Many of the areas surrounding Richmond owe their beginnings to periods during the Civil War and earlier. Sandston’s birth and ...
It commemorates Private Albert Hurst of the 9th Battalion Border Regiment who died aged 27 on August 30, 1917 and Bombardier Francis Ralph Blacklock of 51st Field Regiment Royal Artillery who died ...
World War I gave rise to a heated century-long debate about its causes. In Disputing Disaster, Perry Anderson surveys this ...
The pack or two a soldier might carry in his pocket would be burned up during “the many lazy days devoted to sailing across ...
AM on November 11, 1918, the Armistice that put an end to the fighting of World War I came into effect. After over four years ...
In 1919, King George V of England proclaimed that Armistice Day be marked with two minutes of silence at 11 am, the hour the ...
On this day 106 years ago, the warring parties of World War I agreed to an armistice, ending more than four years of ...
Lance Corporal Frederick William Dobson and Private Thomas Young, crawled across to No Man's Land under heavy artillery and ...
On October 15, 1914, a German sub captained by U-boat ace Otto Weddigen attacked the HMS Hawke, killing 524 crew members, ...
Representatives of the armed forces in Scotland stood alongside veterans and invited guests to mark the service and sacrifice of Scots who ...
The World War I Museum and Memorial is telling the stories of veterans through new and re-envisioned displays, and a public ...