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Flanders & Ypres iron harvest
Mustard gas blisters and the daily risk of death: Bravery of soldiers from still clearing the ‘iron harvest’ of World War I shells from beneath Flanders’ fields in Belgium.The Belgian *DOVO (Explosive...
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WWI. A 13-year-olds backbone of iron
How on earth did our morals and standards of decency fall away from the iron backbone of this; A 13-year-old boy who ran away to join up [aged 12] fought on the front line in the First World War until...
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The soldier who just refused to give up
The soldier who just refused to give up: Awe-inspiring spirit of WWI hero who lost two brothers in action, and a sister in a Zeppelin raid but survived being left for dead in a heap of bodies at...
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‘Billie Boy … One of the very best.’
A first class posting for teenage hero of the Somme: Private who lied about his age to join up before being killed in action is commemorated on stamp bearing his image Private William ‘Billie’ Tickle...
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WWI ambulance train
Poignant archive pictures show the ambulance trains that transported soldiers wounded on the Western Front back to hospitals across Britain during the First World War. With their pristine white sheets,...
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‘Doubly Thankful-Blessed Villages’
‘Thankful Villages’ (also known as Blessed Villages) are settlements in both England and Wales from which all their ‘then’ members of the Armed Forces survived World War I. The lucky 13: Britain’s...
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Men who were giants of World War One
A sculpture of a British Tommy reflecting upon the horrors of World War One during the first minute after peace was declared is installed for the centenary on Seaham seafront in Country Durham.A...
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‘Ungentlemanly’ conduct
The tiny skull-piercing arrow bombs dropped by WWI biplanes onto German trenches which disgusted British pilots as they were ‘ungentlemanly’ For the Germans in the trenches of World War One, the cry of...
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This Day One Hundred Years Ago
The lie that started the First World War. The personality and motives of the young assassin, Gavrilo Princip (right), who fired the fatal shots at Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, were twisted by...
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Breathing life into black & white
WWI photographs painstakingly brought to life from sepia, black and white, to colour. We’re used to seeing pictures of the First World War in faded brown sepia – dull, muddy, black-and-white...
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A Gallant Christian Soldier…
Vicar in the trenches: The story of Reverend Theodore Hardy in the Great War. COMMEMORATIONS of the Great War feature soldiers, painters and poets. But there was one breed of non-combatants that has...
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WWI Armistice Day Remembrance
The Tower of London will feature a dramatic art installation during this summer where poppies will flow from its walls in a stream filling its moat to commemorate the outbreak of the First World War....
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Australian Barbarian-John ‘Barney’ Hines
John “Barney” Hines was a real thorn in the side of the German army during World War I, so much so that the Kaiser put a price on his head “dead or alive”. Hines had the happy knack of being able to...
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4th August 1914 Britain declares war on Germany
4th August 1914. Britain declares war on Germany. On the 9th of August the British Expeditionary Force embarked for France. By the standards of Continental European armies, the BEF was, in 1914,...
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WWI Patriotic enlistment posters
WWI Patriotic enlistment posters. The call went out in 1914, the Empire answered… More good men would follow… Yours Aye.
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The Last Post – Roll of Honour
Roll of Honour: Thousands gather under beautiful night skies at the Tower of London for a ceremony calling out names of Commonwealth soldiers who died in The First World War. ‘The Great War’Each...
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‘Ten Frenchman don’t make an Englishman’
How English and German soldiers bonded during WWI Christmas Day Truce by telling jokes about the FRENCH! An incredible letter from trenches of the First World War by a soldier describing how he...
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