During the recovery of bodies following the Battle of Marne in France in 1914, his pipes were accidentally set off, alerting ...

"The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time" So remarked the British Foreign ...

During construction at Pearson Airfield, an archeologist found what could be unexploded Stokes Mortars dating back to World War 1. The Vancouver Police Mobile Explosive Device Unit worked with the U.S ...

WW1: Did the machine-gun save lives? documentWW1: Did the machine-gun save lives? Despite the thousands of deaths attributed to the use of the machine-gun in WW1, did its awesome threat actually ...

If you're not sure what the last line means, you're not alone. WW1 gave rise to a number of slang and colloquial expressions such as these, but some lasted longer than others. Another word which ...

Thanks for that. Ian McMillan reads and analyses Wilfred Owen’s poem Dulce et Decorum Est, and asks: do we misunderstand WW1 because we focus on poems like Owen's? WW1: Why was the first day of ...

"So they have a long lineage." Alasdair is the third generation of family to play the pipes Bagpipes were carried into other battles during WW1, and again during World War Two. Piper Daniel ...