Artillery Trench Find

alanint · 06-12-2016, 02:23 PM

Found at the bottom of recently excavated trenches in France. Considering the exceptional condition of most of the rig, I would really like to see what the pistol looks like!

kurusu · 06-12-2016, 05:39 PM

Do you think there's still a pistol in that holster?

Eugen · 06-12-2016, 05:51 PM

I'd sure like to learn the story of how it got buried and hidden for so long. How'd that happen? What happened to the owner? The truth is probably more exciting than our imaginations.

Ron Wood · 06-12-2016, 07:37 PM

That holster and a bunch of other artifacts and human remains were uncovered in a roofed trench system that had collapsed, trapping the soldiers and their equipment.

hayhugh · 06-12-2016, 09:10 PM

And where we can all read the story.................

Edward Tinker · 06-12-2016, 10:14 PM

I saw this recently, a Google search shows this from four years ago
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ied-shell.html

LU1900 · 06-13-2016, 12:10 AM

Yes know as the KILIANSTOLLEN (ask on google)
Here some link :
http://www.lieux-insolites.fr/cicatr...ian/kilian.htm
http://www.kilianstollen1918.com/

GerColctor · 06-16-2016, 06:33 PM

Ed Tinker

Thank you for posting that very interesting and informative link.

Joe

gunbugs · 06-17-2016, 12:03 AM

A good article on this in Archeology magazine about a year ago.

06-12-2016, 02:23 PM	#1
alanint User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Marco Island, Florida Posts: 4,867 Thanks: 1,685 Thanked 1,916 Times in 1,192 Posts	Artillery Trench Find Found at the bottom of recently excavated trenches in France. Considering the exceptional condition of most of the rig, I would really like to see what the pistol looks like! Attached Thumbnails

06-12-2016, 05:51 PM	#3
Eugen User Join Date: Apr 2016 Location: Newburgh,IN Posts: 790 Thanks: 393 Thanked 631 Times in 334 Posts	I'd sure like to learn the story of how it got buried and hidden for so long. How'd that happen? What happened to the owner? The truth is probably more exciting than our imaginations. __________________ “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.” ― Mark Twain

06-12-2016, 07:37 PM	#4
Ron Wood Moderator 2010 LugerForum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Santa Teresa New Mexico just outside of the West Texas town of El Paso Posts: 7,020 Thanks: 1,090 Thanked 5,174 Times in 1,701 Posts	That holster and a bunch of other artifacts and human remains were uncovered in a roofed trench system that had collapsed, trapping the soldiers and their equipment. __________________ If it's made after 1918...it's a reproduction

06-13-2016, 12:10 AM	#7
LU1900 User Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: FRANCE Posts: 908 Thanks: 41 Thanked 469 Times in 197 Posts	Yes know as the KILIANSTOLLEN (ask on google) Here some link : http://www.lieux-insolites.fr/cicatr...ian/kilian.htm http://www.kilianstollen1918.com/ __________________ Best regards from France...Patrice https://www.fichier-pdf.fr/2016/03/1...nd-snail-drum/

06-16-2016, 06:33 PM	#8
GerColctor User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: CT & FL Posts: 312 Thanks: 2 Thanked 45 Times in 29 Posts	Ed Tinker Thank you for posting that very interesting and informative link. Joe __________________ It is better to have lived a day as a tiger, then a thousand years as a lamb.

06-12-2016, 05:39 PM	#2
kurusu User Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 1,225 Thanks: 2,679 Thanked 930 Times in 509 Posts	Do you think there's still a pistol in that holster?

06-12-2016, 09:10 PM	#5
hayhugh User Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: Florida/Penna Posts: 896 Thanks: 856 Thanked 513 Times in 275 Posts	And where we can all read the story.................

06-12-2016, 10:14 PM	#6
Edward Tinker Super Moderator Eternal Lifer LugerForum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: North of Spokane, WA Posts: 15,931 Thanks: 2,031 Thanked 4,527 Times in 2,090 Posts	I saw this recently, a Google search shows this from four years ago http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ied-shell.html

06-17-2016, 12:03 AM	#9
gunbugs Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: Fairbanks, Alaska. Home of the best moose. Posts: 658 Thanks: 365 Thanked 1,175 Times in 393 Posts	A good article on this in Archeology magazine about a year ago.