During the recovery of bodies following the Battle of Marne in France in 1914, his pipes were accidentally set off, alerting ...

In honor of Veterans Day and the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I ... Photographed in 1917, an endless line of Russian soldiers sit patiently in a trench as they anticipate a German ...

The bodies of five British soldiers killed in the First World War have been found in a network of trenches at Ypres, Belgium. More than 80 years after their deaths, archaeologists discovered the ...

it’s clear that the commemorations created after what was then known as the Great War still resonate with serving soldiers today. WW1: Did the machine-gun save lives? documentWW1: Did the ...

Around 650,000 Canadian soldiers fought in WW1. In the east, the Russian Army was able to mobilise more quickly than the Germans had anticipated and began advancing towards Germany’s borders.

They played key roles in: By the later years of WWI, the use of horses had shifted primarily to transport, as trench warfare made traditional cavalry nearly impossible. For many soldiers ...

WWI Special” film and learn more about the origin of some common English words and phrases. Lesson 2: History See how far prosthetic limbs have come since WWI and write a letter to the Unknown Soldier ...

Officers at Benning's local recruiting office stated that such modesty was emblematic of the spirit of Soldiers who have merited such awards, according to a local newspaper clipping from the time).

it is a fact that they were more afraid of Japanese soldiers than American soldiers at the end of the war. After they lost in the last organized military operations at the Yaese Hill, the Japanese ...

The British Antarctic Territory and South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands marked the centenary of the end of World War I with new stamps. The issue honors members of Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 ...