Interesting 1866 Youtube video

[Hertsblue]

Killing Germans ... dreadful purpose, guess we're from different generations Herts 

I don't think so. I am fairly long in the tooth myself.

[cameronian]

joke ?

[Leon]

Nice vids, especially the Mitrailleuse ones, such simple individual components used to great effect.

[cameronian]

Killing Germans !!! Great effect !!! Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo *runs from room screaming*

[Rob]

Rob have you read 'The Advance to Mons' by Walter Bloem, a German reserve officer in a Guards Grenadier regiment; first hand account of coming up against British regulars and the 'mad minute', heart warming stuff - if you're not German!

Sorry Cameronian for the late response.

No I haven’t read that book. However, you got me thinking about a history documentary I saw many years ago, it may have been the eighties. It was about First Ypres and the climax of the German attack which involved the German Guards. In the program a British veteran was interviewed who was there at the time. In his description he said they could not see the Germans because it was foggy but could hear them and opened a rapid fire into them which they kept up for some considerable time. Later when the fog cleared they discovered they had been firing into a tall barrier of German bodies that had built up in front of them unseen by both sides in the fog.

I have never been able to corroborate this from histories of the battle, and I was wondering if this incident was in the book you mentioned.

Those mitrailleuse vids are great, I have always wondered how they worked.

Cheers, Rob 

[cameronian]

Ages since i read it Rob but its been reprinted and is readily available on amazon etc.

[Dave Fielder]

Fascinating discussion on the Pickle-wotsit-helmet ... in 10mm there could be uniform crimes being committed that need to come before the Hague Tribunal.

Moderator, in need a moderator over here.