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https://www.youtube.com/@Ri315e
Websites
https://315-204-6regiments.com/
https://alexandrelyons.picfair.com
Brand New: Now & Then Video
📍Somme • Champagne • Verdun
🕰️ Locations Where Time Stood Still
📽️Duration: 2 minutes
▶️https://youtu.be/ibDJSUu8fB0?si=tvtn3PDFAirrHrwH
📍Somme • Champagne • Verdun
🕰️ Locations Where Time Stood Still
📽️Duration: 2 minutes
▶️https://youtu.be/ibDJSUu8fB0?si=tvtn3PDFAirrHrwH
December 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Brand New: Now & Then Video
📍Somme • Champagne • Verdun
🕰️ Locations Where Time Stood Still
📽️Duration: 2 minutes
▶️https://youtu.be/ibDJSUu8fB0?si=tvtn3PDFAirrHrwH
📍Somme • Champagne • Verdun
🕰️ Locations Where Time Stood Still
📽️Duration: 2 minutes
▶️https://youtu.be/ibDJSUu8fB0?si=tvtn3PDFAirrHrwH
Like Then & Now videos?
Here are my top 3 videos below, enjoy!
French Sectors on the Western Front
▶️youtu.be/8v5E_a8Upfc
Verdun Forts & surrounding area
▶️youtu.be/0ZpciGd6AXU
Where soldiers fell: Then and Now
▶️youtu.be/mvFPmB_5K10
New one come this Friday 👇
Here are my top 3 videos below, enjoy!
French Sectors on the Western Front
▶️youtu.be/8v5E_a8Upfc
Verdun Forts & surrounding area
▶️youtu.be/0ZpciGd6AXU
Where soldiers fell: Then and Now
▶️youtu.be/mvFPmB_5K10
New one come this Friday 👇
December 2, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Like Then & Now videos?
Here are my top 3 videos below, enjoy!
French Sectors on the Western Front
▶️youtu.be/8v5E_a8Upfc
Verdun Forts & surrounding area
▶️youtu.be/0ZpciGd6AXU
Where soldiers fell: Then and Now
▶️youtu.be/mvFPmB_5K10
New one come this Friday 👇
Here are my top 3 videos below, enjoy!
French Sectors on the Western Front
▶️youtu.be/8v5E_a8Upfc
Verdun Forts & surrounding area
▶️youtu.be/0ZpciGd6AXU
Where soldiers fell: Then and Now
▶️youtu.be/mvFPmB_5K10
New one come this Friday 👇
Just passed 145,000 views on my YouTube channel! 🤯
Here are some of the most-watched videos👇
Locations to Visit on the Western Front
▶️ youtube.com/shorts/-fu8KM2…
French Sectors: Then & Now
▶½� youtu.be/8v5E_a8Upfc?siï¿si…
Verdun: Then & Now
▶️ youtu.be/0ZpciGd6AXU?si…
November 30, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Just passed 145,000 views on my YouTube channel! 🤯
Here are some of the most-watched videos👇
Locations to Visit on the Western Front
▶️ youtube.com/shorts/-fu8KM2…
French Sectors: Then & Now
▶½� youtu.be/8v5E_a8Upfc?siï¿si…
Verdun: Then & Now
▶️ youtu.be/0ZpciGd6AXU?si…
18 November 1916 #otd
It would be remiss of me to not remember what David O'Mara would remind people, that the end of the Somme for the French Army was not today but on 17th December
The fighting costing 2,600+ French lives
By the end almost 50/50 in number of divisions rotated through Somme 🇫🇷🤝🇬🇧
It would be remiss of me to not remember what David O'Mara would remind people, that the end of the Somme for the French Army was not today but on 17th December
The fighting costing 2,600+ French lives
By the end almost 50/50 in number of divisions rotated through Somme 🇫🇷🤝🇬🇧
November 18, 2025 at 9:34 PM
18 November 1916 #otd
It would be remiss of me to not remember what David O'Mara would remind people, that the end of the Somme for the French Army was not today but on 17th December
The fighting costing 2,600+ French lives
By the end almost 50/50 in number of divisions rotated through Somme 🇫🇷🤝🇬🇧
It would be remiss of me to not remember what David O'Mara would remind people, that the end of the Somme for the French Army was not today but on 17th December
The fighting costing 2,600+ French lives
By the end almost 50/50 in number of divisions rotated through Somme 🇫🇷🤝🇬🇧
1.3+ million soldiers died for France during WWI
Today the 11th day of the 11th month, at the 11th hour
We remember all soldiers of all nations
“A man with no memory is a man without life,
a nation without memory is a nation without a future”
✍️Ferdinand Foch
Today the 11th day of the 11th month, at the 11th hour
We remember all soldiers of all nations
“A man with no memory is a man without life,
a nation without memory is a nation without a future”
✍️Ferdinand Foch
November 11, 2025 at 7:49 AM
1.3+ million soldiers died for France during WWI
Today the 11th day of the 11th month, at the 11th hour
We remember all soldiers of all nations
“A man with no memory is a man without life,
a nation without memory is a nation without a future”
✍️Ferdinand Foch
Today the 11th day of the 11th month, at the 11th hour
We remember all soldiers of all nations
“A man with no memory is a man without life,
a nation without memory is a nation without a future”
✍️Ferdinand Foch
🕵️♂️ How to date a photo with no info?
