Here's Dad .... actually he could be one of two ...... or they could both be him .... what do you think ? William B. Gould Regiment Name - 42...
Here's the challenge .... what can we find out about these boys ? Here is a photo of the Gould family of fighters ! Seated in front is...
What do you think ? Much has been written about the rivalry among the allied forces in World War I in the claim to having killed Manfred Freiherr...
I found this looking for something else ... ( I did a search but didn't see it posted !!! ) The bone collectors - The search for lost heroes of...
Teams of divers have scoured waters off the North East and Yorkshire Coast looking for the last few missing German U-Boats from World War One....
Ferdinand Foch had quite a few ..... but heres two that strike a chord !! " It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general " " The most...
I won't ask what you did there Brian ( in your youth I mean !! ) !!!!!!!!! Heres a site I love to visit .... thought you might like some of these...
I agree the Somme was a turning point in the war - though not evident at the time - the casualties of that first day still distort the achievement of...
In 1915 the British Admiralty secretly planned a class of submarines of revolutionary design. These submersible destroyers, as they were called, were...
I have read this story many times ... but the photo of the lady with 5 sets of service medals still affects me .... !! During the winter of...
Alfred Dillwyn Knox, the fourth of six children was the son of Edmund Arbuthnott Knox, and the brother of Ronald Knox, E. V. Knox and Wilfred. L....
Inscription - the Plaque reads: This Park was Named in Honour of CAPT. CLARENCE SMITH JEFFRIES, V.C. 34th Infantry Battalion, A.I.F. Killed in...
I don't want to start anything about Haig ........ :rolleyes: but I do know he didn't want to start on the Somme so early .... but thats beside the...
Heres a site that maybe of interest to all you aviation buffs ....... :) I just chose the WW1 section .... but theres plenty there to see !! It...
Just as an aside ... I remember seeing the Memorial at Wallesey for a few Remembrance days !! ..... but I can't remember why .... I'm wondering if...
The loss of life and those wounded was huge at Verdun ... reference books frequently give differing figures such was the magnitude of loss. It is...
The Bataan Death March, 1942 The war came to the Philippines the same day it came to Hawaii and in the same manner – a surprise air attack. In the...
CODEBOOKS There are some similarities between the way in which Britain secured its intelligence advantage in the two wars. In World War II, the...
In the history of cryptography, Room 40 (formally I.D. 25) was the room in the Admiralty which was the first location of the British cryptography...
Falkenhayn first came to the German army's attention as a member of the International force during the Boxer Rebellion in China in 1900. In 1913, he...
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