Working my way through old #Stockport newspapers, and I'm in June 1917. Along with those recently killed in action are guys "missing" since July 1916, whom the Army now assume killed. But there are no bodies, no eye-witnesses, so do familes accept, or cling on to hope? #WWI www.heatonsww1.com

110 years ago today, Oct 15, 1916. My great-grandfather’s company marched out of Albert at 8.30. He went ahead to look for billets, and wrote:

“Bunked in a shack & jolly cold too.”

robertsondiary.com/diary/1916/october#1916-10-15

#WWI #WW1 #CanadianHistory #TheGreatWar

Day 15, language. At St Omer, Pas-de-Calais, #France, a #WWI war memorial those who died for la France #31DaysOfGraves

The effect of generative AI seems comparable to the impact of the invention of the machine gun. Soldiers must have felt so effortlessly productive when they first got their hands on the new tool. And its output was objectively, measurably higher.

#AI #genAI #WWI

"Traumatic, heartbreaking, and utterly impossible to put down. Highly recommended." – Merissa

⚔️💫 4/5 great review for NO MAN'S TERRITORY (THE LONG SHADOW) by DUNCAN GAYE! #HistoricalFiction #MM #WWI @duncangaye.bsky.social @gaybookpromotions.bsky.social archaeolibrarian.wixsite.com/website/post...

New collection! 📣📣This collection is held at Cardiff University Special Collections & Archives and consists of around 85 letters that were collected by a man called Colin Hughes while he was researching his book #Mametz: Lloyd George's Welsh Army at the Battle of the #Somme published in 1976 #WWI

Casgliad newydd! 📣📣📣Cedwir y casgliad hwn yng Nghasgliadau ac Archifau Arbennig Prifysgol Caerdydd ac mae’n cynnwys tua 85 o lythyrau a gasglwyd gan ddyn o'r enw Colin Hughes wrth ymchwilio i'w lyfr "Mametz: Lloyd George's Welsh Army at the Battle of the Somme" a gyhoeddwyd ym 1976 #Mametz #WWI

On the Somme, Oct 14, 1916. Andrew Murray Robertson, Canadian Engineers, is told the company pulls out tomorrow:

“Can’t say I’m sorry to go but I really liked the road job.”

robertsondiary.com/diary/1916/october#1916-10-14

#WWI #FirstWorldWar #CanadianHistory #History

It is #WomensHistoryMonth! Edith Rayside was a nurse. She served in #WWI, helped enhance the educational standards and professional appreciation of nurses, and advanced the recognition of women’s place beyond the gender boundaries of her day.
www.biographi.ca/en/bio/raysi...

Loch Leven, 1898. On the right is #Glencoe House, built in 1896 by Donald Smith (later Lord Strathcona). It became a convalescent home for the wounded during #WWI and an auxiliary hospital during #WWII. It remained a hospital until 2009 and is now a hotel

[photo: J. Valentine: source: HLH Archives]

An order to design a tank was given by Italian General Julio Martini #OTD in 1915. This work eventually led to the creation of the FIAT 2000 heavy tank. This was an advanced tank for its time, but it was finished way too late to see battle in the First World War. #tanks #history #WWI #WW1

My great-grandfather, Andrew Murray Robertson, kept a diary through WWI, Feb 1915 to Dec 1918. He enlisted as a gunner, was commissioned, won the Military Cross with the Canadian Engineers, and was wounded twice. Diary and letters, day by day: robertsondiary.com
#WWI #CanadianHistory #TheGreatWar

New video: Your Comments Were Better Than My Video, Let Me Explain.

You corrected me on #BigBen, #GuyFawkes, #WWI and England vs Britain vs the UK. I read your notes out loud on camera.

Also: Hollywood makes things up, and I have the backlot credentials to say so.

youtu.be/dRnDnvAKDgo

#TIL During WWI, German troops paused in Champagne cellars to drink captured wine, which slowed their advance and contributed to delays in the 1918 spring offensive.

#wwi #ink #oop #wine #ys

#EdithCavell #WWI #OTD

From the rugged landscapes of Central Otago to the muddy trenches of the Western Front, New Zealander Thomas Andrew Milne made the ultimate sacrifice during a pivotal First World War battle. 🌺

#AnzacHistory #WWI #NewZealandHistory #WesternFront #Somme1918 #LestWeForget #OtagoHistory #NZRifleBrigade

British nurse Edith Cavell was a #WWI resistance leader.

She ran escape lines from German-occupied Belgium saving ~200 Allied soldiers. Betrayed by a collaborator, she was arrested, tried, and shot by a German firing squad #OTD in 1915.

Quote from the eve of her execution. #WomenInHistory #HistSky

#OTD #TDIH #October12, 1915: #DOTD: #RIP #SaintEdithCavell. #StEdithCavell #AnglicanSaints #Nurses #Heroes #Martyrs #AnglicanFeastDays #WorldWarI #WorldWarOne #WorldWar1 #WWI #WW1 #FirstWorldWar #WarToEndAllWars #TheGreatWar #EuropeanCivilWar
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British nurse Edith Cavell shot #OTD in 1915. During WW1 she ran a Red Cross hospital in Brussels. Cavell helped hundreds of allied soldiers escape the Germans, but was arrested and given the death penalty. Hear her story in our Women and War Podcast: tinyurl.com/yu4yedh6 #history #WWI #nurse