1) Destruction of a generation of men - 331 781 troops into action. - 59 342 killed or died from wounds. - 152 171 wounded or affected by gas. - 4084...
C E W Bean the official Australian WWI historian is probably the person most responsible for the ANZAC legend. He accompanied the troops to Gallipoli...
I thought you may like to see some old photos !! :) http://www.firstworldwar.com/photos/battlegrounds.htm
This is one determined young Aussie !! :) When Leonard Walter Jackson of Neutral Bay joined the AIF on the 6th of August 1915, he must have been one...
Can anybody can add anything please ? ..... Lewis, Harold Lockwood - 24th (Tyneside Irish) Bn. Northumberland Fusiliers. - Tyne Cot Memorial...
This is such a very sad story .... I came across a picture of a WWI memorial to the Niueans who fought in the war ... and I was intrigued - so I...
It is often said that wars are either won at sea, in the air, or in the trenches - however this story relates to a ‘war of production’ – a war that...
The sound of the blast was unearthly, and the tremor was felt 100 miles away in Philadelphia. The night sky over New York Harbor turned orange....
Growing up I heard so many stories of the way the soldiers were treated after the war .... many came to Liverpool ! when I was researching my Munster...
........ that Ireland has produced more American Medal of Honor recipients than any other country ? :)...
In 2002 Ireland's last Veteran of Great War died at 102 .... could anybody help me find out anything about him please ? TNA has 7 medals for Thomas...
With the high rate of attacks on women in secluded car parks, especially during evening hours, the City Council has established a "Women Only" car...
I found this on another site ... wallowing at the bottom of the posts and thought maybe somebody may find it useful ! ... looks like a lot of work...
We remember Gallipoli ......... We are coming up to Anzac Day and I thought we might think of all the soldiers who were there ...... the Gallipoli...
The Choctaw Nation are very rightly proud of their Code Talking soldiers During the annual Choctaw Labor Day Festival in 1986, Chief Hollis E....
I can't find this man ... does anybody know anything about him ? Adolf K.G.E. von Spiegel commanded a German U-boat during the First World War. He...
Few train crashes in Scotland can have had more of an impact upon one small community than the Gretna rail disaster which took place at Quintinshill...
Can you imagine .... 5 pounds a week .... and the danger involved .... :eek: When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, visited H....
There were posters to rally the kids too ... wonder how many of them could read it ??!! :D Our Country's Call To Service - Through Public and...
To Dover goes the dubious honour of being the place where the first bomb fell on British soil. It was Christmas Eve 1914, the weather bright...
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