and 08/15's were collected and rechambered for .303 and placed back in service with our VDC Aussie home guard
Regards 25thapril
Australia is the place to see some great WW1 German war trophys {captured guns etc} I visited the Australian War Memorial for a week about 5 years ago and it was explained to me that they have the most complete collection of WW1 german guns anywhere in the world. I was told that a lot of the WW1 guns that were in the UK were melted down during WW2 to help the war effort. And WW1 tank shown in the pervious reply is the only surviving example left in the world and is hidden around the back of the Queensland museum so that if you don't know about it you would never see it which is a real pity After WW1 just about every town in Australia built a memorial hall and depending on the size of the town War trophys ranging from Mg08 08/15 Minniweffers, feild pieces etc were given to them. Then in WW2 with just about all of Australia's automatic weapons serving in Africa and worried about the yellow peril invading from the north most of the 08 and 08/15's were collected and rechambered for .303 and placed back in service with our VDC Aussie home guard
Regards 25thapril
Gambardier
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Not just rare, unique! Unfortunately the ones that came to the UK after the war were scrapped - there's currently a new running replica which has ran at at least one Tank Museum event, and a replica at the German Tank Museum at Munster