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The First World War is especially remembered for the fighting that took place on the Western Front. It's along these ...
I quite like playing in the mud. But I’d probably feel different if I was a soldier in the trenches during World War One. WW1 SOLDIER JACK: Mud? Oh, we know all about mud here on the Western Front.
A new gravestone has been erected for a World War One soldier who died as a result of the after effects of a gas attack and heart disease - caused by infections contracted in the trenches.
BBC One Opening the World War One commemoration season on the BBC ... Fergal follows the children into the trenches, to see how they coped with the reality of war. He explores how, as the ...
It might not sound like much to write home about, but the 21-year-old -- Lawrence Enderson Grimshaw -- happened to be a soldier stationed in the trenches during World War I. One century on ...
(See how World War I energized mapmaking at National ... was vastly preferable to the muddy hell of the trenches above. A journalist visiting one of the caverns in 1915 noted that “a dry shelter ...
"A barrel of whitewash tipped over and it seemed that everything in the world turned white." Stage by stage, from the mud of the trenches ... war memorials, the most poignant of which, perhaps, is ...
Our World War is a gripping factual drama series ... far beyond the familiar images of mud, blood and the trenches. Tommies explores one central theme: all humans are moths to the flame of war.
Claudius Schulze Remains of a trench today ... opening of a campaign that would be regarded as one of the great Allied failures of World War I. The name quickly became a metaphor for hubris ...