There are roughly 622 000 individual First World War service file records held by Library and Archives Canada (LAC), which document enlistment (attestation), movement between units, medical histories, pay and discharge or notification of death. These files are generally between 25 and 75 pages in...
Going beyond the veterans individual or group memory, death ended up being a structural element in the construction of the political memory of the First World War. This analysis focuses not only on the impact death had on individual combatants or the soldiers as a group, but mainly on the ...
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Lifespan based on dates of birth and death from a range of sources (such as individual military files and an official database of birth and death records). RESULTS: A quarter of the 1914 cohort died during the war, with deaths from injury predominating (94%) over ...
Eric lived at 47 Devonshire Road until his death in July 1970 more than 50 years after his and his brothers’ experiences on the Somme during the Great War. Sources: Ancestry records – various military and census National Archives – war diaries (currently free to download) Ealing Gazette and...
Death Among Good Men: First World War Reflections from New Zealand Major General Lindsay M. InglisHARPER, GLYNNew Zealand Journal of History
This is the moment when the industrialization of warfare became fully realized and the Great Powers mobilized their entire nations for total war. The introduction of new weapons with massive destructive power driven by machine era technology and mass production led to the death of many millions and...
Before Nazism, a German institute cemented itself as gay liberation’s epicenter. For 40 years, activists have been searching for its legendary collection.
The son of working-class parents, Espartero entered the army at age 15 and fought with Spanish forces in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars and in the rebellious Americas. On the death ofFerdinand VIIhe showed himself a strong supporter of the queen regent María Cristina and enthusiast...
The android expresses a sense of sadness at the death of the "unique" Borg Queen and the glimpses of Humanity she brought him. He admits that he was tempted by her offer for a mere 0.68 seconds, but also notes that this involved much more deliberation than the captain might suspect. ...
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