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Writes about the First World War. FRHistS. Late museum curator. https://simonjoneshistorian.com/

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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 20h

Another of Jean Larrivé's models at the French Army Medical Museum at Val-de-Grâce, Paris. This one shows bearers carrying a wounded man into an underground trench dressing station.

Model of stretcher bearers in a trench wearing greatcoats and steel helmets carrying a prostrate man down steps into a dugout.

Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 1d

The swans have flown. All six cygnets made it.

Sunset and an empty pond.

Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 2d

Windsor this evening.

Deer in parkland, sun low.

Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 3d

Shocking plot twist.

During the writing, Gallagher disclosed another decades-old secret to his partner: when he speedily completed the crossword in her copy of the Guardian he had already done it earlier, in his own copy

Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 4d

Looking at my old notes of visits to the site of No 8 Stationary Hospital on the cliffs at Wimereux, which was made a special hospital for fractures where Meurice Sinclair (centre) & Tudor Edwards (right) pioneered this method of the treatment of leg fractures using the Thomas splint. (IWM Q 33472)

Patient in hospital bed with leg in splint attended by female nursing sister and two male doctors.

Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 4d

It's wonderful.

Pages of funny drawings: HIS COAT OF ARDS

2 man in full armour was unrecognisable. A

So each man wore a distinctive coat, by which he could be recognised, over his armour. This was called his coat "of armm

These arms were displayed on his banner, shield and horsecloth, as well as on his cout-

and came to be worn in civil life too.

A s no two men in the same region could wear exactly the same coat of arm, these "arms" were soon used separately as personal symbols-and especially to mark theit owners' possessions, became few people could read in those days. Such a coat of arms is usually depicted on a shield.

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HIS HELMET AND CREST

personal "crest" of light wood or boiled leather A came to be worn-like a cock's comb on top of the helmet,

Below the crest a silken mantle hing down to kerp the heat of the sun off the back of the armour.

This "mantling" was kept in place by a wreath of twisted silk.

Some great mem wote a "chapeau" or a crest-coronet instead of the wreath.

Helmet, crest and mantling are usually depicted above the shield.

GANG WARILY

With the addition of a motto on a scroll, this forns the normal heraldic "achievement" of an ordinary gentlema

Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 4d

How has my wife kept this book from me for so long?

Book SIMPLE HERALDRY

CHEERFULLY ILLUSTRATED

BY IAIN DONCREIFFE & DON POTTINGER

Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 4d

How it's going... She has a fully-functioning cat flap but prefers to pretend that she's being held captive.

Ginger cat perched on the catch of a window.

Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 5d

Luckily I don't think it's that type of doll.

Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 5d

The mortality of femoral fractures was greatly reduced, as I understand it, using the Thomas splint.

Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 5d

The most disturbing model in the museum at Val-de-Grâce. The method of traction for leg fractures developed during the First World War.

Model with a doll in traction.

Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 5d

Attachments for a prosthetic arm, First World War, at Val-de-Grâce.

Steel arm with spoon attached, nine other attachments alongside.

Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 5d

Model of field latrines, Feuillées de campagne, by Jean Larrivé, at Val-de-Grâce.

Model showing pits in ground, soldiers robing and disrobing.

Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 5d

This statue of Napoleon ended up in the Seine at the fall of the Second Republic in 1870 but it seems no one knows how. It's now at Les Invalides.

Rear view of statue overlooking courtyard.

Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 5d

Yes, that exhibition is there and is the first of three scheduled I believe.

Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 5d

I was so excited about the gas masks I forgot to photograph all of them. 🙄 The museum has some interesting photography exhibitions scheduled so a return visit will be on the cards.

Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 6d

Chapeau to @brynleyh.bsky.social for the knowledge that this museum was even open.

Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 6d

I loved the models of scenes from First World War. This one depicts a front line underground aid post. (Musée du Service de santé des armées, Val-de-Grâce, Paris).

Model showing soldier treated on table in dugout.

Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 6d

There is an important collection of the impregnated cloth pads used to protect against chlorine and phosgene gas in the summer and autumn of 1915.

Large cloth pad secured with tapes around a mannequin head, with goggles and steel helmet. At the Musée du Service de santé des armées at Val-de-Grâce, Paris.

Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 6d

I loved the models of scenes from First World War. This one depicts a front line underground aid post. (Musée du Service de santé des armées, Val-de-Grâce, Paris).

Model showing soldier treated on table in dugout.

Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 6d

Where the Allies took the decision to fight the Battle of the Somme. The Hôtel du Grand Condé, Chantilly, north of Paris, the location of French Army General Headquarters 1914-16.

Large hotel in pink and white stone.

Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 6d

I thought of you here and the stories you tell in The Facemaker @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social.

Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 6d

Maxillofacial surgery during the First World War is represented by wax models showing patients before and after treatment.

Models of a man's face showing injuries to jaw , after surgery his jaw is partially reconstructed and he has a moustache.

Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 7d

Stand by for photos from my visit to the amazing Musée du Service de santé des armées at Val-de-Grâce, Paris. First up, the helmet invented by Bercher and Ginestet for the treatment of facial and jaw injuries (undated 1930s?).

Metal helmet with probes extending against the skull and jaws.

Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 7d

Liberty by Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi (musee d'Orsay).

Small version of Statue of Liberty.

Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 7d

Money = privilege, confidence, isolation, and indifference to those around them. Brilliantly depicted by J S Sargent in The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, 1882. (Currently in the musee d'Orsay).

Painting of four girls various ages in sunlit room.