Lance Corporal Frederick William Dobson and Private Thomas Young, crawled across to No Man's Land under heavy artillery and ...
The scrapbook - found in a house clearance - belonged to WW1 Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse Maude Alice ... their trench … Illuminations any other night would have drawn out fire but tonight no-one ...
Selling liquefied natural gas is the right solution for Canada Postmedia political columnist Lorne Gunter says the Liberals ...
On Christmas Day in 1914, British and German soldiers along the Western Front met in no man's land and exchanged gifts, took photographs - and ...
An unseen diary recounting the legendary First World War Christmas truce football match reveals German troops sang 'God Save ...
But the British soldiers were unable to break through the German defences and were mown down in their thousands by machine gun and artillery fire. This day set a bloody precedent: the Somme ...
Brigadier Wallace Wright VC Awarded the VC for this action, Wright went on to serve in both WW1 and WW2 reaching the rank of Brigadier ... successfully oversaw the evacuation of personnel under fire ...
“I went at it again in the past few months to determine the facts based on the story I was told that my great uncle on my dad ...
The attack began at 5:40 am as the companies moved forward and then stopped, owing to heavy machine gun fire from the woods ... It was from them that the artillery bombarded the Fusiliers who ...