▶️ 103e Régiment
💐 Look at the flowers
In France, 1st May = Muguet, a good-luck tradition often sent home in letters or held in photos.
Here, it’s not muguet but looks like white lilac, maybe they couldn’t find muguet?
📅 So best educated guess?
Around 1st May.
▶️ 103e Régiment
💐 Look at the flowers
In France, 1st May = Muguet, a good-luck tradition often sent home in letters or held in photos.
Here, it’s not muguet but looks like white lilac, maybe they couldn’t find muguet?
📅 So best educated guess?
Around 1st May.
November 8, 2025 at 11:25 AM
🕵️♂️ How to date a photo with no info?
▶️ 103e Régiment
💐 Look at the flowers
In France, 1st May = Muguet, a good-luck tradition often sent home in letters or held in photos.
Here, it’s not muguet but looks like white lilac, maybe they couldn’t find muguet?
📅 So best educated guess?
Around 1st May.
▶️ 103e Régiment
💐 Look at the flowers
In France, 1st May = Muguet, a good-luck tradition often sent home in letters or held in photos.
Here, it’s not muguet but looks like white lilac, maybe they couldn’t find muguet?
📅 So best educated guess?
Around 1st May.
During War people had no humour... wrong
Just a standard group photo of WW1 soldiers?
Something in this picture is very curious...
No caption on the photo, just my educated guesses:
▶️103e Régiment d’Infanterie
📅Likely Winter 1915/16
📍Ville-Sur-Tourbe to Melzicourt area
Just a standard group photo of WW1 soldiers?
Something in this picture is very curious...
No caption on the photo, just my educated guesses:
▶️103e Régiment d’Infanterie
📅Likely Winter 1915/16
📍Ville-Sur-Tourbe to Melzicourt area
November 7, 2025 at 10:44 AM
During War people had no humour... wrong
Just a standard group photo of WW1 soldiers?
Something in this picture is very curious...
No caption on the photo, just my educated guesses:
▶️103e Régiment d’Infanterie
📅Likely Winter 1915/16
📍Ville-Sur-Tourbe to Melzicourt area
Just a standard group photo of WW1 soldiers?
Something in this picture is very curious...
No caption on the photo, just my educated guesses:
▶️103e Régiment d’Infanterie
📅Likely Winter 1915/16
📍Ville-Sur-Tourbe to Melzicourt area
🎥 Then & Now
The Lost Generation | Where they fell
Verdun, Champagne, the Chemin des Dames, Somme, where over a 1.3m young and old French soldiers fell.
Then & now, where they fell, their faces and their memory 🥀
Glimpse below, for the full film 👇 youtu.be/mvFPmB_5K10?si…
The Lost Generation | Where they fell
Verdun, Champagne, the Chemin des Dames, Somme, where over a 1.3m young and old French soldiers fell.
Then & now, where they fell, their faces and their memory 🥀
Glimpse below, for the full film 👇 youtu.be/mvFPmB_5K10?si…
November 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
🎥 Then & Now
The Lost Generation | Where they fell
Verdun, Champagne, the Chemin des Dames, Somme, where over a 1.3m young and old French soldiers fell.
Then & now, where they fell, their faces and their memory 🥀
Glimpse below, for the full film 👇 youtu.be/mvFPmB_5K10?si…
The Lost Generation | Where they fell
Verdun, Champagne, the Chemin des Dames, Somme, where over a 1.3m young and old French soldiers fell.
Then & now, where they fell, their faces and their memory 🥀
Glimpse below, for the full film 👇 youtu.be/mvFPmB_5K10?si…
The Great War… of Great Moustaches
Here are some of my top 10 Greatest Moustaches of World War I 🥸from Hindenburg’s to papa Joffre’s walrus.
What your favourite?
🎥 Watch the full 👇
youtube.com/shorts/zZM1-...
Here are some of my top 10 Greatest Moustaches of World War I 🥸from Hindenburg’s to papa Joffre’s walrus.
What your favourite?
🎥 Watch the full 👇
youtube.com/shorts/zZM1-...
