Wonder if he'll have to pay them back ?? :rolleyes: what would a search like that cost do you think ?? A man kite surfing the Bristol Channel...
Look at the date this soldier died ! http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/baldwin/exhibition/apmembersdied.pdf
Wonder how many more were personalized ?? British artillery rounds personalized "To Capt. Fryatt's Murderer's" Read more here ........
The caption reads ...... Serbian soldier resting on bomb taken from downed German airship L-85 at Salonika
Arthur Percival Foley Rhys Davids, DSO, MC and bar (September 26, 1897 - October 27, 1917) was a pilot during the First World War He was the only...
After reading Kyt's post about the Jews in Shanghai I remembered this book ! .... I can't imagine having to go through what this family went through...
Papers unearthed by the BBC reveal that British and American commanders ensured that the liberation of Paris on 25 August 1944 was seen as a "whites...
Interesting ... don't you think ?? :) Concrete barges also served in the Pacific during 1944 and 1945 From the Charleroi, Pennsylvania, Mail,...
Did this really happen ? During World War II, a German U-Boat was sunk by a truck. The U-Boat in question attacked a convoy in the Atlantic and...
RIP Jenny - you will be missed !
Thought this maybe of interest ...... :)
I didn't know they had stoves in the trenches !! ....... :o
This isn't WW1 but it's one of the unusual memorials left behind in Europe ( I think it's pretty cool ! :) ) This actually dates from the 1960s...
At home .......
A famous picture of HMS Audacious sinking after striking a mine. She had only been in service for about a year when she was sunk and was a serious...
Charlie Chaplin in his biggest hit, and one of the biggest of all times, Shoulder Arms, 1918
I just couldn't resist this soldier .... what a "Scouser " !! :) Of Irish descent, but born in Liverpool, Barney Hines ran away to the army at the...
http://www.gwpda.org/photos/rfc56.htm Gerald Maxwell, W. Melville, H. Lehman, C. Knight, L. M. Barlow, K. J. Knaggs Sitting: C. A. Lewis, J. O....
The R38 airship crash was the first airship disaster after the First World War. The R38 had been commissioned during the war but was not built until...
by Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart ISBN: 9781844155392 During World War One he served in Africa and In Europe, commanded 12 Brigade and 105 Brigade, won...
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