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Tom Anderson's #history of #naval #warfare comes to #WW1 and how many pre-war predictions of the decisive #battleship #battle were made redundant by the nature of the sides. #GreatWar #Mahan #MilitaryHistory #Navy #Dreadnought #Jutland www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/alterna...

Looking forward to our conference “Alps and Carpathians at the Great War” at MITAG, Rovereto, on 5–6 October! We’ll discuss two borderlands at the edges of the Habsburg Empire, focusing on wartime experiences at the front and in the hinterland. Programme attached. #WW1 #History

30 September 1917 Private Walter Hazel (16201) 7 Bn King's Shropshire Light Infantry died of wounds and was buried in Brandhoek New Military Cemetery

Walter is remembered inside Stockport War Memorial
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30 September 1918 2nd Lt John Lee Percival 8 Bn West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) was killed in action and buried in Ruyaulcourt Military Cemetery.

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

30 September 1918 Private John William Griffiths (42479) 1 Bn Lancashire Fusiliers was killed in action and has no know grave and he is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

30 September 1915 Private William Bourne (2154) 1/6 Bn Manchester Regiment died of wounds aboard H.M. Hospital Ship Gascon, and was buried at sea.

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

#OTD in 1916
illustration by J. C. Leyendecker (1874-1951)
Cover of *The Saturday Evening Post*, September 30, 1916
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #JCLeyendecker #WW1

Detail from the war memorial at Saint-Émilion (33). #1GM #WW1
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(1916.) British Mark I tank being loaded on a train platform, bound for Russia, at Forster's works in Lincoln. #WW1 #HISTORY

1917

Flare fire at night, on the Western Front

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They called it unbreakable! 🛑

#OnThisDay in 1918, the Hindenburg Line was finally breached. Do you know which waterway they crossed? Watch the video for the answer!

Echoes of Battle. 👇

🔗 echoesofbattle.com

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30 September 1915

Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.

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29 September 1916

Vera Brittain en route to Malta, her ship puts in at Naples ‘We spent a long & happy time wandering round the streets; everything was a blaze of colour. In every little piazza there seemed to be an enclosed green space where various kinds of palms & cactus grew

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29 September 1917

A poem by Wilfred Owen ‘The Next War’ appears in the Craiglockhart Hospital’s magazine The Hydra

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Photograph of Lt Geoffrey Stephen Allfree (HU 120774). His works of art in the IWM collection can be found via the link in this post. Thanks to @antonyfjrth.bsky.social for drawing my attention to Allfree and his work. #WW1 #RoyalNavy www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

During #WW1 you find distractions wherever and whenever you can. #rugby #WarHistory