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89th Punjabis

In 1910, the Burma Battalions were delocalized from Burma and in 1914, the regiment moved to Dinapore in India, just before the outbreak of First World War.

Anna Palm de Rosa

During the First World War when he husband was called up, Palm de Rosa became extremely productive in her painting, especially in Baiae where she spent a year.

Antoine Huré

On 3 August 1914 he became attached to the staff of the 1st Moroccan Infantry Division, being promoted to commandant (major) six days later, and served in the defence of France in the First World War.

Arturo Riccardi

Seeing action with the Italian marines in the Boxer Rebellion in 1900-1901, the Far East Campaign of 1905, and during the First World War, Riccardi was awarded several medals for valor.

Breadsall


The church of All Saints has a very fine war memorial in the style of a Celtic cross within the churchyard, commemorating fourteen men who died during the First World War and nine men and one woman who lost their lives during the Second World War.

Buddleja × weyeriana

The hybrid was raised during the First World War by the eponymous Major William van de Weyer at his home, Smedmore House, at Corfe Castle, England.

Cecil Grenfell

Lieutenant Robert Septimus Grenfell died in a cavalry charge at the Battle of Omdurman in 1898 and his two youngest brothers (twins) were both killed in the First World War.

Christian Ignatius Borissow

One of Christian Ignatius Borissow’s grandsons, Charles Kirby Borissow (1873–1939), was a Commander in the Royal Naval Reserve and a Chief Salvage Officer of the Royal Navy in the Mediterranean during the First World War.

Collingwood Hughes

With the outbreak of the First World War, Hughes enlisted in the South West African Expeditionary Force in 1914.

Davis Theater

The Pershing Theater was built in 1918 and was named after First World War General of the Armies, John J. Pershing.

Elizabeth of Ladymead

It charts the life of a British family between 1854 and 1945 and their involvement in four wars - the Crimean War, Boer War, First World War and Second World War.

Francis Storrs

During the First World War, he initially worked for the civil service in matters concerned with supplying Russia; he was awarded the Russian Order of St. Anne for this service.

Frongoch internment camp

Frongoch internment camp at Frongoch in Merionethshire, Wales was a makeshift place of imprisonment during the First World War.

Gabriel Guist'hau

As minister of the Navy, he oversaw the reconstruction of the French Navy, after the ravages of the First World War.

Harry Benjamin

Following an ill-fated professional visit to the United States, the liner in which Benjamin was returning to Germany was caught mid-Atlantic both by the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, and the Royal Navy.

Henry Lane Wilson

During the First World War, Wilson served on the Commission for Relief in Belgium and, in 1915, accepted the chairmanship of the Indiana State Chapter of the League to Enforce Peace, a position he held until his resignation over US involvement in the League of Nations after the close of the war.

Hugh Lett

At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 he was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps and served at the Anglo-American Hospital at Wimereux in France from 1914 to 1915, the Belgian field hospital at Veurne in 1915, and then in Egypt.

Ieper railway station

The station is near the Menin Gate and other places associated with the First World War with British and Commonwealth war graves located alongside the line from the Kortrijk direction, known as Railway Dugouts Burial Ground (Transport Farm) Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery.

John Mungo-Park

Mungo-Park's father, Colin, had joined the army at the start of the First World War as a private with the 7th Battalion of the Royal Sussex Regiment.

Johnny Crosbie

When the First World War put a temporary halt to his football career, he volunteered for the Lanarkshire Yeomanry.

Joseph Henry Woodger

Woodger was born at Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, and studied at University College London from 1911 until 1922, except for a period serving in the First World War.

June Duprez

The daughter of American vaudeville performer Fred Duprez and Australian Florence Isabelle Matthews, she was born in Teddington, Middlesex, England, during an air raid in the final months of the First World War.

K.F.C. Rhodienne-Verrewinkel

It took part to the first Belgian league the same year and won 6 titles of Belgian Champion and 1 Cup until the first world war.

Kilnhurst

Charles was famous for a number of war memorials commemorating the First World War, such as the Royal Artillery Memorial (1925) which stands at Hyde Park Corner in London, while David was famous for his portrait of Robert Baden-Powell.

Klimt 1918

The name "Klimt 1918" is a reference to Gustav Klimt and his year of death, 1918, which also saw the end of the First World War.

