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Minter’s Ring: The Story of One World War II POW
Smithsonian.com
8/2/2011
In the spring of 1962, the United States Navy was excavating a site in Inchon, Korea, when the discovery of human remains led officers to believe they had come across the site of a prisoner-of-war camp. More than a decade earlier, during the Korean War, General Douglas MacArthur commanded some 75,000 United Nations ground forces and more than 250 ships into the Battle of Inchon—a surprise assault that led, just two weeks later, to the recapture of Seoul from the North Korean People’s Army. But the 1962 Inchon excavation led to an unexpected find.
WWI underground: Unearthing the hidden tunnel war
bbc.co.uk
6/10/2011
Archaeologists are beginning the most detailed ever study of a Western Front battlefield, an untouched site where 28 British tunnellers lie entombed after dying during brutal underground warfare. For WWI historians, it's the "holy grail". When military historian Jeremy Banning stepped on to a patch of rough scrubland in northern France four months ago, the hairs on the back of his neck stood up.
Australia's oldest man, World War I veteran Claude Choules dies at 110
perthnow.com.au
5/5/2011
WA's national treasure Claude Choules, Australia's oldest man and the world's last surviving World War I veteran, has died in Perth aged 110. Mr Choules was a man who made the best of life and devoted himself to his family and country. His fighting spirit helped him survive two world wars, and also live long enough to become the oldest man in WA and the last World War I veteran living in Australia.
Diary up for auction belonging to Battle of the Somme 'Florence Nightingale nurse' who treated WWI soldiers
dailymail.co.uk
3/11/2011
The diary of a 'Florence Nightingale' nurse who helped soldiers during World War One is being sold at auction by her family. The moving diaries, complete with touching letters written by soldiers she treated in the trenches, will go on sale along with her pristine Red Cross uniform.
Frank Buckles, last American veteran of World War I, dies at 110
latimes.com
3/1/2011
Frank Woodruff Buckles, a onetime Missouri farm boy who was the last known living American veteran of World War I, has died. He was 110. Buckles, who later spent more than three years in a Japanese POW camp as a civilian in the Philippines during World War II, died Sunday of natural causes at his home in Charles Town, W.Va., family spokesman David DeJonge said.
Remains of once-missing WWI veteran to be interred
12/9/2010
A U.S. soldier who had been missing in action for 92 years will be buried with full military honors Thursday. On Wednesday, the Department of Defense's POW/Missing Personnel Office said the remains of Army Private Henry A. Weikel, 28, of Mt. Carmel, Pennsylvania, had been identified and returned to his family for burial. Weikel will be laid to rest in Annville, Pennsylvania, the office said in a statement.
Book Review: Strange Meetings
nzherald.co.nz
12/4/2010
Harry Ricketts, who teaches English at Victoria University, takes his title from what is probably the best English poem of World War I, Wilfred Owen's Strange Meeting, written shortly before he was killed in France in 1918. The poem describes an hallucinatory meeting in hell between the speaker and the man he had bayoneted the day before: "I am the enemy you killed, my friend."
A realistic experience of trench warfare for students
oxfordreview.com
12/1/2010
Armed with rubber grenades, wooden rifles and bayonets, about 70 Grade 10 students from Woodstock, London, Strathroy and other communities exper ienced first hand what it felt like for soldiers in the trenches of the First World War on Tuesday. The experience is nothing new to Robin Barker-James, owner of "The Trenches" farm on New Road, but the 14-and 15-year-old students were clearly overwhelmed by the experience and the prospect of going to war. "I just couldn't handle it," Daniel Vandenbr ink said. "I don't want to kill anyone. It's not worth all the lives people lost." Daniel and his friend, Kyle Dejong, agreed war would take a toll on them. "I'd probably go insane," Kyle added.
The forgotten father of mechanized warfare
torontosun.com
11/6/2010
Remembrance Day seems appropriate to remember the remarkable story of the French officer in the Canadian army in the First World War who invented mobile mechanized warfare. Raymond Brutinel, who died in France at age 82 in 1964, altered forever the face of war. An as-yet unpublished book tells how Brutinel, a reserve officer in the French army, made a fortune in Canada in Edmonton, and when the First World War started along with Sir Clifford Sifton and others financed the formation of what was to become the 1st Motor Machine Gun Brigade, (the Emma Gees), commanded by himself.
New archive of Edinburgh life during first world war
guardian.co.uk
10/7/2010
A new archive of locally sourced photographs, posters and documents will be launched later today revealing stories of Edinburgh's involvement in the first world war - some being made public for the first time. The online collection, titled Edinburgh's War, includes accounts of Girl Guides helping M15, Serbian refugee children being educated at George Heriot's School, and domestic science teachers from James Gillespie's School teaching soldiers how to cook.
China's WW I Effort Draws New Attention
voanews.com
9/23/2010
World War I drew in people from around the world, including 140,000 Chinese workers who served on the Western Front. A new museum exhibition in Flanders, Belgium, highlights China's role in the war. It appears the curators have had to cancel plans to take it to China.
Ten Inventions That Inadvertently Transformed Warfare
Smithsonian.com
9/19/2010
Bayonet: In the early 17th century, sportsmen in France and Spain adopted the practice of attaching knives to their muskets when hunting dangerous game, such as wild boar. The hunters particularly favored knives that were made in Bayonne—a small French town near the Spanish border long renowned for its quality cutlery.
Discovered after 90 years: Diary complete with amazing paintings and drawings that bring to life the horror faced by Tommies in the WWI trenches
dailymail.co.uk
9/14/2010
A fresh insight into life in the trenches in World War One has been discovered in a series of amazing sketches and drawings found in a soldier's diary hidden away for 90 years. Lieutenant Kenneth Wootton's 120-page journal vividly brings to life the horror of major WWI battles, and even includes detailed ink drawings of tanks and battle movements.
The Shock of War
Smithsonian.com
9/5/2010
In September 1914, at the very outset of the great war, a dreadful rumor arose. It was said that at the Battle of the Marne, east of Paris, soldiers on the front line had been discovered standing at their posts in all the dutiful military postures—but not alive. “Every normal attitude of life was imitated by these dead men,” according to the patriotic serial The Times History of the War, published in 1916. “The illusion was so complete that often the living would speak to the dead before they realized the true state of affairs.” “Asphyxia,” caused by the powerful new high-explosive shells, was the cause for the phenomenon—or so it was claimed.
America’s Bloodiest Battle
AmericanHeritage.com
7/26/2010
On October 11, 1918, late in the afternoon, a platoon of American doughboys marched to the front in eastern France, passing shattered villages, forests reduced to matchsticks, and water-filled shell craters. At every step the Americans struggled to free their boots from the slopping mud. Icy wind and rain slashed at their clothing, and water poured in steady streams from the rims of their helmets, somewhat obscuring the devastation.
Remains of secret WWI flamethrower found in Somme
kentnews.co.uk
7/25/2010
Evidence of a long-forgotten British secret weapon aimed at shortening the war in the trenches is gradually coming to light along the Somme Valley in northern France – scene of unimaginable slaughter in 1916.
Public's first view of Sassoon's personal papers
news.bbc.co.uk
7/21/2010
Siegfried Sassoon's handwritten account of the first day of the Battle of the Somme has gone on display at Cambridge University Library.
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.