Re: THE FIRST WORLD WAR THREAD.
Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2014 2:28 am
Thanks for the link Duncan.
Joe
Joe
First Day of the Somme 1st July 1916
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_day_on_the_Somme
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THE FIRST WORLD WAR as reported in the daily news
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Re: THE FIRST WORLD WAR THREAD.
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2014 12:45 am
Re: THE FIRST WORLD WAR THREAD.
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2014 2:26 am
For anyone who is interested in the Battle of the Somme I highly recommend this book.
"Bloody Victory" by William Philpott, ISBN 978-1-4087-0108-9. Over 690 pages but worth the time to read it.
"Bloody Victory" by William Philpott, ISBN 978-1-4087-0108-9. Over 690 pages but worth the time to read it.
Re: THE FIRST WORLD WAR THREAD.
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2014 4:40 am
One of my favourite books is, The Battle of the Somme: A Topographical History by Correlli Barnett, Gerald Gliddon (ISBN: 9780750919838)
I always carried this on my Somme battlefield tours.
Joe
I always carried this on my Somme battlefield tours.
Joe
Re: THE FIRST WORLD WAR THREAD.
Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2014 11:01 am
On this date a hundred years ago. Newspapers in America have different headlines. A difference of opinion seems to exist in journalistic circles as to if the Kaiser declares war or not yet.....officially.
In America it was just an event seen from afar. They couldn't have known in the US that before the war was over there would be a million and a half US troops in Europe.
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/ ... d-1/seq-1/
In America it was just an event seen from afar. They couldn't have known in the US that before the war was over there would be a million and a half US troops in Europe.
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/ ... d-1/seq-1/
Re: THE FIRST WORLD WAR THREAD.
Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2014 11:13 am
And you look around the world today at all the idiots who are shooting at each other and blowing themselves up in the name of various religions and it seems to me that the human race is progressing - backwards 
Re: THE FIRST WORLD WAR THREAD.
Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2014 9:48 am
And they begin to learn the lessons of the new kind of war...
A hundred years ago today.
A hundred years ago today.
Re: THE FIRST WORLD WAR THREAD.
Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2014 12:39 am
There are already some promising shows on TV about WW I and I saw a promo for one this morning.
Showed a soldier standing, tin hatted and with rifle slung; what particularly got my interest was the large headed front nose-cap screw, were they around in 1914-15?
In the film "Michael Collins" I think that I caught the glint from a WW II Australian brass outer band and some previous Australian productions have had Lee-Enfields with the sight adjusting holes in the nose-caps a few years before the first ones appeared.
Will be interesting to see if any turn up in WW I.
I know that it's being pedantic but-----I'm a pedant.
Showed a soldier standing, tin hatted and with rifle slung; what particularly got my interest was the large headed front nose-cap screw, were they around in 1914-15?
In the film "Michael Collins" I think that I caught the glint from a WW II Australian brass outer band and some previous Australian productions have had Lee-Enfields with the sight adjusting holes in the nose-caps a few years before the first ones appeared.
Will be interesting to see if any turn up in WW I.
I know that it's being pedantic but-----I'm a pedant.
Re: THE FIRST WORLD WAR THREAD.
Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2014 2:43 am
And rightly so Eoin, Details are important to people like us................ 
Re: THE FIRST WORLD WAR THREAD.
Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2014 9:22 am
From the Rock Island Argus. A hundred years ago today.
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/ ... d-1/seq-1/
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/ ... d-1/seq-1/