Lady Dorothy Mills

Lady Dorothy married Captain Arthur F. H. Mills of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry after he was wounded in the First World War in 1916, being presented at the ceremony with a wedding ring made from a bullet that had been surgically removed from his ankle after he was wounded in combat at La Bassée, France.

Martinsyde G.100

The Martinsyde G.100 "Elephant" and the G.102 were British fighter bomber aircraft of the First World War built by Martinsyde.

Orrell Park

The area has historical and cultural links which include the Titanic, The Beatles and The Canadian Army Mutiny in the First World War.

Percy Bates

On the outbreak of the First World War Bates joined the Transport Department of the Admiralty, and later became Director of Commercial Services of the new Ministry of Shipping, responsible for the shipment of civilian supplies.

Percy Sherwood

After his studies with Theodor Kirchner, Felix Draeseke and Herman Scholtz, Sherwood became a major figure in the music life of Dresden before the First World War.

Philip Guedalla

During the First World War he organised and acted as secretary to the Flax Control Board and also served as legal adviser to the Contracts Departments of the War Office and the Ministry of Munitions.

Port Victoria Grain Griffin

The Grain Griffin was a British carrier based reconnaissance aircraft developed and built by the RNAS Marine Experimental Depot, Port Victoria during the First World War.

Royal Literary Fund

Among the estates from which the Fund earns royalties are those of the First World War poet Rupert Brooke, the novelists Somerset Maugham and G. K. Chesterton and children's writers Arthur Ransome and A. A. Milne.

Ruellan brothers

The Ruellan brothers (in French les frères Ruellan) were French siblings from Paramé (now Saint-Malo), Brittany, who fought during the First World War.

Ruse of war

The use of the American flag flown on the RMS Lusitania while crossing through the Irish Sea to avoid attack by German submarines during the First World War was criticized in debate in the United States House of Representatives by Republican Eben Martin of South Dakota, who stated that "the United States cannot be made a party to a ruse of war where the national colors are involved".

Sir Herbert Smith, 1st Baronet

During the First World War he was chairman of the Carpet Trade Rationing Committee and the Man-Power and Protection Committee and was a member of the Board of Control of the Wool and Textile Industries.

Sir Hugh Barrett-Lennard, 6th Baronet

Barrett-Lennard's father, Sir Fiennes Cecil Arthur Barrett-Lennard (1880–1963), was a British soldier, who fought in the Boer War and in East Africa in the First World War, and became a judge in Malaya, then Johore and Kedah, and finally Chief Justice of Jamaica.

Slamannan

After study at the University of Glasgow, he became a successful QC and was elected to represent Glasgow Hillhead in Parliament, and served as Minister of Labour, President of the Board of Trade and Chancellor of the Exchequer under Lloyd George after the First World War.

Stocksbridge

Samuel Fox & Co joined Steel, Peech and Tozer at Templeborough to form the United Steel Companies (USC) following the First World War.

Stokes mortar

The Stokes mortar was a British trench mortar invented by Sir Wilfred Stokes KBE that was issued to the British, Commonwealth and U.S. armies, as well as the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps (CEP), during the latter half of the First World War.

The Railway Series

The precise origins of this rhyme are unknown, but research by Brian Sibley suggests that it originated at some point prior to the First World War.

Thomas Whitham

He was 29 years old, and a private in the 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards, during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.

Tom Horabin

and educated at Cardiff High School, and during the First World War he served from 1914 to 1918 with the Cameron Highlanders.

Viscount Chetwynd

His great-great-grandson, the eighth Viscount, served as managing director of the National Shell Filling Factory at Chilwell in Nottinghamshire during the First World War.

Vladimir V. Tchernavin

In the period from 1912-1917 Tchernavin studied at St. Petersburg University but his studies were interrupted by the war and the October Revolution.

Western Approaches

The term is most commonly used when discussing naval warfare, notably during the First World War and Battle of the Atlantic during the Second World War in which the German Navy (Kriegsmarine) attempted to blockade the United Kingdom using submarines (U-boats) operating in this area.

William Edward Sanders

Sanders' Victoria Cross was won while commanding the HMS Prize during the First World War.

William Havard

Havard became a chaplain to the armed forces during the First World War, serving from 1915 to 1919, retaining an honorary commission as chaplain to the forces, 4th class.

