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Original hand-painted watercolor by E.R. of the Russian Imperial flag with double-headed eagle on a yellow field. Dated Brughes, September 6, 1916, it would have been painted in occupied Belgium. Text, in Russian, ends "Huzzah!"more Original hand-painted watercolor by E.R. of the Russian Imperial flag with with double-headed eagle on a yellow field. Dated Brughes, September 6, 1916, it would have been painted in occupied Belgium. Text, in Russian, ends "Huzzah!" Text, in Russian, ends Huzzah! Russia, Russian imperial flag, flag, double-headed eagle, 1916, 1916-09-06, Russian Empire
Postcard of a September 4, 1916 German air raid on Constanta, Romania's principal port on the Black Sea. Romania had entered the war a week before, invading Transylvania in Austria-Hungary on August 27. Text: Deutscher Fleigeranfriff auf Constanza am 4. September 1916. Аеропланно нападние на Ккюстенджа 4. Септември 1916. German air raid on Constanza on 4 September 1916.more Postcard of a September 4, 1916 German air raid on Constanta, Romania's principal port on the Black Sea. Romania had entered the war a week before, invading Transylvania in Austria-Hungary on August 27. Deutscher Fleigeranfriff auf Constanza am 4. September 1916.



Аеропланно нападние на Ккюстенджа 4. Септември 1916.



German air raid on Constanza on 4 September 1916.		 Constanta, Romania, 1916, September, 1916-09-04
Headstone of an unknown soldier of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, Delville Wood Cemetery. Union of South Africa troops began the assault at Delville Wood on July 15, 1916. It was finally taken in September. On the headstone is superimposed the poem 'To My Daughter Betty, the Gift of God' by Lieutenant Tom Kettle of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, killed in action on September 9, 1916 at Guillemont, France, in the Battle of the Somme. He has no known grave. Text: To My Daughter Betty, the Gift of God In wiser days, my darling rosebud, blown To beauty proud as was your mother's prime, In that desired, delayed, incredible time, You'll ask why I abandoned you, my own, And the dear heart that was your baby throne, To dice with death. And oh! they'll give you rhyme And reason: some will call the thing sublime, And some decry it in a knowing tone. So here, while the mad guns curse overhead, And tired men sigh with mud and couch and floor, Know that we fools, now with the foolish dead, Died not for flag, nor King, nor Emperor, But for a dream, born in a herdsman's shed, And for the secret Scripture of the poor. — Tom Kettle In the field, before Guillemont, Somme, 4 September 1916more Headstone of an unknown soldier of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, Delville Wood Cemetery. Union of South Africa troops began the assault at Delville Wood on July 15, 1916. It was finally taken in September. On the headstone is superimposed the poem 'To My Daughter Betty, the Gift of God' by Lieutenant Tom Kettle of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, killed in action on September 9, 1916 at Guillemont, France, in the Battle of the Somme. He has no known grave. To My Daughter Betty, the Gift of God

In wiser days, my darling rosebud, blown

To beauty proud as was your mother's prime,

In that desired, delayed, incredible time,

You'll ask why I abandoned you, my own,

And the dear heart that was your baby throne,

To dice with death. And oh! they'll give you rhyme

And reason: some will call the thing sublime,

And some decry it in a knowing tone.



So here, while the mad guns curse overhead,

And tired men sigh with mud and couch and floor,

Know that we fools, now with the foolish dead,

Died not for flag, nor King, nor Emperor,

But for a dream, born in a herdsman's shed,

And for the secret Scripture of the poor.



— Tom Kettle

In the field, before Guillemont, Somme, 4 September 1916		 headstone, unknown soldier, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, Soldier of the Great War, Known Unto God, Delville Wood, Delville Wood Cemetery, unknown Royal Dublin Fusiliers, Tom Kettle, Kettle, Tom Kettle, poem