needs. While WWI U.S. Navy and Marine Corps personnel records from WWI are complete, many WWI Army records from the Great War were damaged in the 1973 National Archives fire. We can help you to understand the experiences of a WWI veteran even if their military records were lost in the ...
Solomon Descendants Military Records WW1Jenny Cowen
A Bill was put before Parliament in January 1916 and the Military Service Act came into effect on 2 March 1916. The Act applied to all men aged between 18 and 41 years of age. The Act did not apply to men who: were married were widowed with children were serving in the Royal Navy ...
The 1931 reductions in the New Zealand military, driven by the economic pressures of the Great Depression, had profound and lasting negative effects, both socially and in terms of military preparedness. Socially, the abrupt compulsory retirements and transitions to civilian roles caused significant uph...
OUR BELOVED BROTHER (Private Thomas William Miatt, 14/04/1918, Meteren Military Cemetery) I am not sure how worthwhile an exercise it has been, and whether the results would be similar on a wider basis. What it has done however is open a window onto the grief of the families and loved...
Siegfried Sassoon makes reference to the battle in his famous anti-war poem The General in which is derided the incompetence of the British military staff. The Anglo-Welsh lyric poet, Edward Thomas was killed by a shell on April 9, 1917, during the first day of the Easter Offensive. Thomas...
545 These height data are doubtless imperfect estimates of the actual average adult male heights in the populations in 1890, as they are originally derived from military height records, adjusted for truncation. Moreover, they relate to young adults and the population is composed of individuals of ...