Images Dated 2014

Matania - Last Absolution of the Munsters

The Last General Absolution of the Munsters at Rue du Bois - painting by Fortunino Matania. This painting relates to an incident in France in May of 1915, when the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Munster Fusiliers suffered very heavily at Rue du Bois, in the Pas de Calais close to Arras. The action was only one of many local attacks which ended disastrously through lack of support. Colonel Victor Rickard, recently appointed to command, was killed in the attack, as was his Adjutant, Captain Filgate. Both are represented in the picture, alongside Father Gleeson, who is shown giving the Absolution on the evening prior to the action taking place.
1915

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Five Vought F8U-1 Crusaders from VF-211

Five Vought F8U-1 Crusaders from VF-211 enter the landing pattern over the USS Midway in Far Eastern waters off the coast of the Philippines

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1st Aeronautical Exhibition - Crystal Palace 1868

The first Aeronautical Exhibition, Crystal Palace, 1868, showing the Stringfellow Triplane model and other exhibits. Altogether no fewer than 77 exhibits were collected together, including engines, heavier-than-air models, kites and plans of projected machines

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