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Life on on the the Battlefields Battlefields Life 94 Years Years Later Later 94 Charlotte Descamps Descamps Charlotte Presentation Presentation MCH MCH Wellington Wellington August 1st, 2012 2012 August 1st, Passchendaele

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Life Life on

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the Battlefields Battlefields 94 94 Years Years Later Later

Presentation Presentation MCH MCH Wellington Wellington August 1st, August 1st, 2012 2012

Charlotte Charlotte Descamps Descamps

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Passchendaele Passchendaele

Varlet Farm

  • Nov. 1917

Front 1915

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The The Ypres Ypres Salient Salient

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Flanders Flanders mud mud

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Passchendaele Passchendaele July July 1917 1917

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Varlet Farm, Varlet Farm, then then and and now now

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History History of the farm

  • f the farm
  • Built in 1745
  • Destroyed in 1917
  • Rebuilt in 1922
  • Occupied in 1940 - 1945
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Human Human remains remains

  • Human remains

– Procedure – Identification – Reburial

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Ammunition Ammunition

  • Origin

– German – French – British

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Condition Condition

  • Used
  • Dud
  • Unused
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Types Types

  • Traditional ammunition

– Cannister – Shrapnel – High explosive

  • Gas

– Fire – Smoke – White phosphorous – Vomitting Gas – Toxic

  • Chlorine
  • Phosgene
  • Mustard gas
  • Arsenic
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Traditional Traditional ammunition ammunition

  • Shrapnel

– Production – Use

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Traditional Traditional ammunition ammunition

  • High explosive

– Production – Use

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Traditional Traditional ammunition ammunition

  • Collecting
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Traditional Traditional ammunition ammunition

  • Identifying
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Traditional Traditional ammunition ammunition

  • Processing
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Traditional Traditional ammunition ammunition

  • Destroying
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Gas Gas

  • Gas

– Fire – Smoke – White fosfor – Toxic

  • Chlorine
  • Phosgene
  • Mustard gas
  • Arsenic
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Gas Gas

  • Smoke attack
  • Gas attack
  • White phosphorus
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Gas Gas

  • Processing

– X-ray

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Gas Gas

  • Processing

– Blaukreuz vomitting gas (1917)

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Gas Gas

  • Processing

– X-ray

Gas shell with leak Ideal situation Gas level too high

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Gas Gas

  • Destroying

– Identifying – Sorting – Burning

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Gas Gas

  • Injuries

– Chlorine – Phosgene – Mustard gas – Arsenic

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Trench Trench mortars mortars

  • Stokes
  • Toffee apple
  • German 25cm mortar
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Grenades Grenades

  • Types

– German

  • Egg
  • Stick
  • Rifle grenades

– British

  • Mills

– French

  • Viven Bessière
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Rifles & Rifles & bayonets bayonets

  • Types

– French

  • Lebelle rifle

– German

  • Mauser rifle

– British

  • Long Lee Enfield
  • Shortened magazine Lee

Enfield

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Other Other finds finds

  • Drinking bottles
  • Rum jars
  • Silent pickets
  • Helmets
  • Buckles
  • Entrenching tools
  • Machine gun
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Other Other finds finds

  • Drinking bottles
  • Rum jars
  • Silent pickets
  • Helmets
  • Buckles
  • Entrenching tools
  • Machine gun
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Other Other finds finds

  • Drinking bottles
  • Rum jars
  • Silent pickets
  • Helmets
  • Buckles
  • Entrenching tools
  • Machine gun
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Other Other finds finds

  • Drinking bottles
  • Rum jars
  • Silent pickets
  • Helmets
  • Buckles
  • Entrenching tools
  • Machine gun
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Other Other finds finds

  • Drinking bottles
  • Rum jars
  • Silent pickets
  • Helmets
  • Buckles
  • Entrenching tools
  • Machine gun
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Other Other finds finds

  • Drinking bottles
  • Rum jars
  • Silent pickets
  • Helmets
  • Buckles
  • Entrenching tools
  • Machine gun
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Other Other finds finds

  • Drinking bottles
  • Rum jars
  • Silent pickets
  • Helmets
  • Buckles
  • Entrenching tools
  • Machine gun
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Iron Iron harvest harvest

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Varlet Farm Varlet Farm

Charlotte Descamps Charlotte Descamps

Varlet Farm Wallemolenstraat 43 8920 Poelkapelle Belgium Tel: 0032 475 678 042 E-mail: info@varletfarm.com charlotteatthefarm@gmail.com

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Amazing Amazing find find