it’s clear that the commemorations created after what was then known as the Great War still resonate with serving soldiers today. WW1: Did the machine-gun save lives? documentWW1: Did the ...
He was shipped back to England and, while in hospital, like many other injured soldiers, he took up embroidery during his recovery. The work he created features in a new exhibition at a military ...
The bodies of five British soldiers killed in the First World War have been found in a network of trenches at Ypres, Belgium. More than 80 years after their deaths, archaeologists discovered the ...
Soldiers from both sides describe their experience of shell fire and the physical and psychological effects it had on them and their colleagues. Being a pilot in WW1. videoBeing a pilot in WW1 ...
2nd Lt Whittles remained as an army officer training young soldiers in Warwickshire before serving in The Rhine area of Germany until Autumn 1919. He returned to Withington, South Manchester ...
These very humane and gentlemanly truces saw soldiers from both sides -- French ... This year marks the 110th anniversary of the first of those WWI truces that The Times newspaper, London ...