2018-02-14

Happy Valentine's Day

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(This post by Alun Edwards originally appeared in 2013) My Angel last night I received a letter from you. I learned how strong was t...
2017-12-25

Dec 25. The Christmas Truce

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Sergeant Bernard Brookes Sergeant Bernard Brookes was a signaller who spent ten months in Flanders in the beginning of the War before ...
2017-12-24

Dec. 24. Ce spectacle écoeurant...

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Michel Toudy A series of unofficial ceasefires took place along the Western Front over Christmas 1914, but not every soldier in the tre...
2017-12-23

Dec. 23. Far, forgetting land

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On this day in 1915, the poet Roland Leighton died of his wounds, aged only twenty, in the Casualty Clearing Station at Louvencourt, France...
2017-12-22

Dec 22. The Christmas Truce seen through French eyes.

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Letter from Léon Pothie, Christmas 1914 Léon Pothie served in the French army on the Western Front in the First World War. Among the ma...
2017-12-21

Dec 21. Christmas in British POW camp

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Programme from Christmas concert in Handforth POW camp Wilhelm Jansen Joerde (1896-1982), from Dohr/Reydt was drafted into the German a...
2017-12-20

Dec. 20. Princess Mary Christmas Fund Gift Tin

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Christmas tin with contents. From The Great War Archive, University of Oxford ( www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa ); © Lewis Trickey The t...
2017-12-19

Dec. 19. Which medal is which?

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Lieutenant Philip Neame of the Royal Engineers won the Victoria Cross on this day in 1914 at Neuve Chapelle. In the face of very heavy fir...
2017-12-18

Dec. 18. For Christmas: send a cheese (if not too heavy)

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Carlo Barbieri, painter and soldier In December 1915 Carlo Barbieri writes to his parents about his efforts to secure a suitable positi...
2017-12-17

Dec. 17. A Christmas letter

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Shared by Helge Hemme under a CC BY-SA licence This Christmas letter was sent by Oswin Arthur Ellrich to his three daughters in Paunsd...
2017-12-16

Dec. 16. 1914: Raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby

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On this day in 1914, the German navy attacked the British seaport towns of Scarborough, Hartlepool, West Hartlepool, and Whitby (pictured)....
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2017-12-15

Dec. 15. A Christmas gift for 50 years

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Image licensed as CC BY-SA by Dr Anthony D Barber ". .. for over 50 years I sent him £1 every year to drink my health ". Tho...
2017-12-14

Dec 14. Christmas and birthday greetings

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This card is one of several sent to Andreas Schuppe around Christmas and New Year 1914. Schuppe had sold his farm to be able to live a ca...
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2017-12-13

Dec 13. With a sad heart - five Christmases apart

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Five Christmases in a row did Georg Holub's sister send a Christmas card to her brother at the front. On the 13th of December 1917 sh...
2017-12-12

Dec 12. On the frozen river Main

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This picture shows a mother and her son on the frozen river Main in Frankfurt. The picture was taken some time in the winter 1916/1917. A...
2017-12-11

Dec. 11. Short trousers

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When Private Alvin Whiteley was serving with "The Legion of Frontiersmen" (that's the 25th Batt. Royal Fusiliers) in Africa...
2017-12-10

Dec. 10. Walking in a winter wonderland

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Winter on the Eastern Front, 1916 I've just finished reading a book about winter warfare tactics by our colleague from Lancashire M...
2017-12-09

Dec. 9. The Feasting Party - Salonika

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"We all tried to look as though we'd drank not wisely but too much" From a collection relating to William Waterworth from...
2017-12-08

Dec. 8. Wartime Christmas 1917

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"Being at war for over three years has left clear traces in the soldiers' faces" This comment is made by Rolf Kranz, who s...
2017-12-07

Dec. 7. The grandfather he never knew

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With only a few old photograph as a starting point, Dave Player researched the history of Andrew Neill, the grandfather he never knew. T...
2017-12-06

Dec 6. Hospital Christmas

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Unknown people around a Christmas tree Nothing is known about this photograph of eight men and a nurse by a Christmas tree. Who were t...
2017-12-05

Dec 5. A Christmas tragedy

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Card sent from Eugene to Nellie In December 1916, Eugene Marshall sent a Christmas card to his wife with the text: "from Gene in t...
2017-12-04

Dec. 4. Flowers from the front

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Blumenstrauß aus dem Felde zu Weihnachten 1914   For Christmas 1914, Ernst Hünnebeck sent a bouquet of flowers to his wife and childr...
2017-12-03

Dec 3. Easter card for Christmas

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Easter card for Christmas This card was sent to Mathilde Oeckermann in Gr. Mackenstedt for Christmas 1917. Presumably the sender coul...
2017-12-02

Dec 2. A Driver's War

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James Mapeley, photo taken in 1916 "We managed to be fairly comfortable during Christmas and New Year 1915". The story abou...
2017-12-01

Dec 1. Made it home for Christmas

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Jo Morgans Cpl Joseph Henry Morgans was wounded and left to die on the battlefield in December 1917. German surgeons saved his life a...
2015-05-07

Lusitania

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Lusitania. Source: gallica.bnf.fr On May 7th 1915, the British ocean liner RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine. The sinking of ...
2015-04-25

Gallipoli: first-hand account

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100 years has passed since the landing at Gallipoli. While the media is showing how the event is remembered we stop to read a first-hand ac...
2015-03-07

International Women’s Day

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March 8 th is International Women’s Day, an event that is celebrated in some parts of the World and virtually unknown in others. We wo...
2014-03-03

8,000 and counting

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The Europeana 1914-1918 collection now has over 8,000 live stories , contributed by members of the public from across the world! All the s...