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79A Corner Of A Forgotten Field
On the 8th September 1916, my great-uncle died from wounds suffered during the Battle of the Somme. Second Lieutenant Henry Byron, 1st/5th Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment, was twenty-two. His brother – my grandfather –enlisted at the age of...
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79Triumph TR7, TR7 V8 and TR8 Sports Cars
The slow decline of a once great name continued with the Triumph TR7 which came with a weedy 4-cylinder engine, not the TR7 V8 that enthusiasts wanted.
75World War 1: Letter from Ypres
Ypres was a brutal battle in the First World War that led to the deaths of thousands of allied soldiers that resulted in the capture of only a few miles of territory. Ypres was also the first modern battle in which chemical warfare was used.
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74SCOURGE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS
SCOURGE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS ‘Papa’ Hemmingway had once observed “They wrote in the old days that it is sweet to die for one’s own country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet or fitting in your...
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74Silent Heroes Project-Australian customs WW1-George Browning
George Victor Browning had joined the Department of Trade and Customs, as a junior clerk, in 1915. He was one of six children (five boys and one girl) born to Charles and Ellen Browning of Eastbourne Street, Windsor, a suburb of...
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73Canada in the First World War - Passchendaele
The Battle of Passchendaele was the final phase of the Third Battle of Ypres. Originally conceived in 1915 by General Haig, it was not until June of 1917 that Field Marshal Haig had the opportunity to finally launch his offensive. This was a...
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71Visiting the Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium: poignant remembrance of World War One sacrifice in Flanders
This stately structure in Ypres (Dutch: Ieper ), Belgium, which is sometimes known as the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing, has been the venue for a moving musical ceremony for many decades, in commemoration of the war dead of the British Empire...
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70Australia's Involvement in World War I
World War 1 What does a document study of this soldier reveal about Australia’s involvement in the First World War? Australia’s involvement in World War I (WWI) was significant and paramount to the...
0 comments70Canada in the First World War
When Britain declared war on Germany in August of 1914 Canada was automatically at war as well. Canada was as well prepared for war as any part of the British Empire, which means not very well at all....
0 comments69Canada in the First World War - Hill 70
In June of 1917 Sir Arthur Currie was made a Lieutenant General and promoted to command the Canadian Corps. The promotion caused a fuss in Canadian political circles as the Canadian Cabinet had not been consulted and the post had been promised to...
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