October 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The Great War… of Great Moustaches
Here are some of my top 10 Greatest Moustaches of World War I 🥸from Hindenburg’s to papa Joffre’s walrus.
What your favourite?
🎥 Watch the full 👇
youtube.com/shorts/zZM1-...
Here are some of my top 10 Greatest Moustaches of World War I 🥸from Hindenburg’s to papa Joffre’s walrus.
What your favourite?
🎥 Watch the full 👇
youtube.com/shorts/zZM1-...
⏰ 9:15am, 25 Sept 1915
The worst single day of Allied losses on the Western Front and one you’ve likely never heard of.
In just 12+ hours:
🇫🇷 23,615 French dead
🇬🇧 8,581 British dead
A day almost erased from memory.
Today remember Champagne, Artois & Loos
#forgottenbattles
The worst single day of Allied losses on the Western Front and one you’ve likely never heard of.
In just 12+ hours:
🇫🇷 23,615 French dead
🇬🇧 8,581 British dead
A day almost erased from memory.
Today remember Champagne, Artois & Loos
#forgottenbattles
September 25, 2025 at 5:34 AM
⏰ 9:15am, 25 Sept 1915
The worst single day of Allied losses on the Western Front and one you’ve likely never heard of.
In just 12+ hours:
🇫🇷 23,615 French dead
🇬🇧 8,581 British dead
A day almost erased from memory.
Today remember Champagne, Artois & Loos
#forgottenbattles
The worst single day of Allied losses on the Western Front and one you’ve likely never heard of.
In just 12+ hours:
🇫🇷 23,615 French dead
🇬🇧 8,581 British dead
A day almost erased from memory.
Today remember Champagne, Artois & Loos
#forgottenbattles
#OTD
Sgt Laurent Marie Bernier, 38, was hit at 16:00 by a shell, his leg torn off and head wounded.
Herve Lambert commented: “We’d not moved him 10m when a 150 fell where he’d been.”
For all Herve efforts, Laurent died the next day; buried at La Nécropole Fontaine Routhon
Sgt Laurent Marie Bernier, 38, was hit at 16:00 by a shell, his leg torn off and head wounded.
Herve Lambert commented: “We’d not moved him 10m when a 150 fell where he’d been.”
For all Herve efforts, Laurent died the next day; buried at La Nécropole Fontaine Routhon
September 9, 2025 at 5:47 AM
#OTD
Sgt Laurent Marie Bernier, 38, was hit at 16:00 by a shell, his leg torn off and head wounded.
Herve Lambert commented: “We’d not moved him 10m when a 150 fell where he’d been.”
For all Herve efforts, Laurent died the next day; buried at La Nécropole Fontaine Routhon
Sgt Laurent Marie Bernier, 38, was hit at 16:00 by a shell, his leg torn off and head wounded.
Herve Lambert commented: “We’d not moved him 10m when a 150 fell where he’d been.”
For all Herve efforts, Laurent died the next day; buried at La Nécropole Fontaine Routhon
Bored this afternoon?
I have been busy ...
📽️15 minute video recreates what two soldiers went through at Verdun.
Told through the soldiers hand written letters from the front, as they endure the mud, the bombardments, and the losses...
▶️ youtu.be/POSeY_7aucQ?...
I have been busy ...
📽️15 minute video recreates what two soldiers went through at Verdun.
Told through the soldiers hand written letters from the front, as they endure the mud, the bombardments, and the losses...
▶️ youtu.be/POSeY_7aucQ?...
July 27, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Bored this afternoon?
I have been busy ...
📽️15 minute video recreates what two soldiers went through at Verdun.
Told through the soldiers hand written letters from the front, as they endure the mud, the bombardments, and the losses...
▶️ youtu.be/POSeY_7aucQ?...
I have been busy ...
📽️15 minute video recreates what two soldiers went through at Verdun.
Told through the soldiers hand written letters from the front, as they endure the mud, the bombardments, and the losses...
▶️ youtu.be/POSeY_7aucQ?...
