Fritz Arno Wagner(1894 - 1958) is best remembered as a pioneering cinematographer from the earliest days of the German film industry, however before...
From the very earliest days of the war photographs familiarised civilians on the home front with a picture, almost always the same, of a shell...
Collected within these pages are many present day photographs taken at battlefield locations and cemeteries located on the Western Front. Also...
Union between Austria and Hungary took place in 1867. Overall political authority was held by Emperor Franz Josef. Over 51 million people lived...
Newton Deihl Baker was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia on December 3, 1871. Baker attended the village schools in Martinsburg through his second...
I love this man's illustrations of WW1 ....... two in particular ....... very evocative !! Fortunino Matania was born in Naples in 1881. By the...
I've been reading a lot lately about soldiers having Trench Foot ... Many soldiers fighting in the First World War suffered from trench foot....
Even some Manchesters here !!!!!!!!! :D http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/document/9241/5755#page-image Annie :)
Christmas 1917 Mary Coutts Michie CBE, the Widow of George MCulloch a Scottish Australian mine owner, loaned her Mansion at 184 Queens Gate for...
René Paul Fonck was born on March 27, 1894, in Saulcy-sur-Merthe, a typical French village in the mountainous Vosges region. At 20, when the war...
Franz Josef was born in 1830. At the age of eighteen he became Hapsburg Emperor and in 1867, ruler of Austria-Hungary. Over the next few years his...
French, Field Marshal Sir John Denton Pinkstone, 1st Earl of Ypres. (1852-1925) Born, Ripple, Kent. Member of Lord Garnet Wolseley's Nile...
Roland Aubrey Leighton was born in London on 27th March, 1895, the son of Robert Leighton, a writer of boys' adventure stories, and Marie Connor...
Alan Alexander Milne was born in Hampstead on 18th January 1882. His father was headteacher of Henley House School. One of his teachers was H. G....
Heres one of those brave soldiers who came home .... RIP William Fuller William Fuller was born in Newbridge, Carmarthenshire on 24th March 1884....
Just imagine .... Liverpool Scottish !!!!! :) Philip Basil Rathbone was born in Johannesburg, South Africa on 13th June 1892. His father, Edgar...
Julian Hedworth George Byng (1862-1935) was born at Wrotham Park on 11 September 1862. After studying at Eton Byng began a military career He...
Happy Birthday Tonyrod !! Hope you've had a wonderful day !! :D:D Annie :)
Enver Pasha was born in Apana in 1881. Commissioned in the Turkish Army and received some of his training with the German Army. While serving in the...
Disillusioned ... and in despair .... in spite of being very lucky ..... how very sad ! Ernst Toller, the son of Mendel Toller, a successful Jewish...
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