Armistice Day, November 11
Eleventh hour, eleventh day, eleventh month
1918 – 2010
History & Lore of the Old World War
artifacts & odd bits from 1914-1918
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Recent Posts
- Announcing a new blog about WWI poet John Allan Wyeth
- An artist’s memoir of Belleau Wood, Soissons and St Mihiel
- Armistice Day
- Some unusual documents awarded to a Marine officer of the Second Division, AEF
- Burial detail, Belleau Wood: an old-timer is laid to rest
- The spirit of Lt. G.E.M. Thornycroft, 4th King’s African Rifles, seen standing outside Scaleby Parish Church in Cumbria, England, the day after he is killed in Kenya
- Spiritualism in the Great War
- 1st Engineers clearing & repairing roads near Soissons during the fighting of 19-23 July 1918
- In the first week after the Armistice: with the 2d Division, AEF, on the march to the Rhine: field orders, intelligence reports, interrogations of French prisoners of war
- Armistice Day
- Captain Charley Dunbeck’s farewell to the men of 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, on the eve of their demobilization, with particular attention paid to the final days of the war, and the crossing of the Meuse
- The earliest war museum at Belleau Wood
- Original photograph of six German soldiers at rest in a rear area
- There’s a Girl in Chateau Thierry
- Marching through Belgium & France: an unpublished German soldier’s diary, 25th Mixed Landwehr Brigade, Aug-Sept 1914
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Recent Comments
- Brenda Gillaspy on Captain Charley Dunbeck’s farewell to the men of 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, on the eve of their demobilization, with particular attention paid to the final days of the war, and the crossing of the Meuse
- Robert Moore on Burial detail, Belleau Wood: an old-timer is laid to rest
- Mary Tod on Burial detail, Belleau Wood: an old-timer is laid to rest
- Paul Higgins on Burial detail, Belleau Wood: an old-timer is laid to rest
- LJ on Spiritualism in the Great War
- Jack McAdam on Marching through Belgium & France: an unpublished German soldier’s diary, 25th Mixed Landwehr Brigade, Aug-Sept 1914
- Robert Thomson on Pilgrimage on behalf of one long dead
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Resources
WWI BATTLEFIELD TOURS FOR 2012
~~~ The Great War Experience IV, May 20-28, 2012
~~~ The Devil Dogs in WWI: Belleau Wood (Memorial Day Services), Soissons, St. Mihiel, the River Meuse "Last NIght of the War"
~~~ Verdun : France's Epic Battle of 1916
~~~ Opening Battles: Liege, Mons & the Retreat, Mauberge, Sedan
~~~ The War in the Vosges Mountains: The Forgotten Western Front-
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Category Cloud
1st Battalion / 5th Marines 1st Engineers / 1st Division AEF 1st King's Shropshire 1st Sgt Daniel A "Pop" Hunter 2d Division (Regular) AEF 2nd Battalion / 5th Marines 4th King's African Rifles 5th Marines 6th Machine Gun Battalion 9th Infantry 12th FA Regiment 67th Company 1st Battalion 5th Marines 89th Division Aisne-Marne Cemetery Alpheus Appenheimer Amblimont American bridgehead Amiens Armistice Armistice Day Army of Occupation Autreville Avesnes Baumon Beaumont Belgium Belleau Wood Belle Fontaine Farm Belval Woods Bersee Bertrix Bois de l'Hospice Bois de Limon Bois de Murets Bouresches Braine BrigGen Neville USMC Bussiares Captain Charley Dunbeck Captain J.R. Foster Captain N.H.Massie Captain S.C. Cumming Charleroy Chateau-Thierry Coblenz Coeuvres Cpl Frank W Dunham crossing of the Meuse Dana Gioia Daniel Ross demobilization Devonshire Regiment E. Ray Goetz Ethe Fifth Army Corps Frances Wilson Huard French Fourth Army Frith Hill Compound Gefr. Karl Schoning Gembloux Geoffrey Miller German Army Gilles Lagin Harvey Dunn Hereward Carrington Heron Hill 142 Hotel de l'Elephant Irene Bordoni Jay Winter Jim Broshot John Allan Wyeth John W Thomason King's Own Royal Regiment Museum La Belle Tour Farm Lady Lilith Savile La Frobourg la Tuileire Farm Le Basace Le Champy Haut Letanne Lieutenant Gitz Rice Loos Lt. C.D. Baylis Lt. G.E.M. Thornycroft Lt. George R. Strott USN Luxembourg Maj RS Keyser USMC March to the Rhine Marian Hollinger Matthew Bruccoli Melville Gideon Moulins Mouzon Mt Kemmel muleskinner Nouart Perwez Peter Donnelly Peter Farrell-Vinay Phil Tomaselli Pioneer Corps Pouilly Quantico Reserve Infanterie Regiment 32 river Aisne river Marne river Meuse river Rhine river Sauer river Vesle Royal Engineers Sartelle Ferme Soissons spiritualism Stalhelm helmets Steven Parker St Mihiel Thinaudine Ferme Tim Kendall Uncategorized Verdun Victoria Cross Villemontry W.J. Aylward Wallace Morgan Yoncq-
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Great War links
- Alan Seeger … original documents & photographs
- American music goes to war … World War I as illustrated on sheet music
- American volunteers in the French Foreign Legion, 1914-1918 … biographies, units, uniforms, etc …
- Army Art of World War I … US Army Center of Military History
- Art of the First World War … one hundred paintings to commemorate the end of WWI
- Edmund Blunden at war
- Experiences of an English soldier … Harry Lamin’s letters from the First World War
- Friends of the Dymock Poets
- Ghosts in the Trenches: Soldier Apparitions of World War I
- History & Lore of the Sixth Machine Gun Battalion … 4th Brigade of Marines, 2nd Division (Regular), A.E.F.
- Ivor Gurney … A web journal of Philip Lancaster’s work on the Gloucester composer-poet
- Jeanne d'Arc in the First World War … images, pilgrims, memorials
- King’s Own Royal Regiment Museum located in Lancaster, England
- Kriegstagebuch: the war diary of Dieter Finzen
- Poetry of the First World War … information on war poets from 13 nations
- Society of the Military Horse
- St Mihiel Tripwire … online newsletter of the Great War Society
- The Chipilly Ridge Sonnets of John Allan Wyeth … six sonnets from the Battle of Amiens, on the Somme, August 8-9, 1918
- The Doughboy Center … The Story of the American Expeditionary Forces
- The First World War Poetry Digital Archive
- The Gallipoli Association
- The Great War Society
- The Western Front Association
- The Wilfred Owen Association
- Tom Morgan's Hellfire Corner
- Trenches on the Web … the earliest major WWI site on the web
- War Poetry … essays, reviews, opinions, poems, links
- World War I Bookstore … scholarly books on all aspects of the First World War
- World War I Color Photographs
- World War I Document Archive
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