They inflicted major casualties and on 22 August Lieutenant George Thompson became the first British officer ... German surrender and Togoland was carved up between Britain and France. WW1 ...
Photographs showing the extraordinary lives of German prisoners of war at a stately ... in 1915 and held about 200 military and naval officers during the war, most of whom were German.
“Unknown Officer, Hertfordshire Regiment." Lt Cautherley’s unit, the 1st Battalion Hertfordshire Regiment, was withdrawing to a new defensive line near Voormezele in the face of a rapid German ...
a WWI ship that sank after being torpedoed by a German U-boat in 1914. Diver Steve Mortimer told the BBC that the wreck is a "really remarkable time capsule." The Tobol had been missing for over ...
A GRAVESEND army officer was freed from a German POW camp during the First World War to see his dying mother – and kept a promise to the Kaiser by returning, a historian has discovered.
A long-lost Royal Navy warship from World War One has been discovered off the coast of Aberdeenshire, and its remarkable condition has left divers astonished. The wreck, believed to be HMS Hawke ...
York was awarded the the Medal of Honor for leading U.S. soldiers behind German lines in France during World War I to disrupt ...
By September 16, Pershing's forces had earned an important victory in eliminating a dangerous bulge, or "salient" in the German lines near ... According to one American officer: "Late that night ...
His superior officer, Maj. Gen. Raymond "Tubby" Barton ... Amid withering fire from German coastal installations, machine-gun ...
And likewise, with my nemesis, that young German officer [Joe Anderson], he played so brilliantly. But in the group scenes, ...
Wilkinson appointed dock officers at ports around Britain ... did its awesome threat actually save lives? WW1: Why was the first German defeat in Africa? documentWW1: Why was the first German ...
Explorers say they’ve found the wreckage of a British warship that was sunk by a German U-boat during World War I. Some 524 people, including the ship’s captain, perished when the HMS Hawke ...