The ups and downs of this fabled franchise! They won 100 games and the World Series in 1917. Dropped to sixth place in 1918. Threw the 1919 World Series in the Black Sox scandal. Learn more in my book about the Chicago White Sox during #ww1, from @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social.

Arrivée des membres du gouvernement, Bordeaux
2 septembre 1914

Arrival of members of the French government at Bordeaux, 2 September 1914

La Mémoire de Bordeaux Métropole, collection Bertreau

On display at Musée d’Aquitaine. #FWWHist #1GM #WW1

Happy Birthday Buster Keaton!!! Also served in WW1!

#WW1 #FWW #GreatWar

Buster Keaton's birthday! Famed actor, director, and writer. Best known for his silent films, he worked into the 1960s. Drafted into the AEF he went to France in 1918. Already well known, the AEF decided not to risk his life in the trenches and used him as an entertainer.
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#stainedglasssunday
Memorial window to the White family including Basil who died in #WW1 #LestWeForget
Also has a representation of the church in stained glass
Bellingham

October 1914

2nd Battalion, Scots Guards testing a hastily dug trench at Ghent.

© IWM Q 57173

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4 October 1917 Private Thomas Bailey (266681) 9 Bn Cheshire Regiment died from wounds and was buried in Étaples Military Cemetery

Thomas is also remembered inside Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

4 October 1917 Private James Rome Farmer (TF/242325) 1 Bn West Kent Regiment died and was buried in Hooge Crater Cemetery.

James is remembered on the Bredbury & Romiley War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

4 October 1917 Lt Edward Bouskill 21 Bn Manchester Regiment was killed in action and buried Buttes New British Cemetery.

Edward is remembered on the Bramhall War Memorial and inside Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

4 October 1917 Private William Crowther (12935) 22 Bn Manchester Regiment was killed in action and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.

William is also remembered inside Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

4 October 1917 Private James Swindells (52950) 22 Bn Manchester Regiment was killed in action and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.

James is also remembered on the Hazel Grove and Stockport War Memorials #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

4 Oct 1918 // HM Submarine L.10 was sunk in the Heligoland Bight after breaking surface while attacking a German destroyer flotilla. She successfully torpedoed and sank destroyer S.33, but other vessels in the German flotilla pursued and sank her. All 38 crew were lost. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory

4 Oct 1918 // Special service vessel HMS M. J. Hedley, hired and converted to act as a decoy ship, was written off after capsizing and sinking while taking on coal at Barry, South Wales. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory

4 Oct 1918 // HM Drifter Coleus, a Lowestoft boat in naval service as a net barrier tender, struck a drifting mine off Dover and sank at around 1am with the loss of four men. #WW1 #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

Discover the story of Lionel Chainey, a former Waihi Gold Mining Company worker who left New Zealand in 1915 to serve with the Otago Infantry Regiment, only to meet a tragic end at Polderhoek Château. #NZHistory #OtagoInfantryRegiment #AnzacHistory #NewZealandHistory #WW1 #FirstWorldWar #GreatWar

4 October 1918

An explosion kills more than 100 people and destroys a Shell Loading Plant in New Jersey.

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4 October 1917

The Battle of Broodseinde is fought between the British and German armies in Flanders

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3 Oct 1918 // HM Drifter Lustring, a Banff boat in naval service as a net barrier tender at Kirkwall, was run into and damaged by HM Trawler Elvina. Beaching was attempted but she foundered close to the shore off Hellier Holm, Shapinsay. All on board were saved. #WW1 #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

A sneak peek into Pro Patria Mori: High Seas. A WW1 u-boat ttrpg. Coming to Kickstarter Oct. 29. #ttrpg #ww1 #kickstarter