On Christmas Eve 1914, six months into World War I, a group of Allied and German soldiers put down their weapons for a brief time, shared cigarettes and chocolate with their enemies and joined in ...
More than a century after his death, the previously unmarked grave of Corporal of Horse (CoH) Charles Edward Dean has finally ...
it’s clear that the commemorations created after what was then known as the Great War still resonate with serving soldiers today. WW1: Did the machine-gun save lives? documentWW1: Did the ...
The bodies of five British soldiers killed in the First World War have been found in a network of trenches at Ypres, Belgium. More than 80 years after their deaths, archaeologists discovered the ...
They played key roles in: By the later years of WWI, the use of horses had shifted primarily to transport, as trench warfare made traditional cavalry nearly impossible. For many soldiers ...
I quite like playing in the mud. But I’d probably feel different if I was a soldier in the trenches during World War One. WW1 SOLDIER JACK: Mud? Oh, we know all about mud here on the Western Front.
A Russian soldier laughing at an Ottoman Turk. Before being pitted against each other in WWI, bad blood between Russia and Turkey dated back to the 16th century. This illustration portrays the ...
EXCLUSIVE: The Sentinels sees a new breed of French super-soldier take to the WW1 battlefield. Deadline can share a new image from the Canal+ series, which Studiocanal is bringing to international ...
Officers at Benning's local recruiting office stated that such modesty was emblematic of the spirit of Soldiers who have merited such awards, according to a local newspaper clipping from the time).