by Mitch Brunke | Feb 3, 2020
Chronicle, March 14. 1917: William Harold Wilson, who was accepted for active service yesterday, enlisted under most remarkable circumstances. When answering the question put to him by the enlisting officer, he stated there was not a person whom he could term his next...
by Mitch Brunke | Feb 3, 2020
Verdun – 1916 slaughter starts The battle of Verdun was one of the longest costly battles in World War I. As the Allies were planning to end the war with a massive summer assault in the Somme valley, the Germans on February 21 poured their might into a furious attack...
by Mitch Brunke | Feb 3, 2020
‘ … would sooner be … at old Pialba with the tent and fishing line … catching whiting.’ Cpl J. W. (‘Nip’) Hunter: I have been wounded and pretty badly at that. I have lost one kneecap and am shot in the legs. They are not doing too badly but the knee is very bad and...
by Mitch Brunke | Jan 31, 2020
‘… we realised at last that we were at war …’ Pozieres, a small village in the Somme valley in France, was the scene of bitter and costly fighting for the 1st, 2nd, and 4th Australian Divisions in mid-1916. https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/E72/ Like Fromelles,...
by Mitch Brunke | Jan 31, 2020
Dernancourt, a village on the River Ancre in France, was the scene of desperate fighting during the German offensive of March and April 1918. The 12th and 13th Brigades fought to hold beside the village on March 27 and held back two attacks by the 50th (Prussian)...
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