Description: A cracking example of a original World War One Imperial German Army-Issue Dark Green Hock Bottle excavated intact in the Trenches of the Western Front in 1914-18 The Battle of Meuse-Argonne was the last great Allied offensive against the German lines which took place between September 26th and the Armistice on November 11 1918. Over 1 million of the new American troops in theatre, took part & tragically some 26,000 were killed in the course of the battle, with over 100,000 casualties suffered in total.. Measuring approx 10.5" in height and completely undamaged, this impressively-shaped large wine bottle in dark-green glass was one of two excavated in a remaining German position in the 'Kaiser Bunker System' in the Argonne Forest along the River Meuse, some 200 miles east of Paris. Still in a stunning, undamaged condition it is another lovely surviving & evocative item from The German Argonne Sector of the Great War.. Part of an on-going acquisition of a fascinating militaria collection of British, German & French Great War Barn-found & Trench Dug artefacts from The Somme, Verdun & Meuse in France and from the Ypres Salient of Belgium that was carefully built up & curated over a 40-year period. Thanks for looking..!
Price: 50 GBP
Location: Winchester, Hampshire
End Time: 2025-01-17T18:41:11.000Z
Shipping Cost: 25.38 GBP
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Issued/ Not-Issued: Issued
Beaumont Hamel: Chemins des Dames
River Meuse: Hock Bottle
Schnapps Bottle: The Somme
RFC: Royal Flying Corps
Ypres: Passenschendale
Country/ Organization: Germany
ANZAC: Gallipoli
Hindenburg Line: Iron Cross
The Somme: The Western Front
Kaiser Bunker: Argonne Forest
Verdun: Vimy Ridge
BEF: British Expeditionary Force
Mons: Loos
Flanders: Thiepval
Imperial German Army: Kaiser Wilhelm
Aisne: Marne
Service: Army
Modified Item: No
Ancre: Cambrai
Type: Field Gear
Conflict: World War I (1914-1918)
Era: 1914-1945
RAF: Royal Air Force
American Expeditionary Force: Canadian Expeditionary Force
Theme: Militaria
Arras: The Sunken Road
Country/Region of Manufacture: Germany
