I could go on about this for days .... but we're off topic Scrim !! :D I'll just say this .... General Gordon's first job - was to get the...
72 ships ........ what a waste !! :eek: Having surrendered at the end of the First World War, the Imperial German High Seas Fleet lay at anchor...
On Monday 5th June 1916, about 1 to 1/2 miles off Marwick Head in Orkney, by 7.50 pm H.M.S. Hampshire had struck a German mine and sunk. According to...
He was supposed to be there !!
How incredibly sad that program was ... I hope Folker is able to find out about his roots ... he sounds like a nice man who loved his adoptive...
And don't get me started on Gordon ...... if it hadn't have been for increasing British popular support for Gordon ( and letters to the Times from...
I have to say when I started delving into the Boer War ... I was shocked to find out about the British and their concentration camps .... Some...
Don't know who it was that said it .... but I guess somebody liked him !! :rolleyes: Seems to me ( what little I've read of him ) Ludendorff passes...
The first battle of Artois, 27 September-10 October 1914, was part of the Race to the Sea, a series of encounter battles that set the line of the...
OMG !! .... look at them ! .... very impressive indeed I'm going to have to sit and look at them for a while ! :D:D So we'd have to check Kew...
Erich Ludendorff, the third of six children, was born near Posen on 9th April 1865. His father, August Wilhelm Ludendorff (1833-1905), was a...
German Spring Offensive of 1918 (The Ludendorff Offensive) Spring Offensive that happened in 1918 was a series of German attacks along the Western...
Anticipating some such attack, Haig had deemed it wise to relieve the two Portuguese divisions which held part of the front between the Lys and La...
YATE, George Allix Lavington. (reg No. 1339). Major. 2nd Battalion. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. London Gazetted on 25th November 1914....
Madeley's VC - Major C.A.L. Yate Amongst the many names of the dead of the First World War on Madeley's War Memorial, including five who were...
Here's some interesting photographs !! http://www.firstworldwar.com/photos/prisoners.htm Annie :)
Michel ... is this picture La Couture ?
I found this ... is this any good ?? http://balagan.org.uk/war/iberia/1914/index.htm
Does anybody happen to know what happened here ?? .......... 7/5/15 MAORI (Cdr B W Barron) she and CRUSADER (Lt Cdr T K Maxwell) had been ordered...
OK Scrim ... are you finished now ?? ........ :rolleyes: I want to start a new one ........ :D:D Can anybody name all the flowers of the Allies...
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