Maybe it signalled a new era for women, who after their equal participation in the workforce during wartime had been relegated once again to hearth and home. However, it would be decades before women had anything like equal status in law, let alone in real life: until the mid-seventies, ...
Soldiers were constantly tired and in danger of falling asleep. This is why the watch shift was kept to 2 hours to avoid men falling asleep while on watch. There were several cease fires or truces in the trenches during World War I. In 1914, around Christmas time, both the British and ...
Soldiers were constantly tired and in danger of falling asleep. This is why the watch shift was kept to 2 hours to avoid men falling asleep while on watch. There were several cease fires or truces in the trenches during World War I. In 1914, around Christmas time, both the British and ...
In Memoriam by Alice Winn –I have seen so many people raving about this WW1 romance between two soldiers I just couldn’t resist. It seems like the perfect read for pride month. The Isles of the Gods by Amie Kaufman –To be honest this was a bit of an impulse buy. I’ve read a...
8 Tips for Nonprofits To Boost Resilience During A Pandemic Many of us will have watched the daytime TV offerings with keep fit and cooking guru Mr Wicks, or perhaps preferred for those with longer memories ,the Green Goddess,Diana Moran.Perhaps then we turned to platforms like Zoom or Skype...
say, “Oh, my gosh, I was like that”. “Oh, wow! I can’t believe that concept can be delivered on stage”, so that we can understand the power of some of the things that we discuss… Which are really powerful and really gut wrenching and sometimes hard for people to sit through...
Wounded soldiers of the 1/4th Battalion Essex Regiment during the battle for Monte Cassino On 20 August 1944 the battalion was withdrawn from the front line having been involved in fighting for nearly two years. During the next 6 weeks recruits boosted the strength up to 30 Officers and 700 ...
Barbier invented a code that used a variety of combinations of 12 raised dots to represent different sounds. It was devised for soldiers to communicate silently at night. Sonography proved unsuccessful as a military tool; however, Barbier speculated on its potential usefulness for blind individuals....
Tour of the city today went to thechapel of St Louis& it was very beautiful. Then toNotre Damewhich is historical as well as beautifully interesting. SawEiffel Tower&Trocadero.The Tomb of the unknown soldiers. After lunch we went tothe Louvre*where we saw Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo, Winged...
The first two photos were taken at Lakes EntranceAvenue of Honourin Gippsland (SE Victoria) when I visited in December 2021. In 1924 twenty-six Monterey Cypress pines were planted along the Esplanade to honour local soldiers who were killed In action in WW1. By the 1990s many of these tree...