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#OTD 110 years ago, the 147 day siege of Kut al Amara entered its final week.

One of just a handful of headstones in a German First World War cemetery with over 17,000 burials that commemorates a Jewish soldier.

📍Fricourt German Military Cemetery 🇫🇷

Fragile Traces of the Fallen WW1 Soldiers | BBC Timestamp YouTube video by BBC Timestamp

Another clip from the Forgotten Battlefield documentary showing the work of The Diggers from 2001 has been released by the BBC on #YouTube:

youtu.be/7Rt-xS_hHZo?...

It’s not too late to sign up for @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social’s online conference this Sunday! This is just one of 18 TALKS on offer. Drop in and out or put your feet up with snacks and settle in for a marathon. There’s even a social afterwards! Full details: greatwargroup.com/product/onli...

Looking forward to presenting on the London TF on Sunday (noon) at the @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social conference.

The first world war scientists who gave their lives to defeat poison gas On the hundredth anniversary of the first fatal use of chemical weapons, we look back at the scientists who risked their lives to fight a new enemy

I've just seen my first slightly dodgy social media post marking 22 April 1915 as the first use of chlorine gas so here's something old that I wrote for the centenary. #WW1

39-year-old Marguerite Jacobs, the director of the children’s home at Petit-Spay, with her dog Paddy:

“On the 19th of December 1944, we received two shells in the façade of the building. The children were in chaos...

Happy Earth Day! 🌎 🌍 🌏

To mark this special day, we’re tuning in to Sen, the world’s first continuous 4K video livestream from space.

Sen’s cameras are hosted on our Columbus module of the ISS, with data delivered via the Airbus platform.

Watch Earth from above, just like an astronaut

📹 Sen

In Korea the Chinese Spring Offensive began 75 years ago today on 22nd April 1951.

#OTD 110 years ago, the 147 day siege of Kut al Amara entered its final week.

The post-war world wasn't an accident - it was designed. So what happens when
we forget the lesson? Bestselling historian James Holland has got fifteen minutes to tell you! @alexchurchill.bsky.social & @boneyabroad.com

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Last Digger Action: Montbrehain In the quiet village of Montbrehain in Northern France, Australians who had fought at Gallipoli, and in some of the key battles on the Western Front, went into battle for the last time on a misty m…

ANZAC Day is approaching, have a listen to this classic episode of @oldfrontline.bsky.social about the last Australian Battle on the Western Front.

oldfrontline.co.uk/2021/04/24/l...

William Henry Ensor is named on a family headstone in my hometown, Nuneaton. Living in Canada when war broke out, he likely lied about his age and enlisted with the Canadian Infantry in November 1914, giving his age as 19 years and 1 month.

📍Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery 🇧🇪

The Great War Discussion Group has released Stephen Deitz’s Political Cartoons from 1913-1919, A Brief Overview of how Political Cartoonists Portrayed the War and Politics.
#WWI #FWW #WorldWarI
youtu.be/m7jT5JegcyA

Breaking (yet unsurprising) news. Failed to walk past French bookshops. Again.

Flight Lieutenant Richard Burke AFC was a pilot instructor based with No. 9 Elementary Flying Training School at RAF Ansty. He was killed when the Tiger Moth aircraft on which he was flying struck a tree. His pupil, LAC Ronald Burt, also died.

📍Ansty (St James) Churchyard 🇬🇧

3 mineurs de Montceau sont morts ce jour là dans les rangs des 3e BCP, 109e RI et 21e BCP. Pluchot du 149e a été tué le 9 mai.

Visiting Verdun: What You Can See Today YouTube video by 315e RI

What’s left of Verdun?

A walk through the battlefield as it is today: forts, trenches and shell holes

At the end, maps and advice for visiting

🎥 youtu.be/-bJCOxPQL2U?si…

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Watercolour drawing two officers seated at restaurant table one with blood on head. William Orpen, 'Two RFC Officers just Wounded and Having Breakfast at the Hotel at Amiens before going to the Hospital.' Hotel du Rhin, April 1917. https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/20847

In April 1917, the artist William Orpen saw two injured Flying Corps officers stagger into his Amiens hotel & order breakfast. Their aircraft had been hit by German fire & they had crash landed outside Amiens. Presently orderlies arrived & carried them away on stretchers. Source: Art.IWM ART 3018

Black and white photo soldiers stand by trench breastworks, man seated with white sheet around him is given a haircut.

A soldier is given a haircut behind the front line, Fauquissart, France, April 1915. Photo by Lt Col R L Haymes, 2nd Battalion, The Queens Regiment. Source: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

Questions and Answers Episode 51 In this in-depth Questions & Answers episode of The Old Front Line, we tackle four fascinating listener questions exploring the aftermath and realities of the First World War. We begin in the Ypres Salient, examining how the Commonwealth War Graves Commission replaced thousands of temporary wooden crosses with the iconic headstones we see today. How was this monumental task organised?

In the latest Questions and Answers Episode: from the Ypres Salient headstones of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to machine gun barrages, CCS burials Behind The Lines, and post-war land recovery in France & Belgium: we answer your questions.

Yep ! On that left bank the French never pushed the Germans back to their March 16 start point; that was finally done by the US

US Coast Guard officer handing a box of pigeons to a pilot to train for use on commercial fishing vessels, c. 1939 (courtesy of The Oregonian)

"Over an 18 year period, someone who cycles to work has nearly 50% less chance of dying from *anything* than someone who drives"...

including being knocked off by a motorist (based on UK census data). Passive travel is bad for your life expectancy and pollution inside the car is worse than outside.

The three British tanks that were destroyed or captured at Second Gaza were named War Baby, Nutty, and Sir Archibald. By the 19th two more had been deployed. The other names were Otazel, Kia-Ora, Tiger, Pincher, and Ole Luk Oie.