A fascinating, two page article that does not simply confine itself to the issue of dogs in the service of the Red-Cross, but also makes mention of...
The difficult task of wandering the war-torn countryside of Europe in search of fallen World War I American aviators fell to a U.S. Army captain...
This article is essentially a collection of lyrics from an assortment of songs sung by the Black Doughboys who were charged with the task of loading...
An article written by David Le Roy Ferguson (dates unknown), an African-American pastor assigned to minister to the black Doughboys posted to the...
This is a lovely piece - originally written in French for a village paper - in which a journalist describes the collective anticipation of the...
During June of 1917, the German Army introduced the "Lederschutzmasken", a leather gas mask made of specially treated Bavarian sheepskin with...
It is often believed that the Germans were the first to use chemical weapons during the Great War, but historians like to point out that they were...
When the Entente powers were first exposed to poisonous gas in the spring of 1915 their respective quartermasters scrambled to find a suitable...
The attached article,"Photography's Notable Part in the War" was written by an active participant in the aerial reconnaissance arm of the Royal...
Al Capone's oldest brother, James Vincenzo Capone, left his home in Brooklyn at the age of 16 in 1908. Always a strong-minded and independent boy,...
CHARLES RUMNEY SAMSON 1883-1931 AKA Air Commodore Samson RAF - formerly Lt Cdr RNAS Weymouth's Place in Aviation History Extract from the book,...
I wonder how many families still have one of these ? :) Letter from King George V to British POW's On Their Release in 1918 Buckingham Palace...
I'm not sure if this should be with HMS Furious or here ... but here goes !! Squadron Commander Edwin Harris Dunning, DSC (17 July 1892 - 7 August...
HMS Furious was one of the pioneering ships of British naval aviation. Originally laid down in 1915 as a large light cruiser mounting two 457mm guns,...
I just realised that this cemetery ( that looks after one of my Portuguese soldiers) has a few RFC and WW2 RAF headstones also ... thought you may be...
1643 Portuguese lost their lives on the battlefields of Flanders during the first World War ..... and we were trying to find descendants !!!!! .........
Gabriel Voisin was of the most productive aircraft designers of the First World War. On 5th October, 1914 the Voisin III, became the first Allied...
Here's one of my favourites ! :) British archaeological scholar, adventurer, military strategist, and the writer of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom...
It is fairly easy to find descriptions of The Western Front, Mesopotamia, Gallipoli and other well-known areas of action. The events in Salonika are...
Expenditure on the French Navy doubled between 1910 and 1914. Fourteen new battleships were ordered along with cruisers, destroyers and submarines....
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