As massive armies clashed in France and Russia, the fighting forces dug in into fortified trenches in a desperate attempt to cripple the enemy's onslaught. As the months dragged on and the ...
Not all of the fighting during World War One happened in the ... by stretcher down a busy communication trench in Mesopotamia (now Iraq), WW1. As the Gallipoli Campaign was coming to a close ...
Dame Nellie Melba 👩 March is Women’s History Month, and to celebrate, BTN will be presenting profiles of Australian women who’ve earned a place in history. This week we find out about the ...
While for some decades Delville Wood Day of 16 July was a rallying occasion of specifically the 1 st SA Brigade veterans who had fought in the hellish trench ... the war and even less so, South Africa ...
A full vote of TDs will be held during Tuesday's Dáil session, but one Labour source said that the row would now become "trench warfare" and could see opposition TDs withdraw pairing arrangements ...
Visitors with large scale model of Cecil Malthus in Gallipoli: The scale of our war exhibition, 2015 (Photo/ Michael Hall, Te Papa) Te Papa will extend the exhibition Gallipoli: The Scale of Our ...
A British artillery field gun from World War One. British munitions factories produced over 170 million artillery shells during WW1. As trenches were very good at defending soldiers from the ...
World War I was one of the biggest conflicts in human history, known as the “war to end all wars." While Hollywood has a larger fascination with World War II, which has resulted in the release ...
As conversation about British deployment in Ukraine continues, soldiers are having to sharpen their skills in trench warfare. The war in Ukraine has shown that trenches haven’t gone away in the ...
Read more about this licence. After a painting by Cyrus Cincinnati Cuneo, an American-born war artist who worked in London. He died of blood poisoning in 1916: "His death was the result of a trivial ...