6 October 1916 Gunner Joseph Coombes (8569) Royal Garrison Artillery died of wounds and was buried in Combles Communal Cemetery.
Joseph is also remembered inside Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatter
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@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social6 October 1916 Gunner Joseph Coombes (8569) Royal Garrison Artillery died of wounds and was buried in Combles Communal Cemetery.
Joseph is also remembered inside Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatter
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social6 October 1917 Able Seamen Ernest Wheatley (J/37837) died aboard HMS Begonia and is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial. Ernest was 19.
Ernest is also remembered on the Bredbury & Romiley War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social6 October 1917 Leading Stoker Hellewell Bentley (K/15255) aboard HMS Begonia went down with all hands.
Hellewell is also remembered inside Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
@bonfieldkeith.bsky.socialAfter fighting in #France with the 28th Div at The Battle of Loos the 1st Bn Suffolk Regt were transfered to Eqypt in October 1915. They arrived in #Salonika on 16th Jan 1916, they remained on the #Macidonian Front for the rest of #WW1
The Suffolk Regiment Museum is open 0930 - 1530 Wed - Fri 🏛
@rnshiplosses.bsky.social6 Oct 1918 // Armed merchant cruiser HMS Otranto (ex SS Otranto, Orient Steam Navigation Co), serving as a troopship, grounded and was wrecked on Islay after colliding with HMS Kashmir during a gale. About 430 died, including over 340 US soldiers. (IWM image: SP 1064) #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory
@rnshiplosses.bsky.social6 Oct 1915 // Paddle steamer HMS Brighton Queen, a seaside pleasure steamer taken over by the Admiralty in 1914, struck a mine laid by German submarine UC.5 off Nieuwpoort, Belgium, and sank with seven men lost. Another man died later of his injuries. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory
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@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social5 October 1916
Adolf Hitler is wounded in the left thigh by shell near Bapaume, France, during the Battle of the Somme.
@vingtfrong.bsky.socialAs someone who recently traveled by train through the forests of the Charente, it’s good to see that during the Centenary (and since), local French groups have perpetuated the memory of the Canadian and US units (and the French) who worked to supply the Allied armies’ insatiable demand for wood #WW1
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social6 October 1939
The Battle of Kock is the final combat of the September Campaign in Poland.
@ww1rollofhonour.bsky.socialAmos, Wilfred Weston — Information about Wilfred Weston Amos, a Private in the Royal Sussex Regiment during WW1... https://www.ww1rollofhonour.co.uk/index.php/2015/12/amos-wilfred-weston/ #history #eastsussex #ww1
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social6 October 1915
Entente forces land in Thessaloniki, to open the Macedonian front against the Central Powers
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social6 October 1915
Combined Austro-Hungarian and German Central Powers, reinforced by the recently joined Bulgaria launched a new offensive against Serbia under command of August von Mackensen.
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@catalystgamelabs.bsky.socialLook to the sky!
Leviathans: The Great War is here!
Get started into this game of aerial ship battles with the #Leviathans: The Great War: Starter Box. The Great War's only just begun!
#wargames #wargaming #tabletopgame #miniatures #tabletop #WW1 #althistory
@leviathansgame.bsky.socialLook to the sky!
Leviathans: The Great War is here!
Get started into this game of aerial ship battles with the #Leviathans: The Great War: Starter Box. The Great War's only just begun!
#wargames #wargaming #tabletopgame #miniatures #tabletop #WW1 #althistory
@jimleeke.bsky.social"Captain EDDIE GRANT former infielder with the Phillies, Cincinnati, and the Giants,—killed in the Argonne (The first Gold Star in the baseball service flag.)" RIP "Harvard Eddie," killed in action #OTD in 1918 during #ww1. Image by #cartoonist Robert Ripley. #EddieGrantLives #NeverForget #fww
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