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Continuing their First World War battlefield tour, our Y11 History students visited the reconstructed trench system outside Ypres, gaining a deeper understanding of the conditions, challenges and experiences of soldiers on the Western Front.

#HistoryTrip #LearningBeyondTheClassroom #WW1 #Ypres

24 Sept 1917 // HM Drifter Hastfen, a Great Yarmouth boat in naval service as a net barrier tender, was sunk by a faulty electro-contact mine while she was recovering anti-submarine nets off Shipwash Sand in the Thames Estuary. Four of her crew were lost. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory

24 Sept 1915 // HM Drifter Greatheart, an Inverness boat in naval service as a net barrier tender, exploded and sank just after leaving Dover harbour with 8 men lost. The cause was at first unknown, but later confirmed to have been a German submarine-laid mine. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory

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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Tom Anderson's #history of #Naval #Warfare and the origins of #Navy #terminology continues with the impact of HMS #Dreadnought and the age of the super- #battleship. #Victorian #WW1 #MilitaryHistory #ArmsRace www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/alterna...

Our latest unit, 'Exploring the Involvement of Sikh Soldiers in the First World War', is now live on our site.

See our three-lesson unit here: www.teachfortomorrow.org/teaching-res...

#remembrance #ww1 #sikhsoldiers

24 September 1918 Private William George Clarke (72555) 3 Bn Royal Welsh Fusiliers died of wounds and was buried in St Paul's Churchyard, Portwood Stockport.

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

24 September 1915 Private Mark Scott (10500) 1 Bn Cheshire Regiment was killed in action and buried in Carnoy Military Cemetery. Mark was 18.

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

22 September 1918

Wilfred Owen writes to Siegfried Sassoon ‘You said it would be a good thing for my poetry if I went back. That is my consolation for feeling a fool. This is what the shells scream at me every time: Haven’t you got the wits to keep out of this?

#WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

23 September 1918

Wilfred Owen writes ‘Smile, Smile, Smile’

#WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

#histnursing - great blog on a nurse in #ww1 and the generosity of the wonderful @debsadelight.bsky.social

23 September 1915

Poet Patrick Shaw-Stewart on a sea crossing from Imbros ‘there was a poor Turkish prisoner on board who rendered up all he had all the time over the stern, a little wisp of a man, while a stern British sergeant-major clutched him firmly by the seat of the trousers.

#WW1 #History

23 September 1915

American poet Alan Seeger writes 'helped disinter three men who had been buried alive. They had taken refuge in a deep trench that had been dug for the purpose. But a big shell had fallen right beside this trench and covered the unfortunate men with dirt.'

#WW1 #History

23 September 1914

Wilfred Owen visits a hospital and writes to his brother ‘I was not much upset by the morning at the hospital; and this is a striking proof of my health’.

#WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

23 September 1916

Vera Brittain writes from the Hospital Ship Britannic ‘Ships with searchlights are all about us in the dim distance–10.15 now. There is a large life-belt–a new kind, of waistcoat shape, attached to each bed.’

#WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

An unknown Nassau class battleship of Germany’s Kaiserliche Marine fires practice salvos from its stern 28cm Turrets D & E.

#nassau #battleship #dreadnought #warship #ship #germany #kaiserlichemarine #ww1 #worldwar1 #greatwar #navalhistory #history #canon #turret

A new #HistNursing blog in time for #TeaUp 🫖

#WW1 #Archives All about a lovely donation to the RCN Archives!

@rcnhistory.bsky.social