Lack of sex.
Most of them need a woman.

In May 1915, after a particularly bad day in the Ypres salient, a young Canadian medical officer sat on the tail board of an ambulance and wrote a few lines of poetry.
I won’t trouble you with the whole poem but the last few lines go like this…

“If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.”

Perhaps the politicians (and the rest of us) should keep that thought.

Andy.

Same as the one on Wiki….. Clerget 9 if the filename is to be believed….

Apparently the one on Wiki is the example at the Museum of Lincolnshire – it was locally built, so there could be differences between that and the original design.

I’m not completely convinced that it’s a Clerget.
I’m not certain what it is yet but what throws me is the flanged joint in the induction pipes near the top of the cylinders.

I think it might be foreign–well yes I know all rotaries were apart from the Bentley sort, but I mean German maybe…?

Andy.

What a marvellous thread.
Thank you for posting this.
My respect for the men of RAF Bomber Command never diminishes, in fact it increases as I get older and realise more and more what it really took to do the things they did.
Andy.

Dave.
I’m currently on episode no. 9 of the radio programmes.
Great stuff.
Andy.

I’d never seen that before, but with a good voice-coach, there is no reason why they couldn’t get close to Gibson’s voice. He was a man of his time, why would anyone want to make anything about history, and then set-out to alter it..? Good luck to Jackson, but the original will always have a special place in the hearts of many folks, myself included. If the remake was being done in Hollywood, I’d be more skeptical, but Jackson does have an excellent record.

I’m not saying that you couldn’t get an actor to sound like that.
The reason I wrote what I did above was that I can’t imagine any film director in the modern World would want the hero of a film to sound like that.
Even in 1950’s England, they made Richard Todd make his Gibson more human sounding.
As to altering history–film makers do it all the time.
Even the original film was something of a montage of events.
I like it very much though and really wish the whole thing could be left alone.
I have some issues with all war films but it’s one of the better ones, and brings back happy childhood memories for me.

A.