26.7.16 Massiges
Nothing new, we still don't have any rest, because it's just always chores, still great weather, what great weather, but we shouldn't be locked up and kept like this. We are going to stay 8 days here, before doing 8 days in the 1st line, as I thought… but at least its quiet
Nothing new, we still don't have any rest, because it's just always chores, still great weather, what great weather, but we shouldn't be locked up and kept like this. We are going to stay 8 days here, before doing 8 days in the 1st line, as I thought… but at least its quiet
July 26, 2025 at 8:11 AM
26.7.16 Massiges
Nothing new, we still don't have any rest, because it's just always chores, still great weather, what great weather, but we shouldn't be locked up and kept like this. We are going to stay 8 days here, before doing 8 days in the 1st line, as I thought… but at least its quiet
Nothing new, we still don't have any rest, because it's just always chores, still great weather, what great weather, but we shouldn't be locked up and kept like this. We are going to stay 8 days here, before doing 8 days in the 1st line, as I thought… but at least its quiet
5.7.16
Couple of words before leaving the trenches. Am healthy & nothing new. We are impatiently waiting to leave, but it will be hard because we have a long way to go, at least 4 to 5 hours of walking, which the shoulders will not like! I kiss you my darling. See you tomorrow
Couple of words before leaving the trenches. Am healthy & nothing new. We are impatiently waiting to leave, but it will be hard because we have a long way to go, at least 4 to 5 hours of walking, which the shoulders will not like! I kiss you my darling. See you tomorrow
July 5, 2025 at 8:56 AM
5.7.16
Couple of words before leaving the trenches. Am healthy & nothing new. We are impatiently waiting to leave, but it will be hard because we have a long way to go, at least 4 to 5 hours of walking, which the shoulders will not like! I kiss you my darling. See you tomorrow
Couple of words before leaving the trenches. Am healthy & nothing new. We are impatiently waiting to leave, but it will be hard because we have a long way to go, at least 4 to 5 hours of walking, which the shoulders will not like! I kiss you my darling. See you tomorrow
#OTD 1st July 1916
Battle of the Somme
Lasted 170 days for the French.
Whilst still fiercely fighting at Verdun
1st July-31st August
19,000 🇫🇷 died-Verdun
23,000 🇫🇷 died-Somme
Today also remember the forgotten ally
Battle of the Somme
Lasted 170 days for the French.
Whilst still fiercely fighting at Verdun
1st July-31st August
19,000 🇫🇷 died-Verdun
23,000 🇫🇷 died-Somme
Today also remember the forgotten ally
July 1, 2025 at 5:58 AM
#OTD 1st July 1916
Battle of the Somme
Lasted 170 days for the French.
Whilst still fiercely fighting at Verdun
1st July-31st August
19,000 🇫🇷 died-Verdun
23,000 🇫🇷 died-Somme
Today also remember the forgotten ally
Battle of the Somme
Lasted 170 days for the French.
Whilst still fiercely fighting at Verdun
1st July-31st August
19,000 🇫🇷 died-Verdun
23,000 🇫🇷 died-Somme
Today also remember the forgotten ally
28.5.16
The nights are short. At night, its always tense, you see nothing or almost nothing, so you have to keep your eyes open with these dirty Germans, there is everything to fear from them. I am in good health, a little tired,but today is the day we are leaving, 8 days of rest
The nights are short. At night, its always tense, you see nothing or almost nothing, so you have to keep your eyes open with these dirty Germans, there is everything to fear from them. I am in good health, a little tired,but today is the day we are leaving, 8 days of rest
May 28, 2025 at 1:57 PM
28.5.16
The nights are short. At night, its always tense, you see nothing or almost nothing, so you have to keep your eyes open with these dirty Germans, there is everything to fear from them. I am in good health, a little tired,but today is the day we are leaving, 8 days of rest
The nights are short. At night, its always tense, you see nothing or almost nothing, so you have to keep your eyes open with these dirty Germans, there is everything to fear from them. I am in good health, a little tired,but today is the day we are leaving, 8 days of rest
1 Day = a 315e RI soldier
Colonel Gustave Devaux,
25th Oct 1856-25th Oct 1916
Professional soldier. By the time of mobilization in August 1914 was a Lt-Colonel in 115e. He was transferred to command the 315e RI in early August
Died on his 60th birthday at Verdun
#1d315e
Colonel Gustave Devaux,
25th Oct 1856-25th Oct 1916
Professional soldier. By the time of mobilization in August 1914 was a Lt-Colonel in 115e. He was transferred to command the 315e RI in early August
Died on his 60th birthday at Verdun
#1d315e
May 1, 2025 at 9:56 AM
1 Day = a 315e RI soldier
Colonel Gustave Devaux,
25th Oct 1856-25th Oct 1916
Professional soldier. By the time of mobilization in August 1914 was a Lt-Colonel in 115e. He was transferred to command the 315e RI in early August
Died on his 60th birthday at Verdun
#1d315e
Colonel Gustave Devaux,
25th Oct 1856-25th Oct 1916
Professional soldier. By the time of mobilization in August 1914 was a Lt-Colonel in 115e. He was transferred to command the 315e RI in early August
Died on his 60th birthday at Verdun
#1d315e
Best Reconstructed trenches on the western front
April 25, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Best Reconstructed trenches on the western front
Shelter made for a prince …
April 25, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Shelter made for a prince …
Tunnels and more tunnels
April 25, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Tunnels and more tunnels
Fort that valiantly fought
April 25, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Fort that valiantly fought
