01.05.1917 For days part of IR64 has defended the Kipsdorf Tunnel against repeated French attacks. Now both entrances are blocked by shelling & surrounded. There's no means of escape & the Regt is too depleted to help. The defenders surrender #FWW#WW1#Nivelle
What happens when 3 historians watch a key play about the #FWW?
This month we went to see Oh What A Lovely War at the @LeedsPlayhouse. We discuss the performance, the changing image of Douglas Haig, & wonder whether audiences were supposed to sing along.
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Private purchase pocketknife carried by Leonard Ball, a carpenter in Victoria, B.C. He joined the Canadian Field Artillery and was given this useful gift when he departed overseas. He survived the war unscathed, and returned home in 1919. #FWW#WWI#knife
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30th April 1915, the 4th Yorkshires were relieved at Fortuin & head south out of the line. Edward Rust who had returned to the battalion after being wounded sadly died on the way & he is now buried in Hazebrouck @CWGC his headstone tells his story in perpetuity #WW1#FWW#Ypres
#OTD in 1940 Major Henryk Dobrzański, "Hubal", died near Anielin, in a fight with Germans. During #FWW he fought in the #PolishLegions, and then took part in the #Polish-Ukrainian and Polish-Bolshevik wars. He remained in the #PolishArmy, where, inter alia, he developed his 1/
Gun modified for use against observation balloons. About 500 were put into service, but they were discontinued in autumn 1915 due to lack of success. After that aircraft took on the task (Autochrom photo by Hans Hildenbrand) #artillery#FWW#WW1
A piece of German airplane fabric, sent home by Mark St Clair Johnston, serving with the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. A bank clerk from Winona, #Ontario, he was killed in action at #Passchendaele 17 November 1917. #PPCLI#WWI#FWW
27/04/1915 The centre of the line was advanced at 4pm so that it made a straight line across the peninsula from 168C to De Totts battery. The Border Regt threw up their right a little and the Inniskillings who had been facing E swung round and faced N. #Gallipoli#fww#diary
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