The history of the "Hello Girls" begins in late 1917, when General Pershing's appeal for bilingual telephone-switchboard operators was published in...
By the morning of 20th August 1914, General Dubail with his 1st Army and General de Castelnau with the 2nd Army, had exhausted themselves in...
Name: Oswald Boelcke Country: Germany Rank: Hauptmann Units: Jasta 2 Victories: 40 Date Of Birth: May 19, 1891 Place of Birth: Giebichstein,...
Austro-Hungarian fleet and the World War I in the Adriatic Histories of World War I Naval Combat tend to concentrate on the great fleet battles in...
There are Eight World War I Cemeteries in Europe Written in 1923 for the editors of Literary Digest, this is an article about the eight U.S. W.W....
The mere threat of war caused financial chaos across Europe during the last week of July. As individuals began hoarding money, local governments and...
I think I like the blue and white one best !! :rolleyes: .... were they really all these different colours ?? With the success of the Albatros...
Hans Roser is the only German buried at the Sanctuary Wood Cemetery. His is the only square gravestone, all other gravestones have a bow shape. In...
The U.S. armed forces remained segregated through World War I. Still, many African Americans eagerly volunteered to join the Allied cause following...
This is translated from German to English .... In February 1915, Germany launched in response to the English word "hunger blockade", an...
Of the three branches of the German military services - army, navy, and air, the air service received the most awards to junior officers. The...
I found this site looking for something else ... did you know about this flying school ?? .... The first step to founding a secret German flying...
The Forgotten Front ............. Pont a Mousson - St Die En Vosges The battlefields of Ypres, the Somme and Verdun are familiar to many...
Sportsmen who lost their lives in Flanders .... please add any that you know !! With huge goodwill and support from national sports federations and...
A few years ago the Sunday Times Magazine had an article about British sportsmen who died in WWI ....... Tony Wilding was born in New Zealand in...
James Speirs was born in Govan, Glasgow, on 22nd March, 1886. He worked as a clerk but was a talented footballer and played for Maryhill in the...
Preface ...... The 5th Highland Light Infantry was originally known as the 19th Lanark Rifle Volunteers, one of the Volunteer units raised in...
When and how did they decide to give wounded soldiers a pension ? .... I read that the concept of pensions came into existence after WW1 as a...
Not bad prices ... wonder how much they are now ?? :D http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/pdf/British%20Boots.pdf Annie :)
An account by one learned traveler who journeyed to that one isolated piece of ground on the isle of Skyros that will forever be England - the grave...
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