He was a brave man as were all those of his generation - he was born on February 10 1899 and died on January 27 2004, aged 104. Lance Corporal...
An obituary shouldn't make you smile .... but I smiled at this one !! :rolleyes: 8th January, 2003 Henry John Lawrence Botterell, perhaps the last...
Portuguese Expeditionary Corps - Aníbal Milhais .... here's the story of a brave man .... RIP His story is told on a page for toy soldiers ... how...
We rarely hear of the part the Colonial soldiers played in the war ... I came across this and thought it may be of interest ! :) 608,209 French...
I'd appreciate any help please .... thanking you in advance ! Annie :) Name: O'RORKE, The Rev. BENJAMIN GARNISS Initials: B G Nationality:...
Vesta Tilley was very instrumental in recruitment .... many a soldier joined up after seeing her !! :D Vesta Tilley was born Matilda Alice Powles...
Emma ! .... do you have this already ?? .... this is just in case !! :rolleyes: EDGELEY Private ADOLPHUS BERT 1737. 3rd Bn. Australian Infantry...
The French battleship Suffren was a pre-Dreadnought battleship of the French Navy named after French admiral Pierre André de Suffren de Saint Tropez,...
.................. and World War Two World War 1 The Board of Trade, Marine Department had government responsibility for merchant seamen. The...
Built in 1902 by Gourlay Bros., Dundee (Yard No.202) for the Great Eastern Railway Co., Harwich. She was 1,380grt and measured 285 x 34 x 15½ ft....
During World War I about 8 million men surrendered and were held in POW camps until the war ended. All nations pledged to follow the Hague rules on...
Visit of King George V and Queen Mary to France 3-14 July 1917. The King and Queen go their various ways, the King to St-Sixte Monastery (used as...
The most celebrated U.S. Army chaplain in the Great War, Father Francis Patrick Duffy, a Roman Catholic priest, was born in Cobourg, Canada, and was...
Hugh Trenchard (1873-1956) helped to lay the foundations of the Royal Air Force (RAF) during World War One. Born on 3 February 1873 in Taunton,...
The offensive at Le Hamel was planned by John Monash, commander of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) on the Western Front. Launched on 4th July...
Name: Georges Marie Ludovic Jules Guynemer Country: France Rank: Capitaine Service: French Air Service Units: Spa3 Victories: 53 Date Of Birth:...
Donald MacLaren was born at Ottawa Ontario on 28th May 1893 MacLaren became a fur trader and did not join the Royal Flying Corps until 1917....
Alfred Leete, the son of a farmer, was born in Northampton on 28th August 1882. Educated at Weston-super-Mare Grammar School at fifteen he started...
Does anybody have any information about what really happened ? Reinhardt Scheer commanded the German High Seas Fleet at the Battle of Jutland and...
As German troops stormed into France in the summer of 1914, the American Colony in Paris inaugurated a volunteer ambulance service to transport the...
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