#first World war

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They issue this to all batmen if I remember right

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Parade of the Dead by Georges Bertin Scott (1873-1943).

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Two German Soldiers NCOs tooled up and ready to go, probably on a trench raid against the French or British, Western Front, c.1916.

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An American soldier shakes hands with a child as troops parade through the streets of London before leaving for the front lines in 1917.

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One of The Red Baron's triplanes on display, 1935

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A drawing by Mary Evans, depicting New Zealand Soldiers climbing the walls of Le Quesnoy, during the Battle of the Sambre, part of the Hundred Day offensive, November 4, 1918

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Routing the Enemy, 1919 by Richard Caton Woodville Jr.

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On this Remembrance Sunday, we honor those who gave everything for our freedoms. Their courage, sacrifice, and resilience remain woven into the fabric of our lives. Let’s not just remember but strive to be worthy of what they defended. Thank you for all who have served and still serving today our country is in your debt.

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The Red Baron, WWI. Soldiers examine what remains of Manfred von Richthofen's aircraft after he was shot down, and killed over Vaux-sur-Somme, France, just days before his 26th birthday, but by then already an aviation legend.

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1918: American World War I recruitment poster by T. S. Davidson encouraging men to save the women of Belgium and Ukraine from German Kaiser Wilhelm II, who is depicted as an octopus.

Military Poster Collection, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina. USA.

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The Battle of the Somme took place between 1 July and 18 November 1916. It was one of the largest battles of the First World War, in which more than a million men were wounded or killed, making it one of the bloodiest battles in human history - by John Warwick Brooke (1886 - 1929), English

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WWI, 1 May 1918; A Machine Gun Corps post in a barn near Haverskerque, The Battle of the Lys (Operation Georgette).

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Officers of the 2nd Kings Shropshire Light Infantry with skulls excavated during the construction of trenches and dugouts at the ancient Greek site of Amphipolis, 1916.

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This Day in Buster…August 19, 1917

The Statesman Journal reports that Roscoe Arbuckle, Al St John & Buster Keaton are real patriots, with the former buying up $50k in Liberty Loan war bonds to fund the war effort.  Only Buster would end up at the front, although he described it as ‘the back’.

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Royal Flying Corps on the Western Front, First World War