Many weapons of the modern age first entered the combat stage during the First World War, but the uniforms of a century ago still reflected the trends of the previous centuries more than the high-tech gear of today. Join Pop Mech Pro and get exclusive answers to your most pressing science...
Photographs, newspapers, memoirs, war office documents and tailoring ephemera reveal the impact of the war on the tailoring trade. But the story of uniform also involves the wartime knitting projects, the issue of 'Kitchener Blue', Sikhs wearing khaki on the western front, and the punishments ...
Before World War II began, World War I was known as The Great War. World War I was the first war in which tanks were used. Browse through the gallery and see if you can spot the following: World War I soldiers in the trenches World War I British Army uniform Map of Allied (Entente...
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Flour war in Spain Newborn babies wear dog costumes to celebrate the New Year One-eyed dog journeys round the world Girl wants to look like a real life doll Meet the oldest serving flight attendant Gaza zoo puts lion cubs up for sale Australian WW1-era naval submarine HMAS AE-1 found af...
World War 1 ArticlesAs the 1914–1918 conflict came to be known, the Great War became a world war indeed as it drew in Japan, British colonies in the Pacific, and European colonial holdings throughout Africa, Asia, and North America....
A range of artefactsfrom the First World War have been unearthed during a development project atBodelwyddan Castle in north Wales. Among the items unearthed are wooden duck-boards, .303 rifle cartridges and auniform button which appears to be from aCanadian unit. ...
My essay is about the evacuation of wounded soldiers, but human bodies were not the only ones requiring medical attention on the Western Front. By August 1917 the British Army had 368,000 horses and 82,000 mules in Belgium and France. At the outbreak of the war the cavalry were expected ...
It was Asquith that took Britain into World war I and ordered the British Expeditiory Force (BEF) to Belgium, an action that prevented a German victory (August 1914). But as the public came to see the war as a great mistake, this inevitably reflected on Asquith's popularity. Few people...
M Berlemont’s son Gaston, meanwhile, had succeeded his father in running the pub many years earlier – there’s a story that when he walked into the pub after World War II, still dressed in his uniform, his father handed over the keys and left him to it. A well-loved Soho identity...