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In 1920 the War Department began issuing the Victory Medal. The medal was authorized in April 1919 and everyone in uniform from April 1917 to November 1918 was eligible to wear it. 4,412,533 men and women served in the armed forces during this time. However only about half this number se...
More than 16 million people were killed in the first deadliest global war in human history and most of them died so young, nameless and miserable on foreign soil. To see a world in a grain of sand, and to tell a young U.S. soldier's "sad but poignant tale" that may map the trage...
the lived reality of a war becomes much more vivid when we look at the diverse creative expressions it inspires. The varied perspectives represented in the First World War art show us that there was not one single uniform war experience for Britons, whether on the battlefield or at home. In...
The caption for this one read: “The Light of Peace in the trenches on Christmas Eve: A German soldier opens the spontaneous truce by approaching the British lines with a small Christmas tree.” In fact, most letters from British soldiers credit the Germans with starting the truce. To be ...
While she was forced to keep her adventure silent, as the British Army very much feared the ridicule it would plunge them into, another Englishwoman, Flora Sandes, published a book on her experiences as a soldier in the Serbian Army in 1916, with a view to raising funds for her brothers...
spite of two expeditions (531 and 542), they were unable to gain possession of Visigothic Septimania. Also, at least a portion ofArmoricain the northwest remained outside the Frankish sphere of influence. During this period, British colonization of the western half of the Armorican peninsula ...