Yser

During the Battle of the Yser in the First World War, the river was deliberately flooded between Nieuwpoort and Diksmuide to provide an obstacle to the advancing German Army and keep westernmost Belgium safe from German occupation.


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1917–18 Manchester United F.C. season

On 9 October 1917 while Fighting in France during the First World War, United former player Arthur Beadsworth was killed while serving as a Sergeant in the Seventh Battalion of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment of the British Army.

23rd Battalion

23rd Reserve Battalion, CEF, an infantry unit in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War

66th Punjabis

After the First World War, the 66th Punjabis were grouped with the 62nd, 76th, 82nd and 84th Punjabis, and the 1st Brahmans to form the 1st Punjab Regiment in 1922.

Alfred Renard

The same First World War forces Alfred Renard to suspend his study at the Université libre de Bruxelles and the "Faculté des sciences appliquées", just at a time when aviation makes great progress.

Belarusian Great Patriotic War Museum

The museum first opened shortly after the liberation of Minsk from the Nazi invaders, on 25 October 1944, making it the first World War II museum to open during the course of the war.

Berrick Salome

In 1965, Reginald Ernest Moreau (1897–1970), an eminent ornithologist, and a Berrick Salome resident from 1947, realized that he could build up a picture of the village as it had been in the decades before the First World War, based on the recollections of elderly villagers.

Break a leg

In the autobiography of Manfred von Richthofen, during the First World War pilots of the German Air Force are recorded as using the phrase "Hals- und Beinbruch" (neck and leg fracture) to wish each other luck before a flight.

British women's literature of World War I

Literary historian David Trotter asserts that the addition of women’s writing helps provide a more encompassing, and thus, stronger picture of Britain’s involvement in the First World War.

Bullecourt 1917, Jean and Denise Letaille museum

In 2008, the Australian Department of Veterans Affairs wants to upgrade seven sites showing the Australian forces during the First World War (Ypres and Passchendaele in Belgium; Fromelles, Bullecourt, Mont-Saint-Quentin, Pozières and Villers-Bretonneux).

Charles Fountaine

He served with distinction during the First World War, first as a gunnnery officer on HMS Lion, and latterly in command of HMS Cambrian.

Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic

The new constitution was further influenced by the Czech humanist tradition (Jan Hus, Petr Chelčický, Jan Amos Komenský, František Palacký, František Rieger, Tomáš Masaryk) as well as the peace conferences which took place after the first world war.

Diana Souhami

Edith Cavell, a biography of the nurse who was executed for her role in the smuggling of allied soldiers out of Belgium during the First World War.

Dolly Collins

She continued to compose, however, and just before her death she completed a cycle of First World War poems and a new mass written with the poet Maureen Duffy.

Edmund Crosby Quiggin

However, with the outbreak of the First World War, Quiggin found himself in war service from 1915 to 1919, first in Boulogne and then in the Admiralty's Intelligence Division.

Edward Kinder Bradbury

Bradbury was an officer in the British Army during the First World War where as second-in-command of L Battery, Royal Horse Artillery he led the battery during an engagement at Néry during the Retreat from Mons on 1 September 1914, where he was killed in action.

Eric Betts

Air Vice Marshal Eric Bourne Coulter Betts (1897-1971) began his career in the Royal Naval Air Service during the First World War.

Ernest Deane

Like fellow international Basil Maclear, Deane was killed in action during the First World War, serving as a captain with the Royal Army Medical Corps, attached to the Leicestershire Regiment near Laventie.

Essex Regiment

At the conclusion of the First World War the Britain maintained a garrison at Constantinople to ensure free passage of the sea lanes between the Aegean and Black Seas.

F A Meier

When he went to Rugby, the First World War had just started, and he was appointed training officer for the school OTC (Officers' Training Corps).

Francis Lupo

He was killed in action near Soissons, France during the Army's first large-scale offensive operation of the First World War.

George Ellison

George Edwin Ellison (1878–1918), the last British soldier to be killed in the First World War

George Harper

George Montague Harper (1865–1922), British General during the First World War

Greywalls

It was leased after the First World War, and in 1924 it was purchased by Sir James Horlick, founder of Horlicks Ltd.

Haltern–Venlo railway

With the connection of the Boxtel Railway to the bridge over the Rhine at Wesel before the First World War, a long-distance connection was established on the (London–) Vlissingen–Wesel–OsnabrückBerlin–Eydtkuhnen (now Chernyshevskoye)–Saint Petersburg route.

