Some of my Grandpa''s picture posted on
www.flickr.com/photos/matahari have attracted the interest of the above mentioned historical magazine. Grandpa served in the 6th Bavarian as an artillery officer. He was seriously wounded, when the factory chimney (Aubers?), from where he observed and directed fire, was hit and collapsed below him.
Martin Mace wrote:
"We are the publishers here in the UK of a small military history magazine. In the course of my research I came across your fascinating archive images on Flickr - showing Fromelles from a German perspective in 1916. (The attack was on 19 July 1916). In the next issue we would like to run a small news feature on the recent discovery of a mass grave of British and Australian soldiers at Fromelles in France. "
and in a later mail:
" Have done a quick bit of research and the three frontline shots fit together (almost) to illustrate a stretch of the frontline in front of the towns of villages of Aubers and Fromelles about 5kms north-east of the town of Neuve Chapelle.
Definately target identification photos - note that they have pre-planned target numbers marked on them. If the number is passed to artillery then they will already have the elevation, range etc worked out and listed.
The images were almost certainly taken from a fixed Drachen observation balloon - hence the reason that Frontline 1 is at a more oblique angle.
Hope they are of interest,
Best wishes
Martin"
>Needless to say that the posted pictures keep on haunting me, but somehow I feel they're leading to something postive.
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