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Life on the Front Line is composed predominantly of diaries and letters written by British military personnel who served during the First World War (1914–1918).Consisting of nearly 15,000 images, it provides a fascinating, albeit poignant, survey of what everyday life was like for soldiers, supplying compelling insights into the realities of warfare.
The International Encyclopedia of the First World War (WW1) is a collaborative international research project designed to develop a virtual English-language reference work on the First World War.
2 de ago. de 2023 · Also known as the Mons Star, the medal is a bronze star with a red, white and blue ribbon, reflecting the French Tricolore. It was issued to British forces who had served in France or Belgium from 5 August 1914 (the declaration of war) to midnight 22 November 1914 (the end of the First Battle of Ypres). These were soldiers that were there at ...
Though black units played a vital role in Allied victory, after the war their contribution was deliberately forgotten in an attempt to protect the British Empire. In this episode of IWM Stories, Alan Wakefield looks at who these men were, what they did, and why they've been forgotten. The First World War soldiers who were deliberately forgotten.
And, although the First World War is often described as the first total war, it was reported from an almost exclusively male perspective. The Americans Harriet Chalmers Adams (1875-1937) , [5] who reported from the trenches for Harper’s Magazine, and Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958) , [6] who spent three months in 1915 in Belgium for the Saturday Evening Post , were immensely rare exceptions.
7 de sept. de 2018 · As the centenary of the First World War draws to a close, Dean Kirby explores the lair that became a final sanctuary for British soldiers Les Muches de Bouzincourt – the hidden caves where ...
World War II. 2000–present. v. t. e. At the start of 1939, the British Army was, as it traditionally always had been, a small volunteer professional army. At the beginning of the Second World War on 1 September 1939, the British Army was small in comparison with those of its enemies, as it had been at the beginning of the First World War in 1914.
