Scott Lesch's Bavarians

 Converted Britains Ltd. and homecasts. 

In the Dark: Underground warfare 1914-1918 (1:40)

 Lecture by Simon Jones. Here

Simon Jones is a freelance military historian, battlefield guide and former museum curator. He is author of Underground Warfare 1914-1918 (2010), a subject which he has been studying for more than thirty years. His talk examines the war beneath the trenches in which an ancient method of warfare was revived on a massive scale using modern technology and a highly skilled civilian workforce.

• What was military mining during 1914-18?
• Profile of miners & mining engineers enlisted.
• Technology & explosives.
• Underground tactics.
• Evaluation of military effectiveness.

Presenter Simon Jones Simon is a former curator at English Heritage and the Royal Engineers and King's Regiment Museums. He has taught at Liverpool and Lancaster Universities and was lead historian for the exploration of a tunnel system and archaeology on the Somme at La Boisselle, 2011-2015. He blogs at SimonJonesHistorian.com.

 

French language film about the Marne 1914

Here (53 minutes). Good reconstructions. Champs de Batailles series

Spahis

 1914-18 Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud, Soldiers from the 4th Spahi Regiment, a French Colonial Cavalry Unit

Collection Tournassoud - ECPAD

Russian Jäger at the Alma 2010

Pic by Lucille. When I started this blog in 2009 it was mainly to publicise the Crimean reenactment scene. We thought about doing a Russian group in the U.K. We had a good response. We had friends in Russia so we were intending on doing the Alma event. But international events got in the way. This was what we were aiming at. Using generic firearms. 
 

Machine warfare in the Crimean war

 Picked up a book today the Guiness book of tank facts and feats. Had this. 

Photo Boydell's tractor here

Doesn't Locomotive Land battery or Devestator here