Post World War 1 memorials from your country.
oh fuck, wrong board. Never mind.
I don't know how this is a wrong board topic but here's the big horse dick in my town, I can see it from my window.
>>1227348
Who the fuck did that
>>1227356
could be anyone. nobody likes war criminals and mass murderers.
>>1227348
Leftist autism strikes again
We have hundreds of these
Canadian National Vimy Memorial
it's in France not leafland though
>>1227657
Majestic
>>1227348
That is an Eiserne Front logo, I can tell you that much.
Still odd.
>>1227348
>>1225531
>>1225531
wew lad, literally have zero on my HDD.
time to travel again i guess
but in germany it's in every village bc propaganda in pre ww2
probably the most badass one
>>1227360
how is Mannerheim a war criminal or mass murderer?
because he defended Finlan from smelly Ruskies?
>>1227905
>that text
This is in my city. It's more of a catchall "war memorial", but it uses a Doughboy so it probably counts.
>>1227919
Mannerheim commanded the "bourgeoisie" side in the Finnish Civil War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_Civil_War
>>1227937
Translation please?
Japanese Navy Memorial in Malta
>>1225531
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4Pd527GN48
>>1225531
Every french village has a war memorial to its sons who died during WW1. And it's actually incredible how different they are, and really shows what the people were thinking at this time.
In some villages, you had triumphant french soldiers, rifles raised, glorious. In other, like pic related, you have a lone soldier, tired, at guard, relieved the war is over. In some, they commemorated peace and hate war ; In others, it really shows how atrocious the germans were and somehow call the people to fight again.
This is in my city centre.
>>1227919
not because what hi did to ruskies but other finns twenty years before that. after the battle of Tampere the that shit became more like a genocide than war
>>1228137
Please name exactly what he did wrong, if its just lead the lawful goverments troops then you dont have much of a case.
>>1228180
>Please name exactly what he did wrong,
nothing
Not my country, but worth posting. Probably the best of any war memorial.
>>1228026
>Japs
>In Malta
What
>>1227657
We have one in France too.
>>1228180
if it's "just" leading those lawful troops to murder 30000 people from already small population then that's pretty clear case to me.
This is my local one. Although that's a bit misleading because there are a whole bunch of them throughout it and lots of smaller ones dedicated to each battalion, listing the local men who in them.
One of the benefits of having a national identity forged by the first world war is getting a shitload of these monuments. The national memorial is also pretty great. >>1227744
>>1228274
Please provide your source.
An orthodox chapel built by Russian POWs in 1916 in honor of the fallen Russian POWs who have died in an avalanche while building a military road through the mountain pass Vršič, Slovenia.
>>1228274
So im guessing you have no source or anything beyond shitposting?
>>1228311
I really like this one
>>1228295
they teach you this at school if you live in Finland. if you don't or just didn't bother going to school you can start civilizing yourself by reading these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_Civil_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_Civil_War_prison_camps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoot_on_the_Spot_Declaration
It's a shame how poorly maintained it is compared to the other war memorials in Washington
>>1228406
Yes i think most of us are aware, what exactly is wrong with this? Are you saying theres something unusual about executing people on the spot for murder and other crimes during war?
>>1228459
the thing is that the country wasn't even de jure at war so death penalty would have been illegal even if they did (and they usually didn't) give them a fair trial. yes, everyone knows that war is brutal business and you really can't expect it to go by the book but that guy literally gave his officers an order to murder their prisoners as they please during peace time.
>>1228232
Pretty ugly but I like the message.
>>1228530
>peace time
i think you should take your own advice and go back to school and read what actually happened during the civil war.
>>1228584
at that point country was technically at peace because government didn't want to declare state of war because that would also have affected their own authorities. and that is actually a war crime itself.
