Campaign to Commemorate UK’s Chinese Labour Corps in WWI Launched
Eight leading Chinese organizations in UK have launched Ensuring We Remember, a campaign which aims to build a memorial for 96,000 Chinese workers who worked in UK’s…
Diary of WWI Hero George Beck on Life in the Front Line and the Christmas Truce
How life was while in the front line as well as the events of the Christmas Truce in December 1914 were revealed in the handwritten…
Titanic’s Father Browne Also Served in the Great War
From escaping the ill fate of the supposed unsinkable ship Titanic, Father Browne went on to serve in the Great War with great distinction. Upon his death, Father…
The Women Fighters of WWI
The female population had many roles during the Great War except women fighters. Women nurses, factory workers, drivers and even land workers were acceptable, but women fighters were a…
Battle of the Frontiers Largely Forgotten
The Battle of the Frontiers was a major battle that took place during the First World War, and yet it receives little contemporary recognition. It…
Desperate Letter Lord Kitchener sent Churchill during the Great War Surfaces
The 100-year-old desperate letter Lord Kitchener sent to Churchill during the outbreak of the Great War recently surfaced and showed how vulnerable Britain was that…
Man Who Fired the First Bullet of WWI
Many would consider the first bullet fired in the First World War to be the one that struck Archduke Franz Ferdinand, leading to a series…
Listening Post – The Green Old Phone Box Turned into a Mini-WWI Museum
An outdated, green-hued telephone box in County Durham renamed the Listening Post could be the smallest war museum throughout the world. Way back in 2012,…
WWI’s Cuddly Yet Brave ‘Soldiers’ – Cats
It was not only the men who went into service when the Great War broke out in 1914; cats did, too. These lovable and very…
Touching WWI Tale: When a Tommy Returned Egg ‘In One Piece’ to the Girl Who Sent It
A 100-year old eggshell intact discovered — the egg originally sent by a school girl to the front line of WWI returned by the Tommy…
Salute to these Ten Heroic Women of WWI!
In line with the Great War’s 100th-year anniversary, let us take our hats off to these ten heroic women of WWI! These recondite figures –…
WWI Lords: How the Lord Brothers Fought in the Great War and Went Home Alive
The Lord brothers beat incalculable odds when all eight of them fought in the Great War and returned home alive in what could be WWI’s literal…