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  1. Hace 5 días · World War I, an international conflict that in 1914–18 embroiled most of the nations of Europe along with Russia, the United States, the Middle East, and other regions. The war pitted the Central Powers —mainly Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey —against the Allies—mainly France, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Japan, and, from 1917 ...

  2. Hace 4 días · Australia lists 4,731 of its first World War soldiers as having been born in Ireland and more than 19,000 Irish-born soldiers served in the Canadian Corps. According to research done by John Horne of Trinity College Dublin , there are at least 30,986 soldiers who were born in Ireland that died; however, that's considered a "conservative" estimate and is very likely to raise.

  3. Hace 1 día · Even without modern ID checks, the fresh-faced boy soldiers often stood out in group photographs. It‘s estimated that around 250,000 underage soldiers served in the British Army during World War 1.[^4] This included boys as young as 13 or 14, like Reginald Earnshaw, who was killed at the Somme shortly after his 15th birthday.[^5]

  4. Hace 2 días · British army, military force charged with the defense of the United Kingdom and the fulfillment of its international defense commitments. England’s first standing army was formed by Oliver Cromwell in 1645. The English Bill of Rights (1689) gave Parliament the control of the army that it maintains today.

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  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › British_ArmyBritish Army - Wikipedia

    Hace 3 días · The First World War was the most devastating in British military history, with nearly 800,000 men killed and over two million wounded. Early in the war, the BEF was virtually destroyed and was replaced first by volunteers and then by a conscript force.

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  6. Hace 3 días · Over 80,000 cases of shell-shock were officially recognised by British Army personnel during the First World War. The diagnosis remains a culturally and historically resonant symbol of the First World War in Britain.

  7. Hace 5 días · The First World War is a seminal historical event; an historical caesura whose aftershocks still resonate. For Eric Hobsbawm, it began the ‘Age of Extremes’ – the start of the ‘short’ twentieth century lasting from 1914 to 1991 in which fascism, communism and liberal democracy clashed for world hegemony.