>>1228618
yes im aware. and since you clearly read the wiki article you are aware the shoot on the spot declaration was a comprimise between the goverment and the army in practice. so what exactly did mannerheim do wrong here again? technically broke a law that was being broken by his leaders already because they didnt want to give ultimate power to the army? youd have preferred ultimate power to the army which would have led to the same conclusion anyway?
>>1228719
???
in the latter and the former cases a supreme commander is ordering the killing
>>1227657
Technically speaking it's on Canadian soil, France gave it to us.
>tfw so many feels that even Hitler was moved
>>1229467
Bigger pic
>>1228244
It's easy to overlook that Japan participated in WW1, on the Allied side no less.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_during_World_War_I
>>1229485
What's inside?
>>1229489
This feller
>>1227657
I love the Vimy memorial, it was breathtaking when I went. The one at Beaumont-Hamel is canuck as fuck.
>>1229502
>tfw He will never rest in German soil
>>1229487
Japan only participated in the war so they could steal some islands Germany had. They're pretty irrelevant other than being opportunistic thieves.
>>1229535
>tfw he didn`t want to
>>1225531
>Post World War 1 memorials from your country.
Michigan checking in;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_Bear_Expedition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/339th_Infantry_Regiment
>>1229716
The communist subhumans destroyed it tho
Liberty Memorial in Kansas City. the mightiest phallus
>>1229641
>tfw he will never get his wish to rest in Germany when the monarchy is restored
Central Park, Manhattan New York
7th Regiment, which saw defensive action on the Marne against the Germans' last major offensive and was part of Battle of Argonne Forest. Incidentally, the deadliest battle in American history to that point, with 122,000 U.S. casualties.
>>1227937
you can't make shitty posts like this without providing translation
Toronto
Here's the Verdun memorial/cemetary.
(each white thing is a cross btw)
>>1230569
Same place in the fog, actually impressive... Just crosses as far as you can see
An happy little one, for a change.
(shameless bumping is shameless)
>>1230573
Very eerie.
>>1227961
I can't for the life of me find a picture of it, but there's one similar to this at UT at Austin. Apparently it's a statue of a student of UtaA who was one of the first American soldiers to die in the war.
>>1229760
To be honest it's easily one of the coolest places you'll ever go to though. It is kind of an eyesore outside but I loved the inside.
>>1229575
what is the point of this statement, they contributed and were rewarded by being on the winning side, they ventured quite a bit to help people hardly even cared that they existed and were rewarded for it.
unless you are korean and if so I understand
Just under the Arc de Triomphe, it's basically an unknown soldier chosen to represent them all.
>>1230461
my ottawa nigga
Okay last one, this thread doesn't seem to have his public :^)
>>1228311
Looks pretty comfy honestly
>>1228232
Fuck turks
From Melbourne. I worked at the Shrine of Remembrance for a year, which is basically a WW1 memorial/museum.
This statue is called Cobbers and commemorates the giant fuckup that was the Battle of Fromelles.
The Shrine of Remembrance itself.
We didn't even participate in WW1 lol
But, the largest naval battle known to many did happen off our coast, so there's a memorial here.
Statue called Driver on the Shrine reserve commemorating the men of the transport services.
On the other side of the Driver statue is this one called Wipers. Wipers was how Australian soldiers pronounced Ypres.
And this is the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. These >>1227744 walls are behind the arched walkways to the left and right here.
Because the war is so important to Australias self image there was a shitload of building and commemoration work done in the interwar years to fluff it all up.
The whole place is impressive though, even if it lays on the religious theme a bit thick.
>>1231298
The chapel at the back of >>1231298 is the tomb of the unknown soldier and has a bunch of these stained glass panels.
From out the front. The museum of the AWM is definitely worth a visit though, thousands of great exhibits.
>>1231276
i love these modernist ones the most. i think only they capture the horror or war without glorifying it.
>>1227348
Whenever or not what Mannerheim did was bad, anyone who thinks he was terrible while supporting the reds should be shot.
