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Will this grave be ploughed over?

Started by egbert , Jan 05 2012 03:54 PM

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#1 egbert

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Posted 05 January 2012 - 03:54 PM

Nobody knows

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#2 Roger H

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Posted 05 January 2012 - 04:42 PM

It looks well tended, so hopefully not!

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Posted 05 January 2012 - 04:44 PM

Roger H, on 05 January 2012 - 04:42 PM, said:

It looks well tended, so hopefully not!

I would have said it looks very badly added-in myself!

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Posted 05 January 2012 - 04:45 PM

Well Roger, having a closer look at the 2 steelhelmets, year 1919 - I tend to say in about 10 minutes it will be ploughed over

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Posted 05 January 2012 - 04:49 PM

Egbert

Maybe the farmer was a compassionate man. I hope so.

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Posted 06 January 2012 - 12:03 AM

I agree with Andrew, it looks like an add-on. Known graves would have been opened and the remains relocated, a process that went from the end of the fighting until 1923 when the volunteer soldiers involved in grave location and clearances were sent home. I think also, the fact that the field seems to be fully repatriated, also suggests that the image has been created.

I suspose that it was meant to be symbolic rather than fact.

Still a good representation in that the farmers had to rework the fields and many a body would lay below their plough. Life just had to go on....the search for some type of normality after the horror.

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Posted 06 January 2012 - 01:48 AM

Where did you find this,Egbert?
It is not the best photoshop I have seen.Awfully flat for Soissons

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Posted 06 January 2012 - 10:29 AM

59165, on 06 January 2012 - 01:48 AM, said:

Where did you find this,Egbert?
It is not the best photoshop I have seen.Awfully flat for Soissons

I copied the image from a link given yesterday here on free online-available books that cover the genre of cleaning up the battlefield after the war. Don't find the post any more, maybe somebody else remembers. 2 virtual library books where referenced.