Henry Lamb

Lamb saw active service in the First World War in the Royal Army Medical Corps as an battalion medical officier with the 5th Battalion, The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and was awarded the Military Cross.

Henryk Korowicz

During the First World War, he served as an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army and, after Polish independence, in the Polish Army, during the Polish-Soviet War, on the Volhynia front.

Hippolyte Morestin

Morestin greatly influenced the British-New Zealand surgeon Harold Gillies, who met him on leave in Paris during the First World War.

Homburg–Neunkirchen railway

After the First World War the Saar came under the administration of the League of Nations.

Hospital train

Such trains were able to connect with hospital ships at French channel ports in order to repatriate wounded British soldiers during the first world war.

Hubert H. Peavey

-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->During the First World War recruited Company D, Sixth Infantry, Wisconsin National Guard, and served as captain.

International Seismological Centre

The need for international exchange of onset times was soon recognized by Professor John Milne, whose work resulted in the International Seismological Summary being set up immediately after the First World War.

Johann von Ravenstein

Ravenstein entered the First World War as a battalion adjutant officer and saw considerable action on the Western Front, participating in the battles of Verdun, the Somme, and the Champagne Offensive.

John Hardy

Sir John Francis Gathorne-Hardy (1874–1949), British First World War General who served in Italy and the Western Front

Ludwig Kübler

At the beginning of the First World War he was serving with the 15th Royal Bavarian Infantry Regiment "King Friedrich August of Saxony" at the Western Front and was involved in September 1914 fighting in Lorraine and around St Quentin as commander of a machine gun platoon.

Nelly Erichsen

During the years of the First World War and especially after the intervention of the United States, the three women became organisers of aid work for the families of soldiers, particularly after the huge losses of the Battle of Caporetto (now Kobarid, Slovenia) in 1917.

Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists

In contrast, the nationalists who emerged in Galicia following the First World War, much as in the rest of Europe, adopted the form of nationalism known as Integral nationalism.

Pietro Lazzari

After the end of the First World War Lazzari joined the Italian Futurist movement and exhibited with such artists as Giacomo Balla and Gino Severini.

Port Sunlight War Memorial

The founder of the village and employer of its residents, William Lever, was anxious to have a memorial to commemorate those of his workers who had been lost in the First World War.

Ranikhet

Maintained by the Kumaon and the Naga Regiment of the Indian Army, the museum has a wide collection ranging from stories of the heroics of the First World War till date.

Richard Henderson

Richard Alexander Henderson, First World War stretcher-bearer at Gallipoli and the Somme

Saira Elizabeth Luiza Shah

Her future husband, Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah, who was descended from the Sadaat of Paghman, had settled in England before the first world war and she met him in Edinburgh during that war, where he was studying medicine at Edinburgh Medical School.

Sidney Peters

Peter was Secretary and Legal Adviser to the Central Council Forage Department for Civil Supplies during the First World War and was Executive Officer, Controlling Department at the Board of Trade.

Sir George Warrender, 7th Baronet

In June 1914, just before the outbreak of the First World War his squadron visited the German naval port of Kiel, during the annual regatta attended by Kaiser Wilhelm II and senior German admirals.

St Cuthbert's Church, Holme Lacy

In the north chapel is a window depicting Sir Galahad and Sir Bors to the memory of Sir Archibald Lucas-Tooth, 2nd Baronet who died in active service in the First World War in 1918.

Thieffry

Edmond Thieffry (1892–1929), Belgian First World War air ace and aviation pioneer

Tynecastle High School

Wilfred Owen the First World War poet taught at Tynecastle when he was a patient at Craiglockhart Hospital.

Ulmus 'Christine Buisman'

elm disease (DED), Ophiostoma ulmi, which afflicted Europe's elms after the First World War.

Vernon Scannell

The family, always poor, moved frequently: Ballaghaderreen in Ireland, Beeston, Eccles, before settling in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, where his father, who had fought in the First World War, developed a reputation as a good portrait photographer and the family's severe financial difficulties began to ease.

Victor Child

While in England during the First World War he served with the Royal Flying Corps.

William Wiseman

Sir William Wiseman, 10th Baronet, grandson of the above, head of Secret Intelligence Service in Washington, DC during the First World War