17 September 1916: Manfred von Richthofen, "The Red Baron", won his first aerial combat near Cambrai in France. #History #WW1
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@debsadelight.bsky.socialI love this artist’s work. Just discovered she was a nurse in #WW1
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.socialThe Hell of Ieper in 1917, with the worst wet weather in 70 years.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social17 September 1917 Gunner Harold Hulmes (294532) Royal Garrison Artillery died of wounds and was buried in Reninghelst New Military Cemetery. Harold was 19.
Harold is also remembered inside Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social17 September 1916 Private Richard Sackett (12730) 6 Bn King's Shropshire Light Infantry was killed in action and has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Richard is also remembered inside Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social17 September 1916 Lance Corporal Charles Edwin Foulkes (19387) 21 Bn Manchester Regiment died of wounds and was buried at St Sever Cemetery.
Charles is also remembered inside Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social17 September 1916
Manfred von Richthofen "The Red Baron", a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
@ww1rollofhonour.bsky.socialAbbott, R — Information about R Abbott, a Private in the Royal Sussex Regiment during WW1... https://www.ww1rollofhonour.co.uk/index.php/2015/12/abbott-r/ #history #eastsussex #ww1
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social16 September 1914
The BEF was ordered by Field Marshal Sir John French to entrench and hold their ground.
This pivot is widely recognised by historians as the formal beginning of the multi-year trench warfare stalemate on the Western Front.
@thisdayinwwi.bsky.socialIn #WW1 Swedes invade Åland. After Finland declared independence from Russia, in 1917, Soviet Russians had taken control of Åland fortifications while Red and White Finish factions fought a brutal civil war. In this chaos Sweden landed its own invasion force, on Feb 13 1918
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@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social15 September 1916
Battle of Flers-Courcelette.
Reinforcements crossing the old German front line during the advance towards Flers,
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@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social15 or 16 September 1914
Troops of the 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards polishing their and their fellow soldiers shoes at a camp at Lyndhurst in the New Forest where the 7th Division was forming.
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@jerijerod14.bsky.socialThis week’s #podcast looks at whether the Battle of the #Falklands was that important.
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@atticusfinch-105.bsky.socialBetween August and September 1914.
Exhausted men and dogs of a Belgian machine gun section resting by the roadside, during the retreat to Antwerp.
@davidpendleton.bsky.social16 Feb 1917, the Lady Ann was torpedoed off Scarborough, sinking in 3 minutes. Fred Chater & Walter Gunn were buried at Dean Road Cemetery—an error led to Gunn being listed on the Tower Hill Memorial as "missing". Thanks to researcher Fred Fox, CWGC placed a headstone over Gunn’s grave. #WW1
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social16 September 1917 Private Joel Hambleton (92252) 11 Bn Sherwood Foresters was killed in action and has no known grave but is commemorated on the Menin Gate. Joel was 21.
Joel is also remembered on the Bredbury & Romiley War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social16 September 1917 Gunner Alfred Thorley (154990) Royal Field Artillery died of wounds and was buried in Stockport Cemetery.
Alfred is also remembered inside Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social16 September 1915 Lance Corporal Richmond Smith (3018) 1/7 Bn Manchester Regiment was killed in action and has no known grave and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial.
Richmond is also remembered on the Romiley War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social16 September 1916 Private Andrew Wright (13580) 2 Bn Coldstream Guards died and was buried in Guards' Cemetery.
Andrew is remembered inside Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social16 September 1917 Private Fred Gaskill (2871) 24 Bn Manchester Regiment was killed in action and was buried in Vlamertinghe New Military Cemetery
Fred is also remembered inside Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatter
