I love this page of Ray Westlake's London memorials - especially this one ! Unveiled in 1920, and the work of Major Cecil Brown, just along the...
It all started with an officer in the 29th Company, Royal Engineers - Major Peter Norman Nissen (1871-1930) needed a fast, easy-to-erect building...
This was still going when the war started !! :D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_vVQ1JhQiM
Although these men didn't go to France or the war they still lost their lives in wartime .... RIP to the Metropolitan Police Service who gave...
I didn't see this documentary ... did anybody else ?? On 12 October, 1915, British Nurse Edith Cavell was taken from her prison cell in Brussels...
Young Chicagoan Thomas A. Pope was assigned to Company E, 1st Illinois Infantry, along with his brother and a host of childhood friends during World...
I thought this was a nice site .... plus it's easy enough for me to understand !! :) Cecil's daughter-in-law, Lady Joan Slack, has put this...
Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg was born in Howenfinow, Brandenburg. After studying law he served as Prussian minister for the Interior. When Bernhard...
Shell shock was just not a subject the Army wanted to talk about I'm afraid ! A soldier who was executed during World War I is to have his name...
Captain Willy Rohr revamped a special project which had false-started in 1914, stormtroops, elite units of carefully selected, specially trained men....
One of the most devastating weapons of the war !! :( The flamethrower was invented in 1901 by German engineer Richard Fiedler. He tested these...
Training accident ........ through the roof of a bakery !
Whats this ? :rolleyes:
I've never heard of a Rumpler !! .......:confused:
German balloonist "bailing out" ......... !
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is to seek compensation from Israel for damage to the Gaza War Cemetery incurred during recent shelling....
I came across Lt Bromage while I was researching another POW and was surprised to read about this ! ... why do these things always surprise me ??...
I came across this photo and thought how poignant it was .... ! thought I'd share it ! http://www.flickr.com/photos/sammikins1976/3014645911/...
Thought you maybe interested in this ... fascinating reading ! "Shot whilst escaping Belgium 10th October 1914" The tale of the men buried at...
I wonder if anybody could give me any details about which ship was torpedoed on this date please ? Thanking you in advance Annie :) TURNER,...
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