I wonder why these Australians were buried in Cambridge ? ... ( though I know there was a military hospital there ) ... does anybody know ? In...
Sad story of casualties .... :( MITCHELL, Walter Dawson - Civilian Walter Mitchell was the youngest son of the Rev. George Patton Mitchell...
In Memory of Major CAMPBELL McNEILL McCORMACK M C and 2 Bars 5th Field Amb., Royal Army Medical Corps who died age 27 on 22 September 1918...
There are numerous stories of the crew of rival reconnaissance aircraft exchanging nothing more belligerent than smiles and waves. This soon...
Thanks Hugh .... that explains a lot !! :) I've perused the Maritime History Archive many times for earlier ships records but I didn't realise...
I'm glad you found it helpful Chris ! have you tried for his service records by any chance ? you can obtain his service history from the MOD -...
And some knitted socks ....... :) James Pappas remembers that his grandmother was always knitting. Now he knows why she did it. He recently came...
Even before the United States entered World War I, Europe had a crisis on its hands. The year 1916 had been one of the most disastrous agricultural...
Can I ask a question ? ........ I know there is a card index for the BWM and Mercantile Marine War Medal at Kew on microfiche and I heard there are...
The US Navy inflicted few losses on the German Navy - one definite U-boat plus others possibly mined in the huge North Sea barrage laid in part by...
Following the 1904 Anglo-French Entente Cordiale, French Navy policy was to concentrate its forces in the Mediterranean against a likely...
I was asked if I knew about a Doughboy lamp that was produced in the US in WW1 .... I had never heard of it .... so I got to searching .... and this...
It was Admiral John Fisher, the First Sea Lord, was the driving-force behind the development of the Dreadnought that was built at Portsmouth Dockyard...
The menace of the hostile division led to an arms race, another cause of World War I. Acknowledging that Germany was the leader in military...
These subjects just don't occur to me ... until I run across them ... fascinating stuff ! San Francisco Immigration Station Sought to Bar Hostile...
Hi Jerome ! Do you have these two soldiers ... both with the same name ?? In Memory of Private E JONES 4380, 4th Bn., British West Indies...
The 57th Infantry Regiment Memorial is a Turkish war memorial commemorating the men of the Turkish 57th Infantry Regiment who died during the Battle...
The story behind this picture is - an Anzac soldier ran out of his trench and ran towards the Turkish trench but he was alone and got shot - between...
Wonder if the Germans could have read them ?? :confused: Letters home by a soldier during World War I have revealed a little known fact about life...
Cope, William. Adm. at CLARE, Oct. 8, 1888. S. of Matthew, of Quarry Hill, St Mellon's, Cardiff. [B. Aug. 18, 1870.] School, Repton. Matric....
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