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Reply to Comical looking women's clothes from 1500s Livonia by InquisitveAlot

Clothes specially made for comical-looking women?

DirectCaterpillar916 t1_j1a86je wrote on December 22, 2022 at 8:27 PM

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Reply to comment by Slow-Season-310 in What was life in the Balkan Front during ww1 like? by BattleofPlatea

I’ll add that in November 1918, the guards opened the gates and said “war over, go home”. He and his mates walked from Bulgaria to France where they met up with a British unit and were transported home. He was a quiet, gentle man and I was very fond of him. He died in 1966 from cancer, aged 70.

DirectCaterpillar916 t1_iwuycww wrote on November 18, 2022 at 3:29 PM

Reply to What was life in the Balkan Front during ww1 like? by BattleofPlatea

My grandfather fought in the Balkans as a Sargeant with the South Wales Borderers. He was gassed and taken prisoner in 1917 and sent to a POW camp in Bulgaria. He said they were very badly treated and he suffered from ill health for the rest of his life. So... Not a lot of laughs, really.