>>1227720
what the fuck is Captain America doing there?
pitzhanger manor war memorial, Ealing, UK
This was at Shiloh but feels appropriate
>>1229758
Belarus?
>>1231276
That looks like it's poorly photoshopped
>>1227720
Is that Ronald McDonald in the back?
>>1229510
That actually isn't a memorial to canadians but to newfies.
Newfoundland wasn't a part of canada at the time.
>>1232095
It's Bulgaria
>>1232247
Theres also the national war memorial in St.Johns.
>>1231932
That graffiti is fucking disgusting, not to mention just plain stupid
Blown up unfortunately.
>>1230671
Eyesore? How so? I think it looks amazing. Maybe it's bias from being from KC, but even still
>>1228459
>what exactly is wrong with this?
It violated the Geneva conventions you fucking brainlet.
>tfw when all 8 of my great grandparents fought in WW 1, half of them on one side and half on the other
at the Derry guildhall, good bit of disdain for the National Volunteers who split from the Irish Volunteers to serve in the Army in WWI while others were fighting against the British Army to achieve independence, hardly their fault though
>>1232926
Mean great-great grandparents
>>1232917
are you stupid? communists caused a civil war in a failed coup trying to take the government and bring Finland under Soviet influence
they'd been trained in the Soviet union for this purpose, nothing wrong with executing them
>>1232917
Killing gommies should be legal. Shit, it should be rewarded.
t. anon from ex-gommie country
>>1231340
Good point really, it is kind of an eyesore to me though.
>>1232917
People that should be shot on sight:
>SJWs
>feminists
>lolbertarians
>gommies
>/pol/acks
>LARPers
>nazis
>christkeks
>muzzies
>/phil/fags
>highly religious kikes
>Terence Malick
The whole forests around Verdun kinda stand as a memorial too, since the ground is very messed up, and trenches, equipments, explosives and bones are still dug up every year.
>Google Verdun
>Find some article about WW1
>This is the first comment I see
I have to agree with >>1232958
Also the ring of memory in the North of France.
Giant circle inaugurated on November 11th of 2014 with 570 000 names on it.
this ugly motherfucker on gallipoli.
>>1228311
And a mosque built by bosnian soldiers serving in the Austro-Hungarian army. It was however demolished by Italy after the area was occupied.
>>1233781
Fucking leftists
TO THE
GLORY OF GOD
AND
IN UNDYING
MEMORY OF
THOSE MEN AND
WOMEN OF THIS
CITY WHO MADE
THE SUPREME
SACRIFICE
IN THE FIRST
AND SECOND
WORLD WARS
ERECTED BY
THE CITIZENS
OF LINCOLN
THIS STONE WAS LAID BY
JOHN HARRIS ESQR. J.P.
CHAIRMAN - LINCOLN WAR MEMORIAL COMMITTEE
5TH APRIL 1922.
>>1233833
Sorry for the shit resolution, if this thread's still alive tomorrow I'll go into town and take a better pic.
>>1225531
Where is this? It's beautiful.
>>1227348
Did fucking pitchfork.com vandalize the statue?
>>1231932
>gay voting
wot
>>1232958
You got a problem?
This is my counties WW1 memorial. Below the Doughboy there is a list of all the men from the county that died in the war. In the late 40s it was updated with a list of men that died in WW2.
Washington, USA
Maryhill Stonehenge, an exact replica of the one in England
But dedicated as a WWI monument for some odd reason
>>1233950
This is the WWI memorial here in Dublin, to commemorate the ~45,000 Irishmen who died fighting for the Allies (mainly in the British army but also in the American and Canadian armies).
WWI is usually overshadowed here by the 1916 Easter Rising (which my great-grandfather fought in). The rebels were technically aligned with the Central Powers, and consequently people don't remember the Irishmen on the other side in the trenches as much.
>>1233781
>No nazi
>On a WW1 memorial
>>1227747
are... are they having a fucking fun run through a war cemetery?
>>1234034
Enjoy.
