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@jerijerod14.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 10:23 AM

This week there is a bonus/free feature/re-release;

Australia’s first victory in #ww1 and the invasion of Neu Guinea

#history

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@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 9:51 AM

11 October 1915

English nurse Edith Cavell was sentenced to death in Belgium by a German military court. She had been accused of treason. Despite international pressure for mercy, she was shot by a German firing squad.

Her execution received condemnation by the Allies.

#WW1 #History

@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 9:30 AM

11 October 1918 Battery Sergeant Major James Allen (735777) Royal Field Artillery died and was buried in Zantvoorde British Cemetery.

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

@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 9:29 AM

11 October 1917 Private John Ashworth (10318) 20 Bn Manchester Regiment was killed in action and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.

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

@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 9:29 AM

11 October 1917 Private Harry Taylor (20975) 3 Bn Coldstream Guards was killed in action and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial

Harry is also remembered on the Hazel Grove War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

@sempaiscuba.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 8:54 AM

11 October 1915: A German military court in Belgium sentenced English nurse Edith Cavell to death for treason. #History #WW1

@rnshiplosses.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 8:31 AM

11 Oct 1917 // Armed auxiliary patrol vessel HM Yacht Kethailes sank with the loss of 17 lives in the Irish Sea after colliding with SS Leicestershire near the Blackwater Light Vessel. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory

@laurenfacall.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 10:13 PM

12 October 1915 – Edith Cavell, age 49, English nurse (b. 1865)

She treated wounded soldiers from both sides without discrimination in #WW1 and helped around 200 allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium.

Arrested and tried under German military law, she was executed by firing squad.

@brynleyh.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 8:15 PM

A visit (with Associate Grandson #2) to Edinburgh’s National Portrait Gallery and a brief encounter with familiar faces. #FWW #WW1 #FWWHist #Art

Woman in uniform with black beret.
The uniform appears to be grey, the beret black. The woman has blonde hair, wears lipstick and medal ribbons.

Dr Isabel Emslie, Lady Hutton
(1887-1960)
by Henry Charles Bevan Petman
1894-1980)
Pastel on paper, 1946
During the First World War, Dr Isabel Emslie worked for the Scottish Women's Hospitals (SWH) in France, Macedonia, Greece and Serbia. After graduating in medicine from the University of Edinburgh in 1910, she practised at hospitals in Stirling and Edinburgh before joining the SWH in 1915. Along with the other women medical volunteers, she performed all types of activity including: surgery, carpentry, sanitation and scavenging. This portrait shows Dr Emslie in the uniform of the Indian Red Cross - she was Director of the organisation's Welfare Service 1938-46
Bequeathed by Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Jacomb Hutton 1981
(PG 2478).

Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
(1861-1928)
by John Singer Sargent
oil on canvas, painted between 1919 and 1922.

PG 1010. Purchased in 1925.

The information and interpretation panel for this portrait spells Haig’s rank incorrectly and refers to World War One (a term not known to Haig and his contemporaries). It makes an attempt to explain the controversies around the military conduct of the First World War, but ultimately fails to get to the heart of the issues of scale, new technology and Britain’s utterly exceptional role in the conduct of the Allied war effort.

Haig appears as if in his prime. John Singer Sargent, the foremost portraitist of the time, has chosen to emphasise his ‘best’ ‘Victorian’ qualities presenting a ‘beau sabreur’.

A soldier in tartan trews and black uniform jacket with a pace stick in one hand and his side cap in the other. He has medal ribbons and sits on an upright chair.

Charles Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff (1889-1930)
by Edward Mercer
oil on canvas, painted between 1914 and 1918
Distinguished scholar and linguist, Scott-Moncrieff is best known for his translation of Marcel Proust's À la Recherche du Temps Perdu.
Here he wears the uniform of the King's Own Scottish Borderers. He served on the Western Front from 1914 to 1917 and was wounded when leading his men in an attack at the Battle of Arras. He was permanently lamed as a result. Wounded and suffering from shell-shock, he was withdrawn from active service and awarded the Military Cross. In 1918, he took up a position in the War Office at Whitehall.

PG 2199.
Purchased in 1972

@rnshiplosses.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 6:39 PM

10 Oct 1917 // HM Trawler Waltham, a Grimsby boat in naval service as a minesweeper, disappeared with all hands (13 men) south of the Isle of Man, cause of loss unknown: the Admiralty presumed she had been torpedoed by a U-boat, but she may have struck a mine. #WW1 #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

@rnshiplosses.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 6:38 PM

10 Oct 1917 // Convoy escort ship HMS Bostonian was torpedoed and sunk by U-boat U.53 while marshalling her USA-GB convoy off Start Point. Two torpedoes hit her on the starboard side at 5.22pm and she sank very quickly. Four men were lost and 105 were rescued. #WW1 #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

@ww1rollofhonour.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 6:00 PM

Ransom, P — Information about P Ransom, a Pioneer in the Rifle Brigade during WW1... https://www.ww1rollofhonour.co.uk/index.php/2015/12/ransom-p/ #history #eastsussex #ww1

@thegreatwargroup.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 5:08 PM

Happy Birthday Rin Tin Tin! (Approximate date.) Acclaimed 1920s movie star. Rescued in the rubble of a village abandoned by the retreating Germans during the Saint-Mihiel Offensive. Nursed to health by his new master, he returned with him to the US and became a Hollywood legend.
#WW1
#FWW
#GreatWar

Black and white photo of Rin Tin Tin on a movie set with a young female co-start. He is standing on the floor with his front paws on a small wooden table. Tongue out staring to his right. The little girl is smiling at the camera and wearing a long skirt, dark still, and a bonnet. Wall behind them.

@thisdayinwwi.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 4:16 PM

Pg 55 and Pg 57 of Larousse médical illustré de Guerre highlighting various means to transport wounded in #WW1 bsky.app/profile/this...

https://archive.org/details/laroussemdical00galtuoft/page/55/mode/1up

Larousse médical illustré de Guerre
by Galtier-Boissière, Émile, 1857-1919

https://archive.org/details/laroussemdical00galtuoft/page/57/mode/1up

Larousse médical illustré de Guerre
by Galtier-Boissière, Émile, 1857-1919

@sempaiscuba.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 3:26 PM

10 October 1918: RMS Leinster was torpedoed and sunk by U-boat UB-123. 564 people were killed. It was the largest loss of life on the Irish Sea during #WW1. #History

@prescottazhistory.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 1:58 PM

PIC OF THE DAY!
A 1918 (World War 1) photo of folks seeing off the troops at the Prescott depot:
#PrescottAZHistory #PrescottAZ #OldPhotos #WW1 #History

@bexhillmuseum.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 12:44 PM

"The Hospital At Cooden Camp.
Group Of Red Cross Nurses.
Inside The Tennis Pavilion, Which Has Been Fitted Up As A Hospital."
Bexhill Observer 10.10.1914. It was Dr. Amsden who gave our Egyptology Collection, thanks to Kate Marsden.
#Cooden #Bexhill #Sussex #WW1 #Hospital #History #1910s #Egyptology

@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 9:24 AM

10 October 1918 Private Herbert Bennett (57272) 2nd Garrison Bn Northumberland Fusiliers died and was buried in Basra War Cemetery.

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

@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 9:24 AM

10 October 1918 Lance Sergeant Clifford Holt (3387) 2 Bn Cheshire Regiment died of wounds and was buried in Mikra British Cemetery.

Clifford is remembered on the Hazel Grove War Memorial and inside Stockport's War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters