Pg 55 and Pg 57 of Larousse médical illustré de Guerre highlighting various means to transport wounded in #WW1 bsky.app/profile/this...

10 October 1918: RMS Leinster was torpedoed and sunk by U-boat UB-123. 564 people were killed. It was the largest loss of life on the Irish Sea during #WW1. #History

PIC OF THE DAY!
A 1918 (World War 1) photo of folks seeing off the troops at the Prescott depot:
#PrescottAZHistory #PrescottAZ #OldPhotos #WW1 #History

"The Hospital At Cooden Camp.
Group Of Red Cross Nurses.
Inside The Tennis Pavilion, Which Has Been Fitted Up As A Hospital."
Bexhill Observer 10.10.1914. It was Dr. Amsden who gave our Egyptology Collection, thanks to Kate Marsden.
#Cooden #Bexhill #Sussex #WW1 #Hospital #History #1910s #Egyptology

10 October 1918 Private Herbert Bennett (57272) 2nd Garrison Bn Northumberland Fusiliers died and was buried in Basra War Cemetery.

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

10 October 1918 Lance Sergeant Clifford Holt (3387) 2 Bn Cheshire Regiment died of wounds and was buried in Mikra British Cemetery.

Clifford is remembered on the Hazel Grove War Memorial and inside Stockport's War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

10 October 1917 Corporal Thomas Astley (17810) 20 Bn Manchester Regiment was killed in action and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.

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

10 October 1916 Private Walter Samuel Ashmore (34760) 10 Bn Cheshire Regiment died of wounds and was buried Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension.

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

Junk shop find of a small silver cup with Allied war medal ribbons in enamel - Bollington is in Cheshire I think #WW1 #FWW

Italy follows up recent progress with attacks to extend the Gorizia bridgehead. Night attacks and brutal fighting allow the Italians to seize vital trenches just a few kilometers from Trieste. Austria-Hungary will shorten their lines along Mount Santo and the Hermada Hills.
#WW1
#FWW
#GreatWar

Hello from western Oregon! Mark Flowers here. I post primarily about #WW1 history and am wondering if you might be able to add me to the #History feed. Thanks so much.

mybook.to/TalesofLoveandWar Lest we forget the sacrifices made by those who fought for our freedom.
Lovers torn apart by the Great War.
The women and children of Auschwitz
The men and women of the French resistance. 'Outstanding storyteller' #WW1 #WW2 #historicalfiction

9 October 1914: The Siege of #Antwerp came to an end when surviving members of the garrison surrendered to besieging German forces. #History #WW1

"A Bexhill Belgian Family."
Bexhill Chronicle 9.10.1915.
#Bexhill #Sussex #WW1 #Refugee #History #1910s

9 October 1918 Private James Westhead (28272) 3 Bn Grenadier Guards was killed in action and buried in Forenville Military Cemetery.

James is also remembered on the Cheadle Hulme and Wigan War Memorials #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

9 October 1917 Gunner Alexander Austin (131602) Royal Field Artillery was killed in action and buried in Birr Cross Roads Cemetery.

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

9 October 1917 Sergeant William Bowers (12123) 10 Cheshire Regiment was killed in action and was buried in Gorre British And Indian Cemetery.

William is also remembered on the Hazel Grove and Reddish War Memorial and inside the Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History

9 October 1918 Lt John Cooke of Army Service Corps,
Mechanical Transport died of pneumonia and was buried in Tourgeville Military Cemetery.

John is also remembered on the Cheadle Hulme War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

9 October 1917 Private John Martin (266615) 1 Bn Cheshire Regiment was killed in action and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial. John was 19.

John is remembered on the Hazel Grove War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters