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'The Unkillable Soldier' Who Kept Fighting Despite Losing an Eye and Hand in World War I
Carton de Wiart died in 1963 at the age of 83, but his exploits have inspired generations of service members in the United ...
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Life on the Western Front during WW1
British munitions factories produced over 170 million artillery shells during WW1. As trenches were very good at defending soldiers from the direct attacks of enemy soldiers, other methods for ...
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What was a soldier’s food like in WW1?
Dan Snow describes the food rations supplied for British soldiers during WW1 and compares these with what German soldiers had. The value of different foods is touched on and we learn that ...
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I still play the pipes that saved my great-grandfather's life in WW1
He was among thousands of soldiers in the British Expeditionary Force who fought ... Bagpipes were carried into other battles during WW1, and again during World War Two. Piper Daniel Laidlaw ...
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Medals for Shropshire battalion’s first soldier killed in WW1 go up for auction
British Transport Police History Group recently worked with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to get Corporal Jay's Military Medal recognised on his headstone.