soldier-entertainersWorld War OneSentimental Blokessocial historytrench cultureIn 1918, Aussie: the Australian Soldiers' Magazine, a trench newspaper produced on the Western Front, commented that concert parties were 'something more than a luxury鈥攖hey are a necessity' (Aussie 8 March 1918: 4). ...
War is all around a little girl, as she plays with her doll in Reims, France, in 1917. George "Pop" Redding , an Australian soldier from the 8th Light Horse Regiment, is shown picking flowers during the war against the Ottoman Empire in the Middle Eastern theater of World War I. 1918...
world war i submarines Australian Sub Found After 103 YearsDecember 22, 2017 One of Australia's oldest naval mysteries has been solved after the discovery of the wreck of the country's first submarine more than 103 years after its disappearance in World War I.The AE1 vanished off the New ...
World War I saw the first use of chemical weapons in battle. German soldiers lay dead in a shell hole between Montauban and Carnoy. British and German soldiers wounded on their way to the dressing station near Bernafay Wood at the Battle of Bazentin Ridge. A German soldier walking ...
World War I (WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, was a global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. From the time of its occurrence until the approach of World War II in 1939, it was called simply the World War or the ...
World War 1 pictures capture everything from presidents and prime ministers to ordinary soldiers. As cameras became a more common facet of life, World War 1 ...
A soldier’s severed hands clinging to barbed wire is just one moment that sears itself into your mind. The expert view:’Its depiction of the war, only a dozen years after it ended, is extraordinary. The conventional view of it – of smiling Tommies and German soldiers going to the ...
The soldier in the picture is standing on a fire-step – built to enable men to see out of the trench and also to climb out to venture into no-man’s land. Barbed WireBarbed wire was used extensively in the trench warfare of world war one. It was laid, several rows deep, by both...
This page is dedicated to Australian and New Zealand military concert parties which operated during World War One, along with the returned soldier companies (Digger troupes) which toured the Commonwealth professionally for a decade or more following the Armistice in 1918. ...
Following the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the German Army opened the Western Front by first invading Luxembourg and Belgium, then gaining military control of important industrial regions in France. The tide of the advance was dramatically turned with the Battle of the Marne. Following the ...