000 soldiers in the British army. The government knew that this was not enough to fight a war with Germany and in April 1939 introduced the Military Training Act. The terms of the act meant that all men between the ages of 20 and 21 had to register for ...
LAC also holds an extensive collection of textual records related to the events of June–August 1944. One of the most important collections is theWar Diariesof Canadian army units that participated in the campaign. Units overseas were required to keep a daily record, or “War Diary,” of thei...
The battalion’s records show six men died during that month; four officers and two soldiers. After analysing the artefacts and accoutrements at the site, the researchers believe the remains are ‘likely’ to belong to one of the two soldiers. Not unknown A grandson of the other soldier has ...
African voices from two world wars. In: Historical Research 74, Nr. 186 (November 2001), pp. 425-443. [JSTOR, Project MUSE] Markovits, Claude. Indian Soldiers' Experiences in France during World War I: Seeing Europe from the Rear of the Front. In The World in World Wars: Experiences,...
Portsmouth’s World War One Heroes Saturday 8 February – 1.30pm, Carnegie Library (Fratton) Saturday 8 March – 1.30pm, Southsea Library Over 6,000 men from Portsmouth are believed to have been killed during WW1. Not only were thousands of Portsmouth soldiers killed on the Western Front, ...
He, and thousands of others, were subjected to the 65-mile Bataan Death March and then held at a prisoner of war camp where 2,500 prisoners died during the course of the war. Calvi died on July 16, 1942, according to prison and historical records, just months after the surrender of ...
In the evening, trucks loaded with donated supplies from Shanghai residents reached the warehouse; Japanese snipers killed three Chinese soldiers while they were unloading the trucks. [Second Battle of Shanghai | Shanghai | CPC]29 Oct 1937 China A 12-foot-wide Chinese flag was raised atop ...
In a speech at the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany, Adolf Hitler noted that he did not wish to wage war against France and the United Kingdom, and it would not be worth the blood of British, French, and German soldiers for Poland, since it was created unjustly by the Versailles Treaty. ...
The strength ofLife and Fate’sdepiction of combat, destruction, and its effects on soldiers and civilians stems directly from his wartime reporting, which has been collected and published inA Writer at War. The collection was edited by Luba Vinogradova and Anthony Beevor, who openly acknowledges ...
The latter stands out as the superior of the two films, as it did critically at the time, garnering four Oscar nominations. It's a sorrowful, intimate story reminding us that regardless of which side they were fighting on, at the war's center, the soldiers were just human beings. —R...