How did WWI soldiers keep clean in the trenches? The answer lies somewhere between "with great difficulty" and "they didn't." Although WWI was known as the Great War, trench hygiene was anything ...
A postcard discovered in the diary of a German World War One officer has led his descendant to bring a message sent to the ...
I quite like playing in the mud. But I’d probably feel different if I was a soldier in the trenches during World War One. WW1 SOLDIER JACK: Mud? Oh, we know all about mud here on the Western Front.
The trenches were rediscovered at the Ministry ... was used for training troops between 1914 - 1918. The practice battlefield was rediscovered in 2011 after it was spotted in an old aerial photo ...
Her album includes the eyewitness account of Corporal John J Ferguson of Second Seaforth Highlanders, who at Christmas 1914 ...
WWI saw massive levels of destruction. More than 16 million people died during the war. One reason for the massive casualties was trench warfare. Trenches are long, deep ditches used for defence.
Today marks the 106th year of Veterans Day in the United States, and 100 years of the World War One monument here in ...
So many soldiers return from bloody battlefields across the world and rarely speak about what happened to them and their ...
Trench Crusade is a newly Kickstarter skirmish wargame and it's shaking things up with their own bit of alternative WWI ...
Now, one of my favorite menswear designers, Billy Reid, has teamed up with Oak Street for a fresh take on the Trench Boot. Billy’s version isn’t a complete reinvention of the form. Instead, it adds a ...
Paul Leo Ortego was one of the first to enlist when President Woodrow Wilson declared the United States was entering WWI in ...
The "heroic courage and self-sacrifice" of Private James Miller during the Battle of Somme saved the lives of his comrades.