Declaration of war from the German Empire 1914, starting World War I. Signed by the German Kaiser Wilhelm II. at the "Neues Palais" in Potsdam,...
On Marika's site she says there is a tragic story to be told about James ACKERS but I can't get it ... does anybody know the story ?...
Harold Mugford, was East Ham's third Victoria Cross winner. He was born in London in 1884 and attended East Ham Grammar School. Mugford's later life...
This section contains summaries of the actions, battles and offensives conducted along the Western Front from 1914-18. Included are the tremendous...
John MacGregor was born and educated in Nairn, Scotland. At age 20 he emigrated to Canada and by 1915 was trapping in the north of B.C. when a...
Robert Laird Borden was born in Grand Pre Nova Scotia in 1854. His father owned a farm and worked as the local stationmaster. Young Borden was...
New York Times October 17 1914 Saturday Page 4 SALISBURY, Oct. 16 - Beginning before dawn today, from stations within a radius of ten miles,...
George Leslie Drewry was 20 years old, and a Midshipman in the Royal Naval Reserve during the First World War when the following action took place...
How very sad this story is ...... and what a brave soldier too !! Edgar Kinghorn Myles was born in July 1894 in East Ham. As a boy he moved...
I always seem to find things looking for something else ....... I wonder if anybody has ever researched them ?? ....... 'The Poplar and Stepney...
( Spelt Claud on Australian Roll of Honour ) Sergeant 1352, 5th Company, Australian Machine Gun Corps. Killed in action at Pozieres 29th July...
Thought this maybe of interest ! ( especially Andy !! ) JOSEPH CLEMENT Joseph Romeo Clement of Grimsby, Ontario 80 years-young retired...
I'm starting to believe that nothing is important anymore !! A New Zealand man says he found confidential data about US military personnel on an...
On the night of October 1, 1916, the German Navy Zeppelin L-21 was pushing her way through the high, thin air over Central England near Norfolk. As...
These images show just a few of the many different types of uniforms and styles which were used during the course of the war on the western front....
On the evening of August 6, 1914, the lone cargo ship S.S. City of Winchester was steaming southwest through the Gulf of Aden en route to London....
In the aftermath of the Balkan Wars, Bulgarian opinion turned against Russia and the western powers, whom the Bulgarians felt had done nothing to...
On the night of February 16th (?) 1918 - I think it was the Gotha Raid ... a bomb hit the Royal Hospital - five were killed and three children were...
BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE These eighteen documents, dated 13th. July 1923, were sent from the Ministry of Pensions to the British Red Cross...
Not all War Diaries have been uploaded but if you go to The National Archives http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ type War Diaries into the...
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