100. Anniversary modern art project.
They also performed some retard dance and had guys banging on tinbarrels.
>>1233996
They get triggered by the helmets.
>>1234062
That is disgusting, you don't fucking touch a cemetery in a disrespectful way.
>>1234062
Gotta love Germans. Ruining EU third time now: WW1,WW2, and now refugees and commie anarchists.
>>1227720
That's a WW2 memorial though
I visited my grandfather's hometown in Tuscany a few months ago. This plaque was on the town's bell tower.
This makes me so fucking sad...
>>1234062
How progressive
>>1227747
why are they running? Do they have any respect? :(
There's one for French-Belgian soldiers in Copenhagen for some reason I can't remember
>>1233889
That's the logo of the Eiserne Front a paramilitary funded by the German SPD, DDP and Zentrum as a response to the shenanigans of the SA and Rot Front vandals in the 30's.
Recently it got adopted by several edgy antifas who just use it as a general anti-fascist logo, completely ignoring it's history.
Kinda sad really.
>>1234729
>>1234729
God antifas are as retarded as neonazis are
Pic is a memorial for the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, for their service specifically at the Battle of Beaumont-Hamel, in which they were slaughtered during an offensive, bringing their approximate numbers from 500 to 64 the following day.
They were also the only regiment to be dubbed "royal" during WW1
Newfoundland bought the surrounding land and preserved the trenches, it is also the largest part of preserved land from the Somme frontline.
God bless Newfoundlanders t b h
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knxR-Q2VoBE
>>1234780
People are mad at their former Russian occupiers, what can you do.
>>1234789
the digits
have a nice elven garden for it apparently
>>1232895
I just thought it looked kind of ugly and out of place. It's not really an eyesore. That was just exaggeration.
I'm from St Louis and don't really like the Arch so there's that.
Brooklyn
>>1232915
If you mean the article on treatment of prisoners then that one was created in 1929. The civil war happened in 1918.
>>1234911
is the rifle supposed to be like that or was it broken afterwards?
>>1237574
I thought smart people were supposed to visit /his/
>>1237682
> knowledge = intelligence
>ISHYGDDT
>>1229722
It pisses me off that we never once talked about the allied intervention in the Russian civil war when I was in school. It's so interesting. Anyone have any good books on the subject?
>>1234489
How are the refugees germanys fault?
>>1233966
At least it looks good and peacefull
>>1237864
"Wir schaffen das"
t. Merkel
Is literally the reason why most of them think its a good idea to come over.
>>1232958
Navy Memorial
>thread theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZqN1glz4JY
Also check out the Wipers Times, great movie about WW1.
>>1229575
This
Them an Italy didn't give a shit about the war other than to be opportunistic assholes and steal land from either Germany or Austria.
You know you're an oppurtunistic asshole when even Austria, the opportunistic asshole of all of European history, is who you're stealing from.
>>1237898
Turns out they died two months after WWI ended, all of them German prisoners. Most of them were sick and injured and most of the prisoners recuperating there died from the Spanish influenza. No way of sending the bodies home in a timely manner so they were buried there.
Somehow, that's remarkably sad to me. They survived all that shit and then they die when the war is over.
>>1238129
Well, if you want to be sad, just think of the last guy killed on the front on the morning of the 11th November 1918, coming out of the trenches because he heard the war was over, and got shot because the germans didn't received the news yet.
>>1228433
The Washington WWI Memorial is owned by the city of Washington, DC and not the US Federal Government. That's why it's treated like shit.
Congress wanted to make a proper memorial, but the people of Washington complained that their's would get forgotten, so it never reached fruition.
>>1238196
Doesn't Washington DC get shit all over by the senate?
>>1232933
Storytime?
1/2
2/2
Memorial from my city. It was renovated recently.
>>1237760
why is this such a big deal?
