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Image by Anders.Bachmann
taken @ Aarhus animal-park
Message bearers coming down a shell shattered road
Image by National Library of Scotland
With dead animals (possibly horses) and shot-off branches lying on the road, these two message carriers could be forgiven for thinking that they were travelling on the road to Hell. The small holdalls on the mens chests would have been used for carrying messages between units. Looking closely at the trees, it is possible to see the marks left by the branches before they were shot off by gunfire.
As developments of Continuous Wave (CW), wireless and 'spark or 'loop radio sets continued, the need for soldier messengers grew less important. However, it was not until 1918 that the standard of army communications moved away from soldier messengers and pigeons. With the onset of radio communications, units on the battlefield could communicate quickly and easily, without having to send out valuable men as messengers. For the Allies, The Battle of Hamel in 1918 represented a major turning point, in that a faster and more efficient communication system was central to winning this battle.
[Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. Message bearers coming down a shell shattered road.']
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