No other battle of the Great War could compare with Le Hamel for rapidity, brevity and completeness of success - it was all over in 93 minutes....
As World War I becomes a fading memory - the name Mata Hari conjures up the sinister image of a shadowy, seductive spy who ruthlessly betrayed the...
Jan Smuts 1870-1950 Prime Minister of the South African Union, 1919 - 1924 and 1939-1948 was both a military and a political leader ... "One of...
William Sholto Douglas was born in Headington, Oxfordshire, on 23rd December, 1893. Educated at Lincoln College in Oxford, Douglas joined the Royal...
Captain Andrew (Anthony) Frederick Weatherby Beauchamp-Proctor, VC, DSO, MC and bar, DFC (4 September 1894 – 21 June 1921) was a South African...
I first became interested in Louis Botha when I was researching my 1st Battalion South Lancs and their involvement in Spion Kop ..... A great man...
I wonder if this belongs in here in the Naval forum ............ ?? :rolleyes: The (63rd) Royal Naval Division The Royal Naval Division was a...
Apart from dodging bullets and avoiding death from enemy shells, there was a daily routine in the trenches of World War 1. It started 1 hour...
The Halifax Explosion, the world's largest man-made explosion before Hiroshima, occurred when a Belgian relief vessel and a French munitions carrier...
Although the German Army began experimenting with airships such as the Zeppelin, it was slow to see the potential of aircraft. The German Army Air...
The battle of Aubers Ridge was a British contribution to the Allied spring offensive of 1915 .. it was fought over the same ground as the battle of...
The S.S. Maheno was an Edwardian liner on the Tasman Sea crossing between New Zealand and Australia, and was used as a hospital ship by the New...
RHODES-MOORHOUSE, William Barnard (1887-1915) b. London, part-Maori The first airman to win the Victoria Cross, he legally adopted the name...
As we don't hear too much about New Zealand war research .... I thought you maybe interested in this ......... :) War NZ (Maori) Pioneer...
Fascinating !! This essay was written by a British woman who worked as a stenographer at the American embassy in London. She recalled much of what...
This reminds me of the comments made after the Charge of the Light Brigade !! :rolleyes: Nine years after he commanded the U.S. Fourth Corps...
Can I interest you in a French one ?? :rolleyes: http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/pdf/Burberrys5.pdf
Only 25 bob .... waterproof !! :D http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/pdf/British%20Uniform%20Rucksack.pdf
Good Grief ... here's another one ....... !! :D We are told that this unique image could only have been snapped in the more eccentric parts of...
This has to be a doctored photograph ... doesn't it ?? ;) Animals have played important rolls in war from the beginning and World War One was no...
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