>>1239787
because a bunch of fucking socialists (a political way of thinking that nearly cost the allies the first world war because of how hard they pushed it in the trenches) decided to desecrate graves by letting a bunch of idiots run amongst them to the beat of fucking dubstep tier drums...
British memorial to Muslim soldiers from the subcontinent
This is ossuary of Italian soldiers that have fallen in WW 1 which can be found in Slovenia. On the walls there are names,surnames and military rank of soldiers that died and in the ossuary lie the posthumous remains of 7760 soldiers.
>>1237574
It's supposed to be broken, I think symbolizing that the wielder was defeated in battle. I've seen broken swords used in this way in art before.
>>1237760
explain please?
>>1241152
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3616382/Outrage-thousands-children-run-graves-fallen-soldiers-WWI-s-Battle-Verdun-stunt-organised-German-filmmaker-100th-anniversary-commemorations-France.html
>>1234062
i hate germans so much
>>1225531
I liked the British memorials to WW1 the best. I saw some really great ones while visiting. They gave me the feels.
Walking through the memorial itself has rows upon rows of names of missing British soldiers from WW1
Feels were had when I found the names of some of my family
One from my home-town
I live in Kent, where a fuckload of soldiers departed from, and we have a load of statues and monuments all over the place. A lot of them are stone and have slowly been worn away, and those that are metal aren't that impressive.
This one is closest to me however. There's no good documentation of it and the photos are all pretty shitty. The Louth War Memorial, for those lost in WW1, though the names at the bottom added after the fact are for soldiers and civilians from the area that died in both the wars.
A drunk driver recently ran into it and smashed the plaques though.
>>1229457
Brad pitt?
>>1238070
I want to skate it
>>1234911
this one is pretty sweet. anyone got more angels of death?
>>1225531
>>1242947
What the fuck? Why...
>>1242947
Did they cut up the WW1 monument for paving stones?
Jesus fucking Christ.
>>1233746
nice art deco on this one
place du canada in montreal has various statues dedicated to montrealers who died in WW1
>>1243042
>>1243045
this one is just John A MacDonald, but worth posting nonetheless
>>1243042
>montreal makes ww1 memorial
>dedicated exclusively to montrealers
gotta love gaybecois
This is it, the university here (Leicester) was partly founded to commemorate WWI as well
>>1227468
That is very moving
>>1229760
Can't wait to see it.
>>1225531
We began to build those only very recently.
>>1225531
Another recent one from Russia.
In Lisbon.
>>1244017
Was it forbidden to talk about WW1 in communist russia?
![estatua_afonso.jpg[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/bMbthAX.jpg "estatua_afonso.jpg[1].jpg")
>>1240133
ah very well...
because in our country we have our founding king welding a broken sword because some of our university """students""" got drunk and thought it was a good idea to take a selfie while on top of the statue
>pic related: it was once a two-handed montante that according to the legends he used just a single hand, now it's mostly a banana
>>1244120
Didnt live in a communist country but i imagine building ww1 stuff would have seen as too nationalist.
>>1245177
Any plans on fixing that yet?
Also, one cunt climbed on a statue of one of our monarchs to take a selfie and brought the whole thing down breaking it to bits. Fucking morons. Scum of society the lot of 'em.
>>1238166
Last guy was literally killed seconds before the armistice.
>>1239168
>cheap Pieta recreation
I like the imagery but cmon son
The one from my town, nothing big done as the returning veterans were fairly shunned because of the rising that happened in 1916.
>>1247612
The plaque on it commerates those who died in both wars, even though we were a neutral country many Irishmen fought on the British side
>>1247394
How many were killed after 11/11/1918 11:11? Literally hunderds right? So there's no real last guy
>>1225531
My local memorial for both WW's infront of the town hall.
>>1227720
This pisses me off so much, yes, because the men and women who fought and died, who are being commemorated in this memorial are definitely the ones responsible for the injustices of the USSR as a whole. Fucking assholes
>>1234716
It is
>>1249291
It happens in literally every ex-commie country.
