epigramophone wrote:
gramophone78 wrote:
Actually, the one record that should be mentioned and is the only true recording of WW1 is this......
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Gas Shell Bombardment #2.JPG
Some say that this recording cost Will Gaisberg his life.
He was severely gassed whilst making the recording, and when he returned to London he succumbed to the 1918 influenza pandemic. Less than a month later he died. If he had not been weakened by the gas attack he might have survived.
It seems to be so. Fred's Brother Will was inadvertently gassed while taping the track. The recording equipment was placed inside the kitchen of a bombed out house. Apparently several wagons were needed to move this equipment. However, in order to capture the sounds.....the "horns" had to be placed very close to the action.
The irony in all this....was Will gassed by "friendly" fire....??.
Regardless, without this recording....WW1 would have never been captured for posterity.