14 September 1917

Edward Brittain writes to his sister Vera mentioning his feelings about her nursing German soldiers ‘I think I prefer that you should be nursing our men though of course the one is service as much as the other.’

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14 September 1915

Wilfred Owen goes to the headquarters of the Artists’ Rifles in Bloomsbury ‘attested his willingness to serve and was examined by the kindly regimental doctor, who passed him fit’

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14 September 1915

Vera Brittain writes to Roland Leighton ‘It seems to me now that this War is scarcely for victory at all, for even if victory comes it will be at the cost of so much else, so many greater things, that it will be scarcely worth having’

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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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14 Sept 1915 // HM Trawler City of Dundee, a Fleetwood boat in Royal Navy service as a patrol vessel, sank off Folkestone after being run into by a Dutch steamer, the Patroclus. There were eight survivors from her crew of fifteen. #WW1 #NavalHistory

Her wreck was located in 2017. Human error or mechanical failure, possibly a faulty ventilation valve, may have caused her to sink. All her 35 crew were lost. HMAS AE.1 was the first loss suffered by the RAN and the first Allied submarine loss of the war. #WW1 #RoyalAustralianNavy #NavalHistory

14 September 1914

Sir John French ordered the BEF to entrench, soldiers scouted nearby farms and villages for pickaxes and spades.

Without training for static warfare, the troops merely dug shallow pits in the soil.

Soon the trenches were deepened to afford more protection.

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Today's #HistNursing #Badge is #Dulwich Hospital

Opened in 1887 as the Southwark workhouse hospital w/ 24 #Nightingale wards. It was a #WW1 military hospital. It closed 2005

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Between 14 & 17 September 1916 Private Thomas Dutton (23680) 3 Bn Grenadier Guards was killed in action and has no known grave but is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. Thomas was 21.

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

14 September 1916 Private Edward Goodall (16143) 1 Bn Cheshire Regiment died of wounds and was buried in Cheadle Cemetery.

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

14 September 1916 Corporal William Brooks (6994) 12 Bn Lancashire Fusiliers was killed in action and has no known grave but is commemorated on the Doiran Memorial.

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

14 September 1918 Driver Archibald Campbell (193436) Royal Field Artillery and former @albionrovers.bsky.social
@clydefc.bsky.social and Ayr United Player died of wounds and was buried in La Kreule Military Cemetery #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

Delighted that First World War in the Baltic Sea has been nominated for the Maritime Foundation Award for Best Book of the Year 2026. You can see the full list of nominees here:
www.maritimefoundation.uk/awards/marit...
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Thank you to Tracy for her tour 'Stories of Americans in Britain during WW2' at American Cemetery in Madingley 🙂
Although MOD land its been gifted to & is cared for by the American Battlefields Monuments Commission for perpituity 🇺🇸
All headstones are cleaned 3 times a week 🪦
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13 September 1914

British and French forces caught up with the German armies, which had stopped and dug in along the high ground behind the steep, unfordable River Aisne. The Allies managed to establish precarious bridgeheads across the river against heavy resistance.

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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

13 September 1918

Wilfred Owen writes to his mother ‘News today that the Batt. is coming down here, instead of my going hence. Excellent.’

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