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Happy Birthday F Scott Fitzgerald! Great author of 4 novels (and one unfinished) and 164 short stories. Volunteered immediately upon US entry. He wrote his first draft for “This Side of Paradise” during training as an Infantry Officer. The war ended before he shipped to France.
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The 'Am I Offensive?' cartoon is almost as famous as the Wipers Times itself. It appeared in the May 1916 edition, signed by Sapper Ernest J. Couzens.
Over 110 years later, my latest article finally puts a face to the name. #wiperstimes #ww1 #fww

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I've built quite a collection of #FWW #TrenchJournals, but this is the first time I have managed to get my hands on something from the #BoerWar. The similarities between the two wars in terms of soldier journalism are remarkably strong.

I was in York yesterday for a funeral. On my way back I spent a few minutes at the York Central War Memorial. These are just the names of the North Eastern Railwaymen who died in the Great War. Shattering stuff. A signal of catastrophe, of service, and profound sacrifice. #FWW #Memorials

Beginning another tour on behalf of @sophie1wwtours.bsky.social, following in the footsteps of a 2nd Bedfordshire man, who only survived 40 days on the Western Front in 1918.

On our way down, today, we stopped off at one of my very favourite sites: Vimy Ridge.

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I haven’t done my #MuseumOfFamilyStuff thing for a while, so here is a photo popped up whilst I was looking for something else.
Compass belonged to my Grandad,
Royal Engineers #WW1 #FWW #GreatWar

Here is an outstanding essay that a soldier wrote to "The Nation." It was published in the 21/10/1916 issue on pp. 104-106. This was a frank and realistic oped from the trenches to the living rooms of British homes. #WW1 #FWW #WesternFront #BritishArmy #Tommy #History

Happy Birthday Agatha Christie! Queen of Mysteries! Sold more than 100 million copies in over 100 languages. Already published when WW1 broke out, she immediately volunteered as a Nurse and later served as an Apothecary Assistant. She served until September 1918.
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Today in 1916, the Italians, commanded by recent birthday boy Luigi Cadorna, try for the 7th time to beak the Austria-Hungary line along the Isonzo River. After capturing Gorizia during the 6th Battle, they attacked on a narrow front. They took San Grado di Merna but little else.
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Great Western Railwaymen who lost their lives in the First World War #WW1 #FWW

Thomas Elisha Lihou
Docker Goods Dept Guernsey
Able Seaman
HMS Good Hope
Ship was lost 1 November 1914
Commemorated on Portsmouth Naval memorial

Happy Birthday Maurice Chevalier! Already known in 1914, WW1 started while he fulfilled his national service. Wounded and captured during a German attack, he learned English in POW Camp. Acquitted of collaboration in WW2. Persecuted by the McCarthy Committee in the US.
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Franco-Belges 22/8/14 commemorations at Rossignol & Neufchateau are always held later in mid-September to allow the troupes de marine to remember 1/9/1870 at nearby Bazeilles one one “neutral” weekend. N’oublions pas @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social
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Happy Birthday General Erich von Falkenhayn! Commanded the German Army after von Moltke was found unstable. Kept the Allies at bay in 1914 and 1915. In 1916 he will roll the dice and attack Verdun. This bloodbath will cost him his job. He then went to Romania and Middle East.
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"The tide of #war ebbs and flows apparently, but #baseball goes on #forever." (New Orleans States, September 28, 1918.) — #ww1 #fww #sport

1919 portrait of général Henri Gouraud by Joseph-Félix Bouchor on display in the Musée national de la Légion d’honneur et des ordres de chevalerie, Paris.
Gouraud‘s khaki uniform indicates his roots in the colonial infantry. He bears both the médaille militaire & the croix de guerre. #1GM #FWW #WW1