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Digging up chemical weapons in D.C.
latimes.com
5/9/2010
Reporting from Washington — Greg Nielson pushed a joystick, and a video camera zoomed in on three men in moon suits and gas masks as they prepared to blow up a weapon of mass destruction less than five miles from the White House.
Chinese on the Western Front?
cumberland-courier.whereilive.
3/17/2010
Chinese on the Western Front? Many Australians have grown up hearing stories from the battlefields of WW1, but Chinese men on the Western Front? How did this happen, and why? Between 1914 and 1918, the governments of France and Britain recruited thousands of Chinese labourers and transported them to Europe to help the Allied war effort, thousands died by enemy fire. A few were executed by their employers.
Boy, 12, was 'youngest British soldier in First World War'
telegraph.co.uk
10/31/2009
The child, said to be too short to see over the edge of a trench, was recalled by another under-age soldier, George Maher, who was only 13 when he was sent to the Somme during the First Wold War. Mr Maher had told a recruiting officer that he was 18 to enable him to join the 2nd King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment in 1917. But his true age was revealed when he broke down in tears under shellfire and was hauled before an unsympathetic officer.
Henry Allingham: Haunted by the Great War
telegraph.co.uk
7/18/2009
He was haunted by a nightmare memory of falling into a trench on the Western Front. With a clear mind, even as he reached his 113th birthday, he could recall the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, the Wright brothers' first flight two years later and seeing WG Grace bat sometime between 2003 and 2006, though he could not remember how many runs Grace scored. His experience of the trenches came was when he was looking for the remains of aircraft that had been shot down.
Images rescued from dump reveal black British 'Tommy' at the Somme
Independent.co.uk
5/23/2009
At first glance, there may seem to be nothing unusual about this photograph, rescued from a rubbish skip in northern France. Look, though, at the British soldier on the left. He is black: a very rare example of an image of a black "Tommy" from the First World War.
World War One gas horror of rescue workers as they try to help poison pellet man
www.dailyrecord.co.uk
4/10/2009
Emergency workers were caught up in a World War I gas alert after treating a man who had taken poison pellets. Six 999 staff needed hospital treatment after they had been contaminated with deadly phosgene. The gas was escaping from the man they were trying to save.
The Monstrous Anger of the Guns
www.nytimes.com
1/2/2009
Anyone who has ever visited the tiny village of Thiepval (population 98) in northern France can appreciate the enormity of the Battle of the Somme. Thiepval is the site of a towering triangular memorial commemorating more than 73,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers who fell in the area, most of them during the Allied offensive between July 1916 and November 1916, and who have no known grave.Gazing at all those names makes for a sobering experience, especially when you realize they represent just a fraction of the overall losses in the battle.