The Battle of Caporetto (or Battle of Karfreit as it was known by the Central Powers), took place from 24 October to 9 November 1917, near Kobarid,...
Augustin Manuel Hubert Gaston Boue de Lapeyrere (18 Jan 1852-17 Feb 1924) was a French admiral during World War I. He was a strong proponent of naval...
Pierre Auguste Roques (28 December 1856 in Marseillan - 26 February 1920 in Saint-Cloud) was a French general and creator of the French air force....
Alfred Dreyfus (9 October 1859 - 12 July 1935) was a French artillery officer of Jewish background whose trial and conviction in 1894 on charges of...
Adrien Bertrand (4 August 1888 - 18 November 1917) was a French novelist whose short career was punctuated by a series of striking surrealist...
Adolphe Celestin Pegoud (13 June 1889 - 31 August 1915) was a well known French aviator who became the first fighter ace. Pegoud served in the...
Francois Faber (26 January 1887, Aulnay-sur-Iton, Eure, France - died Carency, Pas-de-Calais, 9 May 1915) was a Luxembourgian cyclist. He was born in...
Lieutenant-Colonel George Adam Beazeley DSO (7 July 1870 – 8 May 1961) was a British Army officer, surveyor and one of the fathers of aerial...
The Queen visited the grave of a forgotten British World War I hero on the second day of her trip to Germany. She laid a wreath at the Commonwealth...
Major Francis Charles Claypon Yeats-Brown, DFC (August 15, 1886 - December 19, 1944) was an officer in the British Indian army and the author of the...
Air Chief Marshal Lloyd Samuel Breadner CB, DSC (July 14, 1894, Carleton Place, Ontario - March 14, 1952, Boston, Massachusetts) was a Canadian...
'Elwyn Roy King' DSO DFC (1894–1941) was an Australian fighter pilot and ace in World War I. He scored 26 aerial victories in combat during the war,...
Andrew King Cowper MC & Two Bars (16 November 1898 - 25 June 1989) was an Australian fighter pilot and ace of World War I. He shot down 19 German...
Sounds like quite a man doesn't he ?? :) Alexander was an Australian flying ace in World War I. He served in the RFC from 1916 until the end of...
Dr Karl von Tappen (1879-1941) is often credited as the scientist who effectively started Germany's chemical weapons programme during World War One....
Captain Harry Ranken RAMC was born in Glasgow in September 1883 the oldest son of Rev Harry Ranken. He was educated at Irvine Royal Academy and...
Here are some more recognizable ones !! :) Please add more ...... ! Victoria Cross (VC) The Victoria Cross was instituted on 29 January 1856....
A native of Dumbarton, William Babtie was born on 7th May 1859 to Edith Mary, who came originally from Ballyadam, County Cork, and John Babtie, JP....
George Creel was born in Layfayette County, Missouri, on 1st December, 1876. He worked as a reporter for the Kansas City World (1894-99) before...
Gabrielle Alina Eugenia Maria Petit was born in a simple family in Tournai (Doornik), Belgium in 1893. After her mother's death she was raised in a...
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