DIARY OF THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918

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Re: DIARY OF THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918

Post by DuncaninFrance » Mon Mar 08, 2021 6:41 am

A most pognant piece of Remembrance...... .
A Great War Memorial in Hungary
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Post by Niner Delta » Mon Mar 08, 2021 9:57 pm

Wow, that does say a lot with no words, have never seen that before.

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Post by Niner » Sat Mar 13, 2021 6:28 pm

A hundred years ago the Germans were balking at the stiff payment schedule to the winning side. So the French marched into Germany and proceeded to camp out until the Germans started pumping out the cash. Unfortunately, the German police order keepers and the French military didn't quite see eye to eye on how much respect the French deserved.

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn ... d-1/seq-1/

Wonder what happened in WWII when the Vichy French were the police for the Germans in France. Got a feeling the French saluted.
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Post by Niner » Sun May 23, 2021 11:14 pm

Harding does his thing. Seems heart felt and appropriate. Little did he know that a couple decades on it would all start up again. Of course he didn't do anything about the Germans having to pay for the last war and wrecking whatever economy they had and making sure that the seeds of the next war were well planted. That was considered Europe's business whatever gold they squeezed out of Germany.

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Post by DuncaninFrance » Mon May 24, 2021 2:54 am

On Saturday May 15th it was the 100th Anniversary of the founding of The Royal British Legion
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Post by DuncaninFrance » Thu Jul 01, 2021 3:08 am

105 years ago today was the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

See the first 2 images from todays Telegraph. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/0 ... tle-somme/
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Post by Niner » Fri Jul 16, 2021 11:04 pm

The Rainbow Division held a reunion in 1921. They weren't too happy about a certain "colonel" who was assigning motives for America's involvement in the war and they weren't happy about the 18th Amendment that made prohibition the law of the land.

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Post by Niner » Fri Jul 23, 2021 10:19 pm

The war is truly over by this date a hundred years ago. Now that the forever wars are seeming to come to a close maybe we could cut back on some of the agency holdovers in homeland security and other spy agencies now days. Of course that isn't likely to happen.

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Post by DuncaninFrance » Mon Aug 23, 2021 2:49 am

22nd August 1914.
Lieutenant Thompson was the first British officer to be killed in action during the First World War. He was commanding a small force of French Senegalese troops in an action against German forces at Chra, German Togoland, when he was killed in action, aged 24, on 22 August 1914. A Special French Army Order was published on 20 October commending his gallantry and he was posthumously awarded the Croix de Guerre with Palms. Lieutenant Thompson is buried at Wahala Cemetery near Atakpame.

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Post by Niner » Tue Oct 26, 2021 11:07 am

It's been a hundred years since the picking of the unknown for the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The story from the newspaper.

A sergeant was given the task. He was sent into a chapel in France alone with one white rose. There were four unknowns to chose from.

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