First World War soldiers’ messages in a bottle found on Australian beach

The messages were written in August 1916 by two Australian soldiers on their way to the battlefields of France.

After the first world war, séances boomed – and dead soldiers ‘wrote’ home

Never before had death affected so many people at once, and taken so many young men in the prime of their life.
The New Yorker

The First World War, in Sharp Focus

The mud of the Somme Valley was still on Ewart Tempest’s boots when he marched into Vignacourt, a French village some fifteen miles behind the British front line. It was April 5, 1916. Tempest, a fair ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This World War I Plane Has Two Claims to Fame: It Was One of the Deadliest Fighter Aircraft of Its Time, and It Was Flown by Snoopy

Key takeaway: What is a Sopwith Camel? The Sopwith Camel was a famous fighter aircraft during World War I. It was a single-seat, single-engine biplane. On October 10, 1965, Snoopy, clad in aviator ...

Holy Trinity Church First World War memorial to be restored

A FIRST World War memorial honouring the service of 400 former pupils from York is set to be restored. The Bedern Roll of Honour, which holds the names of nearly 400 former pupils from the Bedern ...
Opinion

This First World War story holds dark lessons for Ukraine’s soldiers today

It is not me… but a dead man speaking through my lips.” So begins A Shadow of Myself, Peter Flamm’s furious tale of a German veteran returning home after the First World War. The delirious narrator ...

Equal treatment at last for non-white heroes who fell in Second World War

Thousands of British colonial troops who died in the Second World War are to be commemorated properly for the first time ...